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Elicitin
Elicitins, small 10-kDa sterol-binding proteins secreted by Phytophthora and Pythium oomycetes, act as MAMPs triggering plant hypersensitive response; examples include cryptogein, INF1, and parasiticein.
Élie Azoulay
Élie Azoulay (born 1966) is a French intensive-care physician and professor of medicine at Université Paris Cité, directing the medical ICU at Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris.
Élie Wollman
Élie Wollman (1917–2008) was a French bacterial geneticist who spent his career at the Institut Pasteur, known for zygotic induction and the first genetic map of a bacterial chromosome.
Eliezer Masliah
Eliezer Masliah is a physician-scientist and neuropathologist known for research on synaptic damage in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease; in 2024 the NIH found research misconduct against him.
Eliezer Van Allen
Eliezer Van Allen is an American medical oncologist and computational biologist who leads population sciences at Dana-Farber and studies genomics of cancer therapy response and resistance.
Eligibility Determination
Eligibility determination: applying defined criteria to decide whether a person qualifies for health care programs or benefits, also called eligibility certification. Covers Medicaid MAGI and non-financial rules, SSA disability determinations, Medicare NCDs, and X12 270/271 transactions.
Eliglustat
Eliglustat (Cerdelga) is an oral glucosylceramide synthase inhibitor, a substrate reduction therapy for Gaucher disease type 1 in CYP2D6 extensive, intermediate, or poor metabolizers; approved in the US in 2014 and the EU in 2015, non-inferior to imiglucerase in the ENCORE trial.
Elihu H. Estey
Elihu H. Estey was an American hematologist and oncologist who introduced a chemotherapy-free ATRA plus arsenic regimen for APL and shaped European LeukemiaNet AML guidelines.
Elimination diet
An elimination diet is a diagnostic and therapeutic method that removes suspected food allergens and reintroduces them to identify triggers of food allergies and intolerances.
Elina Ikonen
Elina Ikonen, born 1961 in Helsinki, is a Finnish cell biologist and professor at the University of Helsinki who studies how cholesterol and other lipids move and are stored in cells.
Elinzanetant
Elinzanetant (Lynkuet) is Bayer's nonhormonal dual NK1/NK3 receptor antagonist for moderate-to-severe menopausal hot flashes; FDA-approved October 24, 2025 and EU-approved November 17, 2025, including breast cancer endocrine-therapy symptoms.
Elio Ríboli
Elio Ríboli is a physician-epidemiologist at Imperial College London who designed and led EPIC, a European cancer and nutrition study of over half a million people.
Eliomys
Eliomys, the garden dormice, is a genus of three Gliridae dormouse species: E. quercinus (Europe), E. munbyanus (Maghreb), and E. melanurus (Middle East). Hibernating rodents; the garden dormouse is IUCN Vulnerable (2024) after major European range decline.
Eliomys quercinus
Eliomys quercinus, the garden dormouse (Lérot), is a European Gliridae rodent described by Linnaeus in 1766. IUCN Vulnerable since 2024 after losing over half its range; insect-eating, hibernating, extinct in eastern Europe.
Elior Peles
Elior Peles is an Israeli cellular and molecular neurobiologist, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot known for work on the axon–glia interface and nodes of Ranvier.
ELISA
ELISA, or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, is a laboratory method using enzyme-linked antibodies to detect and quantify substances like antibodies, antigens, and hormones in liquid samples.
Elisa Izaurralde
Elisa Izaurralde (1959–2018) was a Uruguayan-born biochemist and molecular biologist known for work on messenger RNA export and silencing, and director at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen from 2005 until her death.
Elisabeth A. Murray
Elisabeth A. Murray is an American cognitive neuroscientist who studies learning, memory, and decision-making in monkeys, and chief of the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Section at NIMH.
Elisabeth B. Binder
Elisabeth B. Binder, born 1971 in Vienna, is an Austrian psychiatrist and neuroscientist directing translational research in psychiatry at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich.
Elisabeth G.E. de Vries
Elisabeth G.E. de Vries, known as Liesbeth de Vries, is a Dutch medical oncologist and professor at the University Medical Center Groningen who pioneered cancer drug imaging.
Elisabeth Gantt
Elisabeth Gantt is a Yugoslav-born American plant biologist and phycologist at the University of Maryland, best known for discovering phycobilisomes, the light-harvesting complexes of red algae.
Elisabeth Knust
Elisabeth Knust (born 1951) is a developmental biologist and Director Emerita at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, known for the Drosophila polarity genes crumbs, stardust, and bazooka.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004), Swiss-born American psychiatrist, wrote On Death and Dying (1969), introducing the five stages DABDA; pioneer of counseling the dying and hospice, later heavily criticized model.
Elisabeth Tournier‐Lasserve
Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve is a French medical geneticist and neurologist at Université Paris Cité whose laboratory identified the Notch3 gene behind CADASIL, a hereditary stroke disorder; she shared the 2019 Brain Prize.
Elisabetta Dejana
Elisabetta Dejana, born 1951 in Bologna, is an Italian vascular biologist known for discovering VE-cadherin, the first tissue-specific cadherin, and for work on angiogenesis and cerebral cavernous malformations.
Elisabetta Patorno
Elisabetta Patorno is an Italian-trained physician and pharmacoepidemiologist, a Harvard School of Public Health graduate who became Professor of Medicine at UCLA in 2026 and led the 2017 NEJM study on lithium use in pregnancy.
Elisabetta Ullu
Elisabetta Ullu was an Italian-born RNA biologist and molecular parasitologist at Yale School of Medicine known for her studies of Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness.
Elisama
Elisama (Giebel, 1856) is an extinct genus of Blattulidae cockroaches, Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous, with species from Mongolia and Cretaceous amber including E. kacerovae, E. pterostigmata, and E. globosa.
Eliseo J. Perez-Stable
Eliseo J. Perez-Stable, also known as Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, is a Cuban-born American physician-scientist who has directed the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities at NIH since 2015.
ELISPOT assay
The ELISPOT assay is an immunoassay that detects and counts individual cells secreting a specific protein, most often a cytokine or antibody, first reported in 1983.