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Adi Kimchi

Adi Kimchi (עדי קמחי) is an Israeli molecular geneticist and emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute, known for discovering DAP kinase and winning the Israel Prize.

Adrian J. Harwood

Adrian J. Harwood is a British neuro-cell biologist, Professor of Neurocellular Biology at Cardiff University since 2005, known for GSK-3 signaling and mood stabilizer research.

Adrian Salic

Adrian Salic is a Romanian-born American cell biologist, Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School, known for showing that cholesterol activates Smoothened in Hedgehog signaling.

Alain Israël

Alain Israël is a French molecular biologist at the Institut Pasteur and CNRS, known for work on how the transcription factor NF-κB is built and switched on.

Alexander Levitzki

Alexander Levitzki, born in Jerusalem in 1940, is an Israeli biochemist and Wolfson Professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for coining signal transduction therapy and pioneering tyrosine kinase inhibitors against cancer.

Alexander Sorkin

Alexander Sorkin is a cell biologist and Richard Beatty Mellon Professor who chairs Cell Biology at the University of Pittsburgh, known for EGF receptor endocytosis and FRET imaging.

Andrius Kazlauskas

Andrius Kazlauskas (born 1959) is an American vascular biologist known for defining how the PDGF receptor signals inside cells, and now studies diabetic retinopathy at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Anita B. Roberts

Anita B. Roberts (1942–2006) was an American molecular biologist and biochemist at the National Cancer Institute who discovered and characterized TGF-β, a molecule that both promotes and inhibits cellular growth.

Anne Bertolotti

Anne Bertolotti is a cell biologist and group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge since 2006, studying how cells survive stress.

Anne Ridley

Anne J. Ridley is a British cell biologist, Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Bristol, known for her pioneering work on Rho GTPases in cell migration.

Anthony Pawson

Anthony James (Tony) Pawson (1952–2013) was a Canadian cell biologist who spent his career at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, discovered the SH2 domain, and won the Kyoto Prize.

Anthony R. Hunter

Anthony R. Hunter, known as Tony Hunter, is a British-born molecular biologist at the Salk Institute whose 1979 discovery of tyrosine phosphorylation revealed how cells signal and how cancers grow.

Anthony R. Means

Anthony R. Means is an American molecular endocrinologist at Baylor College of Medicine known for establishing calmodulin as the principal intracellular calcium receptor and for showing that calmodulin levels regulate the cell cycle.

Anton M. Jetten

Anton M. Jetten is a molecular biologist who heads the Cell Biology Group at NIEHS in North Carolina, known for discovering the GLIS1-3 transcription factors and studying RORγ.

Augustine M.K. Choi

Augustine M.K. Choi is a pulmonary physician-scientist known for research on heme oxygenase-1 and therapeutic carbon monoxide, who served as dean of Weill Cornell Medicine from 2017 to 2022.

Bart Vanhaesebroeck

Bart Vanhaesebroeck is a professor of cell signaling at the UCL Cancer Institute who identified the white-cell PI3Kδ isoform and drove PI3Kδ inhibitors used in cancer treatment since 2014.

Bartholomew M. Sefton

Bartholomew M. Sefton is a molecular biologist at the Salk Institute in San Diego whose 1980 work showed that the Rous sarcoma virus transforming protein is a tyrosine kinase.

Bastien D. Gomperts

Bastien D. Gomperts is a cell biologist at University College London known for showing that G-proteins control secretion, and for co-authoring the textbook Signal Transduction.

Ben Margolis

Ben Margolis (Benjamin Lewis Margolis) is a physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus of nephrology at the University of Michigan who studies epithelial polarity and kidney disease.

Benjamin Tu

Benjamin Tu is an American molecular biologist and HHMI Investigator at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for discovering the yeast metabolic cycle and studying how metabolism controls cell growth.

Boudewijn Burgering

Boudewijn Burgering is a Dutch molecular biologist, professor of signal transduction at UMC Utrecht since 2003, known for identifying protein kinase B as an insulin signaling target in 1995.

Bradford C. Berk

Bradford C. Berk is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular molecular biology at the University of Rochester, known for research on vascular signaling, oxidative stress, and aneurysm mechanisms.

Brendan D. Manning

Brendan D. Manning is a cell signaling researcher who studies how the PI3K and mTOR pathways control cell growth, and chairs Molecular Metabolism at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Brian A. Hemmings

Brian A. Hemmings is a Swiss-based molecular biologist who identified protein kinase B (Akt), a major anti-cancer drug target, at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel.

Bryan L. Roth

Bryan L. Roth is an American pharmacologist and structural biologist at UNC Chapel Hill, known for inventing DREADD chemogenetics and solving GPCR structures bound to LSD.

Carl Blobel

Carl Blobel is a cell biologist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York known for research on ADAM metalloproteases and their regulators, iRhom1 and iRhom2.

Carl‐Henrik Heldin

Carl-Henrik Heldin, also known as C H Heldin, is a Swedish molecular cell biologist at Uppsala University known for research on PDGF and TGF-β signaling.

Caroline S. Hill

Caroline S. Hill is a British molecular biologist studying TGF-β signaling in development and cancer, and Deputy Research Director at the Francis Crick Institute in London.

Christer Betsholtz

Christer Betsholtz is a Swedish vascular biologist known for work on platelet-derived growth factor signaling and pericytes, which regulate the blood–brain barrier; he won the 2018 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine.

Claudio Basilico

Claudio Basilico is an Italian-born molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus of Microbiology at New York University, known for research on cell proliferation, tumor viruses, and FGF signaling.