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Nabiha Saklayen

Nabiha Saklayen is a physicist and biotechnology entrepreneur who developed laser-based cellular editing during her PhD at Harvard and co-founded Cellino, which manufactures patient-specific stem cell therapies.

Nabil Seidah

Nabil G. Seidah, born 1949 in Cairo, is a Canadian biochemist who directs biochemical neuroendocrinology research at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute and discovered PCSK9.

Nace Leon Golding

Nace Leon Golding is a neuroscientist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin who studies how brainstem neurons localize sound with microsecond precision.

Nachum Ulanovsky

Nachum Ulanovsky is a neuroscientist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, known for decoding how the bat hippocampus represents space.

Nadav Ahituv

Nadav Ahituv is a human geneticist at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies regulatory elements, directs its Institute for Human Genetics, and pioneered cis-regulation therapy.

Nadav Amdursky

Nadav Amdursky is an Israeli biophysical chemist known for protein-based proton-conducting elastomers, who led a lab at the Technion before becoming Professor of Biophysical Chemistry at Sheffield in 2024.

Nadia Rosenthal

Nadia Rosenthal is a US-born molecular biologist who studies how heart and skeletal muscle develop and repair, and is Scientific Director at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Nadrian C. Seeman

Nadrian C. Seeman, known as Ned, was an American chemist who founded structural DNA nanotechnology, using DNA as a programmable building material, and won the 2010 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience.

Nahum Sonenberg

Nahum Sonenberg is a Canadian biochemist at McGill University who discovered eIF4E and IRES-mediated translation initiation, showing that faulty translational control underlies cancer and neurological disease.

Nam‐Hai Chua

Nam-Hai Chua (蔡南海) is a plant molecular biologist trained at Singapore and Harvard, Mellon Professor Emeritus at Rockefeller University, known for phytochrome signaling and the 35S promoter.

Nan Yan

Nan Yan is a Chinese-born American immunologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for work on innate antiviral immunity, especially the STING pathway and the DNase TREX1.

Nancy A. Jenkins

Nancy A. Jenkins is an American cancer geneticist at MD Anderson Cancer Center known for using mouse models and the Sleeping Beauty transposon to find cancer genes.

Nancy A. Speck

Nancy A. Speck, also published as Nancy Speck, is an American hematologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for research on RUNX1, blood stem cells, and leukemia.

Nancy Bonini

Nancy M. Bonini is an American neurogeneticist at the University of Pennsylvania who created the first fruit fly model of a human neurodegenerative disease and studies Huntington's, Parkinson's, and ALS.

Nancy Carrasco

Nancy Carrasco is a Mexican-born molecular physiologist who was the first scientist to clone the sodium/iodide symporter, the protein that transports iodide into the thyroid, and now chairs Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Vanderbilt.

Nancy E. Davidson

Nancy E. Davidson is an American breast cancer physician-scientist at Fred Hutch Cancer Center who led practice-changing breast cancer trials and led both ASCO and AACR.

Nancy E. Hynes

Nancy E. Hynes is a molecular biologist known for her work on ErbB receptor signaling in breast cancer, long a Senior Group Leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel.

Nancy Hopkins (molecular biologist)

Nancy Hopkins is an American molecular biologist, Amgen Professor Emerita at MIT, known for zebrafish genetics and leading MIT's 1999 report on women faculty in science.

Nancy K. Mello

Nancy K. Mello (1935–2013) was a psychologist and substance-abuse researcher who cofounded the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center at McLean Hospital and published more than 400 works.

Nancy Kanwisher

Nancy Kanwisher is an American cognitive neuroscientist at MIT known for identifying functionally specialized regions of visual cortex, beginning with the fusiform face area in 1997, and for winning the 2024 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.

Nancy Kleckner

Nancy Kleckner is a molecular biologist and Herchel Smith Professor at Harvard known for work on E. coli chromosome dynamics and meiotic recombination, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.

Nancy Kopell

Nancy Kopell, born in 1942, is an American mathematician and neuroscientist at Boston University known for her mathematical research on brain rhythms and their roles in cognition and disease.

Nancy L. Craig

Nancy L. Craig is an American molecular biologist, long a Howard Hughes investigator and professor at Johns Hopkins, known for showing how transposable elements move within genomes.

Nancy Maizels

Nancy Maizels is a molecular biologist and Professor Emerita of Immunology and Biochemistry at the University of Washington, known for work on antibody gene diversification by AID and G4 DNA.

Nancy Martín

Nancy C. Martin is a molecular biologist known for her work on transfer RNA genes and tRNA-processing enzymes in yeast mitochondria, published from the 1970s through 2014.

Nancy R. Zhang

Nancy R. Zhang, also known as Nancy Ruonan Zhang, is a statistician at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, known for SAVER and single-cell RNA sequencing methods.

Naoki Mochizuki

Naoki Mochizuki is a Japanese cell biologist who directed the Research Institute of the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center in Osaka from 2018 to 2024.

Naoki Sugimoto

Naoki Sugimoto (杉本 直己) is a Japanese biochemist at Konan University in Kobe who directed its Frontier Institute for Biomolecular Engineering Research and studies G-quadruplex DNA under molecular crowding.

Naomi Datta

Naomi Datta, born Naomi Goddard, was a British bacteriologist and microbial geneticist who discovered plasmids carrying antibiotic resistance genes and built their classification into compatibility groups.

Naomi Wray

Naomi Wray is an Australian statistical geneticist, Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, known for methods in SNP-based heritability and polygenic risk prediction for psychiatric disorders.