Molecular biologists

Sir Edwin Mellor Southern, FRS (born 7 June 1938) is an English Lasker Award-winning molecular biologist, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.

Sir John Edward Sulston FRS (born 27 March 1942) is a British biologist.

Frederick Griffith (1879–1941) was a British bacteriologist whose focus was the epidemiology and pathology of bacterial pneumonia.

Barbara Mary Frances Pearse FRS (born 24 March 1948, Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, England) is a British biological scientist.

Barend Mons (born 1957, The Hague) is a molecular biologist and biosemantics specialist.

Wajih Mousa Owais (Arabic: وجيه موسى عويس‎‎) (born November 5, 1947) is a Jordanian Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

Maclyn McCarty (June 9, 1911 – January 2, 2005) was an American geneticist.

Axel Ullrich (born October 19, 1943 in Lauban, Silesia) is a German cancer researcher and has been the Director of the Molecular biology dept.

Grete Kellenberger-Gujer (1919-2011) was a Swiss molecular biologist known for her discoveries on genetic recombination and restriction modification system of DNA.

Nerida Gaye Wilson is an invertebrate marine molecular biologist at the Western Australian Museum who has interests in diversity, systematics, phylogeny, phylogeography and behavior.

Mortimer (Tim) Louis Anson (1901 – 16 October 1968) was an early protein scientist.

Hans Joachim Müller-Eberhard (May 5, 1927 – March 3, 1998) was a distinguished molecular immunologist who did pioneering research in the United States and his native Germany.

Isidro Antonio Torte Savillo is a Philippine scientist at the Iloilo State College of Fisheries, specializing primarily in the study of lichens, fungi, and slime mould and a writer.

John Stanley Mattick AO, FAA (born 1950, Sydney) is an Australian molecular biologist known for his efforts to assign function to non-coding DNA.

John R. Roth is an American geneticist, bacterial physiologist, and evolutionist.

Joseph DeRisi is an American biochemist, specializing in molecular biology, parasitology, genomics, virology, and computational biology.

Marnie Blewitt is head of her own lab at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, which focuses on X-inactivation, and is engaged in research on the role of polycomb-group proteins in hematopoietic stem cell function.

Emma Whitelaw is an eminent molecular biologist and NHMRC Australia Fellow at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research and is among Australia's leading researchers of epigenetics.

Ernesto Bustamante (born May 19, 1950 in Lima, Peru) is a scientist known for his expertise and contributions to the field of molecular biology.

Kari Kustaa Alitalo (born 21 May 1952 Kuopio ) is a Finnish MD and a medical researcher.

Sir Kenneth "Ken" Murray FRS FRSE FRCPath (30 December 1930 – 7 April 2013) was an English molecular biologist and the Biogen Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Edinburgh.

Lady Noreen Elizabeth Murray (née Parker) CBE, FRS FRSE (26 February 1935 – 12 May 2011) was an English molecular geneticist who helped develop a vaccine against hepatitis B, the first genetically-engineered vaccine approved for human use.

Sema K. Sgaier is a scientist, global health expert, and documentary photographer.

Ehud Gazit (Hebrew: אהוד גזית; Russian: Эхуд Газит), is an Israeli biochemist, biophysicist and nanotechnologist.

Napoleone Ferrara, M.

Martin Charles Raff CBE FRS FMedSci (born 15 January 1938) is a Canadian/UK biologist and researcher who is an Emeritus Professor at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology (LMCB) at University College London (UCL).

Peter K. Vogt (March 10, 1932 in Broumov, Czechoslovakia) is an American molecular biologist, virologist and geneticist.

Anna Sergeevna Akhmanova (born 11 May 1967) is a Russian-born professor of Cell Biology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

Amita Sehgal is a molecular biologist and chronobiologist in the Department of Neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Elwood Vernon Jensen (January 13, 1920 – December 16, 2012) was the Distinguished University Professor, George and Elizabeth Wile Chair in Cancer Research at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine's Vontz Center for Molecular Studies.

Shirley Marie Tilghman, OC FRS (/ˈtɪlmən/; née Caldwell; born 17 September 1946) is a North American scholar in molecular biology and an academic administrator.

Barbara J. Wold is the Bren Professor of Molecular Biology, the principal investigator of the Wold Lab at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the principal investigator of the Functional Genomics Resource Center at the Beckman Institute at Caltech.

Roberts was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she grew up.

Đái Duy Ban (born on September 22, 1937) is a Vietnamese professor, academician, doctor sciences, and famous medical doctor.

George Streisinger (December 27, 1927- August 11, 1984) was a Jewish-Hungarian molecular biologist at the University of Oregon.

Tom Maniatis (born May 8, 1943), is an American professor of molecular and cellular biology.

Gerald Domingue (born 2 March 1937) is an American medical researcher (bacteriology, immunology, experimental urology) and academic who served as Professor of Urology, Microbiology and Immunology in the Tulane University School of Medicine and Graduate School for thirty years and also as Director of Research in Urology.

Steven Albert Benner (born October 23, 1954) has been a professor at Harvard University, ETH Zurich, and the University of Florida where he was the V.

