Life and health

Gabriel Lander

Gabriel C. Lander is a structural biologist and Professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for cryo-electron microscopy studies of the proteasome and molecular glue degraders.

Gabriel N. Hortobágyi is a breast medical oncologist at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where he has served on the faculty since 1971 and led major breast cancer drug trials.

Gabriel Nunez

Gabriel Núñez is an American immunologist and physician, the Paul H. De Kruif Professor of Pathology at the University of Michigan, known for identifying Nod-like receptors and linking NOD2 mutations to Crohn's disease.

Gabriel P Krestin

Gabriel P Krestin is a Romanian-born radiologist and emeritus professor of Radiology at Erasmus MC Rotterdam, elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2017.

Gabriel Schmergel

Gabriel Schmergel (born 1940) is a Hungarian-born American engineer and biotechnology executive who built Genetics Institute into one of the era's few profitable biotech companies.

Gabriel Victora

Gabriel D. Victora is a Brazilian-born immunologist who heads the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics at Rockefeller University, studying how germinal centers refine antibodies during infection and vaccination.

Gabriel Waksman

Gabriel Waksman (born 1957) is a structural biologist and biochemist at University College London and Birkbeck who determined the structures of the molecular machines bacteria use to transfer DNA, including antibiotic resistance genes.

Gabriele Bergers

Gabriele Bergers is a cancer biologist known for work on the angiogenic switch and tumor blood vessels, and a professor of oncology at KU Leuven since 2016.

Gabriele Varani

Gabriele Varani is an Italian structural biologist and NMR spectroscopist, a professor at the University of Washington known for RNA structure and RNA-targeted drug discovery.

Oct 20, 2026

Gabriele-de Vries syndrome

Gabriele-de Vries syndrome (GADEVS, YY1 haploinsufficiency syndrome, OMIM 617557): rare autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental disorder from de novo YY1 variants or 14q32.2 deletions, causing intellectual disability, feeding and growth problems, dysmorphism, and congenital anomalies.

Gabsang Lee

Gabsang Lee is a South Korean-born molecular biologist and Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins, known for deriving patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells modeling familial dysautonomia.

Gaby Maimon

Gaby Maimon is a neuroscientist at Rockefeller University, where he heads the Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function and studies how the fly brain computes navigation signals.

Gad Asher

Gad Asher is an Israeli chronobiologist and full professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot who studies how the circadian clock communicates with metabolism.

Gad Getz

Gad Getz is a computational biologist who directs the Cancer Genome Computational Analysis Group at the Broad Institute and leads cancer genomics at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Sep 29, 2026

GAD-2

The GAD-2 is a two-item self-report questionnaire screening for probable generalized anxiety disorder, the ultra-brief version of the seven-item GAD-7, with a recommended cut-off score of 3.

GADD45A

GADD45A (GADD45α, DDIT1) is an 18 kDa acidic p53- and BRCA1-regulated stress protein controlling G2/M checkpoint, DNA repair, demethylation, and apoptosis; knockout mice show genomic instability and cancer.

Gadella maraldi

Gadella maraldi (gadella) is a morid cod (Gadiformes, Moridae) of the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean upper slope, 30 cm max length, 150–900 m depth, IUCN Least Concern, minor commercial use.

Oct 20, 2026

Gadidae

Gadidae, the true cods, is a family of marine ray-finned fishes including the Atlantic cod, haddock, and pollocks, and among the world's most important food fishes.

Gadiformes

Gadiformes is an order of ray-finned fishes containing the cods and their relatives, including haddock, whiting, pollock, grenadiers, and hakes. They support some of the largest fisheries in existence.

Gadilida

Gadilida (Siphonodentalida) is one of two orders of scaphopod molluscs, tusk shells, alongside Dentaliida. Defined by a vermiform hydraulic foot, radular tooth higher than wide, and small polished shells; monophyly confirmed molecularly.

Oct 15, 2026

Gadodiamide

Gadodiamide (brand name Omniscan) is a linear gadolinium-based contrast agent injected intravenously to enhance MRI, approved in the United States in 1993 but suspended in the European Union since 2017 over brain gadolinium retention.

Oct 20, 2026

Gadofosveset

Gadofosveset trisodium (MS-325; Vasovist, Ablavar) is an albumin-binding, blood-pool gadolinium contrast agent for MR angiography, approved in the EU (2005) and US (2008) and later withdrawn or discontinued.

Gadopiclenol

Gadopiclenol (Elucirem, Vueway) is a high-relaxivity macrocyclic gadolinium-based MRI contrast agent approved by the FDA in 2022 and EMA in 2023, dosed at 0.05 mmol/kg, half the standard GBCA dose, with renal excretion and noninferior efficacy to gadobutrol.

Gadoteridol

Gadoteridol (ProHance, Bracco) is a macrocyclic gadolinium-based MRI contrast agent, FDA-approved in 1992, dosed at 0.1 mmol/kg, indicated for CNS MRI including term neonates and adult head and neck MRI, with low NSF risk.

Gadoversetamide

Gadoversetamide (OptiMARK), a linear nonionic gadolinium-based MRI contrast agent, Gd-DTPA-bis(methoxyethylamide), FDA-approved 1999 at 0.1 mmol/kg for CNS and liver imaging; discontinued in the US and its EU authorisation expired in 2017 over NSF and gadolinium retention concerns.

Gadus macrocephalus

Gadus macrocephalus, the Pacific cod, is a marine fish of the cod family found in the North Pacific and important to commercial fisheries in Alaska, Russia, and Japan.

GAESRD trial

GAESRD (GADAD study), NCT06836206: open-label randomized crossover phase 1/2 trial at SEHA Kidney Care, Abu Dhabi, testing 30 g/day gum Arabic versus water for preserving residual renal function in 40 dialysis patients with ESRD.

Gaëtan Dugas

Gaétan Dugas (1953–1984), French-Canadian Air Canada flight attendant wrongly dubbed AIDS "Patient Zero"; marked Patient O (Outside of California) in a 1984 CDC cluster study; exonerated by 2016 Nature genome analysis showing HIV reached New York around 1971.

Gaetano Thiene

Gaetano Thiene, born in 1947, is an Italian cardiovascular pathologist at the University of Padua who identified arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy as a cause of sudden death in young people.