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Amishi Jha

Amishi Jha is a neuroscientist at the University of Miami who studies how high stress degrades attention and working memory, and whether short mindfulness training protects them.

Amit Etkin

Amit Etkin is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist who left a tenured Stanford professorship in 2019 to found Alto Neuroscience, a company developing precision medicines for neuropsychiatric disorders.

Amit M. Oza

Amit M. Oza, also cited as Amit Oza, is a medical oncologist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto who runs clinical trials in gynecologic cancers, especially ovarian cancer.

Amit V. Khera

Amit V. Khera is an American cardiologist and human geneticist known for genome-wide polygenic scores showing inherited coronary artery disease risk can be quantified from birth.

Amit X. Garg

Amit X. Garg, also published as Amit Garg, is a Canadian nephrologist and professor at Western University in London, Ontario, known for living kidney donor studies and the MyTEMP dialysis trial.

Amita Sehgal

Amita Sehgal is an Indian-born American chronobiologist and neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania who co-discovered the clock gene timeless and developed fruit flies as a model for sleep.

Amiya K. Banerjee

Amiya K. Banerjee, also known as A K Banerjee, is a virologist known for working out how vesicular stomatitis virus transcribes its genes and caps its messenger RNA.

Ammar Al‐Chalabi

Ammar Al-Chalabi is a neurologist and geneticist, Professor of Neurology and Complex Disease Genetics at King's College London, known for the multistep model of ALS and the MIROCALS trial.

Amnon Altman

Amnon Altman is an Israeli-born immunologist known for T cell receptor signaling research and discovery of protein kinase C-theta, now Professor Emeritus at La Jolla Institute for Immunology.

Amnon Kohen

Amnon Kohen is an Israeli enzymologist and chemist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa, known for hydrogen tunneling in enzyme catalysis and the thyX pathway.

Amol V Shivange

Amol V Shivange is a protein engineer and biochemist known for genetically encoded fluorescent sensors of neurotransmitters and drugs, including iSeroSnFR for serotonin and iNicSnFR for nicotine.

Amos Maritan

Amos Maritan is a statistical physicist and professor at the University of Padua, known for applying statistical mechanics to protein folding, DNA, ecosystems, and river networks.

Amos Tanay

Amos Tanay (עמוס תנעי) is an Israeli computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot who studies epigenetics and gene regulation by combining computational models with single-cell genomics.

Amr H. Sawalha

Amr H. Sawalha is an American rheumatologist and physician-scientist who directs rheumatology at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and studies the genetics and epigenetics of lupus.

Amrou Sarraj

Amrou Sarraj is a Syrian-born vascular neurologist who directs the Cerebrovascular Center at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and led the 2023 SELECT2 trial of thrombectomy for large strokes.

Amy Berrington de González

Amy Berrington de Gonzalez is a cancer epidemiologist who studies cancer risks from ionizing radiation, leading the UK Pediatric CT Scans Cohort, the first study linking childhood CT scans to cancer risk.

Amy Bohnert

Amy Bohnert is an American health services researcher and epidemiologist at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor who studies opioid safety and overdose risk.

Amy C. Rosenzweig

Amy C. Rosenzweig, also published as A. C. Rosenzweig, is an American bioinorganic chemist and structural biologist at Northwestern University known for her studies of methane-oxidizing enzymes.

Amy D. Klion

Amy D. Klion is an American physician-scientist at NIH's NIAID who studies eosinophils and hypereosinophilic syndromes, and led the 2019 New England Journal of Medicine benralizumab trial.

Amy Dapper

Amy Dapper is an American evolutionary geneticist and Associate Professor at Mississippi State University who studies how genetic variation and recombination evolve across animal species.

Amy E. Pasquinelli

Amy E. Pasquinelli is an American molecular biologist at UC San Diego, first author of the 2000 Nature paper showing the microRNA let-7 is conserved across animals.

Amy F.T. Arnsten

Amy F.T. Arnsten is a Yale neurobiologist who studies the molecular mechanisms regulating the prefrontal cortex, work that produced guanfacine for ADHD and prazosin for PTSD.

Amy L Baxter

Amy L. Baxter is an American pediatric emergency physician and pain researcher who invented Buzzy, a bee-shaped vibration and cold device for needle pain, and founded Pain Care Labs.

Amy L. Baker

Amy L. Baker is an American veterinary virologist and lead scientist at the USDA National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa, known for pioneering studies of influenza A viruses in swine.

Amy L. Milton

Amy L. Milton is a behavioral neuroscientist and University Professor at the University of Cambridge whose research on memory reconsolidation aims to treat PTSD and substance use disorder.

Amy M. Kilbourne

Amy M. Kilbourne is an American health services researcher and implementation scientist who serves as Executive Director of Health Systems Research in the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Amy Ralston

Amy Ralston is an American developmental biologist and professor at Michigan State University known for work on Cdx2 and the first cell fate decision in the mouse embryo.

Amy S. Paller

Amy S. Paller is an American pediatric dermatologist who chaired dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and treats children at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago.

Amy Wagers

Amy J. Wagers is an American stem cell biologist, Forst Family Professor and Chair of Harvard's Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, known for parabiosis and GDF11 research.

An‐Wen Chan

An-Wen Chan is a Canadian clinical epidemiologist and dermatologist at the University of Toronto known for research on outcome reporting bias in trials and for chairing the SPIRIT protocol guidelines.