NIH Eminent Scientist Profiles

National Academy of Sciences Members

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  Harvey J. Alter

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

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  Christian Anfinsen

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

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  Charles Armstrong

  1921-1963 | Hygienic Laboratory | Virology, Polio

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  G. Gilbert Ashwell

  1950-1997 | NIDDK | Glycobiology, Glycoproteins

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  Gerald D. Aurbach

  1959-1991 | NIDDK | Metabolic Diseases, Parathyroid Diseases

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   Julius Axelrod

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

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  Robert W. Berliner

  1950-1973 | NHLBI | Renal Physiology

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  Baruch S. Blumberg

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

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  Roscoe O. Brady

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

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  Bernard B. Brodie

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

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  Giulio L. Cantoni

  1954-1994 | NIMH | Methylation, Biochemistry, Genetics

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  Robert M. Chanock

  1957-2010 | NIAID | Virology, Influenza, Coronaviruses, Rhinoviruses

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  William Mansfield Clark

  1920-1927 | Hygenic Laboratory | Oxidation-Reduction, Toxins, Lead

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  Kenneth S. Cole

  1954-1966 | NINDS | Biophysics, Nervous System Function

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  Erminio Costa 

  1960-1965 | NIMN | Neurotransmitters, Serotonin, GABA

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  John Daly

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

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  Edward V. Evarts

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

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  Donald S. Fredrickson

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

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  D. Carleton Gajdusek

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

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  Robert C. Gallo

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

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  Harold S. Ginsberg

  1985-2003 | NIAID | Adenoviruses, AIDS

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  Marshall W. Nirenberg

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

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  Martin Rodbell

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

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  Earl Stadtman

  1950-2008 | NHLBI | Enzymes, Cell Metabolism, Anaerobic Bacteria

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  DeWitt Stetten Jr.

  1954-1990 | OD | Science Administration, Metabolic Diseases