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Argiris Efstratiadis

Argiris Efstratiadis (Αργύρης Ευστρατιάδης), born 1941, is a Greek molecular biologist known for developing cDNA cloning, discovering the first imprinted gene, Igf2, and serving as professor of genetics at Columbia University.

Argye E. Hillis

Argye E. Hillis (Argye Hillis) is an American neurologist at Johns Hopkins known for a 1991 Nature paper on nouns and verbs in the brain.

Argyrios N. Theofilopoulos

Argyrios N. Theofilopoulos is a Greek-trained American immunologist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, whose laboratory defined the genetic and interferon basis of lupus.

Ari Helenius

Ari Helenius, born 1944 in Oulu, Finland, is a Finnish cell biologist and professor emeritus at ETH Zurich known for showing how animal viruses enter cells.

Ari Melnick

Ari M. Melnick is a physician-scientist raised in Argentina who studies cancer epigenetics, developed the first BCL6 inhibitors for lymphoma, and has directed Barcelona's Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute since 2025.

Ari Pekka Mähönen

Ari Pekka Mähönen is a Finnish plant developmental biologist and Professor of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Helsinki who studies cambium stem cells in Arabidopsis roots.

Arie J. Zuckerman

Arie J. Zuckerman is a medical microbiologist and virologist known for his hepatitis B virus research, and is Emeritus Professor of Medical Microbiology at University College London.

Arie P. Otte

Arie P. Otte is a Dutch biochemist and geneticist at the University of Amsterdam known for work on neural induction in Xenopus and Polycomb chromatin research.

Arieh Warshel

Arieh Warshel is an Israeli-born computational chemist, Distinguished Professor at the University of Southern California, who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for multiscale models.

Ariel Rösler

Ariel Rösler is an Israeli endocrinologist at Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, known for steroid biosynthesis research and a 1998 GnRH-analog treatment for paraphilia.

Ariel Ruiz i Altaba

Ariel Ruiz i Altaba, born 1962, is a developmental biologist at the University of Geneva known for defining the Hedgehog–GLI pathway in development and cancer.

Ariela Benigni

Ariela Benigni, born 1955 in Bergamo, is an Italian biologist and nephrology researcher at the Mario Negri Institute, known for work on kidney disease progression and regeneration.

Arjen Dondorp

Arjen M. Dondorp is a Dutch physician and Deputy Director of the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok, known for severe malaria trials and documenting artemisinin resistance.

Arjun G. Yodh

Arjun G. Yodh is an American physicist at the University of Pennsylvania known for diffuse optical imaging of tissue and the 2021 Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award.

Arjun K. Manrai

Arjun K. Manrai is a biomedical informatics researcher and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, known for a 2016 NEJM analysis of genetic misdiagnoses affecting Black patients.

Arjun Raj

Arjun Raj is a professor of bioengineering and genetics at the University of Pennsylvania known for co-developing single-molecule RNA imaging and studying single-cell drug resistance in cancer.

Arjun Srinivasan

Arjun Srinivasan is an infectious diseases physician and healthcare epidemiologist who spent over two decades at the CDC before becoming the Joint Commission's deputy chief medical officer in 2025.

Arkaitz Carracedo

Arkaitz Carracedo (born 1979) is a Spanish molecular biologist known for work on cancer metabolism, cannabinoid-induced tumor cell death, and PTEN signaling, leading a lab at CIC bioGUNE.

Arlan F. Fuller

Arlan F. Fuller is an American gynecologic oncologist trained at Harvard Medical School, known for research on müllerian inhibiting substance as a marker and treatment for ovarian tumors.

Arlan L. Rosenbloom

Arlan L. Rosenbloom (1934–2024) was an American pediatric endocrinologist at the University of Florida who shaped pediatric diabetes care and defined the world's largest Laron syndrome cohort in Ecuador.

Arleen F. Brown

Arleen F. Brown is an American internist and health services researcher at UCLA, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022 for work on health disparities.

Arlene A. Forastiere

Arlene A. Forastiere is an American medical oncologist at Johns Hopkins known for leading the 2003 trial establishing concurrent cisplatin and radiotherapy as standard larynx-preserving treatment in advanced laryngeal cancer.

Arlene B. Chapman

Arlene B. Chapman is an American nephrologist who has led the University of Chicago's nephrology section since 2015 and is known for research on autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.

Arlene Sharpe

Arlene H. Sharpe is an American immunologist and physician-scientist who chairs Immunology at Harvard Medical School and defined the CTLA-4 and PD-1 immune checkpoint pathways behind cancer immunotherapy.

Armand J. Quick

Armand J. Quick (1894–1978) was an American physician and biochemist who developed the prothrombin time blood-clotting test, known as the Quick test, and chaired biochemistry at Marquette.

Armando Azua-Bustos

Armando Azua-Bustos is a Chilean astrobiologist and research scientist at Spain's Centro de Astrobiología in Madrid, known for studying the Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, as a model of Mars.

Armando J. Parodi

Armando J. Parodi, born 1942 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine biochemist who worked out how cells verify that newly made glycoproteins fold correctly before they leave the endoplasmic reticulum.

Armando Santoro

Armando Santoro is an Italian medical oncologist, director of the Cancer Center at IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital in Rozzano, Milan, known for trials in Hodgkin lymphoma and hepatocellular carcinoma.

Armando Tripodi

Armando Tripodi is an Italian scientist in hemostasis and thrombosis at the Angelo Bianchi Bonomi Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center in Milan, known for the rebalanced hemostasis concept in cirrhosis.

Armen H. Tashjian

Armen H. Tashjian (1932–2009) was an American physician-scientist and Harvard professor of toxicology whose calcitonin radioimmunoassay made early diagnosis of hereditary medullary thyroid cancer possible.