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Adrian M. Owen

Adrian M. Owen is a British cognitive neuroscientist and professor at the University of Western Ontario, known for using brain imaging to detect awareness in vegetative-state patients.

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 Robert Krainer

Adrian Robert Krainer, born 1958 in Montevideo, Uruguay, is a Uruguayan-American biochemist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory whose splicing research led to Spinraza, the first FDA-approved drug for spinal muscular atrophy.

Adrian S. Woolf

Adrian S. Woolf is a British clinician-scientist in pediatric nephrology at the University of Manchester who studies congenital abnormalities of the kidneys, ureters, and bladder.

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.

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.

Adrien Burlacot

Adrien Burlacot is a French algal physiologist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Palo Alto, known for a 2022 Nature paper on algal CO2 concentration.

Adrienne E. Clarke

Adrienne E. Clarke (born 6 January 1938, Melbourne) is an Australian plant molecular biologist, the first female Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, who chaired CSIRO and served as Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria.

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.

Agnel Sfeir

Agnel Sfeir is a chromosome biologist who holds the PaineWebber Chair in Cancer Genetics at the Sloan Kettering Institute, studying telomeres, DNA repair, and mitochondrial genome stability.

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.

Agnès Ullmann

Agnès Ullmann (1927–2019) was a French microbiologist at the Institut Pasteur who co-authored the 1964 paper introducing the promoter concept and showed cyclic AMP lifts catabolite repression.

Agnieszka Chacinska

Agnieszka Chacińska is a Polish molecular biologist who studies mitochondrial protein import, known for defining the redox-driven MIA pathway and directing IMol PAS in Warsaw since 2020.

Agustín Ibáñez

Agustín Ibáñez (Agustin Ibanez) is an Argentine cognitive neuroscientist, director of BrainLat at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago, known for research on dementia and global brain health.

Aharon Razin

Aharon Razin (אהרן רזין; born Tel Aviv, 1935) was an Israeli biochemist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who established DNA methylation as a mechanism controlling gene expression.

Ahmad R. Hariri

Ahmad R. Hariri, also known as Ahmad Hariri, is a cognitive neuroscientist and professor at Duke University known for imaging genetics research linking serotonin gene variation to amygdala reactivity.

Ahmed S Abdelfattah

Ahmed S Abdelfattah is a protein engineer and electrophysiologist who develops fluorescent voltage and calcium indicators, best known for the Voltron chemigenetic voltage sensor, and has been a Brown University assistant professor since 2021.

Ahmet Yıldız

Ahmet Yıldız is a Turkish-born biophysicist and professor of physics at UC Berkeley who studies motor proteins and telomeres, known for the 2003 kinesin hand-over-hand finding and the FIONA technique.

Aidan J. Doherty

Aidan J. Doherty (A.J. Doherty) is a biochemist and structural biologist, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Sussex since 2009, known for identifying bacterial NHEJ DNA repair.

Ailong Ke

Ailong Ke is a structural biologist and biochemist known for determining molecular structures of CRISPR-Cas immune systems and riboswitches; he moved from Cornell to Yale in 2024.

Aimee Shen

Aimee Shen is an American microbiologist at Tufts University School of Medicine who studies how the hospital pathogen Clostridioides difficile builds and germinates its spores, and received a 2017 PECASE award.

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.

Åke Lernmark

Åke Lernmark is a Swedish medical scientist and professor emeritus at Lund University in Malmö, known for discovering islet-cell antibodies and developing the radiobinding assay for type 1 diabetes.

Akiko Kumagai

Akiko Kumagai is a molecular biologist and Research Professor of Biology at Caltech, known for work on cdc25, the ATR checkpoint kinase, and DNA replication initiation.

Akinao Nose

Akinao Nose (能瀬 聡直) is a Japanese neuroscientist at the University of Tokyo known for work on cell adhesion and synaptic target recognition in Drosophila.

Akio Sugino

Akio Sugino (杉野 明雄) is a Japanese molecular biologist known for identifying DNA polymerase epsilon in yeast, and for early work on DNA gyrase and DNA chain growth in E. coli.

Akira Ishihama

Akira Ishihama (石浜 明) was a Japanese molecular biologist known for mapping how transcription is regulated in E. coli through decades of work on RNA polymerase.

Akira Kobata

Akira Kobata is a Japanese biochemist, a pioneer of N-linked sugar chain glycobiology who developed methods for analyzing their structures and linked them to disease.

Akira Sawa

Akira Sawa is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University, where he directs the Schizophrenia Center and studies the molecular causes of schizophrenia and mood disorders.