Medical and health researchers

Arthur L. Watkins

Arthur L. Watkins, born 1909, was an American physician who led physical medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, known for progressive-resistance exercise and New England Journal reviews.

Arthur Lawrie Tatum

Arthur Lawrie Tatum (1884–1955) was an American pharmacologist who chaired the University of Wisconsin's pharmacology department from 1929 to 1954 and presided over ASPET in 1937–1938.

Arthur M. Feldman

Arthur M. Feldman is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at Temple University known for research on the molecular basis of heart failure and for leading the COMPANION trial.

Arthur M. Mercurio

Arthur M. Mercurio, also known as Arthur Mercurio, is an American cancer biologist and professor at UMass Chan Medical School known for establishing the α6β4 integrin's role in carcinoma invasion.

Arthur P. Hall

Arthur P. Hall was a rheumatologist and physician-scientist at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, known for his 1958 latex agglutination paper and 1967 Framingham gout study.

Arthur S. Slutsky

Arthur S. Slutsky is a Canadian pulmonary and critical-care physician-scientist at the University of Toronto and St. Michael's Hospital whose research on ventilator-induced lung injury changed worldwide ARDS care.

Arthur Schatzkin

Arthur Schatzkin (1948–2011) was an American nutritional epidemiologist who led the National Cancer Institute's Nutritional Epidemiology Branch and directed the Polyp Prevention Trial and the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.

Arthur Selzer

Arthur Selzer was an American cardiologist, Chief of Cardiology at Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco for twenty-five years and a clinical professor at Stanford.

Arthur Simons

Arthur Simons (1877–1942) was a German neurologist in Berlin who described tonic neck reflexes and associated movements in hemiplegic patients; deported in 1942, he was murdered in Tallinn.

Arthur W. Allen

Arthur W. Allen was an American surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for abdominal surgery and as president of the American College of Surgeons in 1947.

Arthur W. Toga

Arthur W. Toga is a neuroscientist and neuroimaging researcher known for brain mapping, brain atlasing, and large-scale informatics in neurodegenerative disease, who directs the USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute.

Artur Biedl

Artur Biedl (1869–1933) was a Hungarian-born pathologist and endocrinologist, professor at the German University of Prague, regarded as a founder of modern endocrinology and co-namesake of Bardet-Biedl syndrome.

Artur Scherf

Artur Scherf is a French malaria researcher and Emeritus Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, known for work on parasite epigenetics and antigenic variation in Plasmodium falciparum.

Arturo Casadevall

Arturo Casadevall is a Cuban-born American physician-scientist who chairs Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Johns Hopkins, known for fungal pathogenesis research and COVID-19 convalescent plasma.

Arturo Rosenblueth

Arturo Rosenblueth (1900–1970) was a Mexican physiologist who worked with Walter Cannon at Harvard, co-authored the 1943 cybernetics paper with Norbert Wiener, and founded Cinvestav.

Arul M. Chinnaiyan

Arul M. Chinnaiyan, born 1969, is an American molecular pathologist at the University of Michigan known for discovering TMPRSS2-ETS gene fusions in most prostate cancers.

Arun J. Sanyal

Arun J. Sanyal is a hepatologist at Virginia Commonwealth University who led the PIVENS trial, chairs the NIH NASH Clinical Research Network, and directs its liver disease institute.

Arvid Carlsson

Arvid Carlsson (1923–2018) was a Swedish pharmacologist at the University of Gothenburg who established dopamine as a neurotransmitter, winning the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Asaf Vivante

Asaf Vivante is an Israeli pediatric nephrologist who directs Pediatrics B at Sheba Medical Center, is an associate professor at Tel Aviv University, and researches genetic kidney disease.

Ashish K. Jha

Ashish K. Jha is an American physician and health policy researcher who was dean of the Brown University School of Public Health from 2020 to 2025.

Ashkan Shoamanesh

Ashkan Shoamanesh is a Canadian stroke neurologist and clinical-trialist at McMaster University and the Population Health Research Institute in Hamilton, Ontario, who led the OCEANIC-STROKE trial of asundexian.

Ashley Woodcock

Ashley Woodcock, born 1951, is a British respiratory medicine professor at the University of Manchester known for asthma and COPD trials and leading the CFC-free inhaler transition.

Asrar B. Malik

Asrar B. Malik is an American pharmacologist and vascular biologist at the University of Illinois Chicago, known for work on endothelial permeability, lung inflammation, and acute lung injury.

Ateev Mehrotra

Ateev Mehrotra is an American physician and health care policy researcher who studies how telemedicine, retail clinics, and price transparency change US health care quality and cost.

Athanassios Argiris

Athanassios Argiris (Αθανάσιος Αργύρης) is a Greek-born medical oncologist, professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia since 2016, known for head and neck cancer research and trials.

Athol U. Wells

Athol U. Wells, also published as Athol Wells, is a consultant respiratory physician at Royal Brompton Hospital and professor at Imperial College London, known for interstitial lung disease research.

Atıf Rahman

Atıf Rahman, also published as Atif Rahman, is a child psychiatrist at the University of Liverpool known for the Thinking Healthy Programme for perinatal depression.

Atsushi Kumanogoh

Atsushi Kumanogoh (熊ノ郷淳), born 1966, is a Japanese immunologist known for discovering immune semaphorins and serving as the 19th president of The University of Osaka since 2025.

Atsushi Miyajima

Atsushi Miyajima (宮島篤) is a Japanese cell biologist who cloned the IL-3 and GM-CSF receptor subunits and studies liver development, regeneration, and iPS cell-derived liver tissue.