Life and health

Francesco Dieli

Francesco Dieli, born in Prizzi, Sicily, in 1958, is an Italian immunologist and full professor at the University of Palermo known for γδ T-cell research.

Francesco Muntoni is a pediatric neurologist trained in Italy who has worked in the UK since 1993, known for identifying neuromuscular disease genes and developing Duchenne muscular dystrophy therapies.

Francesco P. Cappuccio

Francesco P. Cappuccio is a British-based Italian physician-scientist at the University of Warwick, known for research on dietary salt, blood pressure, and sleep as a cardiovascular risk factor.

Francesco Pentimalli

Francesco Pentimalli (1885–1958) was an Italian pathologist and university professor known for experimental oncology, especially viral transmission of fowl sarcoma, and was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.

Francesco Ramirez

Francesco Ramirez is a molecular geneticist and professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, known for cloning human collagen genes and studying Marfan syndrome.

Francesco Rubino

Francesco Rubino is an Italian surgeon and researcher, Professor of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery at King's College London, known for trials establishing surgery as a type 2 diabetes treatment.

Francesco Savelli

Francesco Savelli is an Italian computational neuroscientist, an assistant professor at UT San Antonio since 2020, who studies how the hippocampal formation builds spatial maps for navigation.

Francesco Violi

Francesco Violi is an Italian professor of internal medicine at Sapienza University of Rome, retired in 2020, known for research linking gut bacterial molecules to heart attack and stroke risk.

Francevillian biota

Francevillian biota (Gabonionta, Gabon macrofossils): ~2.1 Ga centimeter-sized pyritized structures in Gabon's Francevillian B Formation black shales, interpreted by El Albani et al. 2010 as colonial organisms; biogenicity still debated.

Francine Benes

Francine Mary Benes is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, known for showing that schizophrenia involves measurable changes in inhibitory GABA neurons.

Francine Grodstein

Francine Grodstein is an epidemiologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago who studies cognitive aging in women and directed the Nurses' Health Study until 2019.

Francis A. Barr

Francis A. Barr, also known as Francis Barr, is a cell biologist who holds the EP Abraham Professorship of Mechanistic Cell Biology at the University of Oxford.

Francis A. Plummer

Francis A. Plummer, known as Frank Plummer, was a Canadian HIV/AIDS researcher who led the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg and identified HIV-resistant sex workers in Nairobi.

Francis Balfour-Browne

Francis Balfour-Browne (1874–1967) was an English entomologist and professor of entomology at Imperial College who ran the British and Irish water beetle recording scheme; the Balfour-Browne Club is named for him.

Francis Bertody Sumner

Francis Bertody Sumner (1874–1945) was an American zoologist and ichthyologist, professor of biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1913 until his death, known for experimental studies of animal coloration.

Francis Brambell

Francis William Rogers Brambell (1901–1970) was an Irish-born medical scientist and zoologist, professor at Bangor, who discovered how mothers transfer passive immunity to their young.

Francis C. Wood

Francis C. Wood, also known as Francis Carter Wood, was an American pathologist and cancer researcher who directed Columbia's Crocker cancer research fund from 1912 to 1940.

Francis Carbone

Francis Carbone is an Australian immunologist, a professor at the University of Melbourne and the Peter Doherty Institute known for research on T cell selection and cross-presentation.

Francis Collins

Francis Sellers Collins (born 1950) is an American physician-geneticist, cystic fibrosis gene discoverer via positional cloning, leader of the Human Genome Project, NHGRI director 1993-2008, and NIH director 2009-2021; retired from NIH in March 2025.

Francis Crick

Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916–2004) was a British molecular biologist who co-proposed DNA's double-helix structure in 1953, winning the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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Francis D. Moore

Francis D. Moore (1913–2001) was an American surgeon who led surgery at Harvard's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and founded the scientific study of surgical metabolic care.

Francis Darwin

Sir Francis Darwin (1848–1925), third son of Charles Darwin, English botanist; collaborated on The Power of Movement in Plants (1880), Cambridge botany lecturer and reader, Royal Society foreign secretary, knighted 1913, editor of Life and Letters of Charles Darwin.

Francis E. Marchlinski

Francis E. Marchlinski is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directs electrophysiology at the University of Pennsylvania and is known for developing substrate-based catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia.

Francis Gano Benedict

Francis Gano Benedict (1870–1957) was an American chemist and physiologist who directed the Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory in Boston from 1907 to 1937 and developed the Harris–Benedict equations for basal metabolism.

Francis Gilman Blake

Francis Gilman Blake (1887–1952) was an American physician and immunologist, Sterling Professor of Medicine at Yale, known for demonstrating the viral cause of measles and directing early tests of penicillin.

Francis H. Glorieux

Francis H. Glorieux, also known as F.H. Glorieux (1939–2025), was a Belgian-born Canadian pediatrician and geneticist at McGill and the Montreal Shriners Hospital whose rickets and osteogenesis imperfecta treatments became worldwide standards of care.