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Franco M. Muggia

Franco M. Muggia (1936–2021) was an Italian-born American medical oncologist at the National Cancer Institute and NYU, known for the dexrazoxane cardioprotection trial and ovarian cancer therapeutics.

Franco Mandelli

Franco Mandelli (1931–2018) was an Italian physician and haematologist who directed Sapienza University's Institute of Haematology from 1979 to 2003 and founded the GIMEMA cooperative trials group.

François Cuzin

François Cuzin, born in 1938, is a French geneticist and professor emeritus at the Université Côte d'Azur in Nice, known for transgenesis in the mouse and RNA-mediated non-Mendelian inheritance.

François Fuks

François Fuks is a molecular biologist and full professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles who studies how epigenetic mechanisms fail in cancer, founding Belgium's first epigenetics laboratory in 2006.

François Ghiringhelli

François Ghiringhelli (born 1976) is a French medical oncologist and cancer researcher at the Centre Georges François Leclerc in Dijon, known for his 2009 work on chemotherapy and antitumor immunity.

François Gros

François Gros (1925–2022) was a French molecular biologist who co-discovered messenger RNA in 1961 and later directed the Institut Pasteur and held a chair at the Collège de France.

Francois Guillemot

François Guillemot is a developmental neurobiologist who leads the Neural Stem Cell Biology Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London and was elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2020.

François Jacob

François Jacob (1920–2013) was a French biologist who devised the operon model of gene regulation at the Institut Pasteur, winning the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

François Leulier

François Leulier is a French CNRS researcher who leads the Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon in Lyon, best known for defining the mutualism between Lactobacillus plantarum and the fruit fly Drosophila.

François M. Abboud

François M. Abboud, also known as F M Abboud, is an Egyptian-born American cardiologist at the University of Iowa known for research on autonomic control of the circulation.

François M. M. Morel

François M. M. Morel is a biogeochemist, the Albert G. Blanke Professor of Geosciences at Princeton University, known for trace metals in oceans and discovering the only known cadmium enzyme.

François Morel (physiologist)

François Morel (1923–2007) was a Swiss-born, naturalised French physiologist who held the Chair of Cellular Physiology at the Collège de France from 1967 to 1993 and mapped hormone action along the kidney nephron.

François Olivennes

François Olivennes, French gynecologist-obstetrician and IVF specialist who worked with René Frydman at Antoine Béclère, directed Cochin's reproductive medicine unit from 2002, then practiced at Eylau-La Muette; author of Mille et un bébés.

François Rougeon

François Rougeon, born in 1942, is a French molecular biologist who spent his career at the Institut Pasteur and CNRS, known for work on antibody diversity and mRNA cloning.

François Schweisguth

François Schweisguth is a French developmental biologist who studies Notch signaling, asymmetric cell division, and pattern formation in the fruit fly Drosophila at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.

Francois Spitz

François Spitz is a French geneticist and professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, known for defining large regulatory domains around the HoxD gene cluster.

François‐Clément Bidard

François-Clément Bidard is a French medical oncologist and Professor of Medicine at Institut Curie, known for leading clinical trials using circulating tumor DNA to detect breast cancer treatment resistance before imaging shows progression.

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, born in 1947, is a French virologist at the Institut Pasteur in Paris who co-discovered HIV in 1983, winning the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Francolinus

Francolinus (Stephens, 1819) is a genus of Asian gamebirds in Phasianidae, now limited to the Black, Painted, and Chinese francolins after the former 40-specion genus was split into Pternistis, Ortygornis, Scleroptila, and allies.

Frangula alnus

Frangula alnus (alder buckthorn, glossy buckthorn; syn. Rhamnus frangula), a Rhamnaceae shrub native from Europe to Central Siberia and NW Africa, used for laxative bark and gunpowder charcoal, and a highly invasive North American weed.

Frank (lizard)

Frank was an Asian water monitor lizard best known for playing Mrs. Kipling on the Disney Channel series Jessie from 2011 to 2015, a role he reprised in Bunk'd.

Frank A. Chervenak

Frank A. Chervenak is an obstetrician-gynecologist and maternal-fetal medicine specialist known for fetal ultrasound diagnosis and a systematic ethics framework for obstetrics, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2011.

Frank A. Finnerty

Frank A. Finnerty, Jr. (1924–2011) was an American physician-scientist in cardiology based in Washington, D.C., who studied hypertension and its drug treatment and the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.

Frank A. Lederle

Frank A. Lederle is an American physician-scientist in internal medicine who led the VA's ADAM and OVER trials, which changed abdominal aortic aneurysm treatment guidelines.

Frank A. Oski

Frank A. Oski was an American pediatrician and hematologist who directed the Johns Hopkins Children's Center from 1985 to 1995 and researched infant anemia and iron deficiency.

Frank A. Riddick Jr

Frank Adams Riddick Jr. (1931–2014) was an American endocrinologist and physician-executive who led the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans as CEO from 1975 to 1992.

Frank A. Sinicrope

Frank A. Sinicrope is a gastrointestinal medical oncologist and Professor of Medicine and Oncology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for work on Lynch syndrome colorectal cancer and immunotherapy biomarkers.

Frank A. von Hippel

Frank A. von Hippel is an American professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Arizona, where he leads the One Health research initiative.

Frank B. Cortazar

Frank B. Cortazar is an American nephrologist specializing in vasculitis and glomerular disease who founded the New York Nephrology Vasculitis and Glomerular Center in 2019.

Frank B. Gertler

Frank B. Gertler is a cell biologist and Professor of Biology Emeritus at MIT, known for defining the Ena/VASP proteins that regulate actin filament elongation and cell migration.