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Adam Kepecs

Adam Kepecs, also known as Ádám Kepecs, is an American-based systems neuroscientist who studies confidence and decision-making at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Adam Kucharski

Adam Kucharski is a mathematician and epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine whose team's COVID-19 models informed UK government policy during the pandemic.

Adam L. Boxer

Adam L. Boxer is an American neurologist and Endowed Professor in Memory and Aging at UCSF who leads clinical trials and blood biomarker research for Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.

Adam Opalski

Adam Opalski (1897–1963) was a Polish neurologist and neuropathologist who described Opalski cells in Wilson's disease and Opalski's syndrome, a stroke variant with same-sided weakness.

Adam Phillippy

Adam Phillippy is an American computational biologist and genome informatician who co-founded the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium, producing the first complete human genome and revealing over 200 million additional DNA bases.

Adam Siepel

Adam Siepel is a computational biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who builds statistical models of genome evolution, with tools like phastCons used in the UCSC Genome Browser.

Adam W. Hantman

Adam W. Hantman is an American neuroscientist who leads a lab at UNC-Chapel Hill, studying how brain circuits generate skilled movement and assign value to reward and punishment.

Adaora Adimora

Adaora Adimora (1956–2024) was an American infectious-disease physician and HIV epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.

Addison Emery Verrill

Addison Emery Verrill (1839–1926) was an American zoologist and geologist, Yale's first Professor of Zoology, who trained under Louis Agassiz and described over 1,000 marine invertebrate species.

Adeera Levin

Adeera Levin is a Canadian nephrologist at the University of British Columbia who led the International Society of Nephrology as president from 2015 to 2017.

Adel Giaid

Adel Giaid is a McGill University researcher in Montreal known for human-tissue studies of vasoactive peptides, chiefly endothelin-1 and urotensin II, in pulmonary hypertension and heart failure.

Adelbert Ames, Jr.

Adelbert Ames, Jr. (1880–1955) was an American scientist in physiological optics who invented the Ames demonstrations, including the distorted room, and directed the Dartmouth Eye Institute.

Adi F. Gazdar

Adi F. Gazdar was an Indian-born physician-scientist and lung cancer pathologist at the NCI and UT Southwestern who established about 400 human cancer cell lines.

Adi Kimchi

Adi Kimchi (עדי קמחי) is an Israeli molecular geneticist and emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute, known for discovering DAP kinase and winning the Israel Prize.

Aditya Bardia

Aditya Bardia is an American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer therapeutics, especially antibody–drug conjugates, and a professor and breast oncology program director at UCLA since 2024.

Adnan A. Hyder

Adnan A. Hyder, also known as Adnan Hyder, is a Pakistani-born physician and global health researcher who became dean of Boston University School of Public Health in August 2025.

Adnan Čustović

Adnan Custovic is a Professor of Paediatric Allergy at Imperial College London whose research on the origins and prevention of asthma and allergy spans the life course.

Adnan I. Qureshi

Adnan I. Qureshi is a neurologist and stroke researcher, Professor of Neurology at the University of Missouri since 2017 and author of landmark reviews of cerebrovascular disease.

Adnan Kastrati

Adnan Kastrati, born 1955, is an interventional cardiologist and professor at the Technical University of Munich who designed the ISAR trials and led ISAR-REACT 5.

Adolf Bickel

Adolf Bickel (1875–1946) was a German physician and physiologist, professor of pathologic physiology at the University of Berlin, twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Adolf Engler

Adolf Engler (1844–1930) was a German botanist and plant geographer who directed the Berlin-Dahlem botanical garden and created the most widely accepted classification of all plants.

Adolf Fick

Adolf Eugen Fick (1829–1901) was a German-born physician and physiologist who formulated the laws of diffusion in 1855 and the Fick principle for measuring cardiac output in 1870.

Adolf Kußmaul

Adolf Kußmaul (1822–1902) was a German physician who described Kussmaul breathing in diabetic coma, Kussmaul's sign, and pulsus paradoxus, and performed the first gastroscopy on a sword swallower in 1868.

Adolf W. Karchmer

Adolf W. Karchmer, also published as A. W. Karchmer, is an American infectious diseases physician and Harvard professor who led the division at Beth Israel Deaconess and helped write the 2023 Duke-ISCVID endocarditis criteria.

Adolf Wallenberg

Adolf Wallenberg (1862–1949) was a German neurologist and neuroanatomist in Danzig who gave the first detailed description of lateral medullary syndrome, now named for him.

Adolf Weil (physician)

Adolf Weil (1848–1916) was a German internist from Heidelberg whose 1886 description of an infectious jaundice became known as Weil's disease, the severe form of leptospirosis.

Adolfo A. Ferrando

Adolfo A. Ferrando is a leukemia researcher and professor of Pediatrics and Pathology at Columbia University, known for T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia research and the 2020 William Dameshek Prize.

Adolfo García-Sastre

Adolfo García-Sastre is a Spanish-born virologist and immunologist who directs the Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute at Mount Sinai and pioneered influenza reverse genetics.

Adolfo J. de Bold

Adolfo J. de Bold (Adolfo José de Bold, 1942–2021) was an Argentine-born Canadian pathologist who discovered atrial natriuretic peptide, proving the heart is a hormone-producing endocrine organ.

Adolfo Lutz

Adolfo Lutz (1855–1940) was a Brazilian physician and zoologist called the Father of Tropical Medicine. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he directed the first bacteriological institute in South America, today the Instituto Adolfo Lutz.