Although MD-PhD physician-scientists are a minority of both clinicians and research scientists, they play a critical role in translational medicine and clinical research, connecting basic research findings to healthcare applications
Notable MD-PhD Physician-Scientists
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- Barry Blumberg – Recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Daniel Gajdusek for their work on the human prion disease kuru
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- Francis Collins – Director of the National Institutes of Health and former leader of the Human Genome Project
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- James DiCarlo – computational neuroscientist and Head of the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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- Alfred G. Gilman – Recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Martin Rodbell for their discoveries regarding G-proteins
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- Robert Satcher – Physician, chemical engineer, and NASA astronaut who became the first orthopedic surgeon in space during STS-129
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- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran – Renowned neuroscientist known for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics
- Chi V. Dang – Director of the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania