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Paul A. Heidenreich

Paul A. Heidenreich is an American cardiologist and health-services researcher who is Chief of Medicine at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System and a Stanford professor.

Paul A. Insel

Paul A. Insel, born in 1945, is an American pharmacologist and physician-scientist at UC San Diego whose research on G protein-coupled receptors, targets of roughly 35 percent of approved drugs, shaped the field.

Paul A. Janmey

Paul A. Janmey is a biophysicist and Professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania since 1999, known for research on cytoskeletal mechanics and strain-stiffening biological gels.

Paul A. Khavari

Paul A. Khavari is a physician-scientist who studies how genome regulation directs skin stem cells to differentiate or become cancer, and has chaired dermatology at Stanford since 2010.

Paul A. Kyrle

Paul A. Kyrle, also known as Paul Alexander Kyrle, is an Austrian haematologist and professor of thrombosis research at the Medical University of Vienna, known for the Vienna Prediction Model.

Paul A. Libby

Paul A. Libby (1921–2021) was an American aerospace engineer and founding faculty member at UC San Diego, known for the Bray–Moss–Libby model of premixed turbulent flames.

Paul A. Luciw

Paul A. Luciw is an American virologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Davis known for molecularly cloning the AIDS-associated retrovirus in 1984 and for HIV and SIV vaccine research.

Paul A. Magnuson

Paul A. Magnuson, also known as Paul Arthur Magnuson, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota since 2002.

Paul A. Marks

Paul A. Marks, also known as Paul Marks, was an American physician-scientist who pioneered differentiation therapy for cancer and served as president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from 1980 to 1999.

Paul A. Mayewski

Paul A. Mayewski, born 1946, is an American glaciologist and polar explorer who directed the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine and led more than 60 polar expeditions.

Paul A. Northcott

Paul A. Northcott is a cancer geneticist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis known for establishing the four molecular subgroups of medulloblastoma, the most common malignant childhood brain tumor.

Paul A. Nutting

Paul A. Nutting is an American family medicine physician and primary care researcher in Colorado, a National Academy of Medicine member who led the evaluation of the first patient-centered medical home demonstration project.

Paul A. Offit

Paul A. Offit is an American pediatrician and vaccinologist who directs the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and developed the RotaTeq rotavirus vaccine.

Paul A. Roche

Paul A. Roche is an American immunologist and Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for work on MHC class II peptide loading.

Paul A. Shurin

Paul A. Shurin is a pediatric otolaryngology researcher who set tympanometric standards for diagnosing middle-ear effusion and quantified its persistence after acute otitis media, working at Harvard and Case Western Reserve.

Paul A. Smith

Paul A. Smith is a Canadian ornithologist and Arctic ecologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, co-author of the 2019 Science paper reporting three billion lost birds.

Paul A. Smith (American topologist)

Paul Althaus Smith (1900–1980) was an American topologist at Columbia University whose Smith theory of fixed points of periodic transformations and Smith conjecture founded the study of group actions in topology.

Paul A. Srere

Paul A. Srere was an American biochemist at UT Southwestern in Dallas who named the metabolon, the idea that Krebs cycle enzymes form a physical complex.

Paul A. Volberding

Paul A. Volberding is an American physician-scientist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for building the first dedicated AIDS clinic and defining when to start HIV therapy.

Paul A. Wade

Paul A. Wade is a molecular biologist and Senior Investigator at NIEHS in North Carolina, known for work on the Mi-2/NuRD chromatin-remodeling complex in cancer.

Paul A. Weiss

Paul A. Weiss (1898–1989) was an Austrian-born American developmental biologist and neuroscientist who established cellular self-organization and discovered axonal transport, teaching at the University of Chicago and Rockefeller University.

Paul A. Wender

Paul A. Wender is an American organic and medicinal chemist, the Francis W. Bergstrom Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, known for function-oriented synthesis and practical syntheses of bryostatin 1 and prostratin.

Paul A. Wilson

Paul A. Wilson is a palaeoceanographer and palaeoclimatologist who leads the Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate Research Group at the University of Southampton, known for reconstructing 50 million years of deep-sea temperatures and Antarctic ice growth.

Paul A. Witherspoon

Paul A. Witherspoon (1919–2012) was an American hydrogeologist who pioneered the study of fluid flow in fractured rock and founded Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Earth Sciences Division in 1977.

Paul Aaron

Paul Aaron (born 1943) is an American theatre, film, and television director, producer, and screenwriter from Hoosick Falls, New York, known for Broadway's Paris Is Out!, the Chuck Norris hit A Force of One, and the Emmy-winning 1979 TV film The Miracle Worker.

Paul Abbott

Paul Abbott (born 1960, Burnley, Lancashire) is an English TV writer, producer, and series creator behind Coronation Street, Cracker, Clocking Off, State of Play, and Shameless; BAFTA and Emmy winner, founder of AbbottVision (2008).

Paul Ackerley

Paul Ackerley (Paul Douglas Ackerley, 1949-2011) was a New Zealand field hockey right-half who won gold at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, later coached the NZ women's team to 1998 Commonwealth Games bronze, and worked for SPARC.

Paul Adelstein

Paul Adelstein (born 1969, Chicago) is an American actor, writer, director, and musician known for Agent Kellerman on Prison Break, Dr. Cooper Freedman on Private Practice, Leo Bergen on Scandal, and The Menu (2022); he also fronts the band Doris.

Paul Ahlquist

Paul Ahlquist is an American molecular virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies positive-strand RNA virus replication, using brome mosaic virus as his principal model.

Paul Aisen

Paul S. Aisen is a neurologist and Alzheimer's disease researcher who directs the USC Alzheimer's Therapeutic Research Institute and the Alzheimer's Clinical Trials Consortium, after leading the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study.