Life and health

Frederick P. Rivara

Frederick P. Rivara, born 1949, is an American pediatrician and injury-prevention researcher at the University of Washington who showed bicycle helmets reduce head injury by 85 percent.

Frederick P. Roth

Frederick P. Roth is an American computational biologist, chair of Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh, known for network biology and causal gene selection.

Frederick P. Siegal

Frederick P. Siegal (F. P. Siegal) is an American clinical immunologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, known for describing some of the first AIDS cases in 1981.

Frederick Parker Gay

Frederick Parker Gay (1874–1939) was an American bacteriologist and immunologist who held Columbia's bacteriology chair from 1923 and defined immunology as a distinct scientific discipline in 1911.

Frederick Parkes Weber (1863–1962) was an English physician and dermatologist who spent fifty years at the German Hospital in Dalston, London, and lent his name to Sturge-Weber disease and Parkes Weber syndrome.

Frederick R. Appelbaum

Frederick R. Appelbaum is an American medical oncologist and executive vice president of Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle, known for pioneering stem cell transplantation for leukemia since 1978.

Frederick R. Blattner

Frederick R. Blattner is a geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who led the sequencing of the first complete Escherichia coli genome, published in 1997.

Frederick R. Cross

Frederick R. Cross is a cell biologist at The Rockefeller University in New York who studies how cyclins and CDKs drive the cell cycle in budding yeast.

Frederick R. Maxfield

Frederick R. Maxfield is a biochemist and the Vladimir and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine since 1995, known for work on endocytosis and intracellular cholesterol transport.

Frederick Raal

Frederick J. Raal is a South African endocrinologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, known for first-author trials of evolocumab, inclisiran, and evinacumab in familial hypercholesterolaemia.

Frederick Redlich

Frederick Redlich, known as Fritz, was an Austrian-born American psychiatrist who chaired Yale's psychiatry department and served as dean of its medical school from 1967 to 1972.

Frederick S. Jaffe

Frederick S. Jaffe (1925–1978) was an American family planning researcher who served as vice president of Planned Parenthood and first president of the Guttmacher Institute.

Frederick S. Kaplan

Frederick S. Kaplan is an American physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, codiscovered its causative gene in 2006, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2009.

Frederick Sanger

Frederick Sanger (1918–2013) was a British biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, in 1958 for determining insulin's structure and in 1980 for DNA sequencing.

Frederick Stohlman

Frederick Stohlman was an American hematologist, professor of medicine at Tufts University, whose laboratory did much of the mid-century work establishing erythropoietin's role in red-cell production.

Frederick Twort

Frederick William Twort was a British bacteriologist who in 1915 first described the bacteria-killing agent later known as bacteriophage, and identified the growth factor behind vitamin K.

Frederick W. Alt

Frederick W. Alt is an American immunologist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 1987, and Harvard professor known for work on V(D)J recombination and genome stability.

Frederick W. Dahlquist

Frederick W. Dahlquist is a biochemist and biophysicist, Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara since 2004, known for using NMR to study protein structure and bacterial chemotaxis signaling.

Frederik Barkhof

Frederik Barkhof is a Dutch neuroradiologist known for the Barkhof criteria, MRI findings used to diagnose multiple sclerosis, and professor at Amsterdam UMC and University College London.

Frederik C. Krebs

Frederik C. Krebs (born 1970) is a Danish chemist known for roll-to-roll manufacture of flexible polymer solar cells, who founded the printed-electronics company infinityPV.

Frederik L. Hisaw

Frederik L. Hisaw, also known as Frederick Lee Hisaw, was an American endocrinologist and professor of zoology at Harvard University, best known for discovering the hormone relaxin, which widens the pelvis during pregnancy.

Fredric E. Wondisford

Fredric E. Wondisford is an American physician-scientist in endocrinology and diabetes who has served as dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Phoenix since 2023.

Fredric L. Coe

Fredric L. Coe is an American nephrologist at the University of Chicago known for kidney stone research, founding its Kidney Stone Evaluation and Treatment Program in 1969.

Fredrick C. Redlich

Fredrick C. Redlich, known as Fritz Redlich, was an Austrian-born American psychiatrist who led Yale's psychiatry department for 17 years and coauthored the classic study Social Class and Mental Illness.

Fredrick J. Stare

Fredrick J. Stare (1910–2002) was an American nutritionist and physician who founded and chaired Harvard's Department of Nutrition from 1942 to 1976, becoming a controversial figure in food-industry funding debates.

Fredrick Van Goor

Fredrick Van Goor is a Canadian-born cell biologist who, as head of cystic fibrosis research at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, led the biology behind five licensed CF medicines including Trikafta.

Fredrik Bäckhed

Fredrik Bäckhed is a Swedish microbiome researcher and professor of molecular medicine at the University of Gothenburg, known for showing how gut bacteria affect fat storage and insulin signaling.

Fredrik Höök

Fredrik Höök is a biophysicist and professor of nano and biophysics at Chalmers University of Technology, known for developing QCM-D, nanoplasmonic sensing, and two-dimensional flow nanometry of biological nanoparticles.

Fredrik Leeb-Lundberg

L. M. Fredrik Leeb-Lundberg is a pharmacologist and professor emeritus of Experimental Medical Science at Lund University, known for his work on G protein-coupled receptors in cancer.