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Noam Sobel
Noam Sobel is an Israeli neuroscientist who studies the brain mechanisms of human smell, heading olfactory research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.
Noboru Mizushima
Noboru Mizushima (水島 昇) is a Japanese cell biologist, professor at the University of Tokyo since 2012, known for defining how autophagy, the cellular recycling process, works in mammals.
Noboru Sueoka
Noboru Sueoka (1929–2021) was a Japanese-born American molecular biologist and geneticist, based at Princeton and Colorado Boulder, known for the 1959 DNA density discovery and the directional mutation pressure hypothesis.
Nobuhiko Hamazaki (浜崎 信彦)
Nobuhiko Hamazaki (浜崎 信彦) is a Japanese developmental and stem-cell biologist who has been an assistant professor at the University of Washington since 2023, known for reconstituting oocyte development and early embryogenesis in vitro.
Nobuhiko Kamada
Nobuhiko Kamada (鎌田 信彦) is a Japanese-born immunologist and microbiome researcher, professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan, known for work on gut bacteria and inflammatory bowel disease.
Nobuhiko Kayagaki
Nobuhiko Kayagaki is an immunologist at Genentech in South San Francisco, California, known for discovering the non-canonical inflammasome pathway and showing that NINJ1 mediates plasma membrane rupture.
Nobuo Suga
Nobuo Suga, born 1933, is a Japanese-born neurophysiologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for discovering combination-sensitive neurons in the mustached bat's auditory cortex.
Nobutaka Hirokawa
Nobutaka Hirokawa (廣川 信隆) is a Japanese cell biologist, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, known for identifying the kinesin superfamily of motor proteins that move cargo along microtubules.
Nobuyo Maeda
Nobuyo Maeda (前田伸代) is a Japanese geneticist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who created the apolipoprotein E knockout mouse, a leading model of atherosclerosis.
Noël Bouck
Noël Bouck, also published as Noel P. Bouck, is a molecular biologist who showed that tumor suppressor genes restrain angiogenesis through secreted proteins such as thrombospondin-1.
Noel K. Maclaren
Noel K. Maclaren is a pediatric endocrinologist and diabetes researcher known for establishing type 1 diabetes as an autoimmune disease and for predicting who will develop it.
Noel Thomas Keen
Noel Thomas Keen (1940–2002) was an American molecular plant pathologist at UC Riverside known for cloning avrA, the first avirulence gene of a plant pathogenic bacterium.
Nora D. Volkow
Nora D. Volkow, also known as Nora Volkow, is a Mexican-born American psychiatrist who has directed the National Institute on Drug Abuse since 2003, the first woman and first Hispanic person to hold the post.
Nora Sarvetnick
Nora Sarvetnick is an American immunologist who showed that pancreatic inflammatory signals trigger autoimmune diabetes, and is a professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Norbert Hilschmann
Norbert Hilschmann (1931–2012) was a German biochemist and immunologist who, with Lyman Craig, produced the first complete amino acid sequences of antibody light chains in 1965.
Norbert O. Reich
Norbert O. Reich, also known as Norbert Reich, is an American biochemist and Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara known for work on DNA methyltransferases and light-controlled nanoparticle drug delivery.
Norbert Perrimon
Norbert Perrimon, born in France in 1958, is a French-born American geneticist and HHMI investigator at Harvard Medical School known for Drosophila signaling research and genome-wide screening tools.
Norio Shibata
Norio Shibata (柴田 哲男) is a Japanese pharmaceutical and fluorine chemist, an emeritus professor at the Nagoya Institute of Technology known for molecular conversion methods that recover fluorine from PFAS waste.
Noriyuki Sagata
Noriyuki Sagata (佐方 功幸) is a Japanese cell biologist, professor and later emeritus professor at Kyushu University, known for identifying the c-mos product as the cytostatic factor in vertebrate eggs.
Norma W. Andrews
Norma W. Andrews is a Brazilian cell biologist and parasitologist who discovered calcium-regulated lysosomal exocytosis, showing lysosomes repair plasma membrane wounds and help Trypanosoma cruzi invade cells.
Norman Borlaug
Norman Borlaug (1914–2009), American agronomist and father of the Green Revolution, bred semi-dwarf rust-resistant wheat in Mexico, raised South Asian harvests, won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, and founded the World Food Prize.
Norman Davidson (molecular biologist)
Norman Davidson was an American molecular biologist and physical chemist who spent his career at Caltech, established nucleic acid renaturation, and won the 1996 National Medal of Science.
Norman Giles
Norman Giles (1915–2006) was an American geneticist, a pioneer of radiation cytology and Neurospora genetics whose quinic acid gene cluster work laid groundwork for recombinant DNA.
Norman H. Edelman
Norman H. Edelman is an American pulmonologist and breathing-control researcher, professor at Stony Brook University and former dean at Robert Wood Johnson and Stony Brook medical schools.
Norman Kretchmer
Norman Kretchmer (1923–1995) was an American physician-scientist in infant nutrition and developmental biochemistry, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and UCSF, and editor in chief of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Norman L. Letvin
Norman L. Letvin (1949–2012) was an American virologist and immunologist, a Harvard Medical School professor who discovered SIV and established the rhesus macaque model that shaped HIV vaccine testing.
Norman P. Salzman
Norman P. Salzman was an American biochemist and molecular virologist who led the Laboratory of Biology of Viruses at NIH and was a founding editor of the Journal of Virology.
Norman Pirie
Norman Wingate Pirie (1907–1997) was a British biochemist who, with Frederick Bawden, showed that tobacco mosaic virus contains RNA, and later promoted leaf protein as food.
Norman R. Klinman
Norman R. Klinman (1937–2010) was an American immunologist at The Scripps Research Institute known for the splenic focus assay and studies of B cell tolerance.
Norman R. Pace
Norman R. Pace is an American molecular biologist, emeritus professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for showing RNA acts as a catalyst and for sequencing-based surveys of microbial diversity.