Life and health scientists

Ashwin Chari

Ashwin Chari is a structural biochemist who has led a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen since 2020, known for work on the proteasome and fatty acid synthase.

Asifa Akhtar

Asifa Akhtar is a Pakistani-born molecular biologist in Germany who directs chromatin regulation research at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg and is known for work on X-chromosome dosage compensation.

Asrar B. Malik

Asrar B. Malik is an American pharmacologist and vascular biologist at the University of Illinois Chicago, known for work on endothelial permeability, lung inflammation, and acute lung injury.

Astar Winoto

Astar Winoto is an immunologist and Professor Emeritus of Immunology and Molecular Medicine at UC Berkeley, known for work on T-cell receptor genes and cell death in the immune system.

Asya Rolls

Asya Rolls is an Israeli neuroimmunologist and full professor at Tel Aviv University since 2024, previously at the Technion, known for showing that reward-system activation strengthens immunity in mice.

Ateev Mehrotra

Ateev Mehrotra is an American physician and health care policy researcher who studies how telemedicine, retail clinics, and price transparency change US health care quality and cost.

Athan Kuliopulos

Athan Kuliopulos is an American molecular biologist at Tufts Medical Center who co-developed pepducins, cell-penetrating peptides that switch GPCR signaling, and showed MMP-1 activates PAR1.

Athanasios Theologis

Athanasios Theologis is an American plant molecular biologist at the Plant Gene Expression Center in Albany, California, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

Athanasios Typas

Athanasios Typas, known as Nassos Typas, is a Greek molecular biologist who has led a research group at EMBL Heidelberg since 2011 and heads its Molecular Systems Biology Unit.

Athanassios Argiris

Athanassios Argiris (Αθανάσιος Αργύρης) is a Greek-born medical oncologist, professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia since 2016, known for head and neck cancer research and trials.

Athol U. Wells

Athol U. Wells, also published as Athol Wells, is a consultant respiratory physician at Royal Brompton Hospital and professor at Imperial College London, known for interstitial lung disease research.

Atila Iamarino

Atila Iamarino, born 1984, is a Brazilian biologist and science communicator with a microbiology doctorate from USP and postdoctoral work at Yale, known for pandemic explainers on YouTube.

Atıf Rahman

Atıf Rahman, also published as Atif Rahman, is a child psychiatrist at the University of Liverpool known for the Thinking Healthy Programme for perinatal depression.

Atsuko Yatani

Atsuko Yatani, publishing as A. Yatani, is a physiologist at Baylor College of Medicine whose 1987 Science paper showed that G proteins directly activate ion channels in the heart.

Atsushi Kumanogoh

Atsushi Kumanogoh (熊ノ郷淳), born 1966, is a Japanese immunologist known for discovering immune semaphorins and serving as the 19th president of The University of Osaka since 2025.

Atsushi Miyajima

Atsushi Miyajima (宮島篤) is a Japanese cell biologist who cloned the IL-3 and GM-CSF receptor subunits and studies liver development, regeneration, and iPS cell-derived liver tissue.

Atsushi Ohtsu

Atsushi Ohtsu is a Japanese medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers, known for the 2015 RECOURSE trial of TAS-102 and gastric cancer trials RAINBOW and AVAGAST.

Attallah Kappas

Attallah Kappas (1926–2018) was an American physician-scientist in clinical pharmacology who spent over fifty years at The Rockefeller University, serving as physician-in-chief from 1974 to 1991.

Attila Losonczy

Attila Losonczy is a systems neuroscientist who studies how the hippocampus forms, stores, and consolidates memories, known for dendritic inhibition and place-cell coding work in hippocampal area CA1.

Attilio Maseri

Attilio Maseri (1935–2021) was an Italian cardiologist who proved coronary artery spasm causes variant angina and led cardiology departments in Pisa, London, Rome, and Milan.

Atul K. Bhan

Atul K. Bhan is a physician-scientist who is Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and a pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for inflammatory bowel disease research.

Atul Malhotra

Atul Malhotra is a physician-scientist in sleep medicine and critical care at UC San Diego, where he led the 2024 trial showing tirzepatide can treat obstructive sleep apnea.

Atul Verma

Atul Verma is a Canadian cardiac electrophysiologist, Professor of Medicine at McGill University and Director of Cardiology at the MUHC, known for landmark atrial fibrillation trials.

Aubrey de Grey

Aubrey de Grey (born 1963) is a British biomedical gerontologist, Cambridge-trained, creator of the SENS damage-repair framework, co-founder of Methuselah, SENS Research, and LEV Foundations, author of Ending Aging, removed from SRF in 2021.

Aubrey Otis Hampton

Aubrey Otis Hampton (1900–1955) was an American radiologist, chief of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, whose 1940 study with Benjamin Castleman described the Hampton hump of pulmonary infarction.

Aubrey V. Weigel

Aubrey V. Weigel is a cell biologist and imaging scientist who led the COSEM project at HHMI's Janelia and showed proteins exit the ER through tubular networks, not vesicles.

August Bier

August Bier (1861–1949) was a German surgeon who introduced spinal anesthesia and the Bier block, both still used worldwide, and was nominated 40 times for the Nobel Prize.

August H. Doermann

August H. Doermann, known as "Gus," was an American geneticist and pioneer in bacteriophage genetics who spent his last two decades at the University of Washington.

August Krogh

August Krogh (Schack August Steenberg Krogh) was a Danish physiologist at the University of Copenhagen who won the 1920 Nobel Prize for showing how working muscle regulates its oxygen supply through capillaries.