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Erik J. Sontheimer
Erik J. Sontheimer is an American molecular biologist studying RNA interference and CRISPR immunity; his 2008 work showed CRISPR targets DNA, and he co-founded Intellia Therapeutics in 2014.
Erik Johan Widmark
Erik Johan Widmark (1850–1909) was a Swedish ophthalmologist and first professor of eye medicine at the Karolinska Institutet, whose 1889 ultraviolet experiments underpinned Finsen's 1903 Nobel Prize.
Erik Jorpes
Erik Jorpes, born Johan Erik Johansson (1894–1973), was a Finnish-born Swedish biochemist at Karolinska Institutet who determined heparin's chemistry, made it a clinical anticoagulant, and purified secretin and cholecystokinin.
Erik K. Alexander
Erik K. Alexander is an American endocrinologist who is Chief of the Thyroid Section at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Erik L. Hewlett
Erik L. Hewlett is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Virginia, known for over 40 years of research on Bordetella pertussis toxins.
Erik L. L. Sonnhammer
Erik L. L. Sonnhammer is a Swedish bioinformatician, Professor of Bioinformatics at Stockholm University and Science for Life Laboratory, and creator of the Pfam database.
Erik Lee Snapp
Erik Lee Snapp is an American cell biologist and biophysicist known for quantitative imaging of protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum and for naming the ER reflux pathway.
Erik Lindahl
Erik Lindahl is a Swedish computational biophysicist and Professor of Biophysics at Stockholm University, known for developing the molecular dynamics software GROMACS and contributing to cryo-EM software RELION.
Erik M. Jorgensen
Erik M. Jorgensen (Erik M. Jørgensen) is an American neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Utah, an HHMI Investigator known for showing that protons act as a transmitter.
Erik S.G. Stroes
Erik S.G. Stroes is a Dutch vascular internist and professor of Vascular Medicine at Amsterdam UMC, known for antisense trials in lipidology and hereditary angioedema.
Erik Sahai
Erik Sahai is a cancer biologist who leads the Tumour Cell Biology Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, studying how cancer spreads and resists treatment.
Erik Selsing
Erik Selsing is an immunologist at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston whose 1981 Cell paper showed that expressed antibody genes carry somatic mutations absent from germline DNA.
Erik Trinkaus
Erik Trinkaus is an American paleoanthropologist, Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, known for his work on Neandertal biology and the Lagar Velho child.
Erika L. Pearce
Erika L. Pearce (born 1972) is an American immunologist who studies immunometabolism, how metabolism controls T cells, and directs cancer immunology research at Johns Hopkins University.
Erika L.F. Holzbaur
Erika L.F. Holzbaur, also known as Erika Holzbaur, is an American cell biologist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies molecular motors, axonal transport, and neurodegeneration.
Erika von Mutius
Erika von Mutius, born 1957, is a German pediatrician and epidemiologist whose research on farming environments reshaped the hygiene hypothesis, showing farm children have lower asthma rates.
Erika Wolf
Erika J. Wolf is an American clinical research psychologist and Principal Investigator at the National Center for PTSD, VA Boston, known for research on genetic and environmental contributors to PTSD.
Erin A. Bohula
Erin A. Bohula is an American critical care cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, known for leading the CAMELLIA-TIMI 61 and VESALIUS-CV trials.
Erin J. Adams
Erin J. Adams is an American immunologist and structural biologist at the University of Chicago, known for structural studies of unconventional T cells and nonclassical MHC-like proteins.
Erin K. O’Shea
Erin K. O'Shea is an American molecular and systems biologist who became the first woman president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in 2016.
Erin M. Oleson
Erin M. Oleson is an American marine mammal acoustician who directs the Protected Species Division at NOAA's Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center and received a 2010 Presidential Early Career Award.
Erin Schuman
Erin M. Schuman is an American neurobiologist who showed that neurons make proteins locally in their dendrites, and directs the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt.
Erinaceidae
Erinaceidae (G. Fischer, 1814) is the eulipotyphlan family of spiny hedgehogs (Erinaceinae) and spiny-free gymnures and moonrats (Galericinae), native to Africa and Eurasia, with an Eocene fossil record and disputed species counts of 17 to 24.
Erinaceus
Erinaceus, the woodland hedgehogs, is a Palearctic genus of four spiny nocturnal mammal species (E. europaeus, roumanicus, concolor, amurensis) named by Linnaeus in 1758, distinct from porcupines and pet African hedgehogs.
Erinn Muller
Erinn Muller is a coral reef scientist at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, who studies coral disease, resilience, and restoration on Florida's Coral Reef.
Eriobotrya
Eriobotrya (loquat genus) is a Rosaceae genus of evergreen trees native from the Himalaya to Taiwan and western Malesia, with about 36 species; its type species Eriobotrya japonica is the loquat fruit tree, and its merger into Rhaphiolepis remains disputed.
Eriococcidae
Eriococcidae, the felt scales or eriococcid scales, is a family of about 560 species of plant-feeding scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea), fourth largest in the group, most diverse in the Southern Hemisphere, and shown by DNA studies to be non-monophyletic.
Eriogonum
Eriogonum, wild buckwheats, is a North American genus of about 256 species in Polygonaceae, ranging from Alaska to northern Mexico, centered in California, with many rare soil specialists and restoration-used shrubs.
Eriophorum
Eriophorum (cottongrass) is a Linnaean 1753 genus of Holarctic sedges in Cyperaceae, native to subarctic and temperate Northern Hemisphere bogs and tundra, with cottony white to rusty-red bristle heads; E. vaginatum indicates deep peat.
Eriophorum vaginatum
Eriophorum vaginatum (tussock cottongrass, hare's tail) is a tussock-forming perennial sedge of subarctic and temperate Northern Hemisphere peatlands and tundra, a methane conduit and foundation species; single-spikelet, inflated sheath, stems to 60 cm.