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Dr. Paul Farmer was a co-founder of the nonprofit health organization Partners In Health whose mission is to provide proper health care for people around the world living in poverty.  Dr.

Luc Montagnier was a virologist who shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for co-discovering HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.Montagnier was the founder of the Viral Oncology Unit at the Pasteur Institute, a renowned facility where infectious diseases are studied. After founding the unit in 1972, he worked as its director, and it was in that capacity that he was sent a tissue sample that would lead to his crucial discovery.

Lauren Sanchez loves to fly. On Sunday, the Black Ops Aviation founder shared a photo from her helicopter training where she landed a different helicopter for the first time. The pic was of her thumb with a circular imprint from the throttle.

Dr. Jeremiah Stamler was a doctor whose research proved that cardiovascular disease was linked to our diet and lifestyle.Stamler began studying cardiovascular disease in the 1940s, after serving in the U.S. Army.

have developed a camera so ultracompact that it’s the size of a minuscule grain of salt.

Sherif Zaki was a pathologist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who studied infectious diseases including Ebola, SARS, and COVID-19.Zaki began working for the CDC in 1988, founding the Infectious Disease Pathology Branch. There, he worked to identify and study the new pathogens that can lead to deadly outbreaks.

Dr. Aaron Beck was a psychotherapist who was a pioneer in the development of cognitive behavioral therapy.Dr.

Dr. Freddie Fu was an orthopaedic surgeon who pioneered new techniques for more successful ACR repair surgery.Born in Hong Kong, Fu came to the U.S.

José Baselga was a Spanish oncologist who developed highly effective new drugs for treating breast cancer.Working as both an oncologist and a researcher, Baselga was involved in the development of cancer drugs including Herceptin and Perjeta. Both drugs effectively target an aggressive form of breast cancer and have been credited with extending and saving lives.

Andrew Brooks was a research professor at Rutgers University and CEO of Infinity Biologix, who developed the first FDA-approved rapid saliva test for COVID-19.Brooks joined the faculty at Rutgers in 2004, and in 2009, he began working at the university’s Cell and DNA Repository. The company later went private, renamed Infinity Biologix, with Brooks at its helm.

Darold Treffert was a psychiatrist whose pioneering research helped us better understand autism and savant syndrome.Treffert began studying autism in the 1960s, a time when it was still largely misunderstood. Working out of Agnesian HealthCare in Fond du Lac, Treffert explored how the minds of people on the autism spectrum work.

Timothy Ray Brown was known as the “Berlin patient,” the first person who was known to have been cured of HIV infection.Brown was working as a translator in Berlin in the 1990s when he was diagnosed with HIV. He took protease inhibitors, allowing him to have a near normal life expectancy, but in 2006, he was also diagnosed with leukemia.

The Unspoken” — a fictional private-eye mystery out Oct. 1 — is already #1 on Kindle.So Smith says he was surprised when he got the call on a Friday afternoon asking him if he wanted to return to “The Doctors,” which moved from LA to a studio in Stamford, Ct.

Seymour Schwartz was the founding editor of an influential and essential medical textbook, “Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery.”Schwartz was affiliated with the University of Rochester for decades, having completed his internship there in 1950 and gone on to practice at the university’s Strong Memorial Hospital. In 1969, he was one of six editors of the new textbook “Principles of Surgery,” and his fellow editors named him editor in chief.

Connie Culp was the first U.S. recipient of a partial face transplant, who lived longer than any other face transplant recipient to date.Culp’s face was badly damaged in 2004, when her then-husband shot her in an attempted murder-suicide.

Flossie Wong-Staal was a molecular virologist whose research on HIV was crucial in the development of blood tests to detect the virus.A native of Hong Kong, Wong-Staal immigrated to the U.S. as a student and later began working with the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. William Dement was a scientist who developed the field of sleep research and coined the term “REM,” or rapid eye movement, to describe the stage of sleep when dreaming takes place.When Dement began researching sleep in the 1950s, it was not well understood, and few scientists gave it much thought. But Dement’s groundbreaking research showed just how important sleep is and how drastically we can be affected by drowsiness as we’re driving, working, or studying.