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Gordon H. Orians
Gordon H. Orians (born 1932) is an American behavioral ecologist and professor emeritus of biology at the University of Washington, known for his studies of blackbirds, habitat selection, and mating systems.
Gordon H. Williams
Gordon H. Williams is an American endocrinologist and Harvard Medical School professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for describing hypertension with inappropriate aldosterone stimulation.
Gordon J. Freeman
Gordon J. Freeman is an American immunologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School who identified PD-L1 and PD-L2 as the ligands of PD-1.
Gordon J. Lithgow
Gordon J. Lithgow is an aging biologist and Professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, California, known for a 2011 study showing an amyloid-binding dye extends lifespan.
Gordon K. Danielson
Gordon K. Danielson, full name Gordon Kenneth Danielson, Jr., was an American cardiovascular surgeon at the Mayo Clinic who pioneered operations for complex congenital heart defects, including Ebstein anomaly repair.
Gordon K. Smyth
Gordon K. Smyth is an Australian statistical bioinformatician who leads a laboratory at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, creating the widely used limma and edgeR packages.
Gordon Keller
Gordon M. Keller is a Canadian stem cell biologist known for the 1997 discovery of the hemangioblast and for directing pluripotent stem cells into blood and heart cells.
Gordon L. Brownell
Gordon L. Brownell, also known as Gordon Lee Brownell, was an American MIT physicist who pioneered positron imaging of brain tumors in the 1950s, a technology that evolved into PET.
Gordon L. Hager
Gordon L. Hager is an American molecular biologist who heads the Hormone Action and Oncogenesis Section at the National Cancer Institute, known for showing steroid receptors bind DNA dynamically.
Gordon Lowe
Gordon Lowe, born 1949, is a Scottish physician-scientist who was Professor of Vascular Medicine at Glasgow from 1993 to 2009 and showed that raised clotting factor levels increase thrombosis risk.
Gordon M. Shepherd
Gordon M. Shepherd (1933–2022) was an American neuroscientist at Yale whose work on the olfactory bulb, brain microcircuits, and neurogastronomy shaped the study of smell.
Gordon M. Tomkins
Gordon M. Tomkins (1926–1975) was an American biochemist who helped found molecular endocrinology, showing how steroid hormone receptors regulate gene expression, and led molecular biology research at NIH before joining UCSF.
Gordon Morgan Holmes
Gordon Morgan Holmes was an Irish neurologist at Queen Square, London, who defined the clinical signs of cerebellar disease and mapped the human visual cortex.
Gordon N. Gill
Gordon N. Gill (1937–2021) was an American endocrinologist who joined the University of California, San Diego faculty in 1969 and studied hormone action and signal transduction, especially EGF receptor trafficking.
Gordon Peters
Gordon Peters (1948–2016) was a British molecular biologist at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and Cancer Research UK, known for identifying the int-2 locus and the INK4a/ARF tumor suppressor locus.
Gordon R. Bernard
Gordon R. Bernard is an American pulmonary and critical care physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who led the NIH ARDS Clinical Trials Network from 1994 to 2014.
Gordon Rustin
Gordon J.S. Rustin is a British medical oncologist known for trials in gynecological cancer and germ-cell tumors and for CA125 research at Charing Cross and Mount Vernon hospitals.
Gordon Sato
Gordon Sato, also known as Gordon H. Sato, was an American cell biologist who pioneered serum-free cell culture and later led the Manzanar Project in Eritrea.
Gordon Setter
Gordon Setter, formerly black-and-tan setter, a large Scottish pointing bird dog from Gordon Castle, heaviest of the four setter breeds; AKC-recognized 1878, FCI Group 7, now a vulnerable native breed in Britain.
Gordon syndrome
Gordon syndrome names two unrelated rare genetic disorders: distal arthrogryposis type 3, causing fixed bent fingers and clubfoot from birth, and a kidney disorder causing hypertension and high potassium.
Gordon Zubrod
Charles Gordon Zubrod (1914–1999) was an American oncologist who, as clinical and scientific director of the National Cancer Institute, built the cooperative clinical trials system through which childhood leukemia became largely curable.
Gorgoniidae
Gorgoniidae (sea fans, sea whips) is a family of gorgonian octocorals, type genus Gorgonia, defined by calcareous sclerites under 0.3 mm with wart girdles, in tropical shallow waters, currently in Malacalcyonacea.
Gorgonopsia
Gorgonopsia, saber-toothed theriodont therapsids, were the dominant Late Permian terrestrial predators with 15–60 cm skulls, known from Africa, Russia, India, and China, extinct at the PTME about 252 million years ago.
Gorgosaurus
Gorgosaurus (Gorgosaurus libratus), a large albertosaurine tyrannosaurid from Late Cretaceous Alberta (~76.5–75 Ma), named by Lambe in 1914; ~8.6 m long, ~1,000 kg, juveniles ate small prey like Citipes.
Gorham-Stout disease
Gorham-Stout disease (GSD), or vanishing bone disease, is a rare complex lymphatic malformation causing progressive osteolysis via lymphatic proliferation in bone; roughly 400 cases documented, mostly children, treated with surgery, bisphosphonates, sirolimus, and radiotherapy.
Gorilla
Gorilla (genus Gorilla): largest living primates, equatorial African great apes, two species (western G. gorilla, eastern G. beringei) with four subspecies, diverged about 1.75 Mya; both threatened, mountain gorillas recovering above 1,000.
Gorlin syndrome
Gorlin syndrome (Gorlin-Goltz syndrome, nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome, NBCCS), an autosomal dominant PTCH1/SUFU cancer predisposition disorder with basal cell carcinomas, jaw keratocysts, palmar pits, falx calcification, and medulloblastoma risk.
Gorocanadi Vati
Gorocanadi Vati (Gorochanadi Gulika), a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral tablet of about 46 ingredients led by gorochana (cattle bile), from Vaidyayogaratanavali; used for fever, cough, and respiratory conditions, widely in Kerala.
Goserelin
Goserelin (ZOLADEX) is a GnRH agonist subcutaneous implant, launched in the UK in 1987 and US-approved 1989, that suppresses testosterone and estrogen to treat prostate cancer, endometriosis, breast cancer, and fibroids preoperatively.
Gosogliptin
Gosogliptin (PF-00734200) is a potent, selective difluoropyrrolidine DPP-4 inhibitor developed by Pfizer for type 2 diabetes, licensed to SatRx and registered in Russia in 2016.