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Emily Bernstein

Emily Bernstein is an American epigenetics researcher, Professor and Vice Chair of Oncological Sciences at Mount Sinai, known for identifying Dicer and studying ATRX mutations in neuroblastoma.

Emily English

Emily English, known as Em the Nutritionist, is a British nutritionist and author of the Sunday Times bestselling cookbooks So Good and Live to Eat.

Emily F. Rothman

Emily F. Rothman is an American public health researcher at Boston University, where she has taught since 2004, known for research on adolescent dating abuse, pornography, and autism.

Emily H. Cheng

Emily H. Cheng is a cancer biologist and physician-scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center whose work on apoptosis and the BCL-2 family informs cancer drugs like venetoclax.

Emily L Behrman

Emily L. Behrman is an American evolutionary geneticist and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth College since 2024, known for showing rapid seasonal evolution in wild fruit flies.

Emily Nagoski

Emily Nagoski is an American sex educator and researcher who popularized the dual control model of sexual response through her 2015 bestseller Come as You Are.

Emily S. Bernhardt

Emily S. Bernhardt is an American ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist known for tracking carbon, nutrients, and contaminants in rivers and wetlands, and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Emily Y. Chew

Emily Y. Chew is an ophthalmologist who directs the Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications at the National Eye Institute and chairs the AREDS2 trial.

Emiplacel

Emiplacel (PLX-PAD) is an allogeneic, placenta-derived mesenchymal-like adherent stromal cell therapy (UNII DPX6XLD4X1) developed by Pluristem/Pluri, tested in phase III trials for critical limb ischemia and hip fracture muscle recovery.

Emission computed tomography

Emission computed tomography (ECT) is a nuclear medicine method that reconstructs 3D images of injected radioactive tracers for diagnosis and treatment planning, with SPECT and PET as its two branches.

Emixustat

Emixustat (ACU-4429, emixustat hydrochloride) is an oral nonretinoid RPE65 visual cycle inhibitor developed by Acucela for geographic atrophy and Stargardt disease; it failed to slow GA growth in the SEATTLE trial and is unapproved.

EML4

EML4 (EMAP like 4, ROPP120) is a human 2p21 gene encoding a 120 kDa WD-repeat microtubule-associated protein needed for microtubule formation and mitosis; its fusion with ALK drives 4-5% of non-small cell lung cancers.

Emma C. Teeling

Emma C. Teeling is an Irish zoologist and geneticist, Full Professor of Zoology at University College Dublin, who studies bat genomes to understand bats' exceptional longevity.

Emma Lovewell

Emma Lovewell is an American fitness instructor, author, and former professional dancer known as a senior instructor at Peloton since 2017, founder of Live Learn Lovewell, and author of the 2024 memoir Live Learn Love Well.

Emma Lundberg (cell biologist)

Emma Lundberg is a Swedish cell biologist and spatial proteomics researcher who directs the Cell Atlas of the Human Protein Atlas and is an associate professor at Stanford University.

Emma R. Schachner

Emma R. Schachner is an American evolutionary biologist and paleontologist at the University of Florida, known for research on dinosaur lungs and, in 2024, on how soaring birds use air sacs for flight.

Emma Whitelaw

Emma Whitelaw is an Australian molecular geneticist known for pioneering transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in mammals; her 1999 agouti mouse paper was the first demonstration in mammals.

Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis

Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, known as Manolis Dermitzakis, is a Greek geneticist who studies population genomics and regulatory variation, and is president of the Qatar Precision Health Institute.

Emmanuel D. Levy

Emmanuel D. Levy is a structural and computational biologist at the University of Geneva, known for showing that single point mutations can push folded proteins into self-assembled structures.

Emmanuel Farber

Emmanuel Farber (1918–2014) was a Canadian pathologist and biochemist who established the biochemical analysis of chemical carcinogenesis and led pathology at the University of Toronto from 1975 to 1985.

Emmanuel Fauré-Frémiet

Emmanuel Fauré-Frémiet (1883–1971) was a French biologist who held the chair of comparative embryology at the Collège de France from 1928 to 1954 and became a central figure in ciliate protozoology.

Emmanuel Hédon

Emmanuel Hédon (1863–1933) was a French physician and physiologist, professor at Montpellier, who showed that canine diabetes could be cured by pancreas implants or transfusion.

Emmanuel L. Bravo

Emmanuel L. Bravo is an endocrinologist and nephrologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, known for his research on endocrine hypertension and the clonidine-suppression test for pheochromocytoma.

Emmanuel Mignot

Emmanuel Mignot is a French-born physician-scientist who directs the Stanford Center for Narcolepsy and discovered that narcolepsy results from immune destruction of hypocretin-producing neurons, work honored with the 2023 Breakthrough Prize and 2026 Lasker Award.

Emmanuel S. Antonarakis

Emmanuel S. Antonarakis (Εμμανουήλ Αντωναράκης) is a medical oncologist known for discovering that the AR-V7 splice variant predicts resistance to enzalutamide and abiraterone in prostate cancer.

Emmanuela Gakidou

Emmanuela Gakidou is a Greek-born health metrics scientist who co-founded the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and leads Global Burden of Disease research on obesity and violence against women.

Emmanuelle Charpentier

Emmanuelle Charpentier, born 1968 in France, is a French microbiologist who co-developed CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing and shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jennifer Doudna.

Emmanuelle Passegué

Emmanuelle Passegué is a stem cell biologist known for showing that loss of JunB in blood stem cells causes a leukemia-like disease, and for linking inflammation to stem cell aging.

Emmer

Emmer (Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccum), also called farro, is a hulled tetraploid wheat domesticated in the Fertile Crescent by roughly 10,000 years ago; it is the ancestor of durum wheat and a progenitor of bread wheat.

Emmetropia

Emmetropia, from Greek emmetros, is the normal refractive state of the eye: parallel rays focus on the relaxed retina, far point at infinity, opposite of ametropia, reached via emmetropization.