DocSum | automatically summarize documents | Natural Language Processing library

I'm working with a project where we are web-scraping PubMed research abstracts and detecting if any researchers from our organization have authorship on any new publications. When we detect a match, we want to add a bold HTML tag. For example, you might see something like this is PubMed: Sanjay Gupta 1 2 3, Mehmot Oz 3 4, Terry Smith 2 4 (the numbers denote their academic affiliation, which corresponds to a different field, but I've left this out for simplicity. If Mehmot Oz and Sanjay Gupta were in my list, I would add a bold tag before their first name and a tag to end the bold at the end of their name.

One of my challenges with PubMed is the authors sometimes only show their first and last name, other times it includes a middle initial (e.g., Sanjay K Gupta versus just Sanjay Gupta). In my list of people, I only have first and last name. What I tried to do is import my list of names, split first and last name, and then bold them in the list of authors. The problem is that my code will bold anyone with the first name or anyone with the last name (example: Sanjay Smith 1 2 3, Sanjay Gupta 1 3 4, Wendy Gupta 4 5 6, Linda Oz 4, Mehmet Jones 5, Mehmet Oz 1 4 6.) gets bolded. I realize the flaw in my code, but I'm struggling for how to get around this. Any help is appreciated.

Bottom Line: I have a list of people by first name and last name, I want to find their publications in PubMed and bold their name in the author credits. PubMed sometimes has their first and last name, but sometimes their middle initial.

To make things easier, I denoted the section in all caps for the part in my code where I need help.