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Arthur W. Nienhuis

Arthur W. Nienhuis, also known as Arthur Nienhuis, was an American physician-scientist in hematology and gene therapy who directed St. Jude Children's Research Hospital from 1993 to 2004.

Arthur W. Toga

Arthur W. Toga is a neuroscientist and neuroimaging researcher known for brain mapping, brain atlasing, and large-scale informatics in neurodegenerative disease, who directs the USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute.

Arthur Weiss

Arthur Weiss is an American immunologist and UCSF professor who discovered ZAP-70 and the role of CD45 in T cell receptor signaling, contributing to CAR-T therapy.

Arthur Weissbach

Arthur Weissbach is an American biochemist and molecular biologist known for characterizing eukaryotic DNA polymerases and co-authoring the 1975 nomenclature naming them alpha, beta, and gamma.

Artur Biedl

Artur Biedl (1869–1933) was a Hungarian-born pathologist and endocrinologist, professor at the German University of Prague, regarded as a founder of modern endocrinology and co-namesake of Bardet-Biedl syndrome.

Artur Scherf

Artur Scherf is a French malaria researcher and Emeritus Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, known for work on parasite epigenetics and antigenic variation in Plasmodium falciparum.

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla is a Mexican-born neurobiologist at UCSF who identified adult brain astrocytes as neural stem cells and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Arturo Casadevall

Arturo Casadevall is a Cuban-born American physician-scientist who chairs Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Johns Hopkins, known for fungal pathogenesis research and COVID-19 convalescent plasma.

Arturo Rosenblueth

Arturo Rosenblueth (1900–1970) was a Mexican physiologist who worked with Walter Cannon at Harvard, co-authored the 1943 cybernetics paper with Norbert Wiener, and founded Cinvestav.

Arturo Zychlinsky

Arturo Zychlinsky (born 1962) is a biologist who discovered neutrophil extracellular traps, or NETs, and directs cellular microbiology at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin.

Arul M. Chinnaiyan

Arul M. Chinnaiyan, born 1969, is an American molecular pathologist at the University of Michigan known for discovering TMPRSS2-ETS gene fusions in most prostate cancers.

Arun J. Sanyal

Arun J. Sanyal is a hepatologist at Virginia Commonwealth University who led the PIVENS trial, chairs the NIH NASH Clinical Research Network, and directs its liver disease institute.

Arun Kumar Shukla

Arun Kumar Shukla, also published as Arun K. Shukla, is an Indian structural biologist and professor at IIT Kanpur who studies G protein-coupled receptors and won the 2021 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.

Arup K. Chakraborty

Arup K. Chakraborty is an Indian-born American theoretical immunologist at MIT, an Institute Professor who uses statistical physics to study T cells and design vaccines.

Arup Sen

Arup Sen is a biochemist known for identifying the RNA-binding phosphoproteins of type C retroviruses in papers from the National Cancer Institute between 1976 and 1979.

Arvid Carlsson

Arvid Carlsson (1923–2018) was a Swedish pharmacologist at the University of Gothenburg who established dopamine as a neurotransmitter, winning the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Ary A. Hoffmann

Ary A. Hoffmann, also published as Ary Anthony Hoffmann, is an Australian entomologist and geneticist at the University of Melbourne known for Wolbachia-based dengue control and insect climate adaptation.

Aryeh Routtenberg

Aryeh Routtenberg (1939–2016) was an American behavioral neuroscientist and professor of psychology at Northwestern University, best known for proposing that the enzyme protein kinase C helps store long-term memories.

Asa Gray

Asa Gray (1810–1888) was an American botanist and Harvard professor, the leading nineteenth-century taxonomist of the North American flora and a defender of Darwin's theory.

Asaf Vivante

Asaf Vivante is an Israeli pediatric nephrologist who directs Pediatrics B at Sheba Medical Center, is an associate professor at Tel Aviv University, and researches genetic kidney disease.

Aseem Ansari

Aseem Z. Ansari is an American chemical biologist known for artificial transcription factors that control gene expression; he has chaired Chemical Biology and Therapeutics at St. Jude since 2019.

Asha de Vos

Asha de Vos is a Sri Lankan marine biologist known for discovering that Sri Lanka's blue whales are the only nonmigratory population, and for founding Oceanswell.

Ashani T. Weeraratna

Ashani T. Weeraratna is a Sri Lankan-born American cancer biologist who studies melanoma metastasis and the aging tumor microenvironment, and chairs Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Johns Hopkins.

Ashish K. Jha

Ashish K. Jha is an American physician and health policy researcher who was dean of the Brown University School of Public Health from 2020 to 2025.

Ashkan Shoamanesh

Ashkan Shoamanesh is a Canadian stroke neurologist and clinical-trialist at McMaster University and the Population Health Research Institute in Hamilton, Ontario, who led the OCEANIC-STROKE trial of asundexian.

Ashley I. Bush

Ashley I. Bush is an Australian physician-scientist at The Florey Institute in Melbourne, known for the metal hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease and for co-founding Prana Biotechnology in 1997.

Ashley R. Dunn

Ashley R. Dunn (Ashley Roger Dunn), born 1945 in the United Kingdom, is an Australian molecular biologist who co-cloned GM-CSF and led cancer research at the Ludwig Institute in Melbourne.

Ashley Woodcock

Ashley Woodcock, born 1951, is a British respiratory medicine professor at the University of Manchester known for asthma and COPD trials and leading the CFC-free inhaler transition.

Ashok R. Venkitaraman

Ashok R. Venkitaraman is a cancer researcher known for discovering how the BRCA2 gene suppresses cancer by protecting genome integrity, and directs the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore.

Ashraf Brik

Ashraf Brik (أشرف بريك), born 1973, is a professor of chemistry at the Technion in Israel, known for the chemical synthesis of ubiquitinated proteins and macrocyclic peptides that modulate ubiquitin chains.