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List of the most influential people in Biology,

#6551

Luis F Parada

#114480

Overall Influence

#6552

Charles H. Zeanah

#22457

Overall Influence

Charles H. Zeanah Jr. is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who is a member of the council of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry . Professional Zeanah is a professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and vice-chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at the Tulane University School of Medicine. He is also an executive director of the Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health.

#6553

Sudhanshu Vrati

#87690

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Sudhanshu Vrati is an Indian immunologist, microbiologist and the director of the Regional Centre for Biotechnology. Known for his studies in the fields of RNA virus replication and vaccine development, Vrati is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2003.

#6554

Nicholas Strausfeld

#58172

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Nicholas James Strausfeld FRS is Regents Professor at the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Arizona, Tucson and Director, Center for Insect Science, University of Arizona. He received a B.Sc. and Ph.D. at University College, London.

#6555

Marianna Dieterich

#114523

Overall Influence

#6556

Abby Dernburg

#99533

Overall Influence

Abby F. Dernburg is a professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and a Faculty Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

#6557

Kathleen Brady

#114529

Overall Influence

#6558

Rosemary Waring

#66895

Overall Influence

Rosemary Waring, an honorary Reader in human toxicology at the School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, was the first researcher to produce scientific evidence suggestive of abnormal sulfur metabolism affecting people with autism spectrum disorders. Her findings suggest that people with autism present with consistently lower levels of circulating plasma sulfate and higher than normal levels of urinary sulfate than non-symptomatic controls . Follow-up work has suggested that people with autism also present with higher than normal levels of other sulfur-related compounds, including sulfi...

#6559

Raymond m. Welsh

#114536

Overall Influence

#6560

Nils‐erik Andén

#114537

Overall Influence

#6561

Patricia A. Parsons

#114557

Overall Influence

#6562

J. Kyle Russo

#114558

Overall Influence

#6563

Leonard S. Jefferson,

#114561

Overall Influence

#6564

Robert S. Sparkes

#114563

Overall Influence

#6565

Catherine Day

#41601

Overall Influence

Catherine Louise Day is a New Zealand biochemist. She is currently a professor and was the head of the biochemistry department at the University of Otago. Career After a BSc at Massey University, Day completed a PhD entitled Expression and characterisation of the n-terminal half of human lactoferrin in 1993, also at Massey, before moving to the University of Otago where she rose to professor and head of department.

#6566

Silvia Maciá

#102964

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Silvia Maciá is an American marine biologist and professor of biology at Barry University in Miami Shores, FL. Her research interests involves both laboratory and field work addressing pipefish mating behavior, seagrass community ecology, coral reef grazing ecology and seagrass restoration.

#6567

Gretchen Vogel

#114652

Overall Influence

#6568

Mariel Vázquez

#61468

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Mariel Vázquez is a Mexican mathematical biologist who specializes in the topology of DNA. She is a professor at the University of California, Davis, jointly affiliated with the departments of mathematics and of microbiology and molecular genetics.

#6569

William Dawson

#108917

Overall Influence

1927 - 2020 (93 years)

William Ryan Dawson was an American zoologist and ornithologist and emeritus professor of zoology at the University of Michigan. He is known in the field of ornithology for his comparative studies on desert and closely related non-desert birds in the south-western United States, Mexico and Australia.

#6570

Philip W. Rundel

#114663

Overall Influence

#6571

James Broach

#114665

Overall Influence

James R. Broach is an American biochemist and molecular biologist currently at Pennsylvania State University and is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Academy of Microbiology.

#6572

Kathleen Basford

#83167

Overall Influence

1916 - 1998 (82 years)

Kathleen Basford was a British botanist, with a special interest in genetics. She is known for discovering a form of fuchsia that was a cross between a New Zealand and Mexican fuchsia, proving this form of flower existed 20–30million years ago, before the continents had separated.

#6573

William Bill Dobyns

#114679

Overall Influence

#6574

Katya Rubia

#86796

Overall Influence

Katya Rubia is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre and Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, both part of the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.

#6575

Louis A. Gottschalk

#77594

Overall Influence

1916 - 2008 (92 years)

Louis August Gottschalk was an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist. Gottschalk earned his M.D. at Washington University in St. Louis in 1943 and his Ph.D. from Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute in 1977.

#6576

Mani M. Menon

#114695

Overall Influence

#6577

Eric Vilain

#70381

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Eric Vilain is a physician-scientist and professor in the fields of Disorders/Differences of Sex Development and precision medicine. He has been the director of the Center for Genetic Medicine Research at Children's National Medical Center and the chair of the Department of Genomics and Precision Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Washington, D.C. since 2017. Vilain is a fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics, serves on the International Olympic Committee's Medical Commission, and sits on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the ...

#6578

William Thomas Creasman

#114721

Overall Influence

#6579

Jane A. McKeating

#108806

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Jane A. McKeating is a professor of molecular biology at Oxford University, and honorary professor at the University of Birmingham, England, where she worked as a professor of molecular virology until 2017. She is listed as a notable scientist in Thomson Reuters' Highly Cited Researchers 2014, ranking her among the top 1% most cited scientists.

