Life and health scientists

Aron Moscona

Aron Moscona (1921–2009) was a developmental biologist at the University of Chicago whose experiments showed that dissociated embryonic cells recognize their own kind and rebuild tissue-like structure.

Arp Schnittger

Arp Schnittger is a German plant developmental biologist who has held the plant developmental biology professorship at Universität Hamburg since 2014, known for work on genomic imprinting in seeds and meiosis.

Arri Coomarasamy

Arri Coomarasamy is a British gynaecologist and clinical trialist, Professor at the University of Oxford and Director of Tommy's National Centre for Miscarriage Research, Europe's largest miscarriage research center.

Arshad Desai

Arshad Desai is an American cell biologist at UC San Diego who studies how cells distribute their chromosomes accurately during division, defining the kinetochore's core microtubule-binding network in C. elegans.

Arshed A. Quyyumi

Arshed A. Quyyumi is a British-trained cardiologist, professor of medicine, and director of the Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute, known for showing coronary endothelial dysfunction predicts cardiovascular events.

Artemis G. Hatzigeorgiou

Artemis Hatzigeorgiou is a bioinformatician known for creating the DIANA suite of microRNA analysis tools, including DIANA-microT and DIANA-TarBase, and leading DIANA-Lab at the University of Thessaly.

Arthur A. Hurwitz

Arthur A. Hurwitz is a tumor immunology researcher who co-authored a 1998 study showing CTLA-4 blockade combined with a GM-CSF vaccine could regress mammary tumors.

Arthur A. Sasahara

Arthur A. Sasahara (born 1927) is an American cardiologist and thrombosis researcher, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, known for work on pulmonary embolism and thrombolytic therapy.

Arthur A.M. Wilde

Arthur A.M. Wilde (Arthur Wilde), born 1956, is a Dutch cardiologist and professor at Amsterdam UMC known for research on Brugada syndrome and long QT syndrome.

Arthur B. Pardee

Arthur B. Pardee (1921–2019) was an American molecular biologist and cancer researcher at Dana-Farber and Harvard, known for the PaJaMo experiment, the restriction point, and differential display.

Arthur Bank

Arthur Bank is a physician-scientist in hematology and genetics at Columbia University in New York, known for research on the thalassemia syndromes and globin genes.

Arthur Christopoulos

Arthur Christopoulos is an Australian molecular pharmacologist, Professor of Analytical Pharmacology and Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University, known for allosteric GPCR drug research.

Arthur D. Hasler

Arthur D. Hasler (1908–2001) was an American limnologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who explained salmon homing by smell and created the Peter and Paul Lakes for whole-lake ecosystem experiments.

Arthur D. Lander

Arthur D. Lander, also known as Arthur Lander, is an American developmental and systems biologist, Donald Bren Professor at the University of California, Irvine, since 1995.

Arthur D. Riggs

Arthur D. Riggs (1939–2022) was an American molecular biologist at City of Hope in California who helped create the first recombinant DNA drug, Humulin insulin, and proposed the founding idea of epigenetics in 1975.

Arthur Downes

Sir Arthur Henry Downes (1851–1938) was a British physician and public-health official who, with Thomas P. Blunt, first demonstrated in 1877 that sunlight kills bacteria, founding light disinfection.

Arthur E. Broadus

Arthur E. Broadus was an American endocrinologist at Yale School of Medicine who led its endocrinology section for two decades and identified PTHrP as the cause of cancer-related high blood calcium.

Arthur E. Johnson

Arthur E. Johnson is an American biochemist at Texas A&M University whose laboratory pioneered fluorescence methods for studying how proteins cross and insert into biological membranes.

Arthur E. Weyman

Arthur E. Weyman, known as Ned Weyman, was an American cardiologist who helped develop echocardiography into the standard noninvasive technique for diagnosing heart disease, working at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard.

Arthur Felix

Arthur Felix (1887–1956) was a Polish-born bacteriologist and chemist who co-discovered the Weil–Felix typhus diagnostic test and identified the Vi antigen behind Britain's improved 1940s typhoid vaccine.

Arthur Grossman

Arthur Grossman (born 1950) is an American plant biologist and algal genomicist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, known for leading the Chlamydomonas genome project and studying photosynthesis.

Arthur Henry Reginald Buller

Arthur Henry Reginald Buller (1874–1944) was a British-born mycologist at the University of Manitoba who named Buller's drop and the Buller phenomenon and wrote Researches on Fungi.

Arthur I. Skoultchi

Arthur I. Skoultchi is an American cell biologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, known for work on chromatin structure, gene regulation, and linker histone H1.

Arthur Isaac Kendall

Arthur Isaac Kendall (1877–1959) was an American bacteriologist and dean of Northwestern University Medical School known for bacterial metabolism studies and the unreplicated K medium claim.

Arthur J. Ammann

Arthur J. Ammann (1936–2021) was an American pediatric immunologist at UCSF whose pneumococcal vaccine trials produced the first FDA-approved pneumonia vaccine and who showed in 1982 that AIDS spreads from mother to infant.

Arthur J. Barsky

Arthur J. Barsky is an American psychiatrist, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, known for research on hypochondriasis, somatization, and placebo and nocebo effects.

Arthur J. Hartz

Arthur J. Hartz is an epidemiologist and observation medicine researcher known for 1989 and 2000 New England Journal of Medicine papers on hospital mortality and whether observational studies match randomized trials.

Arthur J. Moss

Arthur J. Moss, also known as Arthur Moss, was an American cardiologist at the University of Rochester whose MADIT trials made the implantable defibrillator standard treatment after heart attacks.