Life and health

Francis M. Giardiello

Francis M. Giardiello, also known as Francis Giardiello, is a gastroenterologist and physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine known for his research on hereditary gastrointestinal cancer, especially familial adenomatous polyposis.

Francis M. Rackemann

Francis Minot Rackemann (1887–1973) was an American physician and allergist who led the allergy clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital and classified asthma into extrinsic and intrinsic forms, a distinction still used in research.

Francis Marshall (physiologist)

Francis Hugh Adam Marshall (1878–1949) was a British physiologist who demonstrated that ovarian secretions control the oestrous cycle and wrote the 1910 textbook The Physiology of Reproduction.

Francis Martin (fungal genomicist)

Francis Martin is a French fungal genomicist and Research Director Emeritus at INRAE in Nancy, known for sequencing the Laccaria bicolor and Périgord black truffle genomes.

Francis O. Schmitt

Francis O. Schmitt (1903–1995) was an American biologist and neuroscientist, Institute Professor at MIT, who launched neuroscience as a field with his Neurosciences Research Program in 1962.

Francis R. Willett

Francis R. Willett (Frank Willett) is a neuroscientist and Stanford assistant professor of neurosurgery known for brain-computer interfaces that decoded handwriting at 90 characters per minute.

Francis S. Lee

Francis S. Lee is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medicine who studies the molecular basis of mood and anxiety disorders, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016.

Francis V. Chisari

Francis V. Chisari, known as Frank Chisari, is an American virologist and immunologist at The Scripps Research Institute who defined how the immune system clears hepatitis B and C.

Francis Xavier Dercum

Francis Xavier Dercum (1856–1931) was an American neurologist in Philadelphia who identified adiposis dolorosa, the painful fat disorder still called Dercum's disease, and treated President Woodrow Wilson.

Francisca Mutapi

Francisca Mutapi is a Zimbabwean medical researcher and professor at the University of Edinburgh whose work on schistosomiasis opened treatment to 50 million African preschool children.

Francisco Baralle

Francisco E. Baralle, born 1943 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine molecular biologist in Trieste who sequenced the first complete eukaryotic mRNA in 1977 and pioneered alternative splicing research.

Francisco Bezanilla

Francisco Bezanilla is a Chilean-trained biophysicist, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, known for codiscovering the gating current in sodium channels and for work on voltage sensors.

Francisco G. Cigarroa M.D.

Francisco González Cigarroa is an American pediatric and transplant surgeon at UT Health San Antonio who served as Chancellor of the University of Texas System from 2009 to 2015.

Francisco García (physician)

Francisco García is an American physician and epidemiologist who led Pima County, Arizona's public-health response through the COVID-19 pandemic and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.

Francisco Gonzalez-Scarano M.D.

Francisco González-Scarano is an American physician-scientist in neurovirology who chaired neurology at Penn and was dean of the Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio.

Francisco J Asturias

Francisco J. Asturias is a structural biologist and Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical School, known for cryo-EM structures of the Mediator transcription complex, the RSC chromatin remodeler, and the HIV-1 capsid.

Francisco J. Ayala

Francisco José Ayala (1934–2023) was a Spanish-born American evolutionary geneticist at UC Davis and Irvine known for work on the origin of species, genetic diversity, and the molecular clock of evolution.

Francisco J. Quintana

Francisco J. Quintana, also known as Francisco Quintana, is a neuroimmunologist and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School who studies inflammation in multiple sclerosis and the AHR pathway.

Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica

Francisco Juan Martínez Mojica, known as Francis Mojica, is a Spanish microbiologist at the University of Alicante who recognized CRISPR as a bacterial immune system.

Francisco M. Marty

Francisco M. Marty was a Harvard infectious disease physician who led the 2017 trial that made letermovir the first approved CMV prophylaxis drug after stem-cell transplantation.

Francisco Mauro Salzano

Francisco Mauro Salzano (1928–2018) was a Brazilian human population geneticist at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul who pioneered genetic studies of Brazil's indigenous peoples.

Francisco Sánchez‐Madrid

Francisco Sánchez-Madrid, born 1954, is a Spanish immunologist, Full Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, who shared the 2023 Robert Koch Prize with Timothy Springer for work on leukocyte adhesion.

Francisco X. Real

Francisco X. Real, also known as Paco Real, is a Spanish physician-scientist who studies how pancreatic and bladder cancers arise, and a professor of cell biology in Barcelona.

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Francisella

Francisella is a genus of small, nonmotile Gram-negative coccobacilli and the only genus in the family Francisellaceae; its species cause tularemia in humans and francisellosis in farmed fish.

Oct 21, 2026

Francisella tularensis

Francisella tularensis, agent of tularemia (rabbit fever), a Gram-negative facultative intracellular coccobacillus; type A ID50 under 10 cfu, Tier 1 Select Agent, cytosolic replication via FPI-encoded T6SS, no US-licensed vaccine.

Franck Morschhauser

Franck Morschhauser (born 1967) is a French hematologist at CHU de Lille who became president of the Lymphoma Study Association in 2020 and led the RELEVANCE trial.

Franck Polleux

Franck Polleux is a French-trained developmental neuroscientist, professor at Columbia University and its Zuckerman Institute, known for work on cortical development and human brain evolution.

Franco Basaglia

Franco Basaglia (1924–1980) was an Italian psychiatrist who, as director of asylums in Gorizia and Trieste, led the movement that closed Italy's mental hospitals through Law 180 of 1978.

Franco Cavalli

Franco Cavalli, born 1942 in Locarno, is a Swiss medical oncologist known for lymphoma research who founded the Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland and the International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma.