Life and health

Fred Rieke

Fred Rieke is a neuroscientist and professor at the University of Washington who studies how the retina processes visual signals at the limits set by noise.

Fred Rosner (1935 to 2024) was an American physician, board certified in hematology, who became an internationally known authority on Jewish medical ethics, and a professor of medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Fred Russell Kramer

Fred Russell Kramer is a molecular biologist and professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School who invented molecular beacons and SuperSelective PCR primers for detecting rare cancer mutations.

Fred S. Rosen

Fred S. Rosen (1930–2005) was an American pediatric immunologist at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital who defined the modern understanding of primary immunodeficiencies.

Fred Saad

Fred Saad is a Canadian uro-oncologist, professor of surgery at the Université de Montréal and chief of urology at CHUM, who led major prostate cancer trials including PROfound and ARANOTE.

Fred Sherman (yeast geneticist)

Fred Sherman (1932–2013) was an American yeast molecular geneticist at the University of Rochester, considered a founder of yeast genetics and the first yeast molecular biologist.

Sep 17, 2026

Fred the Tree

Fred the Tree is an Australian pine (Casuarina) growing out of the roadbed of the abandoned Old Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys, a celebrated local landmark.

Fred Vlès

Fred Vlès (1885–1944) was a French zoologist turned biophysicist who founded France's first biophysics institute at the University of Strasbourg and pioneered the physical chemistry of the cell.

Fred W. Turek

Fred W. Turek is an American circadian and sleep biologist at Northwestern University, known for helping identify Clock, the first mammalian circadian clock gene, and for showing benzodiazepines can shift the clock.

Fred Winston

Fred Winston (born 1952) is an American yeast geneticist, the John Emory Andrus Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, known for studies of transcription and chromatin structure in yeast.

Freda D. Miller

Freda D. Miller is a Canadian developmental neurobiologist at the University of British Columbia known for isolating multipotent stem cells from adult mammalian skin in 2001.

Freda K. Stevenson

Freda K. Stevenson, born in 1939, is a British immunologist and Emerita Professor at Southampton known for DNA fusion-gene vaccines against lymphoma and CLL immunogenetics.

Freddie Bray

Freddie Bray is a cancer epidemiologist who heads the Cancer Surveillance Branch at IARC in Lyon, France, and leads GLOBOCAN, the worldwide estimates of cancer incidence and mortality.

Freddie C. Hamdy

Freddie C. Hamdy is a British urological surgeon and prostate cancer researcher, chief investigator of the ProtecT trial, the largest trial of localized prostate cancer treatment.

Freddy Radtke

Freddy Radtke is a Swiss molecular biologist and professor at EPFL in Lausanne, known for work on the Notch signaling pathway in stem cells, the skin, the gut, and cancer.

Frédéric Amant

Frédéric Amant (born 1967) is a Belgian gynecologic oncologist who heads Gynecological Oncology at KU Leuven and founded INCIP, showing chemotherapy during pregnancy can be safe.

Frédéric B. Piel

Frédéric B. Piel is a spatial epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Imperial College London who maps the global health burden of sickle cell disease and other haemoglobinopathies.

Frédéric Berger

Frédéric Berger, also written Frederic Berger, is a French plant scientist at the Gregor Mendel Institute in Vienna, known for work on the histone variant H2A.W and epigenetic inheritance through pollen.

Frédéric Bremer

Frédéric Bremer (1892–1982) was a Belgian physiologist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles whose 1935 cerveau isolé and encéphale isolé cat preparations opened the experimental study of sleep.

Frederic C. Bartter

Frederic C. Bartter (1914–1983) was a Filipino-born American endocrinologist who described the salt-losing disorder Bartter syndrome and long led the hypertension endocrine branch at the NIH.

Frederic D. Bushman

Frederic D. Bushman is an American molecular biologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for mapping where HIV integrates into the human genome and for microbiome research.

Frédéric Ferrière

Frédéric-Auguste Ferrière (1848–1924) was a Swiss physician and Red Cross vice-president who founded the civilian section of the International Prisoners-of-War Agency in Geneva during World War I.

Frederic Geissmann

Frédéric Geissmann is a French immunologist and Professor of Immunology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 2015, known for showing tissue macrophages arise from yolk-sac progenitors.

Frédéric H.‐T. Allain

Frédéric H.-T. Allain is a Swiss structural biologist and full professor at ETH Zurich who uses NMR spectroscopy to determine how proteins recognize RNA in splicing and RNA editing.

Frédéric J. Baud

Frédéric J. Baud (F. Baud) is a French clinical toxicologist and intensive care professor whose NEJM papers established antidotes and treatments for severe drug poisoning.

Sep 17, 2026

Frederic J. de Sauvage

Frederic J. de Sauvage is a Belgian molecular oncologist who co-cloned thrombopoietin in 1994, advanced Hedgehog pathway cancer research at Genentech, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Frederic Lewy

Frederic Lewy, born Fritz Heinrich Jakob Lewy (1885–1950), was a German-American neurologist who in 1912 described the brain-cell inclusions in Parkinson's disease that other researchers named Lewy bodies after him.

Frederic M. Richards

Frederic M. Richards (1925–2009) was an American structural biologist and biophysicist at Yale, known for the 1958 RNase S reconstitution experiment and the solvent-accessible surface area concept.

Frédéric Martinon

Frédéric Martinon is a French immunology researcher whose 1993 paper was the first use of in vitro-transcribed mRNA as a vaccine, tested against influenza in mice.