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A. Dusty Miller

A. Dusty Miller, also known as A D Miller, is a gene therapy scientist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle whose retroviral vectors powered the 1990 NIH trial.

A. Francis Stewart

A. Francis Stewart, full name Adrian Francis Stewart, is a molecular biologist who held the Chair for Genomics at TU Dresden and developed recombineering, a DNA-engineering method.

Aaron R. Quinlan

Aaron R. Quinlan, also known as Aaron Quinlan, is a computational genomicist who created BEDTools and chairs Human Genetics at the University of Utah since 2024.

Adam Eyre-Walker

Adam Eyre-Walker is a British evolutionary geneticist and Professor at the University of Sussex, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2020, known for quantifying adaptive evolution and deleterious mutations.

Adrian M. Srb

Adrian M. Srb, also known as Adrian Morris Srb, was an American geneticist at Cornell University whose 1944 analysis of Neurospora mutants helped establish the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis.

Adrian Thrasher

Adrian Thrasher (Adrian J. Thrasher) is a British pediatric immunologist and gene therapy researcher at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital, known for stem-cell gene therapy trials in children with primary immunodeficiencies.

Agata Smogorzewska

Agata Smogorzewska is a Polish-born physician-scientist who leads the Laboratory of Genome Maintenance at Rockefeller University, best known for identifying the Fanconi anemia protein FANCI.

Agnar Helgason

Agnar Helgason, born in Reykjavík in 1968, is an Icelandic population geneticist at deCODE Genetics and the University of Iceland who studies Icelandic genetic history.

Agnès Rötig

Agnès Rötig, born 1959, is a French molecular geneticist and Inserm research director at Institut Imagine in Paris who has identified novel genes for mitochondrial respiratory-chain disorders, including RRM2B.

Åke Gustafsson

Åke Gustafsson (1908–1988) was a Swedish geneticist known as the father of mutation breeding; his Svalöf program produced high-yielding induced barley mutants, and he later taught genetics at Lund University.

Akira Shinohara

Akira Shinohara is a Japanese molecular biologist and professor at Osaka University's Institute for Protein Research whose research on homologous recombination established that Rad51 is a RecA-like protein.

Alain Nicolas

Alain Nicolas is a French molecular biologist, a CNRS scientist since 1978 and group leader at Institut Curie in Paris, known for identifying the first meiotic recombination initiation site in yeast.

Alan E H Emery

Alan E H Emery, also known as Alan Emery, is a British physician and human geneticist known for research on the muscular dystrophies and for Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy.

Alan Robertson (geneticist)

Alan Robertson (1920–1989) was an English population and quantitative geneticist at the Institute of Animal Genetics in Edinburgh, known for his 1960 theory of selection limits and Drosophila experiments.

Albert Francis Blakeslee

Albert Francis Blakeslee (1874–1954) was an American botanist and geneticist who founded the study of mating types in fungi and made jimsonweed a model organism for chromosome research.

Albert M. Maguire

Albert M. Maguire is an ophthalmologist and retinal surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who led the gene therapy trials for inherited blindness.

Alberto Ciccia

Alberto Ciccia is an Italian-trained molecular biologist and Professor of Genetics at Columbia University who studies DNA repair, genome stability, and BRCA1 and BRCA2 tumor suppressors.

Aldons J. Lusis

Aldons J. Lusis, known as Jake Lusis, is an American geneticist and UCLA professor since 1980 who pioneered systems genetics of atherosclerosis and metabolic disease.

Alec Jeffreys

Alec Jeffreys (born 1950, Oxford) is the British geneticist at the University of Leicester who invented DNA fingerprinting on 10 September 1984, founded forensic DNA, and later studied recombination hotspots; knighted 1994, Lasker Award 2005.

Alessandro Aiuti

Alessandro Aiuti (born 1966) is an Italian physician-scientist in hematopoietic stem-cell gene therapy at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute in Milan, behind Strimvelis, Libmeldy, and Waskyra.

Alex Schier

Alex Schier, also known as Alexander F. Schier, is a developmental biologist who directs the Biozentrum in Basel and helped establish zebrafish as a genetic model.

Alexander G. Bearn

Alexander G. Bearn, known to colleagues as Alick, was a British-born American physician and geneticist who established Wilson disease as hereditary and diagnosable, and was president of the American Society of Human Genetics in 1971.

Alexander Hollaender

Alexander Hollaender was a German-born American biophysicist and radiation biologist who directed the Biology Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1946 to 1966 and helped found environmental mutagenesis.

Alexander Stark

Alexander Stark is an Austrian bioinformatician and gene regulation researcher who leads a laboratory at the IMP in Vienna, known for developing STARR-seq, a genome-wide enhancer assay.

Alexander Tzagoloff

Alexander Tzagoloff was a Columbia University biochemist and mitochondrial geneticist who first sequenced the complete set of mitochondrial genes and defined the nuclear PET genes required for respiration in yeast.

Alexey S. Kondrashov

Alexey S. Kondrashov (Алексей Кондрашов), born 1957, is an evolutionary geneticist and University of Michigan professor emeritus whose 1988 deterministic mutation hypothesis links sex to high deleterious mutation rates.

Alfred D. Hershey

Alfred D. Hershey, also known as Alfred Hershey, was an American geneticist who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries about virus replication and structure.

Alfred Kühn

Alfred Kühn (1885–1968) was a German zoologist and geneticist who built the first experimentally traced reaction chain from gene to phenotype, working on the flour moth Ephestia kühniella.

Alfred Sturtevant

Alfred Sturtevant (1891–1970) was an American geneticist who, as a Columbia undergraduate in 1913, constructed the first genetic linkage map of a chromosome, working in Thomas Hunt Morgan's fruit fly laboratory and later at Caltech.

Ali Torkamani

Ali Torkamani is an American geneticist who is Professor at The Scripps Research Institute and Director of Genome Informatics at the Scripps Research Translational Institute, known for high-definition medicine.