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George Coukos

George Coukos is a physician-scientist in tumor immunology and cellular immunotherapy who discovered spontaneous antitumor immunity in ovarian cancer and directs the Ludwig Laboratory for Cell Therapy at Weill Cornell Medicine.

George Coupland

George Coupland, born in 1959, is a British plant molecular geneticist directing the Department of Plant Developmental Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne.

George D. Demetri

George D. Demetri is an American medical oncologist who directs the Sarcoma Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and developed kinase-inhibitor therapies for gastrointestinal stromal tumors.

George D. Lundberg

George D. Lundberg is an American pathologist and medical editor who led JAMA from 1982 to 1999 and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1992.

George D. Rose

George D. Rose is a biophysicist and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, known for predicting protein chain turns from hydrophobicity and his 2006 backbone-based folding theory.

George D. Snell

George D. Snell, also known as George Davis Snell, was an American mouse geneticist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize for discovering the mouse major histocompatibility complex.

George D. Zuidema

George D. Zuidema (1928–2020) was an American academic surgeon who served as surgeon-in-chief at Johns Hopkins for 20 years, then led the University of Michigan medical center.

George Dangas

George D. Dangas is an interventional cardiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, known for leading the GALILEO trial of rivaroxaban after TAVR.

George Davey Smith

George Davey Smith, born in 1959, is a British clinical epidemiologist at the University of Bristol who pioneered Mendelian randomization and directs the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit.

George Davis (wilderness preservationist)

George Davis, also known as George D. Davis, is an American environmental policy analyst who led the Adirondack Park land-use plans and won a 1989 MacArthur Fellowship.

George Demiris

George Demiris is a Greek-born biomedical and health informatics scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for research on smart homes, telehealth, and support for older adults and family caregivers.

George Diamond

George A. Diamond (1941–2015) was an American cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles who pioneered Bayesian probability analysis in cardiovascular medicine, notably in a 1979 New England Journal of Medicine paper.

George E. Cartwright

George E. Cartwright (1917–1980) was an American hematologist who founded the University of Utah's hematology division and became an authority on Wilson's disease and hemochromatosis.

George E. Coghill

George Ellett Coghill (1872–1941) was an American neuroembryologist and anatomist known for decades of study of how the nervous system and behavior develop together in salamanders.

George E. Palade

George E. Palade was a Romanian-born American cell biologist, widely called the founder of modern cell biology, who discovered ribosomes and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

George E. Schreiner

George E. Schreiner was an American nephrologist who founded and led Georgetown University Hospital's Division of Nephrology from 1951 and became a founding father of dialysis.

George E. Shambaugh Jr.

George E. Shambaugh Jr. (1903–1999) was an American otolaryngologist and Northwestern professor in Chicago who introduced the operating microscope to American ear surgery, refined otosclerosis surgery, and wrote Surgery of the Ear.

George E. Thibault

George E. Thibault is an American physician and Harvard Medical School professor, best known as president of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation from 2008 to 2018.

George E. Vaillant

George E. Vaillant (born 1934) is an American psychiatrist and Harvard professor known for directing the Harvard Study of Adult Development and for his hierarchy of ego defense mechanisms.

George Eliava Institute (გიორგი ელიავა)

George Eliava Institute (გიორგი ელიავა), Tbilisi, Georgia; founded 1923 with Félix d'Hérelle; world's longest-operating phage therapy institute, maker of pyophage, with the Eliava Phage Therapy Center treating 500+ foreign patients yearly.

George Emerson Brewer

George Emerson Brewer (1861–1939) was an American surgeon and urologist, a professor of clinical surgery at Columbia and a colonel directing a U.S. Army base hospital in France during World War I.

George Eng

George Eng is a physician-scientist in pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard, and MIT's Koch Institute, known for showing how SOX17 lets early colorectal tumors evade immunity.

George Engelmann

George Engelmann (1809–1884) was a German-born American physician and botanist in St. Louis, Missouri, known for monographs on the cacti, conifers, oaks, and grape vines of western North America.

George F. Cahill

George F. Cahill Jr. was an American physician-scientist who worked out how the body switches fuels during fasting, directing research at the Joslin Diabetes Center from 1962 to 1978.

George F. Cahill, Jr.

George F. Cahill, Jr. (1927–2012) was an American physician and metabolism researcher who showed the brain shifts from glucose to fat-derived ketones during starvation, and directed research at the Joslin Diabetes Center.

George F. Sheldon

George F. Sheldon (1934–2013) was an American academic surgeon who chaired surgery at UNC Chapel Hill and served as the 79th president of the American College of Surgeons.

George F. Sprague

George Frederick Sprague was an American corn geneticist who spent 48 years with the USDA at Ames, Iowa, creating the Iowa Stiff Stalk Synthetic germplasm.

George F. Vande Woude

George F. Vande Woude (1935–2021) was an American molecular oncologist who discovered the human MET oncogene in 1984 and led research at the National Cancer Institute.

George Fink

George Fink is an Austrian-born Australian neuroendocrinologist at the Florey Institute who discovered GnRH self-priming, directed the MRC Brain Metabolism Unit in Edinburgh, and founded the Encyclopedia of Stress.

George Fountzilas

George Fountzilas is a Greek medical oncologist at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki who led HeCOG phase III trials in head and neck and breast cancer from the 1980s onward.