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Uri Liberman

Uri A. Liberman (1935–2022) was an Israeli physician-scientist in bone and mineral metabolism at Tel Aviv University who described HHRH and led the 1995 alendronate trial.

Uri Seligsohn

Uri Seligsohn (1937–2022) was an Israeli hematologist who led the thrombosis institute at Sheba Medical Center and studied inherited bleeding disorders common in Jewish populations.

Uri Tabori

Uri Tabori is a pediatric oncologist and physician-scientist who heads the Neuro-Oncology program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and studies cancers from DNA replication repair defects.

Oct 22, 2026

Uri Zvi Greenberg

Uri Zvi Greenberg (Hebrew אורי צבי גרינבערג) was a Hebrew and Yiddish poet and essayist, a trailblazer of modernism in both literatures, and a Revisionist Zionist leader.

Uri: The Surgical Strike (उरी: द सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक)

Uri: The Surgical Strike (उरी: द सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक) is Aditya Dhar's 2019 Hindi war film on the 2016 Uri attack and India's cross-LoC strike, starring Vicky Kaushal; it earned about Rs 106.84 crore in ten days and four National Film Awards.

Uria

Uria (Greek Ouria, Messapic Orra, also Hyria) is the name of ancient settlements, chiefly the major Messapic city at modern Oria, Apulia, and a Bronze-Iron Age Cilician city Ura of unresolved location.

Sep 19, 2026

Uriah (high priest)

Uriah (also spelled Urijah) was the high priest of the Jerusalem temple during the reign of King Ahaz of Judah, best known for building a new altar on the model of one Ahaz saw in Damascus.

Uriah Hall

Uriah "Prime Time" Hall, Jamaican-born American retired UFC middleweight (18-11-0, 14 KOs), TUF 17 finalist famous for the spinning-kick knockout of Adam Cella and wins over Mousasi, Silva, and Weidman.

Uriah Heep (band)

Uriah Heep: English hard rock band formed in London in 1969 from the band Spice, named after a Dickens character; known for harmony vocals, Hammond organ, and 1970s gold albums like Demons and Wizards.

Uriah Heep discography

The Uriah Heep discography lists 25 studio albums by the English rock band, formed in London in 1969, from ...Very 'Eavy ...Very 'Umble in 1970 to Chaos & Colour in 2023, alongside live and compilation releases.

Uriah the Hittite

Uriah the Hittite (Hebrew Uriyyah) was a soldier in King David's army, the husband of Bathsheba, whom David arranged to have killed at the siege of Rabbah.

Uric acid

Uric acid is the end product of purine degradation in humans, produced at about 700 mg daily and linked to gout, kidney stones, and cardiometabolic disease.

Uricani

Uricani (Valea Jiului town), Hunedoara County, Romania; a Jiu Valley coal-mining town, mines 1859–2017, 6,669 residents (2021), now a Retezat Mountains tourist resort.

Uricase

Uricase (urate oxidase, EC 1.7.3.3) is a peroxisomal enzyme oxidizing uric acid to allantoin; functional in most mammals but a pseudogene in apes including humans, causing gout susceptibility; therapeutic versions include rasburicase and pegloticase.

Uridine

Uridine is a pyrimidine nucleoside of RNA, consisting of uracil attached to ribose; cells convert it into the nucleotides needed for RNA synthesis, glycosylation, and energy metabolism.

Uridine 5'-triphosphate

Uridine 5'-triphosphate (UTP) is a pyrimidine nucleoside triphosphate consisting of uracil, ribose, and three phosphate groups, used in RNA synthesis, UDP-sugar formation, and extracellular signaling via P2Y receptors.

Uridine diphosphate

Uridine diphosphate, or UDP, is a nucleotide of uracil, ribose, and diphosphate that sits between UMP and UTP in metabolism and carries sugars like UDP-glucose for glycosylation.

Uridine kinase

Uridine kinase (uridine-cytidine kinase, UCK, EC 2.7.1.48) phosphorylates uridine and cytidine to UMP and CMP in pyrimidine salvage; human isoforms UCK1/UCK2 activate molnupiravir and mark tumors.

Uridine kinase-like

Uridine kinase-like (UKL/UCKL): proteins resembling uridine-cytidine kinase (EC 2.7.1.48) of pyrimidine salvage. Covers Arabidopsis UKL1-5 (renamed UCK1-5) and human UCKL-1, which phosphorylates uridine and cytidine with ATP.

Uridine monophosphate

Uridine monophosphate (UMP), also called uridylic acid, is a nucleotide consisting of uracil, ribose, and one phosphate group, and the first product of the cell's pyrimidine biosynthetic pathway.

Uridine phosphorylase

Uridine phosphorylase (UPase, EC 2.4.2.3, udp gene product) is a pyrimidine-salvage enzyme catalyzing uridine + phosphate to uracil + ribose 1-phosphate; hexameric in E. coli, target of uridine rescue against 5-fluorouracil toxicity.

Uridine triacetate

Uridine triacetate (triacetyluridine, PN401), brands Vistogard and Xuriden, is an oral prodrug of uridine; FDA-approved 2015 for hereditary orotic aciduria and as an emergency antidote for fluorouracil or capecitabine overdose and toxicity.

Urie Bronfenbrenner (Ури Бронфенбреннер)

Urie Bronfenbrenner (Ури Бронфенбреннер), 1917–2005, Russian-born American developmental psychologist at Cornell, creator of ecological systems and bioecological (PPCT) theory and co-founder of Head Start.

Uriel (אוּרִיאֵל)

Uriel (אוּרִיאֵל), "fire or light of God", is an archangel of Jewish and Christian apocalyptic tradition, interpreter to Enoch and Ezra in 1 Enoch and 4 Ezra; venerated in Orthodox and Ethiopian churches, excluded from Latin veneration since 745.

Uriel Antuna

Uriel Antuna (Carlos Uriel Antuna Romero), Mexican right winger; Santos Laguna youth, Groningen, LA Galaxy, Chivas, Cruz Azul (28 goals), Tigres, Pumas; 14 goals in 56 Mexico caps.

Oct 10, 2026

Uriel Feige

Uriel Feige is a computer scientist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, first author of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme and winner of the 2001 Gödel Award.

Uriel Levy

Uriel Levy (אוריאל לוי) is an Israeli applied physicist and full professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for metasurfaces and metalens research, and co-founder of TriEye.

Uriel Z. Littauer

Uriel Z. Littauer (1924–2012) was an Israeli molecular biologist and neuroscientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science who founded and chaired its Department of Neurobiology.

Sep 27, 2026

Urii Shuleika

Urii Shuleika is a Belarusian politician who serves as Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus with responsibility for agriculture; he previously chaired the Brest Regional Executive Committee from January 2021.