Life scientists

Neil Brockdorff

Neil Brockdorff is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018, known for showing that Xist RNA controls X chromosome inactivation.

Neil Burgess, born 1966, is a British neuroscientist and Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at University College London, known for work on the hippocampus, spatial navigation, and episodic memory.

Neil Hunter

Neil Hunter is a British molecular biologist at the University of California, Davis and an HHMI Investigator, known for research on meiotic recombination and DNA repair.

Neil Osheroff

Neil Osheroff is an American biochemist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine known for research on type II topoisomerases and the anticancer and antibacterial drugs targeting them.

Neil Q. McDonald

Neil Q. McDonald, also known as Neil McDonald, is a structural biologist and Professor at Birkbeck, joint with the Francis Crick Institute, known for the 1991 nerve growth factor structure.

Neil R. Blacklow

Neil R. Blacklow is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, and founding chief of its Division of Infectious Diseases.

Neil Risch

Neil Risch is an American statistical geneticist and genetic epidemiologist who directs human genetics at UCSF, co-leads a large Kaiser Permanente biobank, and won the 2023 ASHG Lifetime Achievement Award.

Nektarios Tavernarakis

Nektarios Tavernarakis, born in Crete in 1967, is a Greek biologist who studies the neurobiology of aging at the University of Crete and FORTH, and chairs the European Molecular Biology Conference.

Nelson B. Freimer

Nelson B. Freimer is an American psychiatrist and human geneticist at UCLA who directs the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge and studies the genetics of depression.

Nelson Spruston

Nelson Spruston is a Canadian-American neuroscientist who serves as Executive Director of HHMI's Janelia Research Campus and Vice President of HHMI, known for research on dendritic integration and hippocampal cell types.

Nenad Ban

Nenad Ban, born in Zagreb in 1966, is a Croatian structural biologist and ETH Zurich professor known for determining the atomic structure of the large ribosomal subunit.

Nenad Sestan

Nenad Šestan, born 1970 in Zadar, is a Croatian-born neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine who studies the genetic and molecular basis of human brain development and evolution.

Nettie Stevens

Nettie Maria Stevens (1861–1912), American geneticist at Bryn Mawr and the Carnegie Institution, discovered in 1905 via mealworm Tenebrio molitor sperm that the small Y chromosome determines male sex, co-discovered independently with E.B. Wilson, long under-credited.

Neuroscientist

Neuroscientist: a scientist who studies the nervous system, from molecules and cells to circuits, behavior, and cognition. Interdisciplinary field formalized with the Society for Neuroscience in 1969; typically Ph.D.-trained.

Nevan Krogan

Nevan Krogan is a Canadian systems biologist and proteomics researcher who directs the Quantitative Biosciences Institute at UCSF and led the 2020 SARS-CoV-2 protein interaction map used to find COVID-19 drug candidates.

Neville R. Kallenbach

Neville R. Kallenbach was an American biophysical chemist and NYU chemistry professor known for protein hydrogen exchange and immobile nucleic acid junctions, a foundation of DNA nanotechnology.

Neville Sanjana

Neville Sanjana is an American functional genomicist at the New York Genome Center and NYU, known for genome-wide CRISPR screening and the 2017 PECASE award.

Newton Ennis Morton

Newton Ennis Morton (1929–2018) was an American population geneticist who founded genetic epidemiology and created the lod score method for detecting genetic linkage, working at Hawaii, Sloan-Kettering, and Southampton.

Niall Dillon

Niall Dillon is a chromatin and gene-regulation biologist, professor at Imperial College London, who led the Gene Regulation and Chromatin Group at the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre.

Nic Jones

Nic Jones is a British molecular biologist known for work on transcriptional control, cell-cycle regulation, and DNA tumour viruses, and for leading cancer research in Manchester.

Nicholas Arpaia

Nicholas Arpaia is an American immunologist and Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University, known for engineered probiotic bacteria that deliver tumor neoantigens as cancer vaccines.

Nicholas B. La Thangue

Nicholas B. La Thangue (born 1957) is a British molecular biologist, Professor of Cancer Biology at the University of Oxford, known for work on E2F and pRb.

Nicholas C. Jones

Nicholas C. Jones (Nicholas Clwyd Jones) is a British cancer biologist known for adenovirus E1A research and for directing the Paterson Institute and Manchester Cancer Research Centre.

Nicholas C. Spitzer

Nicholas C. Spitzer is an American developmental neurobiologist at UC San Diego, known for showing that a neuron's neurotransmitter identity can be changed by its own electrical activity.

Nicholas D. Hastie

Nicholas D. Hastie is a British molecular geneticist who directed the MRC Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh and is known for work on WT1, PAX6, and telomeres.

Nicholas E. Baker

Nicholas E. Baker, also published as Nicholas Baker, is a developmental geneticist who studies cell competition and cell fate in fruit flies, moving to UC Irvine in 2024.

Nicholas Gilpin

Nicholas W. Gilpin is an American neuroscientist at LSU Health New Orleans who studies how traumatic stress and neuroinflammation alter brain circuits driving alcohol use and pain, and received the PECASE award in 2017.

Nicholas J. Cowan

Nicholas J. Cowan is a molecular biologist at New York University known for work on tubulin genes, β-tubulin isotypes, and the tubulin folding pathway, including identification of folding cofactor B.

Nicholas J. Strausfeld

Nicholas James Strausfeld is a neuroanatomist and Regents Professor at the University of Arizona, known for work on arthropod brain anatomy and Cambrian fossil brains.