Edward A. Boyse FRS, AAAS, NAS[1](August 11, 1923 – July 14, 2007) was a British-born, American physician and biologist best known for his research on the immune system and pheromones.

[2] Boyse was born in Worthing, England, and studied medicine at the University of London.

[2][3] Boyse and others were among the earlier researchers to look at how the immune system responded to antigens using mice focussing on the role of white blood cells.

in 1976 he won the Isaac Adler prize awarded jointly by Harvard and Rockefeller Universities.

Boyse was the first to propose that umbilical cord blood could be used in place of bone marrow for hematopoietic reconstitution.