Mien-Chie Hung (Chinese: 洪明奇; born September 4, 1950) is a Taiwanese-born American molecular biologist and cancer researcher.

Lydia Villa-Komaroff is a molecular and cellular biologist who has been an academic laboratory scientist, a university administrator, and a business woman.

Gisela Mosig (November 29, 1930 – January 12, 2003) was a molecular biologist best known for her work with enterobacteria phage T4.

Eduardo Arzt (born in Buenos Aires, February 22, 1953) is an Argentine Molecular Biologist, Master in Experimental Biology, Doctor from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry (University of Buenos Aires).

Nektarios N. Tavernarakis (Greek: Νεκτάριος Ν. Ταβερναράκης) is a bioscientist, who studies Ageing, Cell death, and Neurodegeneration.

Bryant Villeponteau is an American scientist, entrepreneur, and longevity expert who has worked in both academia and industry.

Zeba Islam Seraj (Bengali: জেবা ইসলাম সেরাজ) is a Bangladeshi Scientist known for her research in developing salt-tolerant rice varieties suitable for growth in the coastal areas of Bangladesh.

Élie Léo Wollman (July 4, 1917 – June 1, 2008) was a French microbial geneticist who first described plasmids (what he termed "episomes"), and served as vice director of research for the Pasteur Institute for twenty years.

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Katherine A. Fitzgerald is an Irish-born molecular biologist and virologist who is currently working in the Division of Infectious Disease at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Dame Lesley Anne Glover, DBE, FRS, FRSE, FASM (born 19 April 1956), known as Anne Glover, is a Scottish biologist and academic.

Benjamin Lewin is a molecular biologist who founded the journal Cell and authored the textbook Genes.

Moana Lynore Mackey (born 28 February 1974) is a New Zealand politician and has represented the New Zealand Labour Party in the Parliament of New Zealand since 2003.

Roeland "Roel" Nusse (born 9 June 1950, Amsterdam) is a Professor at Stanford University and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Roy John Britten (1 October 1919 – 21 January 2012) was an American molecular biologist known for his discovery of repeated DNA sequences in the genomes of eukaryotic organisms, and later on the evolution of the genome.

Leo Sachs (Hebrew: ליאו זקס; ‎ 14 October 1924 – 12 December 2013) was a German-born Israeli molecular biologist and cancer researcher.

Dietmar Vestweber (born 16 March 1956) is a biochemist and cell biologist.

Richard I. Morimoto is the Bill and Gayle Cook Professor of Biology, Department of Molecular Biosciences, and Director of the Rice Institute for Biomedical Research at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

Eric Newell Olson (born September 27, 1955) is an American molecular biologist.

Sandip Kumar Basu (born 1944) is an Indian molecular biologist and the holder of the J.

Harvey Bialy (born 1945, New York City) is an American molecular biologist and AIDS denialist.

Richard Anthony Jefferson (born 1956) is an American-born molecular biologist and social entrepreneur who developed the widely used reporter gene system GUS, conducted the world's first biotech crop release, proposed the Hologenome theory of evolution, pioneered Biological Open Source and founded The Lens.

Charles Brenner born October 30, 1961 is the Roy J.

Douglas "Doug" James Hilton AO, FAA (born 13 June 1964 in England) is an Australian molecular biologist.

Aaron Novick (June 24, 1919 – December 21, 2000) is considered one of the founders of molecular biology.

Alfred Ezra Mirsky (October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1974) was an American pioneer in molecular biology.

Eva Nogales (b. Madrid, Spain) is a biophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Haim Aviv (Hebrew: חיים אביב‎‎), PhD (born as Haim Greenspan in Romania, 1940) is an Israeli scientist who specializes in the field of molecular biology.

Hans Neurath (1909–2002) was a biochemist, a leader in protein chemistry, and the founding chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Israel Hanukoglu (Turkish: İsrael Hanukoğlu) is a Turkish-born Israeli scientist.

John Edgar "Jack" Myers (July 10, 1913 – December 28, 2006) was an American molecular biologist and writer of popular science.

Trained as a molecular biologist, Winsten served as co-editor of the three-volume work, Origins of Human Cancer with Nobel laureate James Watson and Howard Hiatt, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health.

Jean-Jacques Weigle (9 July 1901 – 28 December 1968) was a Swiss molecular biologist at Caltech and formerly a physicist at the University of Geneva from 1931 to 1948.

Jerry McKee Adams, FAA, FRS (born 17 June 1940) is a molecular biologist whose research into the genetics of haemopoietic differentiation and malignancy, led him and his wife, Professor Suzanne Cory, to be the first two scientists to pioneer gene cloning techniques in Australia, and to successfully clone mammalian genes.

Jerzy Władysław Jurka (June 4, 1950 – July 19, 2014) was a Polish-American computational and molecular biologist.

Leslie Barnett (born 12 October 1920 in London, United Kingdom as Margaret Leslie Collard – died 10 February 2002) was a British biologist who worked with Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, and Richard J.