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NIH Eminent Scientist Profiles

Nobel Prize

Lasker Award

Hygienic Laboratory

Non-Scientists

Institutes

National Academy

Women at NIH

Created by Swan, Jeremy (NIH/NICHD) [C], last modified on May 03, 2022

Eminent NIHers by Institute

CC

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

Hygienic Laboratory (1887-1930)

Charles Armstrong
1921-1963 | Hygienic Laboratory | Virology, Polio

Sara Branham Matthews
1930-1955 | Hygenic Laboratory | Microbiology, Meningitis

Ida Bengtson
1916-1946 | Hygenic Laboratory | Bacteriology, Typhus, Botulism, Trachoma, Anti-toxins

William Mansfield Clark
1920-1927 | Hygenic Laboratory | Oxidation-Reduction, Toxins, Lead

Alice Catherine Evans
1918-1945 | Hygenic Laboratory | Bacteriology, Pasteurization

Margaret Pittman
1957-1971 | Hygenic Laboratory | Bacteriology, Vaccine Research, Typhus, Cholera, Whooping Cough

NCI

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

Robert C. Gallo
1966-1996 | NCI | 1982 and 1986 Lasker Awards | HIV, Leukemia, Retroviruses

NHLBI

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

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

Robert W. Berliner
1950-1973 | NHLBI | Renal Physiology

Bernard B. Brodie
1950 - 1970 | NHLBI | 1967 Lasker Award | Drug Metabolism, Tylenol

Donald S. Fredrickson
1953-1983 | NHLBI, OD | Lipid and Cholesterol Metabolism, Heart Disease

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

NIAID

Charles Armstrong
1921-1963 | Hygienic Laboratory | Virology, Polio

Robert M. Chanock
1957-2010 | NIAID | Virology, Influenza, Coronaviruses, Rhinoviruses

Harold S. Ginsberg
1985-2003 | NIAID | Adenoviruses, AIDS

NIDDK

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

G. Gilbert Ashwell
1950-1997 | NIDDK | Glycobiology, Glycoproteins

Gerald D. Aurbach
1959-1991 | NIDDK | Metabolic Diseases, Parathyroid Diseases

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

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

NIMH

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

Giulio L. Cantoni
1954-1994 | NIMH | Methylation, Biochemistry, Genetics

Erminio Costa
1960-1965 | NIMN | Neurotransmitters, Serotonin, GABA

Edward V. Evarts
1953-1985 | NIMH | Single Unit Recording, Neuroscience, Motor Action

NINDS

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

Kenneth S. Cole
1954-1966 | NINDS | Biophysics, Nervous System Function

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

OD

Donald S. Fredrickson
1953-1983 | NHLBI, OD | Lipid and Cholesterol Metabolism, Heart Disease

DeWitt Stetten Jr.
1954-1990 | OD | Science Administration, Metabolic Diseases