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Anna S. Lok

Anna Suk-Fong Lok is a hepatologist at the University of Michigan who led the first interferon-free cure of hepatitis C and authored the first WHO hepatitis B guideline.

Anna T. Meadows

Anna T. Meadows is an American pediatric oncologist who spent 40 years at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and founded the National Cancer Institute's Office of Cancer Survivorship.

Anna V. Molofsky

Anna V. Molofsky, also known as Anna Victoria Molofsky, is an American physician-scientist and psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco, studying glial and immune control of neural circuits.

Anna Wald

Anna Wald is an American infectious-diseases physician and epidemiologist at the University of Washington who directs its Virology Research Clinic and led trials of new genital herpes drugs.

Anne Basting

Anne Basting is an American gerontologist, theater artist, and educator, founder of TimeSlips, an improvisational storytelling method for people with dementia, and a 2016 MacArthur Fellow.

Anne Bertolotti

Anne Bertolotti is a cell biologist and group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge since 2006, studying how cells survive stress.

Anne Brunet

Anne Brunet, born 1971 in Grenoble, France, is a French molecular biologist who studies aging at Stanford, known for FOXO longevity research and the killifish aging model.

Anne Cutler

Anne Cutler (1945–2022) was an Australian psycholinguist who showed that the native language shapes how listeners recognize spoken words and segment speech, directing the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

Anne Dejean

Anne Dejean-Assémat is a French molecular biologist who spent her career at the Institut Pasteur and Inserm, known for identifying RARβ and the PML-RARα fusion in acute promyelocytic leukemia.

Anne Dejean-Assémat

Anne Dejean-Assémat is a French molecular biologist at the Institut Pasteur whose work on the PML-RARα fusion protein led to a curative therapy for acute promyelocytic leukemia.

Anne E. Carpenter

Anne E. Carpenter is an American cell biologist and computer scientist who created CellProfiler and the Cell Painting assay, and is a professor at Purdue University.

Anne E. Tattersfield

Anne E. Tattersfield, born in 1940, is a British respiratory physician and asthma researcher who was Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Nottingham from 1984 to 2005.

Anne Eichmann

Anne Eichmann is a French-American vascular biologist, Ensign Professor at Yale since 2010, known for work on vascular patterning, blood-brain barrier control, and lacteal zippering against obesity.

Anne Ephrussi

Anne Ephrussi, born 1955 in Paris, is a French developmental and molecular biologist known for her work on mRNA localization and translational control in Drosophila.

Anne Ferguson-Smith

Anne Ferguson-Smith (Anne C. Ferguson-Smith) is a developmental geneticist and epigeneticist, Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics at Cambridge and BBSRC Executive Chair from 2024, known for genomic imprinting.

Anne Greenough

Anne Greenough is a British neonatologist and clinical respiratory physiologist, Professor of Neonatology at King's College London, best known for the UKOS trial of high-frequency ventilation in preterm infants.

Anne H. Ehrlich

Anne Howland Ehrlich, born 1933, is an American conservation biologist at Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology who coauthored more than a dozen books with her husband Paul R. Ehrlich.

Anne Hudson Jones

Anne Hudson Jones is an American scholar of literature and medicine, a professor emerita at the University of Texas Medical Branch and founding co-editor of the journal Literature and Medicine.

Anne Klibanski

Anne Klibanski is an American physician and healthcare executive, president and CEO of Mass General Brigham since 2019, and a Harvard Medical School professor known for research on pituitary tumors.

Anne Louise Coleman

Anne Louise Coleman is an American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist specializing in glaucoma at UCLA, where she directs the Stein Eye Institute and chairs the Department of Ophthalmology.

Anne M. Moon

Anne M. Moon is an American physician-scientist, formerly a professor at the University of Utah and now at Geisinger Clinic, known for dissecting Fgf8's roles in cardiovascular and limb development.

Anne M. Villeneuve

Anne M. Villeneuve is an American geneticist at Stanford University who studies chromosome inheritance during meiosis in C. elegans, and has chaired Developmental Biology since 2020.

Anne Madden (applied microbial ecologist)

Anne A. Madden is an American applied microbial ecologist, science communicator, and entrepreneur who studies insect and home microbiomes, gave a widely viewed 2017 TED talk, and co-founded Lachancea LLC, a brewing-technology company.

Anne Marie Albano

Anne Marie Albano is a clinical psychologist, professor of medical psychology at Columbia University, and director of its anxiety clinic, known for the CAMS youth anxiety treatment study.

Anne Marie France

Anne Marie France is an American CDC epidemiologist who led the field-validated method for estimating recent tuberculosis transmission and now leads CDC's national HIV cluster detection program.

Anne Marie Staub

Anne Marie Staub (1914–2012) was a French biochemist at the Institut Pasteur who worked on early antihistamines with Daniel Bovet in 1937 and led Salmonella immunochemistry research.

Anne McLaren

Anne McLaren (1927 to 2007) was a British reproductive biologist whose 1958 mouse embryo culture and transfer experiments laid the experimental foundations for human IVF.

Anne O'Garra

Anne O'Garra, born 1954 in Gibraltar, is an immunologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London known for establishing the immunosuppressive functions of interleukin-10 and tuberculosis research.

Anne Osbourn

Anne Osbourn is a plant biologist at the John Innes Centre in Norwich known for discovering that plant natural product genes are clustered in genomes.

Anne Puel

Anne Puel is a French immunologist and Inserm research director at the Imagine Institute in Paris, known for finding genetic causes of severe fungal infections.