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NIH Eminent Scientist Profiles

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CC

  • Harvey Alter sitting at a table, writing in a notebook

    Harvey J. Alter

    1969- Present | Clinical Center | Nobel Prize for Medicine 2020 | Hepatitis B and C, Blood Transfusion Structure


Hygienic Laboratory (1887-1930)


NCI

  • photo of Blumberg

    Baruch S. Blumberg

    1957-1964 | NCI | 1976 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine | Hepatitis B, Astrobiology

  • photo of Robert Gallo

    Robert C. Gallo

    1966-1996 | NCI | 1982 and 1986 Lasker Awards | HIV, Leukemia, Retroviruses


NHLBI

  • Christian Boehmer Anfinsen

    Christian Anfinsen

    1950-1981 | NHLBI, NIDDK | Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1972 | Protein Structure, Protein Folding

  • photo of Axelrod

     Julius Axelrod

    1949-2004 | NHLBI, NIMH | 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Neurotransmitter Reuptake, Catecholamines, Melatonin

  • photo of Berliner

    Robert W. Berliner

    1950-1973 | NHLBI | Renal Physiology

  • photo of Brodie

    Bernard B. Brodie

    1950 - 1970 | NHLBI | 1967 Lasker Award | Drug Metabolism, Tylenol

  • photo of Donald S. Fredrickson

    Donald S. Fredrickson

    1953-1983 | NHLBI, OD | Lipid and Cholesterol Metabolism, Heart Disease

  • photo of Martin Rodbell

    Martin Rodbell

    1956-1994 | NHLBI, NIEHS | 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Molecular Endocrinology



NIAID


NIDDK

  • Christian Boehmer Anfinsen

    Christian Anfinsen

    1950-1981 | NHLBI, NIDDK | Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1972 | Protein Structure, Protein Folding

  • G. Gilbert Ashwell is sitting at the lab bench, writing in a notebook while apparently conducting an experiment

    G. Gilbert Ashwell

    1950-1997 | NIDDK | Glycobiology, Glycoproteins

  • photo of Aurbach

    Gerald D. Aurbach

    1959-1991 | NIDDK | Metabolic Diseases, Parathyroid Diseases

  • photo of John Daly

    John Daly

    1960-2010 | NIDDK | Toxins, Drug Metabolism, Poisonous Tree Frogs

  • Portrait of Marshall Nirenberg

    Marshall W. Nirenberg

    1957-2010 | NIDDK | 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1968 Lasker Award | Genetic Code, Protein Synthesis, RNA


NIMH

  • photo of Axelrod

     Julius Axelrod

    1949-2004 | NHLBI, NIMH | 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Neurotransmitter Reuptake, Catecholamines, Melatonin

  • photo of Cantoni

    Giulio L. Cantoni

    1954-1994 | NIMH | Methylation, Biochemistry, Genetics

  • Photo of Erminio Costa

    Erminio Costa 

    1960-1965 | NIMN | Neurotransmitters, Serotonin, GABA

  • Photo of Edward V. Evarts

    Edward V. Evarts

    1953-1985 | NIMH | Single Unit Recording, Neuroscience, Motor Action


NINDS

  • photo of Brady

    Roscoe O. Brady

    1954-2016 | NINDS | 1982 Lasker Award | Hereditary Metabolic Storage Diseases, Enzyme Replacement Therapy

  • photo of Cole

    Kenneth S. Cole

    1954-1966 | NINDS | Biophysics, Nervous System Function

  • photo of D. Carleton Gajdusek

    D. Carleton Gajdusek

    1970-1997 | NINDS | 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Prion Disease, Unconventional Viruses


OD

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