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Avrion Mitchison
Avrion Mitchison (1928–2022) was a British immunologist who showed that lymphocytes, not antibodies, reject transplanted tissue, founding cellular immunology, and established T and B cell cooperation.
Avroy A. Fanaroff
Avroy A. Fanaroff, also known as A. A. Fanaroff, is a South African-born American neonatologist in Cleveland known for his studies of extremely low birth weight infants and his neonatology textbooks.
Avy Violari
Avy Violari is a South African pediatrician and HIV researcher who heads the Paediatric Research and Care program at the Perinatal HIV Research Unit in Soweto.
Axel Behrens
Axel Behrens is a molecular biologist and cancer researcher who leads the Adult Stem Cell Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute, studying pancreatic cancer stem cells.
Axel Brennicke
Axel Brennicke (1953–2017) was a German molecular biologist who led the Institut für Molekulare Botanik at Universität Ulm and studied RNA editing in plant mitochondria.
Axel Grothey
Axel Grothey is a German-trained medical oncologist directing gastrointestinal cancer research at West Cancer Center in Tennessee since 2018, known for the BEACON CRC and IDEA colorectal cancer studies.
Axel Hauschild
Axel Hauschild is a German dermatologic oncologist and professor at Kiel University who led the BREAK-3 trial of dabrafenib in metastatic melanoma and became president of the Melanoma World Society in 2021.
Axel Holst
Axel Holst (1860–1931) was a Norwegian physician and professor of hygiene at the University of Oslo who, with Theodor Frølich, produced scurvy experimentally in guinea pigs in 1907.
Axel Kahn
Axel Kahn (1944-2021) was a French physician-geneticist and Inserm research director who studied liver molecular genetics and gene therapy, led the Institut Cochin and Université Paris Descartes, and became a prominent French voice on bioethics.
Axel Kallies
Axel Kallies is an Australian–German immunologist, Professor for Molecular Immunology at the Peter Doherty Institute in Melbourne, known for discovering Tpex cells, which maintain long-term immune responses.
Axel Meyer
Axel Meyer, born 1960, is a German evolutionary biologist and professor of zoology at the University of Konstanz, known for studies of cichlid speciation and giant lungfish genomes.
Axel T. Brunger
Axel T. Brunger is a German-American biophysicist and Stanford professor who determined the first crystal structure of the neuronal SNARE complex in 1998 and created the crystallographic software X-PLOR and CNS.
Axel Ullrich
Axel Ullrich is a German molecular biologist whose work on growth factor receptors produced the targeted cancer therapies trastuzumab (Herceptin) and sunitinib, winning the 2019 Lasker Award.
Axel Visel
Axel Visel is a molecular geneticist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Deputy for Science Programs at the Joint Genome Institute since 2010, known for enhancer research.
Axel Westman
Axel Westman, born Axel Edvard Westman (1894–1960), was a Swedish obstetrician and gynecologist who held professorships at Uppsala, Lund, and the Karolinska Institute, researched ovum transit in the fallopian tubes, and founded Acta Endocrinologica.
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (born 1980) is an American marine biologist and policy expert who led Barbuda's Blue Halo ocean zoning and founded Ocean Collectiv and Urban Ocean Lab.
Azad Bonni
Azad Bonni is a Canadian neuroscientist and Senior Vice President at Roche in Basel who previously served as Edison Professor and neuroscience chair at Washington University from 2012 to 2019.
Azeez Butali
Azeez Butali is a craniofacial geneticist and dentist at the University of Iowa who studies the genetics of orofacial clefts and directs the African Craniofacial Anomalies Network.
Azim Surani
Azim Surani, also known as M. Azim Surani, is a Kenyan-born British developmental biologist at Cambridge known for discovering genomic imprinting in mammals in 1984 and winning the 2025 Kyoto Prize.
Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar (born 1946, Savur, Turkey), Turkish-American biochemist at UNC Chapel Hill; 2015 Nobel Chemistry laureate (1/3, with Lindahl and Modrich) for mechanistic studies of DNA repair, including ABC excinuclease dual incisions and human nucleotide excision repair.
Aziz Sheikh
Aziz Sheikh is a British primary care physician and health-data scientist, Nuffield Professor at Oxford, elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2024.
Azra Ghani
Azra Ghani is a British infectious disease epidemiologist and mathematical modeller of malaria, professor at Imperial College London and director of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis.
B. Frank Polk
B. Frank Polk (1942–1988) was an American physician-epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University who led early AIDS research, designing the Baltimore component of the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study, the world's longest-running AIDS cohort study.
B. Franklin Pugh
B. Franklin Pugh, often published as Frank Pugh, is an American molecular biologist at Cornell University who studies how genes are switched on and off and developed the ChIP-exo mapping method.
B. Lawrence Riggs
B. Lawrence Riggs, often cited as B. L. Riggs, is an American endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, whose research defined involutional osteoporosis.
B. Mark Evers
B. Mark Evers is an American surgical oncologist who directs the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020.
B. Matija Peterlin
B. Matija Peterlin (Boris Matija Peterlin) is a physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, known for defining how the HIV-1 Tat protein drives viral transcription.
B. Shannon Danes
B. Shannon Danes is a human geneticist in medicine who established cellular metachromasia of cultured skin fibroblasts as a genetic marker for the mucopolysaccharidoses, including Hurler's syndrome.
B. V. Venkataram Prasad
B. V. Venkataram Prasad is an Indian-American structural virologist at Baylor College of Medicine known for determining the capsid structures of rotavirus and Norwalk virus.
B.A. Bridges
B.A. Bridges, or Bryn A. Bridges, is a British radiation biologist who developed the three-tier mutagenicity testing scheme and led the MRC Cell Mutation Unit at Sussex from 1970.