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Alan P. Wolffe

Alan P. Wolffe (1959–2001) was a British cell biologist who established that chromatin actively participates in gene regulation, leading the Laboratory of Molecular Embryology at the NIH.

Alan R. Cohen

Alan R. Cohen is an American pediatric hematologist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who led its pediatrics department from 2001 to 2013 and is known for thalassemia research.

Alan R. Davidson

Alan R. Davidson, also published as Alan Davidson, is a professor of molecular genetics at the University of Toronto whose laboratory discovered the first anti-CRISPR proteins.

Alan R. Fersht

Sir Alan R. Fersht, born in 1943, is a British chemist at Cambridge and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology who pioneered protein engineering and Φ-value analysis of protein folding.

Alan R. Kimmel

Alan R. Kimmel is an American cell biologist who leads a development section at the NIH's NIDDK, studying Dictyostelium signaling and the perilipin proteins of lipid droplets.

Alan R. Saltiel

Alan R. Saltiel is an American cell biologist who studies insulin signaling in obesity and type 2 diabetes, directing the UC San Diego Institute for Diabetes and Metabolic Health.

Alan R. Shuldiner

Alan R. Shuldiner is an American geneticist who studies the genetics of type 2 diabetes and heart disease, known for gene discovery in the Old Order Amish of Pennsylvania.

Alan R. Tall

Alan R. Tall is a physician-scientist who heads the Division of Molecular Medicine at Columbia University, known for research on HDL cholesterol, CETP, and atherosclerosis.

Alan R. Zinsmeister

Alan R. Zinsmeister (1951–2026) was an American biostatistician who spent 35 years at the Mayo Clinic, known for population-based studies of digestive diseases in Olmsted County, Minnesota.

Alan Robertson (geneticist)

Alan Robertson (1920–1989) was an English population and quantitative geneticist at the Institute of Animal Genetics in Edinburgh, known for his 1960 theory of selection limits and Drosophila experiments.

Alan Rozanski

Alan Rozanski is an American cardiologist, Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Director of Nuclear Cardiology at Mount Sinai St. Luke's.

Alan S. Coates

Alan S. Coates is an Australian medical oncologist and clinical trials researcher, founder of Breast Cancer Trials and first author of the 2015 St Gallen consensus.

Alan S. Cohen

Alan S. Cohen (1926 to 2018) was an American physician-scientist and rheumatologist at Boston University who used electron microscopy to establish the fibrous structure of amyloid deposits.

Alan S. Go

Alan S. Go is an American general internist and cardiovascular epidemiologist who studies kidney disease, atrial fibrillation, and heart disease in very large populations at Kaiser Permanente.

Alan S. Maisel

Alan S. Maisel is an American cardiologist at the University of California, San Diego, whose team developed the BNP blood test for heart failure in the early 2000s.

Alan S. Nies

Alan S. Nies was an American clinical pharmacologist at Vanderbilt University and the University of Colorado who later was a vice president at Merck Research Laboratories, known for his propranolol review.

Alan S. Perelson

Alan S. Perelson is an American theoretical immunologist and mathematical biologist, a Senior Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory known for viral dynamics models of HIV and hepatitis C.

Alan Solomon

Alan Solomon, born in 1933, is an American physician-scientist and University of Tennessee professor emeritus known for nearly five decades of research on Bence Jones proteins and AL amyloidosis.

Alan Stein

Alan Stein is a British child psychiatrist and Emeritus Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, known for Lancet series on refugee and perinatal mental health.

Alan Thompson (neurologist)

Alan J. Thompson (born 1955) is a neurologist at the UCL Institute of Neurology known for multiple sclerosis research, the McDonald criteria, and the MS Severity Score.

Alan Tita

Alan T. Tita is an obstetrician and perinatal epidemiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham whose CHAP trial changed treatment of hypertension in pregnancy.

Alan Walker (psychologist)

Alan Walker (1938–2017) was a British-born paleoanthropologist and Penn State professor who described the Turkana Boy skeleton, the most complete early human skeleton found, and discovered the Black Skull.

Alanna Schepartz

Alanna Schepartz, born 1962, is an American chemical biologist at UC Berkeley who designs miniature proteins and β-peptides; at Yale she became its first tenured woman chemist and a Sterling Professor.

Alasdair C. Steven

Alasdair C. Steven is a structural biologist who spent his career at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, using cryo-electron microscopy to study virus capsids and how DNA is packaged inside them.

Alasdair Coles

Alasdair Coles is a British neurologist and neuroimmunologist at the University of Cambridge who developed alemtuzumab as a treatment for relapsing multiple sclerosis and now leads remyelinating drug trials.

Alastair Fitter

Alastair Fitter, also published as A. H. Fitter, is a British plant ecologist and Emeritus Professor at York, a 2005 Fellow of the Royal Society known for mycorrhizal research.

Alastair J. Wood

Alastair J. Wood is a Scottish-born clinical pharmacologist, professor of medicine and pharmacology at Vanderbilt University and drug therapy editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Alastair M. Buchan

Alastair M. Buchan is a stroke physician-scientist, Professor of Stroke Medicine at Oxford, known for inventing the ASPECTS score used to triage acute stroke patients.

Alban Köhler

Alban Köhler (1874–1947) was a German radiologist and pioneer of bone and joint radiology, known for Köhler disease I and II and his classic Borderlands X-ray reference work.

Alberico Catapano

Alberico L. Catapano, born 1952, is an Italian pharmacologist at the University of Milan who studies lipid metabolism and atherosclerosis, chaired the 2016 ESC/EAS dyslipidaemia guidelines, and led the LIPIGEN registry.