Medical and health researchers

Andrew T. Chan

Andrew T. Chan is an American gastroenterologist and cancer-prevention epidemiologist who leads the Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and studies aspirin, diet, and colorectal cancer prevention.

Andrew Tomkins

Andrew Tomkins is Emeritus Professor of International Child Health at University College London, known for research on nutrition and infection, malnutrition, and HIV prevention in children.

Andrew V. Schally

Andrew V. Schally, born Andrzej Viktor Schally (1926–2024), was a Polish-born American endocrinologist who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize and developed LHRH agonists, the standard drug treatment for advanced prostate cancer.

Andrew W. Roberts

Andrew W. Roberts is an Australian clinical hematologist and Deputy Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne who led development of the leukemia drug venetoclax.

Andrew Wang (medical researcher, Duke Medical Center)

Andrew Wang is an American cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at Duke University who directs its Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic and specializes in transcatheter valve procedures.

Andrew Ward (structural biologist)

Andrew B. Ward is an American structural biologist at Scripps Research whose cryo-EM structures of HIV and coronavirus spikes underpin vaccine design, including the 2P mutations in COVID-19 vaccines.

Andrew Wyllie (pathologist)

Andrew Wyllie (1944–2022) was a pathologist who co-discovered apoptosis, the genetically programmed form of cell death, and gave the field its first biochemical assay, the DNA laddering test.

Andrew X. Zhu

Andrew X. Zhu is a physician-scientist in liver cancer who led the liver cancer research program at Massachusetts General Hospital as a Harvard Medical School professor.

Andrey Rzhetsky

Andrey Rzhetsky is a computational biologist and geneticist, Edna K. Papazian Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, known for biomedical text mining and genetics of complex disease.

Andrzej Meisels

Andrzej Meisels, published as Alexander Meisels, was a Polish-named cytopathologist at Laval University in Quebec whose 1976 paper postulated that koilocytes signal papillomavirus infection, cited by the 2008 Nobel Committee.

Andrzej S. Królewski

Andrzej S. Królewski (Andrzej S. Krolewski) is a physician-scientist who heads the Section on Genetics and Epidemiology at Joslin Diabetes Center and is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Andy Haines

Andy Haines, born 1947, is a British public health physician and professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine known for work on climate change and health.

Andy S. Stergachis

Andy S. Stergachis is an American pharmacist-epidemiologist, Associate Dean of the University of Washington School of Pharmacy, and Director of its Global Medicines Program, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2012.

Aneesh B. Singhal

Aneesh B. Singhal is an American vascular neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for stroke trials, RCVS research, and leading an NIH StrokeNet center.

Ángel Roffo

Ángel Honorio Roffo (1881–1947) was an Argentine physician and experimental oncologist who founded Latin America's first cancer institute in Buenos Aires and showed that tobacco tar produces cancer.

Angela Dispenzieri

Angela Dispenzieri is a hematologist and professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, on the faculty since 1998 and known for work on multiple myeloma, AL amyloidosis, and POEMS syndrome.

Angela Vincent

Angela Vincent is a British neuroimmunologist and Emeritus Professor at Oxford whose work showed that several neurological diseases, including myasthenia gravis and limbic encephalitis, are caused by antibodies.

Angelo Celli

Angelo Celli (1857–1914) was an Italian physician, hygienist, and malariologist who helped name the malaria parasite, reported the 1898 mosquito transmission experiment, and whose laws cut Italian malaria deaths sharply.

Angelo J. Eraklis

Angelo J. Eraklis, also published as A. J. Eraklis, was an American surgeon at Boston Children's Hospital known for his 1967 study of infection after childhood splenectomy.

Angelo Maffucci

Angelo Maffucci (1847–1903) was an Italian pathologist, born in Calitri, who first described Maffucci syndrome in 1881 and later held the chair of pathological anatomy at Pisa.

Angus Dalgleish

Angus George Dalgleish is a British medical oncologist, foundation chair of oncology at St George's, University of London, known for co-discovering HIV's CD4 receptor and for cancer immunotherapy.

Ania M. Jastreboff

Ania M. Jastreboff is an American endocrinologist who directs the Yale Obesity Research Center and led the 2025 phase 2 trial of the once-monthly obesity drug maridebart cafraglutide.

Anil B. Mukherjee

Anil B. Mukherjee (Anil Baran Mukherjee) is a physician-scientist who heads the Section on Developmental Genetics at NIH's NICHD in Bethesda, Maryland, known for work on uteroglobin and therapies for Batten disease.

Anil K. Rustgi

Anil K. Rustgi is an American physician-scientist in gastrointestinal oncology who directs Columbia's Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center and studies esophageal, pancreatic, and colon cancers.

Anil Sood

Anil Sood is an American physician-scientist in gynecologic oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for work on ovarian cancer metastasis, stress hormones, and RNAi therapeutics.

Animesh Pardanani

Animesh Pardanani (Animesh D. Pardanani) is a hematologist-oncologist and Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for the MPL515 mutation study and research on myeloproliferative neoplasms.

Anirban Maitra

Anirban Maitra is a physician-scientist and molecular pathologist who directs the Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health, specializing in pancreatic cancer early detection and biomarkers.

Anish Thomas

Anish Thomas is a medical oncologist at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for clinical trials of DNA repair inhibitors in small cell lung cancer.

Anita Thapar

Anita Thapar is a Welsh child and adolescent psychiatrist at Cardiff University known internationally for Lancet studies on the genetics of ADHD and youth depression.