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Anthony Rosenzweig

Anthony Rosenzweig is a cardiologist who studies why the heart fails and how exercise protects it, directing the Frankel Institute for Heart and Brain Health at Michigan.

Anthony S. Rebuck

Anthony S. Rebuck is a respiratory physician and asthma researcher at the University of Toronto, known for his 1992 study of beta-agonists and asthma deaths.

Anthony Schapira

Anthony Henry Vernon Schapira, born 1954, is a British neurologist who is Professor of Neurology at UCL and known for discovering the mitochondrial Complex I defect and GBA1 mutations in Parkinson's disease.

Anthony Seaton

Anthony Seaton (born 1938) is a British respiratory and occupational physician at Aberdeen whose 1995 Lancet paper on ultrafine particles reshaped air pollution science and UK standards.

Anthony V. D’Amico

Anthony Victor D'Amico is an American radiation oncologist, chief of Genitourinary Radiation Oncology at Dana-Farber and Harvard professor, known for his 1998 prostate cancer risk classification.

Anthony W. Norman

Anthony W. Norman (1938–2019) was an American biochemist at UC Riverside whose research established vitamin D as a steroid hormone, identifying its active form and receptor.

Antoine Hakim

Antoine M. Hakim is a Canadian neurologist who characterized the salvageable penumbra around a stroke, helped set the treatment window for clot-busting drugs, and founded the Canadian Stroke Network.

Antoîne Italiano

Antoine Italiano is a French medical oncologist specializing in sarcomas and early-phase trials, who directs SARCOTARGET at Institut Bergonié and leads precision oncology at Gustave Roussy.

Antoine Lacassagne

Antoine Lacassagne (1884–1971) was a French physician and biologist who pioneered radiobiology at the Institut du Radium, Paris, and showed in 1932 that hormones could produce breast cancer.

Antoinette Moran

Antoinette Moran is an American pediatric endocrinologist and professor at the University of Minnesota, known for research on cystic fibrosis-related diabetes and type 1 diabetes prevention trials.

Anton Eiselsberg

Anton Eiselsberg (1860–1939) was an Austrian surgeon who led the First Surgical University Clinic in Vienna from 1901 to 1931, performed Austria's first neurosurgical operation, and was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.

Anton Elschnig

Anton Elschnig, in full Anton Philipp Elschnig (1863–1939), was an Austrian ophthalmologist, professor at the German University in Prague from 1907 to 1933, remembered for Elschnig pearls.

Antonello Pietrangelo

Antonello Pietrangelo (born 1956) is an Italian physician-scientist and professor of internal medicine at the University of Modena whose work established hereditary hemochromatosis as a family of iron-loading disorders centered on hepcidin.

Antoní Torres

Antoni Torres is a Spanish pulmonologist and professor at the University of Barcelona who leads IDIBAPS research on respiratory infections and received the ERS Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024.

Antonin Poncet

Antonin Poncet (1849–1913) was a French surgeon of Lyon, professor of clinical surgery at the university, who described Poncet's disease and operated on President Sadi Carnot in 1894.

Antonio Cardarelli

Antonio Cardarelli (1831–1927) was an Italian physician and Senator of the Kingdom of Italy who described Cardarelli's sign in 1868 and gave his name to Naples' largest hospital.

Antonio Colombo

Antonio Colombo, born in 1950 in Busto Arsizio, Italy, is an interventional cardiologist at Humanitas in Milan known for showing coronary stenting could safely be done without anticoagulation.

Antonio Gasbarrini

Antonio Gasbarrini (born 1963 in Bologna) is an Italian physician and gastroenterologist, full professor of internal medicine in Rome, known for research on the gut microbiota and liver disease.

Antonio Giordano

Antonio Giordano (born 1962, Naples) is an Italian-American molecular oncologist, professor at Temple University and director of the Sbarro Institute, known for discovering Rb2/p130, CDK9, and CDK10.

Antonio Girolami

Antonio Girolami is an Italian hematologist who founded the Thrombosis and Hemostasis group at the University of Padua and became a leader in diagnosing congenital bleeding disorders.

Antonio Iavarone

Antonio Iavarone is a physician-scientist and neuro-oncologist who studies glioblastoma genetics, known for discovering FGFR3-TACC3 gene fusions and now deputy director of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in Miami.

Antonio M. Gotto

Antonio M. Gotto is an American cardiologist and lipid researcher whose trials established cholesterol lowering as heart attack prevention, and who was dean of Weill Cornell Medical College from 1997 to 2011.

Antonio Palumbo

Antonio Palumbo is an Italian hematologist who led the myeloma unit in Turin and landmark New England Journal of Medicine trials, including the 2014 transplantation trial and the 2016 CASTOR daratumumab trial.

Antonio Pelliccia

Antonio Pelliccia is an Italian sports cardiologist, Chief of Cardiology at CONI's Institute of Sports Medicine and Science in Rome, known for the athlete's heart and chairing the 2020 ESC sports cardiology guidelines.

Antonio Vidal-Puig

Antonio Vidal-Puig, often published as Toni Vidal-Puig, is a Spanish physician-scientist and Professor of Molecular Nutrition and Metabolism at the University of Cambridge, known for research on brown fat and obesity.

Antony Basten

Antony Basten, known as Tony Basten, is an Australian immunologist known for work on B cell self-tolerance, Fc receptors, and eosinophilia, and for founding ASCIA.

Antony Rosen

Antony Rosen is an American rheumatologist and immunologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Vice Dean for Research since 2013, known for linking autoimmunity and cancer.

Anupam B. Jena

Anupam B. Jena is an American physician and health economist, the Joseph P. Newhouse Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, known for natural-experiment studies of medicine.

Ara Darzi

Ara Darzi is a British surgeon and health-policy expert at Imperial College London who performed the UK's first robot-assisted operation in 2001 and led the 2024 NHS investigation.

Aram V. Chobanian

Aram V. Chobanian (1929–2023) was an American cardiologist and hypertension researcher who established the link between high blood pressure and accelerated vascular disease, and chaired the 2003 JNC 7 guideline.