edgepedia

Life and health scientists

18,587 articles

Armen Takhtajan

Armen Takhtajan (1910–2009) was a Soviet and Russian botanist at the Komarov Institute in Leningrad whose Takhtajan system of flowering-plant classification greatly influenced later systems.

Armin C. Braun

Armin Charles Braun (1911–1986) was an American plant biologist at Rockefeller University whose 1959 work showed crown gall tumor cells can revert to normal cells.

Arnau Sebe-Pedros

Arnau Sebé-Pedrós, also spelled Arnau Sebe-Pedros, is a Spanish evolutionary and computational biologist leading a research group at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona since 2019.

Arnaud Perrier

Arnaud Perrier, born in 1959, is a Swiss internal medicine researcher at Geneva who established non-invasive D-dimer pathways for diagnosing pulmonary embolism and venous thromboembolism in outpatients.

Arne Astrup

Arne Astrup is a Danish physician and nutrition researcher who showed in 1996 that GLP-1 is a satiety hormone and led the 2009 Lancet trial establishing liraglutide as an obesity treatment.

Arne D. Ekstrom

Arne D. Ekstrom is a cognitive and systems neuroscientist at the University of Arizona who studies the neural basis of human spatial navigation and episodic memory.

Arne Holmgren

Arne Holmgren (1940–2020) was a Swedish biochemist and physician who spent over 45 years at Karolinska Institutet, founding thioredoxin and glutaredoxin research and helping establish redox biology.

Arne May

Arne May is a German neurologist and headache researcher who leads the headache clinic at the UKE hospital in Hamburg and studies cluster headache with brain imaging.

Arne Svejgaard

Arne Svejgaard (1937–2016) was a Danish physician and immunologist who, with Flemming Kissmeyer-Nielsen, helped clarify the HLA tissue-type system, mapping its associations with diseases from psoriasis to diabetes.

Arnel Hallauer

Arnel R. Hallauer is an American maize quantitative geneticist and corn breeder at Iowa State University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989.

Arno G. Motulsky

Arno G. Motulsky (1923–2018) was a German-born American physician-geneticist at the University of Washington, counted among the founders of medical genetics and credited with creating pharmacogenetics.

Arno L. Greenleaf

Arno L. Greenleaf is an American molecular biologist, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at Duke University, known for his work on RNA polymerase II and CDK12.

Arnold Berk

Arnold J. Berk is an American virologist and UCLA professor emeritus who participated in the discovery of RNA splicing and showed p53's tumor suppressor activity depends on transcriptional activation.

Arnold Burgen

Sir Arnold Burgen (1922–2022) was a British physiologist and pharmacologist who studied drug-receptor interactions at the acetylcholine receptor, directed the National Institute for Medical Research, and was knighted in 1976.

Arnold Demain

Arnold Demain (1927–2020) was an American industrial microbiologist who worked at Merck and MIT, studying antibiotic production and joining the National Academy of Sciences in 1994.

Arnold Graffi

Arnold Graffi (1910–2006) was a German experimental oncologist who discovered the Graffi murine leukemia virus in 1954 and founded experimental cancer research in East Germany at Berlin-Buch.

Arnold J. Levine

Arnold J. Levine is an American molecular biologist who co-discovered the p53 tumor suppressor protein in 1979 and is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Arnold M. Epstein

Arnold M. Epstein is an American physician and health policy researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for work on Medicaid policy and hospital payment reform.

Arnold M. Katz

Arnold M. Katz (1932–2016) was an American cardiologist who defined calcium's role in heart contraction, discovered phospholamban, and served as the first Chief of Cardiology at the University of Connecticut.

Arnold M. Seligman

Arnold M. Seligman (1912–1976) was an American physician and histochemist who developed methods for showing enzymes and protein sulfhydryl groups in tissue sections and applied them to cancer.

Arnold R. Kriegstein

Arnold R. Kriegstein is an American neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for identifying outer radial glial cells pivotal to human cortex expansion.

Arnold Rice Rich

Arnold Rice Rich (1893–1968) was an American pathologist at Johns Hopkins who wrote the standard text The Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis and classified jaundice into retention and regurgitation types.

Arnold S. Monto

Arnold S. Monto is an American physician-epidemiologist at the University of Michigan known for the Tecumseh community study, influenza vaccine trials, and the 2025 CENTERSTONE trial of baloxavir.

Arnold S. Relman

Arnold S. Relman was an American nephrologist and editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine from 1977 to 1991, known for acid-base research and conflict-of-interest disclosure rules.

Arnold Schwartz

Arnold Schwartz is an American cardiac pharmacologist and biochemist who identified the receptor site for digitalis on the heart's sodium-potassium pump and helped develop calcium channel blockers.

Arnold Theiler

Arnold Theiler (1867-1936), Swiss-born veterinarian, father of South African veterinary science; founded Onderstepoort laboratory (1908) and the University of Pretoria veterinary faculty, fought rinderpest, and was father of Nobel laureate Max Theiler.

Arnoud Sonnenberg

Arnoud Sonnenberg is a Dutch cell biologist known for defining the α6β4 integrin and the hemidesmosomes anchoring epithelial cells to basement membranes, and now Professor Emeritus at Leiden University.

Aron Goldhirsch

Aron Goldhirsch (1946–2020) was a medical oncologist who specialized in breast cancer, working at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan and co-founding the Breast International Group in 1996.

Aron Hall

Aron Hall is an American CDC epidemiologist and veterinarian, a PECASE recipient named by President Obama, known for norovirus research and COVID-19 surveillance, and Director of the CDC's Division of Viral Diseases.

Aron Lukacher

Aron Lukacher is an American immunologist and physician-scientist who studies T cell immunity to persistent viral infection and virus-induced cancer, and was among the first PECASE recipients in 1996.