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Avexitide

Avexitide (exendin 9-39) is an investigational first-in-class GLP-1 receptor antagonist by Amylyx for post-bariatric hypoglycemia; Phase 3 LUCIDITY met its endpoint with a 55% reduction in Level 2/3 hypoglycemic events, NDA planned by end of 2026.

Avezzano Roman villa

Avezzano Roman villa (villa romana di Avezzano, Macerine): a ~3,000 sqm Roman rustic villa found under the I Marsi shopping center, with tetrastyle atrium, Victory-on-biga mosaic, and oil and wine production sector.

AVG AntiVirus

AVG AntiVirus, whose free edition is known as AVG Free, is a family of antivirus and internet security software for Windows, macOS, and Android, owned by Avast since 2016.

Avgas

Avgas, or aviation gasoline, is a specialized leaded gasoline used to power piston-engine aircraft, the last US transportation fuel still containing tetraethyl lead, with elimination targeted by 2030.

AVGP

The AVGP (Armoured Vehicle General Purpose) was a family of three six-wheeled amphibious armored vehicles built for the Canadian Armed Forces in the 1970s: the Cougar, Grizzly, and Husky.

Avi Arad (אבי ארד)

Avi Arad (אבי ארד), born 1948, is an Israeli-American producer and toy executive, CEO of Toy Biz and head of Marvel Studios from 1993, who helped take over Marvel after its 1996 bankruptcy and produced X-Men, Spider-Man, and Blade films before founding Arad Productions in 2006.

Avi Barliya

Avi Barliya is an Israeli AI researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded Q.ai, an audio-AI startup in Ramat Gan, Israel, acquired by Apple in 2026 for a reported $1.5 to 2 billion.

Avi Eyal

Avi Eyal (Aviad Eyal) is an Israeli venture capitalist who cofounded Entrée Capital in Tel Aviv in 2009, backed monday.com early, and became the first Israeli to top the Forbes Midas List Europe in 2023.

Avi Kaplan

Avi Kaplan (Avriel Benjamin Kaplan, born 1989, Visalia, California) is an American bass vocalist and folk singer-songwriter, ex-Pentatonix bass (2011–2017, three Grammys), solo debut album Floating on a Dream (2022).

Avi Katz

Avi Katz is an Israeli retail entrepreneur who founded Cofix, the fixed-price coffee chain launched in Tel Aviv in 2013, selling every item for five shekels.

Avi Lewis

Avi Lewis is a Canadian politician, journalist, and documentary filmmaker who was elected leader of the New Democratic Party in March 2026 with 56 percent of the vote.

Avi Loeb

Avi Loeb, or Abraham Loeb, is an Israeli-American theoretical astrophysicist, a Harvard professor known for work on the first stars, black holes, and reionization of the universe.

Avi Ma’ayan

Avi Ma'ayan is a computational systems biologist and bioinformatician at Mount Sinai in New York City, known for building the widely used gene set enrichment web server Enrichr.

Avi Nash

Avi Nash (born 1991, Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American actor known as Siddiq on The Walking Dead (2017–2020) and Lukas Kyle on Apple TV's Silo (2023–), with film credits including Learning to Drive, Barry, and The Weight.

Avi Rubin

Avi Rubin (Aviel D. Rubin) is a computer security expert and professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, known for exposing vulnerabilities in Diebold electronic voting machines in 2003.

Avi Schnall

Alexander "Avi" Schnall is an American Democratic politician representing New Jersey's 30th district in the General Assembly since 2024, where he chairs the Oversight, Reform & Federal Relations Committee; he previously advocated for Agudath Israel.

Avi Wigderson

Avi Wigderson (אבי ויגדרזון) is an Israeli theoretical computer scientist at the Institute for Advanced Study who won the 2021 Abel Prize and 2023 Turing Award.

Avia S-199

The Avia S-199 was a Czechoslovak fighter built from Bf 109G airframes and bomber engines, best known as the first fighter of the Israeli Air Force.

Aviad Harell

Aviad Harell is an Israeli venture capitalist and Managing Partner at Team8, where he invests in cyber and data infrastructure startups after co-founding Sisense, where he spent fifteen years as COO.

Aviad Maizels

Aviad Maizels is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded the 3D sensing company PrimeSense in Tel Aviv in 2005, licensed its depth technology to Microsoft's Kinect, and sold it to Apple in 2013.

AviAlliance

AviAlliance is a German airport investment and management company headquartered in Düsseldorf, owned since 2013 by Canada's PSP Investments. It manages seven airports including Athens and Hamburg.

Avian chlamydiosis

Avian chlamydiosis (psittacosis, ornithosis) is a zoonotic bacterial disease of birds caused mainly by Chlamydia psittaci, also C. avium and C. gallinacea; treated with tetracyclines, no poultry vaccine exists.

Avian coronavirus

Avian coronavirus (AvCoV) is a Gammacoronavirus species whose type member, infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), first isolated in 1931, causes respiratory, nephropathogenic, and egg-production disease in chickens; related gamma- and deltacoronaviruses circulate in wild birds.

Avian diseases

Avian diseases: infectious disorders of birds, chiefly WOAH-listed poultry diseases such as avian influenza (bird flu, H5N1) and Newcastle disease, plus pullorum; covers history, the HPAI panzootic, mammalian spillover, and biosecurity control.

Avian embryotoxicity

Avian embryotoxicity is the study of how chemical contaminants, especially dioxin-like PCBs and organochlorine pesticides, kill or deform bird embryos, tested by injecting eggs and measured in wild eggs.

Avian infectious bronchitis

Avian infectious bronchitis (IB), caused by the Gammacoronavirus infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), is an acute, highly contagious respiratory disease of chickens worldwide, also causing nephritis and egg-production losses; many antigenic types exist and do not cross-protect, complicating vaccination.

Avian infectious laryngotracheitis

Avian infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT), caused by gallid alphaherpesvirus 1 (GaHV-1, ILTV), is a WOAH-listed, highly contagious respiratory disease of chickens, also affecting pheasants, partridges, and peafowl; peracute mortality may exceed 50%, and latent carriers drive outbreaks.

Avian influenza

Avian influenza (bird flu) is a contagious influenza A virus disease of birds; H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b has caused a panzootic since 2021, spreading to poultry, wild birds, mammals, and US dairy cattle, with rare human cases and low assessed public health risk.

Avian orthoreovirus

Avian orthoreovirus (ARV), also called avian reovirus, is a non-enveloped dsRNA virus of the genus Orthoreovirus causing arthritis, tenosynovitis, and malabsorption syndrome in poultry, with 10 genome segments and six σC-based genotypic clusters.

Avian sarcoma leukosis virus

Avian sarcoma leukosis virus (ASLV/ALV), alpharetrovirus of chickens causing lymphoid, myeloid leukosis and sarcomas; subgroups A–J, transmitted via eggs and contact, controlled by eradication from breeding flocks; includes Rous sarcoma virus.