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Gregor Blaha

Gregor Blaha is a biochemist and associate professor at the University of California, Riverside since 2022, known for bacterial ribosome work and cryo-EM structures of ribosome-RNA polymerase complexes that helped reignite the study of transcription-translation coupling.

Gregor Eichele

Gregor Eichele, born 1952 in Basel, is a molecular developmental biologist who established retinoids as signals patterning the vertebrate limb and later built gene-expression atlases of the mouse embryo.

Gregor K. Wenning

Gregor K. Wenning (Gregor Karl Wenning, 1964–2024) was an Austrian-based neurologist who led multiple system atrophy research in Innsbruck and created the standard rating scale used in its trials.

Gregor Mendel

Gregor Johann Mendel (1822–1884), Augustinian friar and abbot in Brno, founded genetics through pea experiments (1856–1863, over 28,000 plants), published 1866, rediscovered 1900 by de Vries, Correns, and Tschermak.

Gregorio Weber

Gregorio Weber (1916–1997) was an Argentine-born American biochemist and biophysicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, widely credited with turning fluorescence spectroscopy into a quantitative tool of biochemistry.

Gregory A. Brent

Gregory A. Brent is an American endocrinologist at UCLA who studies thyroid hormone action and wrote widely cited New England Journal of Medicine reviews on thyroid disease.

Gregory A. Fabiano

Gregory A. Fabiano is an American clinical child psychologist and professor at Florida International University whose 174-study meta-analysis found behavioral treatment works as well as medication for childhood ADHD.

Gregory A. Petsko

Gregory A. Petsko is an American biochemist and structural biologist, a pioneer of low-temperature protein crystallography and structural enzymology who later turned to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and ALS research.

Gregory A. Poland

Gregory A. Poland is an American physician-scientist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who originated vaccinomics and has led the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group since 1989.

Gregory A. Roth

Gregory A. Roth is an American cardiologist and professor at the University of Washington who leads cardiovascular disease modeling for IHME's Global Burden of Disease Study.

Gregory A. Voth

Gregory A. Voth (Gregory Voth) is a theoretical and computational chemist, the Haig P. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago since 2010.

Gregory A. Wray

Gregory A. Wray, also published as Gregory Wray, is an evolutionary biologist and Professor of Biology at Duke University who studies the evolution of gene regulation.

Gregory Alushin

Gregory M. Alushin is an American structural cell biologist who heads a laboratory at Rockefeller University, known for showing that actin filaments act as molecular force sensors.

Gregory B. Martin

Gregory B. Martin is an American plant molecular biologist at the Boyce Thompson Institute known for cloning Pto, the first plant gene recognizing specific pathogen effectors.

Gregory Barton

Gregory M. Barton is an American immunologist who studies how the innate immune system distinguishes threatening microbes from the body's own tissues, leading Toll-like receptor research at UC Berkeley.

Gregory C. DeAngelis

Gregory C. DeAngelis is an American visual neuroscientist, George Eastman Professor at the University of Rochester, known for single-neuron recordings revealing how visual cortex computes depth.

Gregory C. Gray

Gregory C. Gray is an American infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch, known for research on swine influenza and for founding the Millennium Cohort Study.

Gregory D. Lewis

Gregory D. Lewis is an American cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he heads the heart failure section and directs the heart transplant program and cardiopulmonary exercise testing laboratory.

Gregory E. Simon

Gregory E. Simon is an American psychiatrist and senior investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute who has studied suicide risk assessment and depression care since 1990.

Gregory G. Germino

Gregory G. Germino is an American physician-scientist in kidney genetics who studies polycystic kidney disease and has served as Deputy Director of the NIH's NIDDK since 2009.

Gregory G. Schwartz

Gregory G. Schwartz is an American cardiologist, Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado and Chief of Cardiology at the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in Aurora.

Gregory Goodwin Pincus

Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903–1967) was an American biologist and endocrinologist who co-developed the first oral contraceptive, Enovid, approved in 1960, and co-founded the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology.

Gregory Gregoriadis

Gregory Gregoriadis, also known as G Gregoriadis, was a Greek-born British biochemist who founded liposome drug delivery, proposing in 1971 that liposomes could carry drugs and vaccines.

Gregory Hannon

Gregory Hannon (1964–2026) was an American molecular biologist who defined the machinery of RNA interference, established microRNAs' roles in cancer, and co-discovered the piRNA pathway.

Gregory J. Dore

Gregory J. Dore, known as Greg Dore, is an Australian hepatologist at the Kirby Institute and St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, known for hepatitis C research and elimination policy.

Gregory J. Gores

Gregory J. Gores is an American hepatologist and gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for research on liver cell death and cholangiocarcinoma, and a past president of AASLD.

Gregory J. Quirk

Gregory J. Quirk is a neuroscientist who defined prefrontal-amygdala circuits for fear extinction memory. He is currently Supervising Scientist at the Philippines National Institutes of Health.

Gregory Jefferis

Gregory Jefferies is a systems neuroscientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who studies the neural basis of behavior in fruit flies.

Gregory L. Challis

Gregory L. Challis is a British chemical biologist and natural products chemist, professor at the University of Warwick and Monash University, known for research on antibiotic biosynthesis.

Gregory L. Verdine

Gregory L. Verdine is an American chemical biologist, Harvard Erving Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, best known for DNA repair research and for inventing stapled peptides.