Life and health scientists

Antonio Rangel (neuroscientist)

Antonio Rangel is a Spanish-born cognitive neuroscientist and economist who studies the neural basis of decision making, trained in economics at Harvard, and is Bing Professor at Caltech.

Antonio Simeone

Antonio Simeone is an Italian molecular developmental biologist who studies homeobox genes such as Otx and Emx that pattern the mammalian forebrain; he directs the IGB-CNR institute in Naples.

Antonio Vidal-Puig, often published as Toni Vidal-Puig, is a Spanish physician-scientist and Professor of Molecular Nutrition and Metabolism at the University of Cambridge, known for research on brown fat and obesity.

António Zorzano

António Zorzano is a Spanish molecular biologist, Full Professor at the University of Barcelona, who studies how mitochondria contribute to obesity, type 2 diabetes, and liver disease.

Antonis Rokas

Antonis Rokas is a Greek-born evolutionary biologist who holds the Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair at Vanderbilt University, known for phylogenomics and genome-scale studies of budding yeasts and other fungi.

Oct 10, 2026

Antony Basten

Antony Basten, known as Tony Basten, is an Australian immunologist known for work on B cell self-tolerance, Fc receptors, and eosinophilia, and for founding ASCIA.

Antony J. Durston

Antony J. Durston, known as Tony Durston, was a British developmental biologist at the Hubrecht Laboratory in Utrecht, known for showing that retinoic acid patterns the nervous system.

Antony M. Carr

Antony M. Carr, also known as Antony Carr, is a molecular geneticist who defined DNA damage checkpoint and genome stability pathways in fission yeast at the University of Sussex.

Antony Rosen

Antony Rosen is an American rheumatologist and immunologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Vice Dean for Research since 2013, known for linking autoimmunity and cancer.

Antti Vaheri

Antti Vaheri is a Finnish physician-scientist and professor emeritus of virology at the University of Helsinki, known for co-discovering fibronectin and for five decades of hantavirus research.

Anu Suomalainen

Anu Suomalainen is a Finnish clinician-scientist in mitochondrial medicine and molecular genetics, Academy Professor at the University of Helsinki known for linking POLG mutations to parkinsonism.

Anupam B. Jena

Anupam B. Jena is an American physician and health economist, the Joseph P. Newhouse Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, known for natural-experiment studies of medicine.

Anura Rambukkana

Anura Rambukkana is a Dutch-trained infectious-disease researcher at the University of Edinburgh known for showing how the leprosy bacterium targets peripheral nerves and reprograms Schwann cells.

Anurag A. Agrawal

Anurag A. Agrawal is an American evolutionary ecologist at Cornell University who studies the coevolution of plants and insect herbivores, especially monarch butterflies and milkweed.

Oct 10, 2026

Aoife McLysaght

Aoife McLysaght is an Irish geneticist, Chair of Evolutionary Genetics at Trinity College Dublin, who studies gene duplication and became Ireland's Government Science Advisor in January 2025.

Apostolos Georgopoulos

Apostolos P. Georgopoulos is a neuroscientist and Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota, known for population-vector analyses of movement planning and MEG biomarkers of brain disease.

Ara Darzi

Ara Darzi is a British surgeon and health-policy expert at Imperial College London who performed the UK's first robot-assisted operation in 2001 and led the 2024 NHS investigation.

Ara G. Hovanessian

Ara G. Hovanessian, born in Aleppo, Syria, in 1948, is a molecular virologist who worked at the Institut Pasteur and CNRS and characterized the antiviral kinase PKR.

Aram V. Chobanian

Aram V. Chobanian (1929–2023) was an American cardiologist and hypertension researcher who established the link between high blood pressure and accelerated vascular disease, and chaired the 2003 JNC 7 guideline.

Aravinda Chakravarti

Aravinda Chakravarti is a human geneticist who directs the Center for Human Genetics and Genomics at NYU, known for Hirschsprung disease genetics and leadership roles in the HapMap and 1000 Genomes projects.

Aravinthan D. T. Samuel

Aravinthan D. T. Samuel is a biophysicist and neuroscientist who has been Professor of Physics at Harvard University since 2010 and studies how nervous systems produce behavior.

Aravinthan Daniel Thevapirian Samuel

Aravinthan Daniel Thevapirian Samuel is an American physicist and neuroscientist, Professor of Physics at Harvard University, whose laboratory studies how brains generate behavior in C. elegans and the Drosophila larva.

Archana Singh‐Manoux

Archana Singh-Manoux is a French-based epidemiologist at Inserm and honorary professor at University College London who studies cognitive decline and dementia risk, leading the Whitehall II cognitive aging program.

Oct 10, 2026

Archibald Leitch

Archibald Leitch (1878–1931) was a Glasgow-trained British pathologist who directed the Cancer Hospital's research institute in London, studied occupational cancers, and was quoted in the 1926 Nobel presentation speech.

Archibald V. Hill

Archibald V. Hill, also known as Archibald Hill, was an English physiologist who shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on heat production in muscle.

Ardem Patapoutian

Ardem Patapoutian, born 1967 in Beirut, is an American neuroscientist at Scripps Research who won the 2021 Nobel Prize for discovering the PIEZO1 and PIEZO2 touch receptors.

Ardèm Patapoutian

Ardem Patapoutian is an American molecular biologist and neuroscientist who discovered the PIEZO touch receptors and won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Aree Valyasevi

Aree Valyasevi (อารี วัลยะเสวี) was a Thai pediatrician and nutrition scientist who founded the Institute of Nutrition at Mahidol University. His work addressed rural malnutrition and bladder stone disease.

Arend Bouhuys

Arend Bouhuys (1925–1979) was a Dutch-born pulmonary physician and respiratory physiologist who directed Yale's Lung Research Center and helped establish byssinosis, or brown lung, as a recognized occupational disease in the United States.