Life and health

Gustav von Hüfner

Gustav von Hüfner (1840–1908) was a German chemist, professor of organic and physiological chemistry at Tübingen from 1875, remembered for determining hemoglobin's oxygen-binding capacity, the Hüfner number.

Gustav Wilhelm Schimmelpenning

Gustav Wilhelm Schimmelpenning (1928–2009) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who described Schimmelpenning syndrome, also called Feuerstein-Mims syndrome, in 1957 and directed university clinics at Kiel from 1971 to 1994.

Gustav Zander

Gustav Zander (1835–1920) was a Swedish physician who developed mechanotherapy, treating disease and injury with adjustable exercise machines, and opened his first institute in Stockholm in the 1860s.

Gustave (crocodile)

Gustave is a large Nile crocodile of the Rusizi River delta and Lake Tanganyika in Burundi, estimated at about 6 m and blamed for dozens to about 300 deaths since 1987; his size and toll are disputed.

Gustave Roussy

Gustave Samuel Roussy (1874–1948) was a Swiss-born French neurologist and pathologist who described Dejerine-Roussy syndrome and founded the Institut Gustave Roussy cancer center in Villejuif.

Gustavo Cudkowicz

Gustavo Cudkowicz, cited as G. Cudkowicz, was a physician-scientist in mouse immunology known for work on bone-marrow transplantation and hybrid resistance, publishing from Buffalo and Roswell Park.

Gustavo D. Aguirre

Gustavo D. Aguirre is a veterinary ophthalmologist and medical geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for canine gene-therapy research underlying the FDA-approved retinal gene therapy Luxturna.

Gustavo Deco

Gustavo Deco is an Argentine-born physicist and computational neuroscientist, an ICREA Research Professor and Catedrático at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, known for whole-brain models of resting-state brain activity.

Gustavo Leone

Gustavo Leone is an American cancer biologist known for work on Rb/E2F and PTEN signaling and cell cycle control, and director of the MCW Cancer Center since 2020.

Gustavo Palacios

Gustavo F. Palacios is an Argentine virologist and molecular epidemiologist, Professor of Microbiology at Mount Sinai since 2021, known for pathogen discovery during outbreaks, including a new transplant-transmitted arenavirus.

Gustavo Turecki

Gustavo Turecki is a Canadian clinician-scientist who studies the neurobiology of depression and suicide, chairing Psychiatry at McGill and directing the Douglas Research Centre in Montreal.

Gustilo open fracture classification

Gustilo-Anderson classification: the standard 1976, 1984-modified grading of open fractures into Types I, II, IIIA, IIIB, IIIC by wound size, soft tissue damage, contamination, and vascular injury, guiding antibiotics and debridement.

Oct 21, 2026

GUSTO study

GUSTO (Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes) is Singapore's largest birth cohort study, recruiting about 1,450 pregnant women from 2009 to 2010 at KKH and NUH and following mother-child pairs to study early-life origins of metabolic and neurodevelopmental health.

Oct 21, 2026

Gut microbes

Gut microbes: the bacteria, archaea, viruses, and fungi of the gastrointestinal tract, over 3,000 human gut bacterial species, involved in digestion, immunity, obesity, IBD, diabetes, and studied via sequencing and HMA animal models.

Gut microbiota

Gut microbiota (gut flora, gut microbiome): the roughly 50-trillion-member microbial community of the human intestine, encoding about 3.3 million genes, producing SCFAs and other metabolites, studied via the NIH Human Microbiome Project, and targeted by FDA-approved fecal microbiota therapies for C. difficile.

Gut–brain axis

Gut–brain axis (microbiota–gut–brain axis): bidirectional communication network linking the central and enteric nervous systems and gut microbiota via vagal, HPA-axis, immune, and metabolite signaling; studied in IBS and neuropsychiatric disease.

Guttate psoriasis

Guttate psoriasis, also called drop-like psoriasis, is a psoriasis variant of small scattered teardrop-shaped scaly papules, often triggered by streptococcal throat infection in children and young adults, clearing in months or progressing to plaque psoriasis.

Oct 20, 2026

Guttmacher syndrome

Guttmacher syndrome (preaxial deficiency-postaxial polydactyly-hypospadias syndrome, ORPHA:2957, OMIM 176305) is an extremely rare autosomal dominant HOXA13 disorder with hypoplastic thumbs and halluces, hand polydactyly, uniphalangeal second toes without nails, and hypospadias, described in one family.