#6580

Edgar Pick

#81858

Overall Influence

Edgar Pick is an Israeli immunologist who is Professor Emeritus of Immunology in the Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Early life and education Pick was born in 1938 in Lugoj, Romania. After receiving his baccalaureate at the Coriolan Brediceanu High School in Lugoj, he enrolled at the Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy. He completed his medical studies at the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem, graduating with an M.D. in 1965. He was a postdoctoral fellow in experimental pathology at ...

#6581

Jill Bargonetti

Jill Bargonetti

#63779

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Jill Bargonetti is an American professor at the City University of New York with dual appointments at Hunter College and The Graduate Center. Her research is focused on tumor suppressor protein p53 and its role as an oncogene when it is mutated in breast cancer.

#6582

Jackie Hunter

#49865

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Ann Jacqueline Hunter CBE FMedSci FBPharmacolS FRSB is a British scientist who is a board director of BenevolentAI. Hunter is also a visiting professor at St George's Hospital Medical School and Imperial College. She is Chair of the Trustees of the Sainsbury Laboratories at Norwich, chair of the board of the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst and chair of the board of Brainomix. She was previously CEO of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

#6583

Magnus von Knebel Doeberitz

#96776

Overall Influence

Magnus von Knebel Doeberitz is a molecular oncologist and virologist, a professor of molecular oncology and medical director of the Department of Applied Tumor Biology at the Institute of Pathology at the University Hospital of Heidelberg. He also heads a Clinical Cooperation at the German Cancer Research Center.

#6584

Rudolf Geigy

#87391

Overall Influence

1902 - 1995 (93 years)

Rudolf Geigy was a Swiss biologist and a professor of embryology and genetics at the University of Basel. He established the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and studied tropical diseases.

#6585

Persephone Borrow

#79813

Overall Influence

Persephone Borrow is a viral immunologist specialising in T-cell responses in acute and early HIV-1 infections. She has been at the University of Oxford since 2005 and in 2016 was made a professor there.

#6586

D. Kamen Kaye

#114823

Overall Influence

#6587

Victoria Braithwaite

#73747

Overall Influence

1967 - 2019 (52 years)

Victoria A. Braithwaite was a British scientist who was a Professor of Animal Behaviour and Cognition at Pennsylvania State University. She was the first person to demonstrate that fish feel pain, which impacted animal welfare research and changed guidelines for the treatment of fish in laboratories and fisheries in the UK, Europe, and Canada.

#6588

Malcolm Burrows

Malcolm Burrows

#112651

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Malcolm Burrows FRS is a British zoologist, and emeritus professor of zoology at the University of Cambridge. His area of research specialization is in the neural control of animal behaviour particularly in those of small invertebrates. Some of his research examines the circuitry of neurons, muscles and the mechanics of joints involved in the rapid movements and leaps of insects.

#6589

Lyle Joseph Micheli

#114864

Overall Influence

#6590

Heribert Hirt

#114879

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

#6591

James R. Fouts

#114901

Overall Influence

#6592

M. J. Thirumalachar

#81429

Overall Influence

1914 - 1999 (85 years)

Mandayam Jeersannidhi Thirumalachar was an Indian mycologist, microbiologist, plant pathologist and the co-founder of Jeersannidhi-Anderson Institute, California. He was the head of R&D at Hindustan Antibiotics Limited and a professor at Banaras Hindu University as well as the Central College of Bangalore. He was known for the development of antifungal antibiotics such as Hamycin, Dermostatin, Aureofungin, MYc-4 and Tetraenenin and was an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for sci...

#6593

E. John Holborow

#114923

Overall Influence

#6594

Marlene Belfort

#87684

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Marlene Belfort is an American biochemist known for her research on the factors that interrupt genes and proteins. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been admitted to the United States National Academy of Sciences.

#6595

Markus J. Rantala

#78817

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Markus J. Rantala is a Finnish biologist and evolutionary psychologist who is a university lecturer at the University of Turku. Rantala has a doctorate in both biology and psychology. , he has published 219 scientific articles.

#6596

Valerie Paul

#112705

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Valerie J. Paul is the Director of the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, in Fort Pierce, FL since 2002 and the Head Scientist of the Chemical Ecology Program. She is interested in marine chemical ecology, and specializes in researching the ecology and chemistry of Cyanobacteria, blue-green algae, blooms. She has been a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1996, and was the chairperson of the Marine Natural Products Gordon Research Conference in 2000.

#6597

Claudio Barigozzi

#114960

Overall Influence

1909 - 1996 (87 years)

Claudio Barigozzi was an Italian biologist and geneticist. Barigozzi taught genetics at the University of Milan in 1948, and was a scholar of the transmission of hereditary traits using Drosophila and Artemia as model organisms.

#6598

David Lloyd

#75736

Overall Influence

1937 - 2006 (69 years)

David Graham Lloyd was an evolutionary biologist and the seventh New Zealander to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in London. He did pioneering work in the field of plant reproduction. In December 1992, Lloyd fell victim to an apparent poisoning by acrylamide, a common laboratory chemical. As a result, he lay in a coma for three months and was left blind, mute, and quadriplegic. His former partner and fellow molecular biologist Vicki Calder was tried twice for his attempted murder. The first trial ended with a hung jury and the second acquitted her.

#6599

María Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces

#62308

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

María Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces is a Mexican professor of molecular genetics at National Autonomous University of Mexico and the director of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología appointed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2018.

#6600

Haralambos P. Gavras

#115014

Overall Influence

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