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Alain Townsend

Alain R. M. Townsend is an Oxford molecular immunologist, Emeritus Professor at the MRC Weatherall Institute, known for defining how cytotoxic T cells recognize viral peptide fragments presented by MHC class I.

Alan Aderem

Alan Aderem is a South African-born biologist in Seattle known for innate immunity, Toll-like receptors, and systems vaccinology; he co-founded the Institute for Systems Biology in 2000 and led it until 2011.

Alan Ashworth

Alan Ashworth is a British molecular biologist who helped discover the BRCA2 gene in 1995 and has led the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center since 2015.

Alan Attie

Alan D. Attie is an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for a 1986 Science paper on lipoprotein mutations in pigs and for mouse-genetic screens of diabetes-susceptibility genes.

Alan B. Rickinson

Alan B. Rickinson is a virologist and Emeritus Professor of Cancer Studies at the University of Birmingham, known for his work on the biology and immunology of Epstein–Barr virus.

Alan B. Sachs

Alan B. Sachs is an American molecular biologist and physician-scientist whose yeast genetics showed how the poly(A)-binding protein controls translation initiation, the basis of the closed-loop mRNA model.

Alan Bernstein

Alan Bernstein, born 1947, is a Canadian cancer and stem cell biologist known for KIT gene research and for leading the Lunenfeld Institute, CIHR, and CIFAR.

Alan Brash

Alan R. Brash, born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1948, is a British-born pharmacologist and Vanderbilt University professor known for lipoxygenase research and for identifying allene oxide synthase as a cytochrome P450.

Alan C. Sartorelli

Alan C. Sartorelli was an American cancer pharmacologist, Alfred Gilman Professor at Yale School of Medicine, and past president of the American Association for Cancer Research who died in 2015.

Alan Chait

Alan Chait is a physician-scientist at the University of Washington who led its Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Nutrition from 1996 to 2016, studying atherosclerosis and diabetes.

Alan Cooper (evolutionary biologist)

Alan Cooper is a New Zealand-born evolutionary biologist who pioneered ancient DNA research and produced the first complete mitochondrial genomes of an extinct species, the moa.

Alan Cowey

Alan Cowey (1935–2012) was a British neuroscientist, Professor of Physiological Psychology at Oxford from 1981 to 2002, known for research on blindsight and for establishing the visual cortical area V2.

Alan D López

Alan D. Lopez is an Australian epidemiologist and University of Melbourne professor who co-founded the Global Burden of Disease Study and won the 2018 Gairdner Global Health Award.

Alan D. Cherrington

Alan D. Cherrington is a Vanderbilt University physiologist known for research on glucagon and hepatic glucose production and for proposing the glucagonocentric view of diabetes.

Alan D. D'Andrea

Alan D. D'Andrea, also known as Alan David D'Andrea, is an American physician-scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute known for work on the Fanconi anemia DNA repair pathway and BRCA genes.

Alan D. Frankel

Alan D. Frankel is an American structural biologist and virologist, Recall Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF, known for studies of HIV Tat and Rev proteins.

Alan D. Grossman

Alan D. Grossman is the Praecis Professor of Biology at MIT, a molecular microbiologist known for work on bacterial DNA replication and mobile genetic elements in Bacillus subtilis.

Alan D. Irvine

Alan D. Irvine, also published as Alan Irvine, is an Irish consultant dermatologist at Children's Health Ireland and St James's Hospital, Dublin, and professor of dermatology at Trinity College Dublin.

Alan D. Schreiber

Alan D. Schreiber was an American physician-scientist in hematology and immunology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for research on Fcγ receptors and for founding three pharmaceutical companies.

Alan E H Emery

Alan E H Emery, also known as Alan Emery, is a British physician and human geneticist known for research on the muscular dystrophies and for Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy.

Alan E. Mast

Alan E. Mast is an American pathologist and transfusion medicine researcher who received the 1998 PECASE award and leads research at Versiti Blood Research Institute in Milwaukee.

Alan Engelman

Alan Engelman is an American virologist and Professor of Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, known for defining the mechanism of HIV-1 DNA integration and structural studies of the retroviral intasome.

Alan Evans

Alan Evans, also known as Alan C. Evans, is a neuroimaging scientist at McGill University's Montreal Neurological Institute, known for brain mapping and leading the BigBrain ultrahigh-resolution brain model.

Alan F. Hofmann

Alan F. Hofmann (1931–2021) was an American gastrointestinal physiologist and professor of medicine at UC San Diego, best known for showing that chenodeoxycholic acid dissolves cholesterol gallstones.

Alan F. Horwitz

Alan F. Horwitz, known as Rick, is a cell biologist known for discovering the integrin family of adhesion receptors and for pioneering work on how cells migrate.

Alan F. List

Alan F. List is an American hematologic oncologist whose clinical research established lenalidomide as the standard of care for myelodysplastic syndromes with chromosome 5q deletion.

Alan Finkelstein

Alan Finkelstein is a biophysicist and Professor Emeritus at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine whose measurements of water movement through lipid membranes supported the existence of water channels.

Alan Frederick Cowman

Alan Frederick Cowman, born 1954, is an Australian parasitologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne who studies the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

Alan G. Barbour

Alan G. Barbour is a physician and microbiologist who is a Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine, known for first cultivating the Lyme disease spirochete in 1981 and for work on relapsing fever.

Alan G. Porter

Alan G. Porter is a molecular biologist known for 1970s Nature papers on picornavirus and influenza RNA, and later apoptosis research at the National University of Singapore.