Life scientists

Nicolas Renier

Nicolas Renier (born 1983) is a French neuroscientist who leads a laboratory at the Institut du Cerveau in Paris and developed the iDISCO whole-brain tissue-clearing method.

Nicolas Tapon

Nicolas Tapon is a French developmental biologist who leads a laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, studying how the Hippo signaling pathway controls organ size.

Nicolas Thomä

Nicolas Thomä is a German structural biologist, professor of cancer research at EPFL since 2023, known for structural work on thalidomide and molecular glue degraders.

Nicole F. Steinmetz

Nicole F. Steinmetz is a professor of chemical and nano engineering at UC San Diego whose laboratory turns plant viruses into nanoparticles for drug delivery, imaging, and cancer immunotherapy.

Nicole M. Le Douarin

Nicole M. Le Douarin is a French developmental biologist, born in 1930, who devised the quail–chick chimera technique and established the neural crest's role in vertebrate development.

Nicole Soranzo

Nicole Soranzo is an Italian population and statistical geneticist, Professor of Human Genetics at Cambridge and head of the genomics research center at Human Technopole in Milan since 2021.

Nidhi Sharma is a plant developmental biologist who studies the stomatal lineage of Arabidopsis thaliana, with a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and postdoctoral work at Stanford's Carnegie Institution.

Niels Galjart

Niels Jakob Galjart is a Dutch cell biologist and full professor at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, known for naming the CLASP microtubule proteins and studying CTCF.

Niels Geijsen

Niels Geijsen is a developmental biologist and professor who heads the Department of Anatomy and Embryology at Leiden University Medical Center, known for stem-cell-derived blastoids and iTOP protein delivery.

Niels K. Jerne

Niels Kaj Jerne (1911–1994) was a Danish immunologist who shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for theories on the specificity and control of the immune system.

Niels Mailand

Niels Mailand is a Danish molecular cell biologist who studies how ubiquitin and SUMO signaling control DNA damage responses, and who leads a genome maintenance group at the Danish Cancer Institute.

Niels Ringstad

Niels Ringstad is an American neuroscientist and professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who uses C. elegans to study the development and function of neuromodulatory systems.

Nigel D. F. Grindley

Nigel D. F. Grindley, born 1945, is a British molecular biologist who joined Yale in 1980 and worked out the mechanism of γδ resolvase, the prototype serine recombinase.

Nigel J. Robinson

Nigel J. Robinson is a molecular geneticist and Emeritus Professor at Durham University, known for work on metalloproteins, metal sensing, and the FRO2 iron-uptake gene.

Nigel Scrutton

Nigel S. Scrutton is a British biochemist, Professor of Molecular Enzymology at the University of Manchester, known for work on hydrogen tunnelling in enzyme catalysis and new biological cofactors.

Nigel Unwin

Nigel Unwin, born in 1942, is a structural biologist and Emeritus Professor at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, known for membrane protein and acetylcholine receptor structures.

Nihal Altan-Bonnet

Nihal Altan-Bonnet is a cell biologist and virologist who studies how viruses exploit host-cell membranes and lipids; she leads a laboratory at the NIH and won a PECASE award at Rutgers in 2012.

Nika N. Danial

Nika N. Danial is a cell biologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, known for showing that the BAD protein links glycolysis to apoptosis in mitochondria.

Nikhil R Bhagwat

Nikhil R Bhagwat is a molecular biologist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and UC Davis, known for defining how the XPF-ERCC1 nuclease repairs DNA cross-links.

Nikhil S. Joshi

Nikhil S. Joshi, also published as Nikhil Joshi, is an American immunologist and Associate Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University who studies how T cells eliminate tumors.

Nikhil S. Malvankar

Nikhil S. Malvankar is an Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University, known for cryo-electron microscopy structures showing that microbial nanowires are built from stacked cytochrome hemes.

Niko Beerenwinkel

Niko Beerenwinkel is a computational biologist and Full Professor at ETH Zurich in Basel who develops mathematical models for HIV drug resistance, cancer evolution, and viral sequencing.

Niko Geldner

Niko Geldner is a Swiss plant cell and developmental biologist, professor at the University of Lausanne, known for work on the root endodermis and endosomal signaling.

Nikola P. Pavletich

Nikola P. Pavletich (born 1964) is a structural biologist at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York, known for crystal structures of p53, BRCA2-RAD51, and the mTOR kinase.

Nikolaas Tinbergen

Nikolaas Tinbergen was a Dutch-born British ethologist at Oxford, a founding father of ethology who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Konrad Lorenz and Karl von Frisch.

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Nikolai Cholodny

Nikolai Cholodny (Микола Холодний) was a Ukrainian plant physiologist whose 1927 hormonal theory of tropisms, the Cholodny–Went hypothesis, remains the dominant explanation of how roots bend toward gravity.

Nikolai Vavilov (Николай Иванович Вавилов)

Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (Николай Иванович Вавилов), Soviet geneticist and botanist, father of genebanks; proposed eight centers of origin of cultivated plants, collected 250,000+ seed samples, arrested 1940 under Lysenko's influence, died of starvation in Saratov prison in 1943.

Nikolaus Grigorieff

Nikolaus Grigorieff is a German-born biophysicist and HHMI investigator at UMass Chan Medical School who develops cryo-electron microscopy methods and open-source software, including cisTEM, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Nikolaus Pfanner

Nikolaus Pfanner, born 1956 in Simmerberg, Germany, is a German biochemist and professor at the University of Freiburg known for working out how proteins are imported into mitochondria, honored with the 2004 Leibniz Prize.