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Evangelina Villegas

Evangelina Villegas (1924–2017) was a Mexican cereal chemist at CIMMYT who shared the 2000 World Food Prize for developing quality protein maize, becoming the award's first woman laureate.

Evangelos D. Michelakis

Evangelos D. Michelakis is a Greek-born Canadian cardiologist at the University of Alberta who studies pulmonary hypertension, heart failure, and cancer through mitochondrial metabolism, running the first clinical trials of mitochondria-targeting drugs.

Evangelos N. Moudrianakis

Evangelos N. Moudrianakis (Ευάγγελος Μουδριανάκης) is a Greek-born molecular biologist and Johns Hopkins University professor whose laboratory determined the crystallographic structure of the histone octamer and named the histone fold.

Evans syndrome

Evans syndrome, first described by Robert Evans in 1951, is a rare autoimmune disease combining autoimmune hemolytic anemia with immune thrombocytopenia and sometimes neutropenia, treated with steroids and rituximab.

Evanthia Galanis

Evanthia Galanis is a Greek-trained neuro-oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for leading the first human testing of oncolytic measles virus against brain tumors.

EVAOLD trial

EVAOLD (NCT03289728) was a French multicenter noninferiority trial in patients 80+ with NSTEMI comparing stress imaging-guided selective invasive management with routine invasive strategy; noninferiority was not demonstrated (HR 1.22), though angiography use fell.

Evarts Ambrose Graham

Evarts Ambrose Graham was an American surgeon at Washington University in St. Louis who performed the first successful removal of an entire lung for lung cancer in 1933.

Eve Higginbotham

Eve Higginbotham is an American glaucoma specialist and academic administrator who in 1994 became the first woman to head a university-based ophthalmology department in the United States.

Eve Marder

Eve Marder, born 1948, is an American neuroscientist at Brandeis University who studies how small neural circuits produce stable activity, using the stomatogastric ganglion of lobsters and crabs.

Eve Van Cauter

Eve Van Cauter is a Belgian-trained endocrinologist and sleep researcher, Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, whose laboratory established insufficient sleep as a metabolic risk factor.

Evelio Perez-Albuerne

Evelio Perez-Albuerne, also known as Evelio D. Perez-Albuerne, is a physician-scientist who co-discovered jun-D in 1989 and later became a pediatric transplant specialist at Children's National Hospital.

Evelyn M. Witkin

Evelyn M. Witkin was an American bacterial geneticist who discovered the SOS response, the set of genes E. coli switches on when its DNA is damaged, and won the 2015 Lasker Award.

Even-skipped homeobox protein

Even-skipped (Eve) is a Drosophila pair-rule homeodomain transcriptional repressor, 376 amino acids, expressed in seven embryonic stripes; vertebrate relatives are Evx1 and Evx2.

Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging

Event-related fMRI is an fMRI design and analysis approach that models BOLD signal changes time-locked to individual behavioral trials rather than blocks, enabling randomized presentation and trial-resolved analysis.

EVENTIDE study

EVENTIDE (NCT06661044) is a University of Aberdeen observational study testing how inulin, pectin, and hemp hull fibers plus fecal microbiota transplants from men over 60 alter mouse gut bacteria and prostate tumor growth.

Everett E. Vokes

Everett E. Vokes is an American medical oncologist specializing in lung and head and neck cancer, chair of medicine at the University of Chicago, and president of ASCO in 2021–2022.

Everett Peter Greenberg

Everett Peter Greenberg (born 1948) is an American microbiologist at the University of Washington who founded quorum sensing and shared the 2015 Shaw Prize for elucidating its molecular mechanism.

Evergreen

Evergreen plants retain green leaves or needles year round, unlike deciduous plants that shed annually. Covers conifers and broadleaf evergreens, leaf economics, water use, drought strategy, and landscape uses.

Evergreen forest

An evergreen forest is a forest whose trees keep their leaves year-round, occurring as tropical rainforest, temperate rainforest, and the boreal conifer forests, or taiga.

Everolimus and letrozole regimen

The everolimus and letrozole regimen is an oral combination therapy for hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer, pairing the mTOR inhibitor everolimus with letrozole to overcome endocrine resistance.

Everolimus plus lenvatinib

Everolimus plus lenvatinib is a targeted-therapy combination pairing an mTOR inhibitor with a multikinase inhibitor, approved by the FDA in 2016 for advanced renal cell carcinoma.

Eversion of lacrimal punctum

Eversion of lacrimal punctum (punctal ectropion, ICD-11 9A11.0, 涙点の反転) is outward rotation of the tear-drainage opening away from the tear lake, causing epiphora and, chronically, punctal stenosis; treated with medial spindle or punctoplasty.

Evgeny Cherstvoy

Evgeny Cherstvoy (Евгений Черствый) was a Belarusian pediatric pathologist and medical geneticist at the Minsk Medical Institute, known for the von Voss-Cherstvoy syndrome and Chernobyl thyroid cancer research.

Evgeny M. Zdobnov

Evgeny M. Zdobnov is a Swiss-based computational biologist and full professor at the University of Geneva, known for BUSCO, the widely used genome completeness tool, and OrthoDB.

Evgeny Nudler

Evgeny Nudler is a molecular biologist who studies transcription, DNA repair, and bacterial stress signaling, holding a professorship at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and an HHMI appointment since 2013.

Eviatar Nevo

Eviatar Nevo (אביתר נבו; born 1929) is an Israeli evolutionary biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Haifa, known for research on blind mole rat speciation.

Evidence and regulation debates in alternative veterinary medicine

Evidence and regulation debates in complementary and alternative veterinary medicine (CAVM): systematic reviews of acupuncture, homeopathy, and miscellaneous therapies find weak evidence, while regulators such as the RCVS, CVO, and UK ASA govern practice, advertising, and animal welfare.

Evidence of common descent

Evidence of common descent, also known as evidence for evolution, is the body of observations showing all life shares ancestors, spanning paleontology, anatomy, biogeography, and molecular genetics.

Evidence-based medicine

Evidence-based medicine (EBM), coined by Gordon Guyatt at McMaster in the early 1990s, integrates best research evidence, clinical expertise, and patient values, using evidence hierarchies and GRADE certainty ratings.

Evidence-based nursing

Evidence-based nursing integrates the best scientific evidence with nursing expertise, requiring critical appraisal of research. MeSH term D055318 (2009); flagship journal Evidence-Based Nursing launched 1998 by RCNi and BMJ.