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Senyon Choe
Senyon Choe is a structural biologist who uses X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy to determine the structures of ion channels, membrane proteins, and the TGF-beta receptor system.
Seok-Yong Lee
Seok-Yong Lee is a structural biologist at Duke University School of Medicine who studies membrane proteins and ion channels, known for his 2022 Nature structures of the folate carrier SLC19A1.
Sergey M. Bezrukov
Sergey M. Bezrukov, also published as S. M. Bezrukov, is a Russian-trained biophysicist who has led the Section on Molecular Transport at NIH since 2002.
Stephen B. Long
Stephen B. Long is a structural biologist and professor at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York, known for atomic structures of ion channels such as Orai.
Stephen Francis Traynelis
Stephen Francis Traynelis is an American pharmacologist at Emory University who studies glutamate receptor ion channels and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2025.
U. Benjamin Kaupp
U. Benjamin Kaupp, born 1949, is a biophysical chemist at the University of Bonn and Max Planck Institute known for work on ion channels in sensory cells and sperm.
Werner R. Loewenstein
Werner R. Loewenstein (1926–2014) was a German-born American biophysicist who founded the modern study of gap junctions and chaired physiology and biophysics at the University of Miami.
William Catterall
William Catterall (1946–2024) was an American pharmacologist and neurobiologist at the University of Washington who discovered the voltage-gated sodium and calcium channel proteins and chaired its pharmacology department from 1984 to 2016.
William N. Zagotta
William N. Zagotta is a biophysicist and professor at the University of Washington who studies ion channel gating, especially channels regulated by cAMP and cGMP.
Youxing Jiang
Youxing Jiang is a structural biologist, professor of physiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and an HHMI Investigator since 2008 known for determining ion channel structures.
Zhe Lü
Zhe Lü, a biophysicist trained in Beijing and Wisconsin who leads a laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, showed that membrane phospholipids stabilize the voltage sensors of potassium channels.
Zuzanna S. Siwy
Zuzanna S. Siwy is a Polish-born biophysicist, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine since 2012, known for synthetic nanopores, ionic diodes, and ionic transistors.