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Nikolay Dubinin

Nikolay Dubinin (Дубинин Николай Петрович) was a Soviet and Russian geneticist, born in 1906, who worked on evolutionary, radiation, and human genetics and founded two institutes.

Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky

Nikolay Vladimirovich Timofeev-Ressovsky (1900–1981) was a Soviet geneticist who worked in Berlin-Buch for twenty years, established the quantitative laws of radiation mutagenesis, and founded Soviet radiobiology.

Nikolay V. Dokholyan

Nikolay V. Dokholyan is an American computational biologist and protein engineer who held a professorship at Penn State College of Medicine, known for discrete molecular dynamics and protein logic gates.

Nikolay Zenkin

Nikolay Zenkin is a Russian-born RNA biologist and Professor of Molecular Biology at Newcastle University since 2013, known for transcript-assisted proofreading and the 2024 Nature finding that translation destroys stalled transcription complexes.

Nikos C. Kyrpides

Nikos C. Kyrpides (Νίκος Κυριπίδης) is a Greek computational biologist leading the Microbiome Data Science group at the DOE Joint Genome Institute in Berkeley, California.

Nikos K. Logothetis

Nikos K. Logothetis (Νίκος Κ. Λογοθέτης) is a Greek neuroscientist who directed the Department of Physiology of Cognitive Processes at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.

Nilabh Shastri

Nilabh Shastri (1952–2021) was an Indian-born American immunologist who spent thirty years at UC Berkeley and later Johns Hopkins, known for discovering cryptic antigens and the enzyme ERAAP.

Nilanjan Chatterjee

Nilanjan Chatterjee is a biostatistician and genetic epidemiologist who spent sixteen years at the National Cancer Institute before joining Johns Hopkins in 2015, known for polygenic risk prediction across diverse populations.

Nils Brose

Nils Brose (born 1962) is a German neuroscientist who directs Molecular Neurobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, studying synaptic vesicle priming and neurexin-neuroligin synapse proteins.

Nils Lonberg

Nils Lonberg is an American immunologist and antibody-discovery scientist whose transgenic-mouse platforms produced fully human antibodies, including ipilimumab (Yervoy), the first checkpoint blockade cancer therapy, FDA-approved in 2011.

Nils Stein

Nils Stein is a German plant geneticist who heads the Federal ex situ Genebank of Germany at IPK Gatersleben and has chaired the International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium since 2008.

Nils Walter

Nils G. Walter is a biophysical chemist at the University of Michigan, where he has been the Francis S. Collins Collegiate Professor since 2017, studying single-molecule RNA and DNA nanotechnology.

Nils Wiedemann

Nils Wiedemann is a German biochemist and professor at the University of Freiburg who has discovered and characterized many of the proteins that carry enzymes into mitochondria.

Nils-Åke Hillarp

Nils-Åke Hillarp (1916–1965) was a Swedish histologist, professor at the Karolinska Institute, who showed that amines are stored in cell granules with ATP and co-developed the Falck–Hillarp fluorescence method for visualizing neurotransmitters in nerve cells.

Nina Strokata

Nina Strokata (Ніна Строката; full name Nina Antonivna Strokata-Karavanska) was a Ukrainian microbiologist and human rights activist who was a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group in 1976.

Nina V. Fedoroff

Nina V. Fedoroff (born 1942) is an American plant molecular biologist who was the first to clone maize transposons, winning the 2006 National Medal of Science.

Ning Fang

Ning Fang (方宁) is a Chinese chemist, a professor at Xiamen University since 2021, known for developing SPORT, which tracks single nanoparticles rotating in living cells.

Ning Zheng

Ning Zheng is a structural biologist and HHMI Investigator at the University of Washington who uses cryo-EM and crystallography to study ubiquitin ligases and ion channels.

Ninghai Gan

Ninghai Gan is a structural biologist and Research Associate at HHMI and UT Southwestern since 2019, known for Nature papers on Legionella ubiquitination and ion channel structures.

Nipam H. Patel

Nipam H. Patel is an American developmental and evolutionary biologist who directs the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Nir Friedman

Nir Friedman is a computer scientist and biologist, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for applying probabilistic graphical models to gene regulation and chromatin.

Nir Yosef

Nir Yosef is an Israeli computational biologist who studies T cells with single-cell genomics and machine learning, and is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Niraj H. Tolia

Niraj H. Tolia is a structural biologist and malaria researcher who leads a vaccine design section at NIAID, after teaching at Washington University in St. Louis.

Nirao M. Shah

Nirao M. Shah is a neuroscientist who studies the neural circuits controlling social behavior, and a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and of Neurobiology at Stanford University.

Nirmalya Chatterjee

Nirmalya Chatterjee is an Indian-born Drosophila geneticist who studies oxidative-stress signaling and energy metabolism, known for Nrf2 work and reviews of fly models of obesity and diabetes.

Nissim Benvenisty

Nissim Benvenisty is an Israeli stem cell biologist who directs the Azrieli Center for Stem Cells and Genetic Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and founded the biotech company NewStem.

Nitin S. Baliga

Nitin S. Baliga is an Indian-born American systems biologist, a founding member and director of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, known for predicting cellular responses.

Nitzan Shabek

Nitzan Shabek is a structural plant biologist and Associate Professor of Plant Biology at UC Davis, known for structural work on strigolactone hormone signaling and ubiquitin ligases.

Noah A. Rosenberg

Noah A. Rosenberg is a population geneticist and professor at Stanford University, known for the 2002 Science study of human genetic structure and the CLUMPP program.

Noah W. Palm

Noah W. Palm is a professor of immunobiology at Yale University School of Medicine whose laboratory studies gut microbiota and immune interactions, known for IgA-SEQ and metabolite screening platforms.