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Nicholas K. Hayward

Nicholas K. Hayward is a molecular geneticist who has studied melanoma genetics at QIMR Berghofer in Brisbane for over 35 years, known for identifying the familial melanoma gene CDKN2A.

Nicholas K. Tonks

Nicholas K. Tonks is a cell biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who discovered PTP1B, the first protein tyrosine phosphatase isolated, a validated drug target for diabetes and cancer.

Nicholas Katsanis

Nicholas Katsanis is a human geneticist known for establishing Bardet–Biedl syndrome and related disorders as ciliopathies, and for the concept of oligogenic inheritance; he co-founded the biotech companies Galatea Bio and Antithesis Therapeutics.

Nicholas Navin

Nicholas Navin (Nicholas E. Navin) is a cancer genomicist who invented the first method for sequencing a single mammalian cell's genome and chairs Systems Biology at MD Anderson.

Nicholas O. Davidson

Nicholas O. Davidson is a physician-scientist in molecular biology and gastroenterology known for cloning Apobec-1, the enzyme that edits apolipoprotein B mRNA, at Washington University in St. Louis.

Nicholas P. Harberd

Nicholas P. Harberd, born 1956, is a plant scientist and Emeritus Professor at Oxford who showed how gibberellin regulates plant growth through DELLA proteins, explaining green revolution wheat dwarfing.

Nicholas Peter Franks

Nicholas Peter Franks, known as Nick Franks, is a British molecular biophysicist and Professor of Biophysics and Anaesthetics at Imperial College London who showed that general anaesthetics act by binding specific proteins.

Nicholas Proudfoot

Nicholas Proudfoot, often cited as N.J. Proudfoot, is a British molecular biologist at the University of Oxford who discovered the AAUAAA polyadenylation signal and defined mammalian transcription termination.

Nicholas R. Cozzarelli

Nicholas R. Cozzarelli (1938–2006) was an American biochemist at UC Berkeley and a leading authority on DNA topology who served as editor-in-chief of PNAS from 1995 until his death.

Nicholas R. J. Gascoigne

Nicholas R. J. Gascoigne is a British-born immunologist who showed how T-cell receptor binding strength shapes selection in the thymus and codiscovered the protein Themis.

Nicholas R. Thomson

Nicholas R. Thomson is a microbiologist and bioinformatician who heads the Parasites and Microbes Programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and is known for genomic studies of cholera.

Nicholas S. Foulkes

Nicholas S. Foulkes is a chronobiologist who studies circadian clocks in fish, leading the Circadian Clock Biology group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and a companion group in Heidelberg.

Nicholas T. Ingolia

Nicholas T. Ingolia is a molecular biologist and professor at UC Berkeley known for developing ribosome profiling, a deep-sequencing technique measuring protein synthesis across the genome.

Nicholas Turk-Browne

Nicholas B. Turk-Browne is a cognitive neuroscientist, Professor of Psychology at Yale and Director of the Wu Tsai Institute, known for statistical learning research and fMRI imaging of awake infants.

Nicholas W. Bellono

Nicholas W. Bellono is a molecular and cellular biologist and Professor at Harvard University, known for work on octopus chemotactile sensation and electroreception in sharks and skates.

Nicholas Wu

Nicholas Wu, also known as Nicholas C. Wu, is an American immunologist and virologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who predicts antibody binding sites on influenza and SARS-CoV-2 from sequence.

Nick Barker (biologist)

Nick Barker is a stem cell biologist at A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore, known for identifying Lgr5 as an adult stem cell marker.

Nick Barton

Nick Barton, born 1955 in London, is a British evolutionary geneticist, professor at IST Austria since 2008, known for work on hybrid zones, speciation, and multilocus selection models.

Nick F. Ramsey

Nick F. Ramsey, known as Nick Ramsey, is a Dutch cognitive neuroscientist at UMC Utrecht who led the first fully implanted brain-computer interface for home use.

Nick Fox

Nick C. Fox is a British clinical neurologist and UCL professor who directs the Dementia Research Centre and developed MRI methods measuring brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease.

Nick Goldman

Nick Goldman is a computational biologist and Group Leader at EMBL-EBI in the United Kingdom, known for helping create DNA information storage and pandemic-scale phylogenetics.

Nick V. Grishin

Nick V. Grishin, also cited as Nick Grishin, is a Russian-born American computational biologist and Professor of Biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for PROMALS3D and ECOD.

Nico Tjandra

Nico Tjandra is an American-based structural biophysicist who leads the Laboratory of Structural Biophysics at NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

Nico U.F. Dosenbach

Nico U.F. Dosenbach, known as Nico Dosenbach, is a German-born neurologist and systems neuroscientist at Washington University School of Medicine who pioneered precision functional mapping of individual human brains.

Nicola J. Camp

Nicola J. Camp is a British-trained statistical geneticist at the University of Utah and Huntsman Cancer Institute known for mapping genes raising breast and blood cancer risk.

Nicola Segata

Nicola Segata is a computational biologist who founded his own laboratory in Trento in 2013 and is known for developing MetaPhlAn and LEfSe, tools for analyzing metagenomic sequencing data.

Nicolas Chevrier

Nicolas Chevrier is a French-trained immunologist and systems biologist, Associate Professor of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, known for organism-level studies of vaccination and sepsis.

Nicolás G. Bazán

Nicolás G. Bazán is an Argentine neurochemist, founding director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans since 1988, known for discovering docosanoids, including neuroprotectin D1.

Nicolas Manel

Nicolas Manel is a French immunologist who leads the Innate Immunity team at Institut Curie in Paris, studying how cells sense viral genetic material, using HIV as a model.

Nicolas Plachta

Nicolas Plachta is a developmental biologist who studies how cells in the early mammalian embryo choose their fate, using live imaging of living mouse and human embryos.