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Alexis Brice

Alexis Brice (born 1957) is a French neurologist and professor of medical genetics known for research on the genetics of Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Alf Westergren

Alf Vilhelm A:son Westergren (1891–1968) was a Swedish physician at Karolinska Institutet whose 1921 work turned the erythrocyte sedimentation reaction into a routine diagnostic test, the Westergren method.

Alfons Maria Jakob

Alfons Maria Jakob (1884–1931) was a German neurologist and neuropathologist in Hamburg who defined Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, wrote the standard anatomy of the cerebellum, and trained students from around the world.

Alfred Blalock

Alfred Blalock (1899–1964) was an American surgeon, chief of surgery at Johns Hopkins from 1941, who showed surgical shock stems from blood-volume loss and performed the first operation for tetralogy of Fallot.

Alfred E. Buxton

Alfred E. Buxton is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directs clinical electrophysiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and led the MUSTT trial, which shaped defibrillator selection.

Alfred F. Michael

Alfred F. Michael (1928–2022) was an American pediatric nephrologist at the University of Minnesota known for applying immunologic methods to kidney disease and building a leading pediatric kidney program.

Alfred Fabian Hess

Alfred Fabian Hess (1875–1933) was an American pediatrician in New York City who showed that cod liver oil and sunlight cure rickets, and that pasteurization destroys milk's protection against infantile scurvy.

Alfred G. Gilman

Alfred G. Gilman was an American pharmacologist and biochemist who discovered G-proteins, shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and chaired pharmacology at UT Southwestern in Dallas.

Alfred Gilman, Sr.

Alfred Gilman, Sr. was an American pharmacologist who co-authored The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics and conducted the first clinical trial of cancer chemotherapy in 1942.

Alfred Goldscheider

Alfred Goldscheider (1858–1935) was a German neurologist who showed in 1884 that temperature sense is confined to distinct skin spots and built an influential summation theory of pain.

Alfred H. Schinkel

Alfred H. Schinkel is a Dutch pharmacologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam whose knockout-mouse work defined how P-glycoprotein and BCRP control drug distribution.

Alfred Ian Lee

Alfred Ian Lee is an American physician-scientist in hematology at Yale School of Medicine, a professor and fellowship program director known for research on thrombosis, platelet disorders, and diagnostic reasoning.

Alfred K. Cheung

Alfred K. Cheung is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist at the University of Utah, known for the SPRINT trial and the KDIGO 2021 blood pressure guideline.

Alfred L. George

Alfred L. George Jr. is an American pharmacologist, chair of Pharmacology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, known for research on inherited ion channel disorders called channelopathies.

Alfred L.M. Bothwell

Alfred L.M. Bothwell is an American immunologist whose early 1980s work helped establish somatic mutation of antibody genes, and who is now a professor at the University of Arizona.

Alfred M. Prince

Alfred M. Prince (1928–2011) was a German-born American virologist at the New York Blood Center who developed a rapid hepatitis B antigen test and led low-cost vaccine work in Asia.

Alfred Newton Richards

Alfred Newton Richards (1876–1966) was an American pharmacologist and renal physiologist at the University of Pennsylvania whose experiments settled how the kidney forms urine, and who served as president of the National Academy of Sciences.

Alfred Nisonoff

Alfred Nisonoff (1923–2001) was an American immunologist at Brandeis University whose work on antibody structure and idiotypy helped define how antibodies are built and how their genes are organized.

Alfred P. Hallstrom

Alfred P. Hallstrom is a University of Washington biostatistician who led the CAST and AVID cardiology trials and a 2000 study of CPR by chest compression alone.

Alfred Pischinger

Alfred Pischinger (1899–1983) was an Austrian physician, histologist, and embryologist, credited as a founder of histochemistry and known for the "Grundsystem" doctrine making the extracellular matrix the organism's regulating unit.

Alfred Ploetz

Alfred Ploetz (1860–1940) was a German physician who coined the term racial hygiene in his 1895 book and founded the German eugenics movement's journal and society.

Alfred S. Berne

Alfred S. Berne was an American diagnostic radiologist at Syracuse Memorial Hospital and SUNY Upstate, known for his 1968 New England Journal of Medicine paper defining the congenital bronchopulmonary-foregut malformation.

Alfred S. Evans

Alfred S. Evans (1917–1996) was an American viral epidemiologist at Yale who established the Epstein-Barr virus as the cause of infectious mononucleosis and edited Viral Infections of Humans.

Alfred Sommer

Alfred Sommer is an American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins, dean of its public health school from 1990 to 2005, whose trials showed vitamin A supplementation cuts childhood mortality by about a third.

Alfred Vogt

Alfred Vogt (1879–1943) was a Swiss ophthalmologist who founded slit-lamp biomicroscopy, first viewing living corneal endothelial cells, and wrote the standard three-volume atlas of 1930–42.

Alfred von Decastello

Alfred von Decastello was an Austrian clinician in Karl Landsteiner's Vienna circle who, with Adriano Sturli, reported the fourth human blood group, later called AB, in 1902.

AlfredM. Prince

Alfred M. Prince (1928–2011) was an American virologist at the New York Blood Center who developed the hepatitis B screening assay and the solvent-detergent method for sterilizing blood products.

Alfredo Berruti

Alfredo Berruti is an Italian medical oncologist, full professor at the University of Brescia and chief of medical oncology at Spedali Civili Hospital, known for adrenocortical carcinoma research.

Alfredo Falcone

Alfredo Falcone, born in 1959 in New Jersey and based in Pisa, is an Italian medical oncologist known for developing FOLFOXIRI, a triplet chemotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer.

Ali Ellebedy

Ali H. Ellebedy is an Egyptian-born viral immunologist and Leo Loeb Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, known for tracking how mRNA vaccination builds lasting antibody responses.