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Anthony Pawson

Anthony James (Tony) Pawson (1952–2013) was a Canadian cell biologist who spent his career at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, discovered the SH2 domain, and won the Kyoto Prize.

Anthony R. Cashmore

Anthony R. Cashmore is a New Zealand-born plant molecular biologist, long a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, whose laboratory discovered cryptochrome, the blue-light photoreceptor that regulates plant growth and circadian rhythms.

Anthony R. Hunter

Anthony R. Hunter, known as Tony Hunter, is a British-born molecular biologist at the Salk Institute whose 1979 discovery of tyrosine phosphorylation revealed how cells signal and how cancers grow.

Anthony R. Ives

Anthony R. Ives is an American theoretical ecologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who uses mathematical models and field experiments to study how species interactions shape ecosystem stability.

Anthony R. Means

Anthony R. Means is an American molecular endocrinologist at Baylor College of Medicine known for establishing calmodulin as the principal intracellular calcium receptor and for showing that calmodulin levels regulate the cell cycle.

Anthony R. Russo

Anthony R. Russo is an American pathologist who completed anatomic and clinical pathology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2026 and works there as a signout pathology fellow.

Anthony Rosenzweig

Anthony Rosenzweig is a cardiologist who studies why the heart fails and how exercise protects it, directing the Frankel Institute for Heart and Brain Health at Michigan.

Anthony S. Rebuck

Anthony S. Rebuck is a respiratory physician and asthma researcher at the University of Toronto, known for his 1992 study of beta-agonists and asthma deaths.

Anthony S. Weiss

Anthony S. Weiss, also known as Tony Weiss, is an Australian biochemist at the University of Sydney who studies tropoelastin and founded the biomaterials company Elastagen.

Anthony San Pietro

Anthony San Pietro was an American biochemist known for showing in 1956 that illuminated chloroplast grana reduce pyridine nucleotides, and for isolating the enzyme later identified as ferredoxin.

Anthony Schapira

Anthony Henry Vernon Schapira, born 1954, is a British neurologist who is Professor of Neurology at UCL and known for discovering the mitochondrial Complex I defect and GBA1 mutations in Parkinson's disease.

Anthony Seaton

Anthony Seaton (born 1938) is a British respiratory and occupational physician at Aberdeen whose 1995 Lancet paper on ultrafine particles reshaped air pollution science and UK standards.

Anthony Trewavas

Anthony J. Trewavas, born 1939, is a British plant biochemist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh known for establishing calcium as plant signal transduction's central instrument and for arguing plants are intelligent.

Anthony V. D’Amico

Anthony Victor D'Amico is an American radiation oncologist, chief of Genitourinary Radiation Oncology at Dana-Farber and Harvard professor, known for his 1998 prostate cancer risk classification.

Anthony V. Furano

Anthony V. Furano is an American molecular biologist who spent his career at NIH, working on bacterial protein synthesis and then LINE-1 retrotransposons and mammalian genome evolution.

Anthony W. Norman

Anthony W. Norman (1938–2019) was an American biochemist at UC Riverside whose research established vitamin D as a steroid hormone, identifying its active form and receptor.

Anthony W. Segal

Anthony W. Segal, Charles Dent Professor of Medicine at University College London from 1986 to 2020, discovered the NADPH oxidase components and their role in chronic granulomatous disease.

Anthony Wagner

Anthony D. Wagner is a cognitive neuroscientist and Lucie Stern Professor at Stanford University who directs the Stanford Memory Laboratory and studies episodic memory, attention, and media multitasking.

Anthony Wynshaw‐Boris

Anthony Wynshaw-Boris is a physician scientist in human genetics who studies neurogenetic disorders, including lissencephaly and autism, using mouse and stem cell models at Case Western Reserve University.

Antje Boetius

Antje Boetius is a German marine microbiologist known for her research on methane-consuming microbes in the deep sea, who directed the Alfred Wegener Institute before becoming MBARI's president in 2025.

Antoine Adamantidis

Antoine Adamantidis is a French-born systems neuroscientist who pioneered in vivo optogenetics of hypocretin neurons and has led the Center for Experimental Neurology at University Hospital Bern since 2014.

Antoine Béchamp

Antoine Béchamp (1816–1908) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and biologist known for his microzymas theory of life and a decades-long priority dispute with Louis Pasteur over fermentation.

Antoine Guisan

Antoine Guisan is a Swiss ecologist and full professor at the University of Lausanne, where he leads the ECOSPAT Spatial Ecology group and works on species distribution modeling.

Antoine Hakim

Antoine M. Hakim is a Canadian neurologist who characterized the salvageable penumbra around a stroke, helped set the treatment window for clot-busting drugs, and founded the Canadian Stroke Network.

Antoîne Italiano

Antoine Italiano is a French medical oncologist specializing in sarcomas and early-phase trials, who directs SARCOTARGET at Institut Bergonié and leads precision oncology at Gustave Roussy.

Antoine Lacassagne

Antoine Lacassagne (1884–1971) was a French physician and biologist who pioneered radiobiology at the Institut du Radium, Paris, and showed in 1932 that hormones could produce breast cancer.

Antoine M. van Oijen

Antoine M. van Oijen is a single-molecule biophysicist known for developing microscopy methods that watch individual DNA molecules being copied in real time, leading groups at Harvard, Groningen, and Wollongong.

Antoine Peters

Antoine H.F.M. Peters is a Dutch mouse geneticist studying epigenetics and chromatin biology at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel since 2004, known for the 2001 Suv39h Cell paper.

Antoinette Moran

Antoinette Moran is an American pediatric endocrinologist and professor at the University of Minnesota, known for research on cystic fibrosis-related diabetes and type 1 diabetes prevention trials.

Anton Berns

Anton Berns, born 1945 in the Netherlands, is a Dutch molecular geneticist who used mouse models to find cancer genes, including Pim-1, during his career at the Netherlands Cancer Institute.