Life and health scientists

Alberto Albanese

Alberto Albanese is an Italian neurologist and full professor at the Università Cattolica in Milan, known for botulinum toxin trials and work on dystonia and Parkinson's disease.

Alberto Ascherio (born 1953) is an epidemiologist, professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for the 2022 discovery that Epstein-Barr virus is a leading cause of multiple sclerosis.

Alberto Bardelli

Alberto Bardelli is an Italian molecular geneticist who studies how colorectal cancers evolve resistance to targeted drugs, and Scientific Director of IFOM in Milan since 2022.

Sep 17, 2026

Alberto C. Frasch

Alberto Carlos Frasch (1949–2023) was an Argentine molecular biologist who described the genes of Trypanosoma cruzi surface antigens and coordinated the parasite's WHO genome project.

Alberto Ciccia

Alberto Ciccia is an Italian-trained molecular biologist and Professor of Genetics at Columbia University who studies DNA repair, genome stability, and BRCA1 and BRCA2 tumor suppressors.

Alberto Luini

Alberto Luini is an Italian cell biologist and Research Director at the CNR Institute of Protein Biochemistry in Naples, known for experimental work supporting the cisternal maturation model of Golgi transport.

Alberto Mantovani

Alberto Mantovani, born 1948 in Milan, is an Italian immunologist, emeritus professor at Humanitas University, who coined tumor-associated macrophages, framed cancer-related inflammation, and cloned pentraxin PTX3.

Alberto Martini

Alberto Martini is an Italian pediatric rheumatologist, emeritus professor of pediatrics at the University of Genoa, who founded the PRINTO trial network and led research on juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

Alberto R. Kornblihtt

Alberto R. Kornblihtt is an Argentine molecular biologist, born in Buenos Aires in 1954, known for showing that alternative splicing is coupled to transcription and chromatin.

Alberto Zanchetti

Alberto Zanchetti (1926–2018) was an Italian physician-scientist at the University of Milan who led landmark hypertension trials, including the Syst-Eur trial, and edited the Journal of Hypertension.

Alberto Zangrillo

Alberto Zangrillo, born in Genoa in 1958, is an Italian cardiac anesthesiologist who directs intensive care at San Raffaele in Milan and led three New England Journal of Medicine trials.

Albrecht E. Sippel

Albrecht E. Sippel is a molecular biologist known for his work on the chicken lysozyme gene, showing it yields multiple mRNAs and mapping protein-DNA interactions around it.

Albrecht Kleinschmidt

Albrecht Kleinschmidt, also known as Albrecht Karl Kleinschmidt, was a German physician and microbiologist whose 1959 protein-monolayer technique made individual DNA molecules visible and measurable in the electron microscope.

Albrecht Kossel

Albrecht Kossel (1853–1927) was a German biochemist at the University of Heidelberg who identified the nucleobases adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine, winning the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Alcino J. Silva

Alcino J. Silva is a Portuguese-born American neuroscientist and UCLA Distinguished Professor who studies learning and memory, known for transgenic mouse memory research and founding Molecular and Cellular Cognition.

Alden Holmes Miller

Alden Holmes Miller (1906–1965) was an American ornithologist who directed Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology from 1940 to 1965 and edited The Condor for over three decades.

Aldo Castellani

Aldo Castellani was an Italian bacteriologist and tropical-medicine physician who first observed trypanosomes in sleeping sickness patients' cerebrospinal fluid in 1902 and identified the yaws spirochaete in 1905.

Aldo Pinchera

Aldo Pinchera (1934–2012) was an Italian physician and endocrinologist who founded the Pisan school of endocrinology and built the University of Pisa into a leading thyroid research center.

Aldons J. Lusis

Aldons J. Lusis, known as Jake Lusis, is an American geneticist and UCLA professor since 1980 who pioneered systems genetics of atherosclerosis and metabolic disease.

Alec C. Kimmelman

Alec C. Kimmelman is an American physician-scientist who became dean of NYU Grossman School of Medicine and CEO of NYU Langone Health in 2025, known for defining pancreatic cancer's metabolism.

Alec Coppen

Alec James Coppen (1923–2019) was a British psychiatrist and psychopharmacologist who, directing the MRC neuropsychiatry unit at Epsom from 1959 to 1988, discovered serotonin's role in depression and lithium's anti-suicidal effect.

Sep 17, 2026

Alec Jeffreys

Alec Jeffreys (born 1950, Oxford) is the British geneticist at the University of Leicester who invented DNA fingerprinting on 10 September 1984, founded forensic DNA, and later studied recombination hotspots; knighted 1994, Lasker Award 2005.

Aled Edwards

Aled Edwards is a Canadian biochemist at the University of Toronto who founded and leads the Structural Genomics Consortium, which places all its research in the public domain.

Alejandro B. Balazs

Alejandro B. Balazs is an immunologist at the Ragon Institute and Harvard Medical School known for developing vectored immunoprophylaxis, an AAV platform producing HIV-fighting antibodies.

Alejandro F. Frangi

Alejandro F. Frangi, also cited as Alejandro Frangi, is an Argentine-born biomedical engineer holding the Bicentenary Turing Chair in Computational Medicine at the University of Manchester.

Alejandro G. Biasotti

Alejandro G. Biasotti was an Argentine researcher and physician who co-authored the 1930 studies conducted in Buenos Aires. These experiments elucidated the pituitary's role in pancreatic diabetes.

Alejandro Hoberman

Alejandro Hoberman is an Argentine-trained pediatrician and clinical trialist at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Children's Hospital, known for large randomized trials of children's ear infections.

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado is a Venezuelan-born developmental biologist who studies animal regeneration using planarian flatworms, and is President of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City.

Sep 17, 2026

Aleksandar Rajkovic

Aleksandar Rajkovic is a physician-scientist in reproductive genetics and genomic diagnostics who serves as Chief Genomics Officer of UCSF Health and directs the UCSF Center for Reproductive Sciences.