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Gigantism
Gigantism, or pituitary gigantism, is rare childhood overgrowth from excess growth hormone, usually a benign pituitary tumor; after puberty the same condition is acromegaly.
Gigantochloa
Gigantochloa Kurz ex Munro is a genus of about 71 accepted tropical Asian clumping bamboos (Poaceae), native from S. China to Malesia, with tube-fused stamen filaments, used for construction, crafts, and edible shoots.
Gigantopithecus
Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest ever primate, an extinct Pleistocene great ape of southern China known only from teeth and four mandibles; sister to orangutans; extinct 295,000-215,000 years ago.
Gijs Wuite
Gijs J. L. Wuite is a Dutch molecular biophysicist and professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam who studies single-molecule DNA–protein interactions and co-founded the instrument company LUMICKS in 2014.
Gil Ast
Gil Ast is an Israeli molecular biologist and professor of human molecular genetics at Tel Aviv University known for work on RNA splicing, Alu exonization, and a therapy approach to Familial Dysautonomia.
Gil McVean
Gilean A. T. McVean, known as Gil McVean, is a British statistical geneticist at Oxford who built the first fine-scale human genetic map and led the 1000 Genomes Project.
Gil Rabinovici
Gil Rabinovici, also known as Gil D. Rabinovici, is an American behavioral neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for PET imaging of amyloid and tau proteins in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
Gila monster
Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum), a large venomous lizard of the southwestern US and northern Mexico; grooved lower-jaw teeth, beaded scales, Near Threatened, venom source of a type-2 diabetes drug.
Gilaad G. Kaplan
Gilaad G. Kaplan, also published as Gil Kaplan, is a Canadian gastroenterologist and epidemiologist at the University of Calgary known for measuring the worldwide burden of inflammatory bowel disease.
Gilbert Ashwell
Gilbert Ashwell, full name George Gilbert Ashwell, was an American biochemist at the National Institutes of Health who discovered the hepatic asialoglycoprotein receptor, the first cellular receptor to be isolated.
Gilbert Dalldorf
Gilbert Dalldorf, full name Gilbert Julius Dalldorf (1900–1979), was an American virologist who discovered the Coxsackie viruses, demonstrated viral interference, and directed New York State's health laboratories.
Gilbert Di Paolo
Gilbert Di Paolo is a Swiss-trained neuroscientist and cell biologist who earned a Ph.D. at Lausanne in 1998, taught at Columbia, and leads neurodegeneration research at Denali Therapeutics.
Gilbert Morgan Smith
Gilbert Morgan Smith (1885–1959) was an American botanist at Stanford University who specialized in algae and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1948.
Gilbert R. Thompson
Gilbert R. Thompson (G. R. Thompson; 1932–2026) was a British physician and Professor of Clinical Lipidology at Imperial College London who pioneered plasma exchange and LDL apheresis for familial hypercholesterolaemia.
Gilbert Rivers Upchurch Jr.
Gilbert Rivers Upchurch Jr. is an American vascular surgeon, chair of surgery at the University of Florida and a 2021 member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Gilbert S. Omenn
Gilbert S. Omenn is an American physician-scientist and geneticist at the University of Michigan whose 1996 CARET trial showed beta carotene supplements raise lung cancer risk in smokers.
Gilbert Vassart
Gilbert Vassart, born 1944 in Brussels, is a Belgian physician-scientist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles whose laboratory cloned the TSH receptor in 1989 and showed its mutations cause hyperthyroidism.
Gilbert's syndrome
Gilbert's syndrome (Gilbert disease), a common inherited UGT1A1-related liver condition causing mild unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia and intermittent jaundice triggered by fasting, stress, or illness; benign, untreated, with drug cautions for irinotecan and atazanavir.
Gilda A Barabino
Gilda A. Barabino is an American biomedical engineer known for research on sickle red blood cell adhesion and president of Olin College of Engineering from 2020 to 2025.
Gilead Sciences
Gilead Sciences, founded 1987 in Foster City, California by Michael Riordan, is a major biopharmaceutical company known for HIV drugs Biktarvy, Truvada, Descovy and lenacapavir (Yeztugo), hepatitis C drugs Sovaldi and Harvoni, Veklury for COVID-19, and the HHS PrEP patent litigation.
Gilean McVean
Gilean McVean, known as Gil McVean, is a British statistical geneticist at Oxford who built fine-scale recombination maps, helped lead the 1000 Genomes Project, and co-founded Genomics plc.
Giles Oldroyd
Giles Oldroyd is a British plant biologist known for work on how legumes recognize beneficial microbes, and president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center since 2025.
Gilia
Gilia (Ruiz & Pav., 1794) is a genus of about 25-39 species of annual herbs in Polemoniaceae, the phlox family, native to western North America and Ecuador to southern South America; taxonomically difficult, partly hybridizing, with ornamental and traditional medicinal uses.
Gill
Gill: the respiratory organ of fish and many aquatic animals, also the main site of osmoregulation, acid-base regulation, and ammonia excretion; countercurrent water flow over filaments and lamellae distinguishes it from lungs.
Gill Livingston
Gill Livingston is a British psychiatrist, Professor of Psychiatry of Older People at University College London, known for leading the Lancet Commission on dementia prevention.
Gilles Laurent
Gilles Laurent, born 1960, is a French neuroethologist who directs the Department of Neural Systems and Coding at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt.
Gilles Mithieux
Gilles Mithieux (born 1958) is a French physiologist and CNRS research director who leads the NUDICE unit in Lyon, known for establishing intestinal gluconeogenesis as a gut-to-brain signal controlling hunger and glucose metabolism.
Gilles Montalescot
Gilles Montalescot is a French cardiologist, professor at Sorbonne Université and cardiologist at Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, who led major trials in acute coronary syndromes and antithrombotic therapy.
Gilles R. Dagenais
Gilles R. Dagenais, also published as Gilles Dagenais, is a Canadian cardiologist and epidemiologist at the IUCPQ in Quebec City, known for the HOPE-3 trial and PURE cohort studies.
Gilles Salles
Gilles Salles is a French-born medical oncologist and hematologist specializing in B-cell lymphomas, known for leading the PRIMA trial and chief of the Lymphoma Service at MSK since 2020.