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Anne Ridley

Anne J. Ridley is a British cell biologist, Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Bristol, known for her pioneering work on Rho GTPases in cell migration.

Anne Schuchat

Anne Schuchat is an American internist and epidemiologist whose CDC career spanned 1988 to 2021; her group B strep guidelines are credited with saving 100,000 newborns.

Anne Takesian

Anne E. Takesian is an auditory neuroscientist at Mass Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School who studies how auditory cortex circuits reorganize after hearing loss.

Anne Treisman

Anne Treisman (1935–2018) was a British-born cognitive psychologist and Princeton professor who developed feature integration theory and filter attenuation theory, winning the National Medal of Science in 2013.

Anne Tybjærg‐Hansen

Anne Tybjærg-Hansen is a Danish clinical biochemist and cardiovascular geneticist, Chief Physician at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, known for genetic studies of lipoproteins and heart disease, winning the 2018 Anitschkow Prize.

Anne Weaver

Anne Weaver is an American epidemiologist and population health data scientist at the EPA in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, who received the PECASE award in January 2025.

Anne-Claude Gavin

Anne-Claude Gavin is a Swiss cell biologist who maps how proteins interact with lipids, and professor of cell physiology and metabolism at the University of Geneva since 2019.

Anne-Marie de Barsy

Anne-Marie de Barsy, born Anne-Marie de Cannart d'Hamale in 1939, is a Belgian neurologist and University of Antwerp professor whose name is attached to de Barsy syndrome.

Annelies Wilder‐Smith

Annelies Wilder-Smith is a physician and public health researcher specializing in emerging infectious diseases, known for work on dengue, Zika, and COVID-19 and WHO vaccine policy roles.

Annette Dolphin

Annette Catherine Dolphin (1951–2026) was a British ion channel biologist and pharmacologist, professor of pharmacology at University College London, known for her work on calcium channels and gabapentinoid pain drugs.

Annette Peters

Annette Peters is a German environmental epidemiologist who directs the Institute of Epidemiology at Helmholtz Munich and is known for linking air pollution to heart attacks.

Annick Harel‐Bellan

Annick Harel-Bellan, born 1951, is a French molecular biologist and honorary research director at the CNRS, known for work on transcriptional repression in cell differentiation and epigenetics.

Annika Rosengren

Annika Rosengren is a Swedish cardiologist and professor of medicine at the University of Gothenburg, known for landmark studies of type 1 diabetes and heart disease.

Anning Lin

Anning Lin (林安宁) is a biochemist who studies JNK, NF-κB, and TNFα cell signaling, and has been founding dean of Nanjing University's Institute of Modern Biology since 2020.

Annmarie Surprenant

Annmarie Surprenant is a physiologist and pharmacologist who established ATP as a fast synaptic transmitter in the mammalian nervous system and characterized the P2X receptor family.

Anoop Shah

Anoop Shah is a Kenyan-born British cardiologist and epidemiologist, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a clinical cardiologist affiliated with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

Anssi Auvinen

Anssi Auvinen is a Finnish physician-epidemiologist, professor of epidemiology at Tampere University since 2000 and research professor at the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, known for prostate-cancer screening and radiation health research.

Ansuman T. Satpathy

Ansuman T. Satpathy, also published as Ansuman Satpathy, is a physician-scientist and associate professor of pathology and immunology at Stanford University working in cancer immunology.

Anthony A. Amato

Anthony A. Amato is an American neurologist in neuromuscular medicine, a professor at Harvard Medical School and Vice Chairman of Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Anthony A. Grace

Anthony A. Grace, also published as Anthony Grace, is a neuroscientist at the University of Pittsburgh known for research on dopamine system regulation in schizophrenia.

Anthony A. Kossiakoff

Anthony A. Kossiakoff is a molecular biologist and protein engineer, the Otho S.A. Sprague Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and a National Academy of Sciences member.

Anthony B. Bleecker

Anthony B. Bleecker was an American plant biologist and professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who identified ETR1, the first hormone receptor identified in any plant.

Anthony Barnett (physician-scientist)

Anthony H. Barnett, known as Tony Barnett, is a British diabetes and endocrinology researcher, Emeritus Professor at Birmingham who led a 2004 telmisartan kidney-protection trial.

Anthony Bretscher

Anthony Bretscher, born 1950, is a cell biologist and Robert J. Appel Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, known for work on the actin cytoskeleton and the intestinal microvillus.

Anthony Cerami

Anthony Cerami (born 1940) is an American medical biochemist who developed the hemoglobin A1c diabetes test and identified cachectin as tumor necrosis factor, the basis of anti-TNF therapy.

Anthony Costello

Anthony Costello is a British pediatrician and professor of global health at University College London, known for community trials in Nepal and India that cut newborn deaths.

Anthony Crowther

Anthony Crowther (Richard Anthony Crowther, born 1942) is a scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who co-invented the common lines approach for 3D electron microscopy.

Anthony D. Toft

Anthony D. Toft is a Scottish endocrinologist and thyroid researcher at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh who wrote influential New England Journal of Medicine reviews on thyroxine therapy.

Anthony David Mbewu

Anthony David Mbewu is a South African physician-scientist and cardiologist who was President and CEO of the Medical Research Council of South Africa from 2005 to 2010.

Anthony DeFranco

Anthony L. DeFranco is an American immunologist and professor emeritus at UCSF known for showing that the B-cell antigen receptor signals through protein tyrosine phosphorylation, and for work on B-cell tolerance and autoimmunity.