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Günther Schütz

Günther Schütz (1940–2020) was a German molecular biologist who studied steroid hormone gene regulation and headed a division at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.

Gunther von Hagens

Gunther von Hagens (born Gunther Gerhard Liebchen, 1945–2026), German anatomist who invented plastination in 1977 at Heidelberg and created the Body Worlds exhibitions; died 24 July 2026, aged 81, with his body to be plastinated per his wish.

Guo-li Ming

Guo-li Ming (明国莉) is a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies human brain development using stem cells and brain organoids, including Zika virus research.

Guo‐Min Li

Guo-Min Li is a molecular biochemist and DNA mismatch repair researcher who reconstituted human mismatch repair from purified proteins and directs the Chinese Institute for Cancer Research in Beijing.

Guo‐Ping Shi

Guo-Ping Shi is a principal investigator in cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, known for Nature Medicine papers showing mast cells promote atherosclerosis.

Guojie Zhang

Guojie Zhang (张国捷) is a Chinese genomicist and evolutionary biologist who leads the Bird 10,000 Genomes project and has been a chair professor at Zhejiang University since 2022.

Guojun Bu

Guojun Bu (卜国军) is a neuroscientist known for work on APOE, LRP1, and TREM2 in Alzheimer's disease, and Head of the Division of Life Science at HKUST since 2023.

Guoping Feng

Guoping Feng is an MIT neuroscientist who studies how synapses fail in psychiatric disease, known for the SAPAP3 OCD mouse model and SHANK3 autism gene therapy.

Guppy

Guppy (Poecilia reticulata), also millions fish, a small live-bearing poeciliid fish native to the Lesser Antilles and northern South America; popular aquarium fish, mosquito-control agent since World War I, High-risk invasive species, and model organism in evolutionary biology.

Gurdev Khush

Gurdev Singh Khush, born in 1935, is an Indian-born plant geneticist and rice breeder who spent 35 years at the International Rice Research Institute, developing IR36 and IR64.

Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey

Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey, also published as Gurjit Khurana Hershey, is a physician-scientist directing asthma research at Cincinnati Children's, known for identifying an interleukin-4 receptor mutation linked to allergy risk.

Gürol M. Süel

Gürol M. Süel is an American-based molecular biologist who is Professor of Molecular Biology at UC San Diego, known for discovering ion channel-mediated electrical signaling in bacterial biofilms.

Gus R. Rosania

Gus R. Rosania is a pharmaceutical scientist and University of Michigan professor who won a 2006 Presidential Early Career Award and studies drug transport inside cells.

Gusacitinib

Gusacitinib (ASN002) is an oral dual pan-JAK/SYK inhibitor for chronic hand eczema, in phase 3 with Sanofi after Formation Bio acquired it from Asana BioSciences; phase 2 showed 69.5% mTLSS reduction at 80 mg.

Guselkumab

Guselkumab (Tremfya) is a fully human IgG1λ monoclonal antibody blocking the IL-23 p19 subunit, developed by Johnson & Johnson. First approved 2017 for plaque psoriasis; later indications include psoriatic arthritis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, and, from 2025, pediatric psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.

Gusperimus

Gusperimus (deoxyspergualin, DSG, brand Spanidin) is a synthetic spergualin-derivative immunosuppressant binding Hsc70, studied for transplant rejection and Wegener's granulomatosis; EU orphan drug, marketing application withdrawn 2008, not FDA approved.

Gust H. Bardy

Gust H. Bardy is a cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist, Clinical Professor at the University of Washington, known for the SCD-HeFT trial and the subcutaneous implantable defibrillator.

Gustaf Retzius

Gustaf Retzius (1842–1919) was a Swedish anatomist and histologist, professor at Karolinska Institutet, remembered for his nervous system and inner-ear research and the Cajal–Retzius cell.

Gustatory hallucinations

Gustatory hallucinations, also called phantageusia, are tastes perceived without an oral stimulus; ICD-11 code MB27.21. They occur in epilepsy (parietal or rolandic operculum), psychosis (1-31% prevalence), and migraine.

Gustatory receptor

Gustatory receptor (GR), insect taste receptor family first found in Drosophila (68 genes); seven-transmembrane, inverted-topology tetrameric ligand-gated cation channels detecting sugars, bitter compounds, CO2, heat, and pheromones; distinct from mammalian GPCR taste receptors.

Gustav Albert Schwalbe

Gustav Albert Schwalbe (1844–1916) was a German anatomist and anthropologist, professor at Strasburg, known for Schwalbe's line in the eye and for arguing Neanderthals were a distinct extinct species.

Gustav E. Lienhard

Gustav E. Lienhard (1938–2026) was an American biochemist and longtime Dartmouth professor who traced how insulin signals cells to take up glucose via the transporter GLUT4.

Gustav Embden

Gustav Embden (1874–1933) was a German physiological chemist who, as professor at the University of Frankfurt from 1914, developed liver perfusion and proposed the first coherent scheme for glycolysis, the Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas pathway.

Gustav Fritsch

Gustav Theodor Fritsch (1838–1927) was a German anatomist and anthropologist who, with Eduard Hitzig, published the first experimental demonstration in 1870 that electrical stimulation of the cerebral cortex produces movement.

Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald (1902–1982) was a German-Dutch geologist and vertebrate paleontologist who discovered key Homo erectus fossils at Sangiran, Java, and named Gigantopithecus blacki.

Gustav Jirikowski

Gustav Jirikowski is a neuroanatomist and neuroendocrinologist whose 1992 experiment at Scripps reversed diabetes insipidus in rats with injected vasopressin mRNA, cited by the 2023 Nobel Assembly.

Gustav Killian

Gustav Killian (1860–1921) was a German laryngologist who performed the first bronchoscopy in 1897, removing a bone from a patient's bronchus, and is called the father of bronchoscopy.

Gustav Nossal

Gustav Nossal, born 1931, is an Austrian-born Australian immunologist who showed that one immune cell produces one antibody and directed the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne from 1965 to 1996.

Gustav Schonfeld

Gustav Schonfeld (1934–2011) was a Czechoslovakia-born American physician-scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, internationally known for research on apolipoprotein B, cholesterol, and heart disease prevention.

Gustav Victor Rudolf Born

Gustav Victor Rudolf Born (1921–2018) was a British pharmacologist who invented the platelet aggregometer, discovered that ADP makes platelets aggregate, and helped establish aspirin for preventing heart attacks and strokes.