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Andrew V. Schally

Andrew V. Schally, born Andrzej Viktor Schally (1926–2024), was a Polish-born American endocrinologist who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize and developed LHRH agonists, the standard drug treatment for advanced prostate cancer.

Andrew W. Murray

Andrew W. Murray is an American cell and molecular biologist at Harvard, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014, known for building the first artificial chromosomes in yeast.

Andrew W. Roberts

Andrew W. Roberts is an Australian clinical hematologist and Deputy Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne who led development of the leukemia drug venetoclax.

Andrew Wang (medical researcher, Duke Medical Center)

Andrew Wang is an American cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at Duke University who directs its Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic and specializes in transcatheter valve procedures.

Andrew Wang (medical researcher, Yale University)

Andrew Wang is a medical researcher and rheumatologist at Yale University whose laboratory studies how environment and metabolism shape inflammatory disease, from sepsis to food allergy.

Andrew Ward (structural biologist)

Andrew B. Ward is an American structural biologist at Scripps Research whose cryo-EM structures of HIV and coronavirus spikes underpin vaccine design, including the 2P mutations in COVID-19 vaccines.

Andrew Whiten

Andrew Whiten is a British evolutionary psychologist and Emeritus Wardlaw Professor at the University of St Andrews, known for research on chimpanzee culture and social learning.

Andrew Wright (microbiologist)

Andrew Wright (1935–2023) was a Scottish-born microbiologist and biochemist who spent nearly five decades at Tufts University School of Medicine studying DNA replication and transcription antitermination in E. coli.

Andrew Wyllie (pathologist)

Andrew Wyllie (1944–2022) was a pathologist who co-discovered apoptosis, the genetically programmed form of cell death, and gave the field its first biochemical assay, the DNA laddering test.

Andrew X. Zhu

Andrew X. Zhu is a physician-scientist in liver cancer who led the liver cancer research program at Massachusetts General Hospital as a Harvard Medical School professor.

Andrew Yoo

Andrew Yoo is an American neuroscientist at Washington University School of Medicine, known for converting human skin cells directly into neurons to model Huntington's and Alzheimer's diseases.

Andrey Kulbachinskiy

Andrey Kulbachinskiy (Кульбачинский) is a Russian molecular biologist who heads the RNA Biology and Epigenetics Laboratory at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, known for work on bacterial Argonaute proteins.

Andrey Kursanov

Andrey Lvovich Kursanov was a Soviet plant physiologist and biochemist who directed the Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology for 37 years and developed a doctrine of assimilate transport in plants.

Andrey Rzhetsky

Andrey Rzhetsky is a computational biologist and geneticist, Edna K. Papazian Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, known for biomedical text mining and genetics of complex disease.

Andrey S. Klymchenko

Andrey S. Klymchenko, also published as Andrii Klymchenko, is a Ukrainian-born chemist at CNRS and the Université de Strasbourg who designs fluorescent probes and nanoparticles for bioimaging.

Andrey Shaw

Andrey S. Shaw is a physician-scientist in immunology and kidney biology who spent 25 years at Washington University and is now at Genentech, known for co-creating the immunological synapse concept.

Andrey V. Zavialov

Andrey V. Zavialov is a molecular biologist who identified the gene for adenosine deaminase 2 and has been a principal investigator at Hainan Medical University, China, since 2022.

Andrius Kazlauskas

Andrius Kazlauskas (born 1959) is an American vascular biologist known for defining how the PDGF receptor signals inside cells, and now studies diabetic retinopathy at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Andrzej Dziembowski

Andrzej Dziembowski (born 1974) is a Polish molecular biologist known for work on the RNA exosome and RNA decay, leading the Laboratory of RNA Biology at IIMCB Warsaw since 2019.

Andrzej Meisels

Andrzej Meisels, published as Alexander Meisels, was a Polish-named cytopathologist at Laval University in Quebec whose 1976 paper postulated that koilocytes signal papillomavirus infection, cited by the 2008 Nobel Committee.

Andrzej S. Królewski

Andrzej S. Królewski (Andrzej S. Krolewski) is a physician-scientist who heads the Section on Genetics and Epidemiology at Joslin Diabetes Center and is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Andrzej Stasiak

Andrzej Stasiak is a researcher at the University of Lausanne since 1989, known for measuring DNA helicity in RecA complexes and for pioneering the study of knotted DNA and proteins.

Andrzej Tarkowski

Andrzej Tarkowski (1933–2016) was a Polish embryologist and developmental biologist at the University of Warsaw, called the father of modern mammalian embryology; he made the first chimaeric mice and shared the 2002 Japan Prize.

Andy Haines

Andy Haines, born 1947, is a British public health physician and professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine known for work on climate change and health.

Andy Hector

Andy Hector, also known as Andrew Hector, is a community ecologist and Professor of Ecology at Oxford who studies biodiversity loss and ecosystem functioning in grasslands and forests.

Andy Purvis

Andy Purvis is a biodiversity scientist at the Natural History Museum, London, known for the PREDICTS project, the Biodiversity Intactness Index, and the IPBES Global Assessment.

Andy S. Stergachis

Andy S. Stergachis is an American pharmacist-epidemiologist, Associate Dean of the University of Washington School of Pharmacy, and Director of its Global Medicines Program, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2012.

Aneel K. Aggarwal

Aneel K. Aggarwal is a structural biologist and protein crystallographer, professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for structures of DNA-acting enzymes.

Aneesh B. Singhal

Aneesh B. Singhal is an American vascular neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for stroke trials, RCVS research, and leading an NIH StrokeNet center.

Ángel R. Nebreda

Ángel R. Nebreda (Angel Rodríguez Nebreda), born 1961, is a Spanish molecular biologist at IRB Barcelona known for his research on the p38α MAP kinase pathway in cancer.