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Ginseng

Ginseng: slow-growing perennial Panax species (Asian Panax ginseng, American P. quinquefolius) whose ginsenoside-containing roots are used in traditional medicine; major East Asia–North America trade since the 1700s; clinical evidence limited.

Gioacchino Natoli

Gioacchino Natoli is an Italian physician and molecular biologist at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan who studies chromatin control of inflammatory gene expression.

Gioele La Manno

Gioele La Manno is an Italian neuroscientist and computational biologist who leads a laboratory at EPFL in Lausanne, known for conceiving RNA velocity in 2018 and for single-cell studies of brain development.

Gioia Massa

Gioia D. Massa is a plant scientist at NASA's Kennedy Space Center who leads plant growth experiments on the International Space Station, including the Veggie vegetable production system.

Giorgio Bernardi

Giorgio Bernardi (1929–2021) was an Italian molecular biologist best known for discovering isochores, long homogeneous DNA segments, and for a neo-selectionist theory of genome evolution.

Giorgio Scita

Giorgio Scita is an Italian cell biologist and professor of pathology at the University of Milan who studies how endocytosis drives tumor cell migration and invasion.

Giorgio Trinchieri

Giorgio Trinchieri is an immunologist who discovered interleukin-12 at The Wistar Institute in 1989 and now leads the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Integrative Cancer Immunology.

Giorgio V. Scagliotti

Giorgio V. Scagliotti is an Italian medical oncologist specializing in lung cancer, Full Professor at the University of Turin and IASLC President from 2017 to 2019.

Giovanna Liuzzo

Giovanna Liuzzo is an Italian cardiologist and physician-scientist at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome, known for establishing that inflammation and T-cell immunity destabilize coronary plaques.

Giovanna Tosato

Giovanna Tosato is an American-based physician-scientist studying virus-associated cancer and blood vessel growth, a Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute since 1999 after directing an FDA division.

Giovanni Battista Grassi

Giovanni Battista Grassi (1854–1925) was an Italian zoologist and physician who proved that human malaria is transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes, refuting Robert Koch, and lost the 1902 Nobel Prize to Ronald Ross.

Giovanni Battista Migliori

Giovanni Battista Migliori (G.B. Migliori) is an Italian physician-scientist known for work on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, directing the WHO Collaborating Centre for TB and Lung Diseases in Tradate, Italy.

Giovanni Camussi

Giovanni Camussi, born in Turin in 1947, is an Italian nephrologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Turin known for showing that stem cell microvesicles protect the kidney from injury.

Giovanni Davı̀

Giovanni Davì, also known as G Davì, was an Italian internist and professor at the University of Chieti whose research linked platelet activation to atherothrombosis in diabetes.

Giovanni Landoni

Giovanni Landoni, born in Milan in 1971, is an Italian cardiac anesthesiologist and intensive care physician who leads large randomized trials of perioperative care at San Raffaele.

Giovanni Maglia

Giovanni Maglia is an Italian chemical biologist, full professor at the University of Groningen since 2021, known for engineering ClyA nanopores into single-protein sensors and founding Portal Biotech.

Giovanni Marsicano

Giovanni Marsicano is a French neuroscientist and Inserm research director in Bordeaux who leads the Endocannabinoids and Neuroadaptation team and studies CB1 receptors in memory.

Giovanni Monteleone

Giovanni Monteleone (born 1964 in Catanzaro) is an Italian gastroenterologist and immunologist, full professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, known for the Crohn's disease drug mongersen.

Giovanni Raimondo

Giovanni Raimondo (G. Raimondo) is an Italian physician-scientist, full professor of internal medicine at the University of Messina, known for establishing occult hepatitis B virus infection as a major hepatology topic.

Giovanni Targher

Giovanni Targher (born 1966) is an Italian physician and clinical epidemiologist, professor of endocrinology at the University of Verona known for research on fatty liver disease.

Giovanni Tonon

Giovanni Tonon is an Italian physician-scientist in hematology and cancer genomics, a full professor and director of the Centre for Omics Sciences at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan.

Giovanni Vitali

Giovanni Vitali (1876–1963) was an Italian anatomist who discovered the paratympanic organ in birds, still called Vitali's organ, and held the anatomy chair at Pisa from 1926 to 1948.

Giraffe

Giraffe (Giraffa), the world's tallest land mammal, native to sub-Saharan Africa. Since August 2025 the IUCN recognizes four species (Northern, Reticulated, Masai, Southern) instead of one, with about 117,000 individuals remaining and populations down nearly 30% in 35 years.

Giraffidae

Giraffidae is a family of even-toed hoofed mammals containing the four giraffe species and the okapi, all endemic to Africa and defined by ossicones and bilobed canines.

Giraud V. Foster

Giraud V. Foster was an American endocrinologist whose 1964 Nature paper established that calcitonin, the calcium-lowering hormone, comes from the thyroid; he later directed the Johns Hopkins Program in Gynecology and Obstetrics.

Girdling

Girdling is the removal of a ring of bark around a tree trunk or branch, cutting off sugars to the roots; it increases fruit size and can kill standing trees.

Giredestrant

Giredestrant (GDC-9545), Roche's investigational oral SERD for ER-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer; full ER antagonist that immobilizes then degrades the receptor; positive phase III lidERA and evERA trials, FDA NDAs under priority review.

Girentuximab

Girentuximab (cG250, Rencarex, TLX250-CDx) is a chimeric monoclonal antibody against carbonic anhydrase IX, expressed in about 95% of clear cell renal cell carcinoma; failed as adjuvant therapy (ARISER) but validated as 89Zr-labeled PET/CT diagnostic in the ZIRCON trial.

Girish N. Vyas

Girish N. Vyas, also published as G. N. Vyas, is an Indian-born American transfusion-medicine scientist and hepatitis B researcher, Professor Emeritus of Laboratory Medicine at UCSF.

Giroctocogene fitelparvovec

Giroctocogene fitelparvovec (PF-07055480, formerly SB-525) is an investigational AAV6 vector gene therapy carrying B-domain-deleted human F8 for hemophilia A; positive Phase 3 AFFINE results, but Pfizer terminated development in December 2024, returning rights to Sangamo.