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Andrew Tutt

Andrew N. J. Tutt is a British consultant clinical oncologist and breast cancer researcher at the Institute of Cancer Research and King's College London who led the OlympiA olaparib trial.

Andrew W. Murray

Andrew W. Murray is an American cell and molecular biologist at Harvard, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014, known for building the first artificial chromosomes in yeast.

Andrew Wang (medical researcher, Yale University)

Andrew Wang is a medical researcher and rheumatologist at Yale University whose laboratory studies how environment and metabolism shape inflammatory disease, from sepsis to food allergy.

Andrew Whiten

Andrew Whiten is a British evolutionary psychologist and Emeritus Wardlaw Professor at the University of St Andrews, known for research on chimpanzee culture and social learning.

Andrew Wright (microbiologist)

Andrew Wright (1935–2023) was a Scottish-born microbiologist and biochemist who spent nearly five decades at Tufts University School of Medicine studying DNA replication and transcription antitermination in E. coli.

Andrew Yoo

Andrew Yoo is an American neuroscientist at Washington University School of Medicine, known for converting human skin cells directly into neurons to model Huntington's and Alzheimer's diseases.

Andrey Kulbachinskiy

Andrey Kulbachinskiy (Кульбачинский) is a Russian molecular biologist who heads the RNA Biology and Epigenetics Laboratory at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, known for work on bacterial Argonaute proteins.

Andrey Kursanov

Andrey Lvovich Kursanov was a Soviet plant physiologist and biochemist who directed the Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology for 37 years and developed a doctrine of assimilate transport in plants.

Andrey S. Klymchenko

Andrey S. Klymchenko, also published as Andrii Klymchenko, is a Ukrainian-born chemist at CNRS and the Université de Strasbourg who designs fluorescent probes and nanoparticles for bioimaging.

Andrey Shaw

Andrey S. Shaw is a physician-scientist in immunology and kidney biology who spent 25 years at Washington University and is now at Genentech, known for co-creating the immunological synapse concept.

Andrey V. Zavialov

Andrey V. Zavialov is a molecular biologist who identified the gene for adenosine deaminase 2 and has been a principal investigator at Hainan Medical University, China, since 2022.

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.

Andrzej Dziembowski

Andrzej Dziembowski (born 1974) is a Polish molecular biologist known for work on the RNA exosome and RNA decay, leading the Laboratory of RNA Biology at IIMCB Warsaw since 2019.

Andrzej Stasiak

Andrzej Stasiak is a researcher at the University of Lausanne since 1989, known for measuring DNA helicity in RecA complexes and for pioneering the study of knotted DNA and proteins.

Andrzej Tarkowski

Andrzej Tarkowski (1933–2016) was a Polish embryologist and developmental biologist at the University of Warsaw, called the father of modern mammalian embryology; he made the first chimaeric mice and shared the 2002 Japan Prize.

Aneel K. Aggarwal

Aneel K. Aggarwal is a structural biologist and protein crystallographer, professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for structures of DNA-acting enzymes.

Ángel R. Nebreda

Ángel R. Nebreda (Angel Rodríguez Nebreda), born 1961, is a Spanish molecular biologist at IRB Barcelona known for his research on the p38α MAP kinase pathway in cancer.

Angela Christiano

Angela M. Christiano is an American molecular geneticist at Columbia University known for identifying the hairless gene and pioneering the first systemic drug for alopecia areata.

Angela D. Friederici

Angela D. Friederici (born 1952) is a German cognitive neuroscientist and founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig.

Angela Gronenborn

Angela M. Gronenborn is a structural biologist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine who determines protein and protein–DNA structures by NMR spectroscopy and is known for her work on HIV capsid structure.

Angelika Amon

Angelika Amon (1967–2020) was an Austrian-born cell and molecular biologist at MIT who studied how errors in cell division, especially aneuploidy, contribute to cancer and aging, winning the 2019 Breakthrough Prize.

Angelo L. Vescovi

Angelo L. Vescovi, also known as Angelo Luigi Vescovi, is an Italian stem cell biologist born in Bergamo in 1962, known for the 1999 paper "Turning Brain into Blood".

Angelo Mosso

Angelo Mosso (1846–1910) was an Italian physiologist at the University of Turin whose instruments for recording brain blood flow made him the forerunner of functional neuroimaging, anticipating fMRI and PET.

Angelo Ruffini

Angelo Ruffini (1864–1929) was an Italian anatomist and embryologist who described the Ruffini corpuscle, a slowly adapting touch receptor in skin, and taught at the universities of Siena and Bologna.

Angelo Taranta

Angelo Taranta was a New York physician-scientist who devoted his career to rheumatic fever and the group A streptococcal infections that trigger it, working at NYU and Irvington House.

Angus I. Lamond

Angus I. Lamond is a molecular cell biologist, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Dundee since 1995, known for work on the spliceosome and nuclear proteomics.

Anh Tuân Phan

Anh Tuân Phan is a structural biologist and physicist at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore who determines the structures of noncanonical DNA and RNA, above all G-quadruplexes.

Anil Seth

Anil Seth, British neuroscientist, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science; author of Being You (2021), known for the "controlled hallucination" and "real problem" framings of consciousness.

Anindya Dutta

Anindya Dutta is a biochemist and cancer researcher who studies DNA replication and noncoding RNAs, and chairs the Department of Genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Anirvan Ghosh

Anirvan Ghosh is a neuroscientist known for identifying genes that regulate synapse formation, who moved from professorships at Johns Hopkins and UC San Diego into industry roles at Roche, Biogen, and UNITY Biotechnology.