Life scientists

Ryan Hibbs

Ryan Hibbs is an American structural neuroscientist using cryo-EM to determine structures of nicotinic acetylcholine and GABAA receptors, and Chair of Neurobiology at UC San Diego.

Ryan Lister

Ryan Lister is an Australian genome biologist and professor at the University of Western Australia who produced the first single-base-resolution maps of DNA methylation in plants and humans.

Ryan S Nett is an American plant biochemist and Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, known for elucidating and engineering biosynthetic pathways of medicinal plant alkaloids.

Ryohei Yasuda

Ryohei Yasuda is a Japanese biophysicist and neuroscientist who studies biochemical signaling in single dendritic spines, and is Scientific Director at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience.

Ryoichiro Kageyama

Ryoichiro Kageyama is a Japanese developmental neuroscientist who directs the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Kobe, known for work on Hes oscillators and the segmentation clock.

S Lawrence Zipursky

S. Lawrence Zipursky (Stephen Lawrence Zipursky) is an American neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor of Biological Chemistry at UCLA, known for discovering how developing neurons recognize their correct synaptic partners.

S. Barak Caine

S. Barak Caine (Simon Barak Caine) is an Israeli-born behavioral neuroscientist, Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, whose research identifies dopamine receptors and transporters mediating cocaine's effects.

S. Edward Sulkin

S. Edward Sulkin (S. E. Sulkin, 1908–1972) was an American virologist who led microbiology at UT Southwestern for 27 years and established bats as a rabies reservoir.

S. James Adelstein

S. James Adelstein (1928–2026) was an American physician-scientist in nuclear medicine and radiobiology at Harvard Medical School, where he was Executive Dean for Academic Programs from 1978 to 1997.

S. Marsh Tenney

Stephen Marsh Tenney (1922–2000) was an American respiratory and comparative physiologist at Dartmouth who founded and chaired its physiology department and served as Dean of Dartmouth Medical School.

S. Murray Sherman

S. Murray Sherman, born in 1944, is an American neuroscientist and Maurice Goldblatt Professor at the University of Chicago, known for driver and modulator glutamatergic pathways and transthalamic corticocortical routes.

S. Steven Potter

S. Steven Potter, also known as Steven Potter, was an American molecular biologist (1949–2024) at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, known for work on transposable elements and fetal blood formation.

S. Thomas Carmichael

S. Thomas Carmichael is an American neurologist and neuroscientist who chairs neurology at UCLA and studies how the brain repairs itself after stroke, including stem cell therapies.

S. Walter Englander

S. Walter Englander, full name Solomon Walter Englander, is an American biophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania known for developing hydrogen exchange studies of protein folding.

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S.I. Chiriev

S.I. Chiriev (Sergei Ivanovich Chiriev) was a Russian physiologist and doctor of medicine who headed the physiology chair at St Vladimir University in Kyiv from 1884.

S.J. Gamblin

Steven J. Gamblin, known as Steve Gamblin, is a structural biologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London, known for influenza haemagglutinin and SARS-CoV-2 spike structures.

Sabeeha Merchant

Sabeeha Merchant is an American biochemist at UC Berkeley who studies trace-metal use in photosynthetic cells and led the sequencing of the Chlamydomonas genome, published in Science in 2007.

Sabine Kastner

Sabine Kastner (Sabine Kästner) is a German cognitive neuroscientist at Princeton University known for showing that attention acts at many stages of the visual system.

Sabine Werner

Sabine Werner, born 1960, is a biochemist and cell biologist who has been Full Professor of Cell Biology at ETH Zurich since 1999, known for wound-healing research.

Sabrina Diano

Sabrina Diano is an Italian-born neuroscientist studying how the hypothalamus regulates energy and glucose metabolism; she directs Columbia's Institute of Human Nutrition and won the 2018 Helmholtz Diabetes Award.

Sabrina Leigh Spencer

Sabrina Leigh Spencer, published as Sabrina L. Spencer, is a cell biologist and Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2014.

Sacha B. Nelson

Sacha B. Nelson, also published as Sacha Nelson, is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist at Brandeis University who discovered synaptic scaling, a form of homeostatic plasticity, in 1998.

Saeed Tavazoie

Saeed Tavazoie is a systems biologist and Columbia University professor who applies machine learning to gene-expression data, known for showing that microbes can predict changes in their environments.

Sai Reddy

Sai T. Reddy is a Swiss-based systems and synthetic immunologist, a Full Professor at ETH Zurich in Basel who heads its Laboratory for Systems and Synthetic Immunology.

Salih J. Wakil

Salih J. Wakil (1927–2019) was an Iraqi-born American biochemist at Baylor College of Medicine who discovered acetyl-CoA carboxylase and fatty acid synthase, key enzymes of fatty acid synthesis.

Salima Hacein‐Bey‐Abina

Salima Hacein-Bey-Abina is a French professor of immunology at Université Paris Cité and Hôpital Bicêtre who led the first gene therapy trial treating children with SCID-X1 in Paris.

Sally Kornbluth

Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist known for research on apoptosis and cell-cycle control who became the 18th president of MIT in 2023 after a career at Duke University.

Sally Temple

Sally Temple is a British-born developmental neuroscientist who showed in 1989 that the embryonic brain contains stem cells, and co-founded the Neural Stem Cell Institute in New York.

Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch

Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch (1907–2007) was a German-born American developmental geneticist who established mammalian developmental genetics, showing that Mendelian genes direct mouse development, and won the 1993 National Medal of Science.