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Ana Anderson

Ana Anderson, who publishes as Ana C. Anderson, is an immunologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard known for identifying Tim-3 as a regulator of T cell dysfunction in cancer.

Ana Conesa

Ana Conesa is a Spanish bioinformatics and computational biology researcher, a CSIC research professor at I2SysBio in Valencia since 2021, known for widely used software including Blast2GO and for pioneering computational methods for long-read transcriptome sequencing.

Ana Cumano

Ana Cumano, born 1956, is a Portuguese immunologist and Directrice de Recherche at INSERM who studies how blood cells form during embryonic development.

Ana Domingos

Ana I. Domingos is a Portuguese neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford since 2018, known for discovering sympathetic neurons in fat tissue that burn body fat.

Ana M. González-Angulo

Ana M. González-Angulo is a breast medical oncologist known for a 2009 study linking metformin to chemotherapy response, and for her 2014 poisoning conviction at MD Anderson.

Ana María Cuervo

Ana María Cuervo (Ana Maria Cuervo) is a Spanish-born American cell biologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine who studies autophagy and its decline in aging and disease.

Ana Martín-Villalba

Ana Martín-Villalba (born 1971) is a Spanish-born physician who has headed the Division of Molecular Neurobiology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg since 2011.

Ana P. Martinez-Donate

Ana P. Martinez-Donate is an American public health researcher and health psychologist known for binational research on HIV risk and health care among Mexican migrants.

Ana V. Diez Roux

Ana V. Diez Roux is an Argentine-born social epidemiologist known for research on how neighborhoods and social conditions shape cardiovascular health, and Dean Emerita of Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health.

Anand Swaroop

Anand Swaroop is a vision researcher who discovered the NRL gene and serves as Chief of the Neurobiology-Neurodegeneration and Repair Laboratory at the National Eye Institute, NIH.

Ananda Goldrath

Ananda Goldrath is an American immunologist known for her work on memory CD8 T cells, a professor at UC San Diego and, from 2023, leader of the Allen Institute for Immunology.

Ananda L. Roy

Ananda L. Roy is a molecular biologist who discovered the transcription factor TFII-I, reported in Nature in 1991, and manages NIH programs on cellular senescence and the 4D Nucleome.

Anant Madabhushi

Anant Madabhushi is a biomedical engineer and Robert W. Woodruff Professor at Emory University and Georgia Tech, known for computational pathology and radiomics in cancer.

Anas Younes

Anas Younes is a medical oncologist specializing in lymphoma who led Memorial Sloan Kettering's Lymphoma Service from 2013 and now heads hematology R&D at AstraZeneca.

Anastasia Khvorova

Anastasia Khvorova is a Russian-born RNA biologist and chemist, a professor at UMass Chan Medical School since 2012, known for siRNA design and RNA therapeutics for brain diseases.

Anastasios Karadimitris

Anastasios Karadimitris, known as Tassos, is a Greek-trained hematologist and Professor at Imperial College London known for identifying inherited GPI deficiency and developing CAR-iNKT cell immunotherapy.

Anat Stemmer‐Rachamimov

Anat Stemmer-Rachamimov, also published as Anat O. Stemmer-Rachamimov, is a neuropathologist and Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for research on neurofibromatosis.

Anath Shalev

Anath Shalev, MD, is an endocrinologist and diabetes researcher who directs the UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center and led the 2018 verapamil trial in type 1 diabetes.

Anatol C. Kreitzer

Anatol C. Kreitzer is an American neuroscientist known for work on basal ganglia circuits and optogenetics in Parkinson's disease models, formerly a professor at UCSF and the Gladstone Institutes.

Anatole Chauffard

Anatole Chauffard (1855–1932) was a French internist and professor of clinical medicine at the Faculté de médecine de Paris, known for work on hemolytic jaundice and the eponyms Minkowski-Chauffard disease and Troisier-Hanot-Chauffard syndrome.

Anatomists

Anatomists: persons skilled in anatomy or dissection (MeSH D054814). From Herophilus and Vesalius to modern educators and clinical anatomists; societies include IFAA (1903) and AAA.

Ancel Keys

Ancel Keys (1904–2004), American University of Minnesota physiologist, K-ration designer, Minnesota Starvation Experiment leader, and proposer of the diet-heart hypothesis and Seven Countries Study linking saturated fat to heart disease.

Anders A. F. Sima

Anders A. F. Sima is a Swedish-trained neuropathologist known for research on diabetic neuropathy and the polyol pathway, and a professor at Wayne State University.

Anders Björklund

Anders Björklund, born 1945, is a Swedish neuroscientist at Lund University known for pioneering cell transplantation and gene-transfer approaches to brain repair, above all dopamine cell replacement in Parkinson's disease.

Anders Ekbom

Anders Ekbom (1947–2024) was a Swedish clinical epidemiologist and former surgeon, professor of epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet, known for register-based studies of cancer risk in inflammatory bowel disease.

Anders Hamsten

Anders Hamsten is a Swedish physician-scientist at Karolinska Institutet who showed in the 1980s that high PAI-1 levels raise heart attack risk in young survivors.

Anders Hviid

Anders Peter Hviid is a Danish epidemiologist and professor at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, known for large register-based studies of MMR vaccination and autism and pregnancy safety of HPV vaccination.

Anders M. Dale

Anders M. Dale is an American neuroscientist who co-developed the FreeSurfer brain-imaging software, led the ABCD Study's data center, and became president of the J. Craig Venter Institute in 2025.

Anders M. Näär

Anders M. Näär is a molecular biologist studying gene regulation and metabolism, a UC Berkeley professor since 2018 known for work on microRNAs controlling cholesterol and lipid metabolism.

Anders Perner

Anders Perner is a Danish intensive care specialist and professor at the University of Copenhagen who led landmark Scandinavian trials on fluids and transfusion in septic shock.