Life and health

Floral symmetry

Floral symmetry, also called flower symmetry, is the pattern in which a flower's parts are arranged around its axes: radial symmetry (actinomorphy) or bilateral symmetry (zygomorphy).

Florante A. Quiocho, also cited as F.A. Quiocho, is a structural biologist and Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, known for crystal structures of bacterial transport receptors.

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Florasulam

Florasulam (CAS 145701-23-1), a triazolopyrimidine sulfonanilide ALS-inhibiting herbicide from Dow AgroSciences/Corteva, controls broadleaf weeds in cereals; EU-approved to 2030, short soil half-life, resistance via ALS mutations and NTSR.

Florbetaben

Florbetaben (18F), brand name Neuraceq, code 18F-BAY94-9172, is an 18F-labeled stilbene PET radiotracer for brain beta-amyloid plaque imaging in cognitive impairment, approved by EMA and FDA in 2014, dosed at 300 MBq.

Florbetapir

Florbetapir (Amyvid, florbetapir F 18) is an FDA-approved fluorine-18 PET radiotracer binding beta-amyloid neuritic plaques, used to evaluate Alzheimer's disease and select patients for amyloid beta-directed therapy.

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), the Lady with the Lamp, British nurse, statistician, and founder of modern nursing; led 38 nurses at Scutari in the Crimean War, founded the 1860 Nightingale Training School, and pioneered the Polar Area Chart.

Florence Pannell

Florence Ada Bethia Pannell (née Neate, 1868–1980), British supercentenarian who died at 111 years 299 days; GRG- and ESO-validated, oldest known living person in Europe at her death, interviewed in 1977 about Victorian life.

Florence Pat Haseltine

Florence Pat Haseltine is an American physician-scientist in reproductive endocrinology who founded the Society for Women's Health Research in 1990 and the Journal of Women's Health in 1992.

Florence R. Sabin

Florence R. Sabin was an American anatomist who became the first woman full professor at Johns Hopkins and pioneered research on the lymphatic system and tuberculosis.

Florence S. Cromwell

Florence S. Cromwell, or Florence Stevens Cromwell, was an American occupational therapist who led the AOTA and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1975.

Florence Wong

Florence Wong is a hepatologist and professor of medicine at the University of Toronto who researches decompensated cirrhosis and led the 2021 CONFIRM trial of terlipressin.

Florent Ginhoux

Florent Ginhoux is a French immunologist known for showing that many tissue macrophages arise from embryonic precursors, and now leads a laboratory at Gustave Roussy Hospital in Villejuif.

Floretyrosine F 18 (Pixclara)

Pixclara (floretyrosine F 18, 18F-FET, TLX101-Px) is Telix's fluorine-18 tyrosine PET tracer, FDA-approved in 2026 (NDA 218592) to differentiate recurrent or progressive glioma from treatment-related change via LAT1/LAT2 uptake.

Florian Bassermann

Florian Bassermann is a German physician-scientist in hematology and oncology who studies ubiquitin-dependent signaling in cancer, directing Internal Medicine III at TUM's Klinikum rechts der Isar since 2017.

Florian Eichler

Florian S. Eichler is an Austrian-trained pediatric neurologist and Harvard professor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for leading lentiviral gene-therapy trials in cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy published in 2017 and 2024.

Florian Engert

Florian Engert is a systems neuroscientist and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University who studies neural circuits controlling behavior in larval zebrafish.

Florian Klein

Florian Klein is a German physician-scientist, virologist, and immunologist, professor and director of the Institute of Virology at the University of Cologne since 2017, known for broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2.

Florian Krammer

Florian Krammer is a virologist and vaccinologist, the Mount Sinai Professor of Vaccinology since 2019, known for a universal influenza vaccine candidate tested in humans.

Florian Läng

Florian Läng, also known as Florian Lang, is an Austrian-born German physiologist at the University of Tübingen known for research on ion channels, cell volume regulation, and SGK1.

Florian Lordick

Florian Lordick is a German medical oncologist specializing in gastro-esophageal cancer who directs the University Cancer Center Leipzig, led the 2025 ESOPEC trial, and chairs ESMO's gastric cancer guideline group.

Florian R. Greten

Florian R. Greten, born 1972, is a physician-scientist in oncology known for linking the NF-κB pathway to intestinal tumorigenesis; he has directed Frankfurt's Georg-Speyer-Haus since 2013.

Floriculture

Floriculture, a branch of horticulture, covers cultivation and marketing of flowers and ornamental plants: bedding plants, houseplants, potted plants, cut greens, and cut flowers. A USD 31-39 billion global industry led by the Netherlands and Colombia.

Florid cemento-osseous dysplasia

Florid cemento-osseous dysplasia (FCOD) is a rare, benign fibro-osseous lesion of the jaws, seen mostly in middle-aged women of African descent and typically managed without biopsy to avoid osteomyelitis.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), Florida's constitutional fish and wildlife agency since July 1, 1999, managing 575+ wildlife species, enforcing state law, and overseeing hunting, fishing, and habitat conservation.

Florida panther

Florida panther (Puma concolor coryi), endangered cougar population of southern Florida, only breeding puma population east of the Mississippi; about 120-230 adults, rescued from inbreeding by 1995 Texas puma translocation, threatened by vehicles and habitat loss.