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Naomichi Matsumoto

Naomichi Matsumoto (松本 直通) is a Japanese human geneticist, professor and chair at Yokohama City University, known for identifying more than 90 disease-causing genes, including NSD1 in Sotos syndrome.

Naoyuki Taniguchi

Naoyuki Taniguchi (谷口 直之) is a Japanese biochemist and glycobiologist who cloned glycosyltransferase genes at Osaka University and RIKEN, winning the 2011 Japan Academy Prize for disease glycomics.

Napoleon Cybulski

Napoleon Nikodem Cybulski (1854–1919) was a Polish physiologist who held the chair of physiology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and co-discovered the adrenal hormone adrenaline.

Nat Sternberg

Nat Sternberg was a molecular biologist who discovered the Cre–lox recombination system of bacteriophage P1, now a widely used tool for genetic engineering in mice and plants.

Natalia Dudareva

Natalia Dudareva is a Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at Purdue University, an international authority on plant secondary metabolism, especially the biosynthesis of floral scent compounds.

Natalie Ahn

Natalie Ahn is an American biochemist, Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for showing how MAP kinase signaling drives cancer and for proteomics methods.

Natasha V. Raikhel

Natasha V. Raikhel, also known as Natasha Raikhel, is a Soviet-born American plant cell biologist who worked out vacuole protein targeting and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.

Nathalie Q. Balaban

Nathalie Q. Balaban (נטלי בלבן) is a professor of physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem known for showing that antibiotic-surviving bacterial persisters arise from a preexisting phenotypic switch.

Nathalie Rochefort

Nathalie L. Rochefort is a neuroscientist and Personal Chair of Visual Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh since 2022, known for two-photon calcium imaging of the mouse visual cortex.

Nathan A. Ellis

Nathan A. Ellis is an American molecular geneticist at the University of Arizona known for his work leading to the cloning of BLM, the Bloom's syndrome gene.

Nathan Edward Tolbert

Nathan Edward Tolbert, known as Ed Tolbert, was an American plant biochemist who discovered the glycolate pathway and leaf peroxisomes, establishing their role in photorespiration.

Nathan Nelson (Israeli biochemist)

Nathan Nelson is an Israeli biochemist and professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University, known for the crystal structure of plant photosystem I and the 2012–13 Israel Prize.

Nathan O. Kaplan

Nathan O. Kaplan (1917–1986) was an American biochemist known for his research on lactate dehydrogenase isoenzymes and for founding the book series Methods in Enzymology, which he edited for 132 volumes.

Nathan Zuntz

Nathan Zuntz (1847–1920) was a German physiologist at the Royal Agricultural College in Berlin who pioneered high-altitude research, co-founded aviation medicine, and built the first treadmill.

Nathaniel D. Daw

Nathaniel D. Daw is a computational and theoretical neuroscientist who holds the Huo Professorship at Princeton University, known for research on reinforcement learning and decision making.

Nathaniel Heintz

Nathaniel Heintz is an American molecular neuroscientist at Rockefeller University known for the GENSAT mouse atlas, the TRAP method, and co-discovering the DNA mark 5hmC.

Nathaniel J. Killian

Nathaniel J. Killian is a neuroscientist who, as a graduate student with Elizabeth A. Buffalo, first recorded grid cells in a non-human primate, now a professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Nathaniel Lord Britton

Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859–1934) was an American botanist and Columbia University professor who co-founded the New York Botanical Garden and led it from 1896 to 1929.

Nathaniel R. Landau

Nathaniel R. Landau, known as Ned Landau, is an American virologist and professor of microbiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine whose lab identified CCR5 as HIV's coreceptor.

Navdeep Chandel

Navdeep S. Chandel is a scientist at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine known for showing that mitochondria act as signaling organelles regulating cell behavior.

Naveen Verma

Naveen Verma is a chromatin biologist who co-determined the cryo-EM structure of the yeast RSC remodeler bound to the nucleosome, published in Science in 2019.

Neal E. Miller

Neal E. Miller (1909–2002) was an American experimental psychologist at Yale and Rockefeller University, ranked among the 20th century's ten most eminent psychologists, and a founder of biofeedback and behavioral medicine.

Neal L. First

Neal L. First (1930–2014) was an American animal scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose laboratory pioneered in vitro maturation, fertilization, and cloning of cattle embryos.

Neal M. Alto

Neal M. Alto is a microbiologist and professor of microbiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for research on bacterial effector proteins and toxins.

Neal Rosen

Neal Rosen is an American physician-scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center known for showing that feedback reactivation of parallel signaling pathways causes resistance to cancer drugs.

Neal Scott Silverman

Neal Scott Silverman is an American immunologist known for defining what activates the Drosophila Imd pathway and for leading the University of Arizona's immunobiology department from 2026.

Ned Lamb

Ned J. C. Lamb is a molecular biologist and CNRS research director in Montpellier, known for 1990–1991 Cell papers on cyclin A and p34cdc2 kinase.

Ned S. Wingreen

Ned S. Wingreen is an American theoretical physicist turned molecular biologist, a Howard A. Prior Professor at Princeton University known for work on protein folding, quorum sensing, and systems immunology.

Neelima Sinha

Neelima R. Sinha is a plant developmental biologist and professor of plant biology at UC Davis, known for landmark studies of how genes shape leaf development and evolution.

Neil A. Holtzman

Neil A. Holtzman, born 1934, is an American physician-geneticist and Johns Hopkins professor known for phenylketonuria screening research and for chairing the federal Task Force on Genetic Testing.