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Elissa L. Newport
Elissa L. Newport is an American cognitive scientist at Georgetown University known for the "less is more" hypothesis of child language learning and for helping establish statistical learning.
Elita
Elita (Fredericks, 1918) is an extinct Devonian brachiopod genus in family Elythidae, order Spiriferida; type species Elita fimbriata (Conrad, 1842), a spine-bearing index fossil of eastern North America, also known from China, Russia, and Colombia.
Elivaldogene autotemcel
Elivaldogene autotemcel (SKYSONA, eli-cel) is bluebird bio's autologous lentiviral HSC gene therapy for boys 4-17 with early, active cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy, FDA-approved 2022, carrying a boxed warning for insertional-oncogenesis-related blood cancers.
Elixir
Elixir: a clear, sweetened hydroalcoholic oral drug solution (ethanol roughly 3–40%), a traditional dosage form from Paracelsus-era pharmacy; distinct from syrups by alcohol content, now deprecated by USP in favor of "solution".
Elizabeth (Betsy) Elder Weiner
Elizabeth (Betsy) Elder Weiner is an American nursing informaticist elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2013, known for pioneering simulation and distance learning in nursing education.
Elizabeth A. Campbell
Elizabeth A. Campbell is a structural biologist at Rockefeller University who studies RNA polymerases, known for the first rifampicin-bound polymerase structure and atomic structures of the SARS-CoV-2 replication machinery.
Elizabeth A. Craig
Elizabeth A. Craig is an American molecular biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies Hsp70 molecular chaperones and J-protein co-chaperones in yeast; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.
Elizabeth A. Eisenhauer
Elizabeth A. Eisenhauer is a Canadian medical oncologist at Queen's University who directed the NCIC Clinical Trials Group's Investigational New Drug Program from 1982 to 2012.
Elizabeth A. McGlynn
Elizabeth A. McGlynn is an American health services researcher, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2005, best known for a 2003 study finding US adults receive about half of recommended care.
Elizabeth A. Phelps
Elizabeth A. Phelps is a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard University who studies how emotion shapes memory and decision making, and showed fear memories can be rewritten through reconsolidation.
Elizabeth A. Tivol
Elizabeth A. Tivol is an immunologist best known as first author of the 1995 Immunity paper reporting the CTLA-4 knockout mouse, cited in the 2018 Nobel Prize background.
Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs
Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs: two remote coral atolls in the northern Tasman Sea, 150 km north of Lord Howe Island, the world's southernmost open ocean platform reefs, an Australian Ramsar site and Marine National Nature Reserve.
Elizabeth Anne Kellogg
Elizabeth Anne Kellogg, known professionally as Toby Kellogg, is a plant systematist who studies grass evolution and crop biology at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis.
Elizabeth Barrett‐Connor
Elizabeth Barrett-Connor (1935–2019) was an American epidemiologist and physician who founded and directed the Rancho Bernardo Study of Healthy Aging at UC San Diego for nearly five decades.
Elizabeth Blaber
Elizabeth Blaber is a space biologist and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who studies how spaceflight stressors affect stem cells and tissue regeneration.
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn, born 1948 in Hobart, Tasmania, is an Australian-born molecular biologist who determined telomere DNA composition and shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), British-born physician, first woman to earn an M.D. from an American medical school (Geneva Medical College, 1849); founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children and its women's medical college, and was first woman on the British Medical Register.
Elizabeth Bugie
Elizabeth Bugie, later Elizabeth Bugie Gregory, was an American biochemist at Rutgers who co-authored the 1944 streptomycin discovery paper yet received only a 0.2 percent royalty share.
Elizabeth C. Engle
Elizabeth C. Engle is an American neurologist and neurogeneticist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School whose research defined the congenital cranial dysinnervation disorders, birth defects of cranial nerve development.
Elizabeth C. Miller
Elizabeth C. Miller (1920–1987) was an American biochemist who, with her husband James A. Miller, founded the field of chemical carcinogenesis at the University of Wisconsin.
Elizabeth C. Raff
Elizabeth C. Raff, known as Beth Raff, is a cell biologist at Indiana University who used Drosophila genetics to show that tubulin isoforms determine microtubule architecture; she retired in 2019.
Elizabeth D. Getzoff
Elizabeth D. Getzoff (born 1954) is a biochemist and professor at the Scripps Research Institute known for structural work on superoxide dismutase, nitric oxide synthase, and photoactive yellow protein.
Elizabeth D. Hay
Elizabeth D. Hay (1927–2007) was an American cell biologist at Harvard who established the extracellular matrix as a determinant of cell behavior and introduced epithelial-mesenchymal transition.
Elizabeth F. Neufeld
Elizabeth F. Neufeld (born 1928) is an American biochemist who worked out the biochemical causes of lysosomal storage diseases and laid the groundwork for enzyme replacement therapy.
Elizabeth Fisher (British neurogeneticist)
Elizabeth M.C. Fisher is a British neurogeneticist, Professor of Neurogenetics at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology in London, known for mouse models of ALS, Down syndrome, and dynein mutations causing motor neuron degeneration.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917) was an English physician, the first openly female recipient of a medical qualification in Britain in 1865, who founded the New Hospital for Women.
Elizabeth Glaser
Elizabeth Glaser (1947-1994), American AIDS activist, contracted HIV from a 1981 blood transfusion, passed it to children Ariel and Jake, and co-founded the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, renamed EGPAF after her death; known for her 1992 DNC speech.
Elizabeth Gould (neuroscientist)
Elizabeth Gould is a Princeton neuroscientist known for research showing that the adult mammalian brain produces new neurons, and the first to report neurogenesis in adult primates.
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Elizabeth H. Blackburn is an Australian-American molecular biologist who discovered the molecular nature of telomeres and co-discovered telomerase, sharing the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Elizabeth H. Bradley
Elizabeth H. Bradley, known as Betsy Bradley, is an American health services researcher and public health scholar who has served as Vassar College's 11th president since July 2017.