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Salvador E. Luria
Salvador E. Luria was an Italian-American microbiologist who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize for work on bacterial viruses, known for the 1943 fluctuation experiment and his later career at MIT.
Salvatore Oliviero
Salvatore Oliviero, born 1956 in Moncalieri, Turin, is an Italian molecular biologist, Full Professor at the University of Turin since 2013, who studies epigenetics, DNA methylation, and cancer.
Sam Behjati
Sam Behjati is a German-born pediatrician and Clinical Professor of Paediatric Oncology at the University of Cambridge who studies the developmental origins of childhood cancer.
Sam Granick
Sam Granick (1909–1977) was an American biochemist who spent his career at the Rockefeller Institute, known for work on ferritin, chloroplast structure, and the biosynthesis of heme and chlorophyll.
Sam W. Lee
Sam W. Lee is a molecular biologist known for his work on p53 cell-fate decisions and for selectively killing cancer cells by targeting their ROS stress response.
Samantha Maragh
Samantha Maragh is an American human geneticist and molecular biologist at NIST who leads its Genome Editing Program, sets genome editing measurement standards, and received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.
Samantha Morris
Samantha A. Morris is a developmental biologist and stem cell researcher known for CellNet, CellTag lineage indexing, and CellOracle, tools for reading and reprogramming cell identity.
Samara Reck-Peterson
Samara Reck-Peterson is an American cell biologist and HHMI Investigator, chair of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine since 2025, known for single-molecule studies of the motor protein dynein.
Samer Hattar
Samer Hattar is a neuroscientist who leads the light and circadian rhythms section at the National Institute of Mental Health, known for identifying photosensitive retinal ganglion cells.
Sami I. Said
Sami I. Said (1928–2013) was an Egyptian-born American pulmonary physician-scientist who codiscovered vasoactive intestinal peptide in 1970 and ended his career as a Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University.
Samie R. Jaffrey
Samie R. Jaffrey is an American pharmacologist and RNA biologist, the Greenberg-Starr Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, who founded epitranscriptomics and created fluorescent RNA aptamers.
Samson T. Jacob
Samson T. Jacob is a molecular biologist known for work on mammalian RNA polymerases, RNA processing, and transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in liver cancer and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Samuel A. Latt
Samuel A. Latt, also known as S A Latt, was an American physician and geneticist at Harvard Medical School who developed fluorescence-based methods for detecting chromosome damage.
Samuel Baron
Samuel Baron (1928–2015) was an American physician-scientist and virologist who became the recognized leader of interferon research, after twenty years at NIH and chairing Microbiology at UTMB Galveston from 1975 to 1997.
Samuel Bogoch
Samuel Bogoch is a physician and neurochemist who studied brain glycoproteins and gangliosides at Harvard, Boston University, and the Nathan Kline Institute from the late 1950s onward.
Samuel Broder
Samuel Broder is an American oncologist and immunologist who directed the National Cancer Institute from 1989 to 1995 and whose NIH laboratory helped develop the first AIDS drugs, including AZT.
Samuel C. Silverstein
Samuel C. Silverstein is an American cell biologist and immunologist, an emeritus professor at Columbia University known for research on phagocytic white blood cells and for founding Columbia's Summer Research Program for Science Teachers.
Samuel F. Bakhoum
Samuel F. Bakhoum is a cancer biologist and radiation oncologist who showed chromosomal instability drives metastasis, led a Memorial Sloan Kettering laboratory, and co-founded Volastra Therapeutics.
Samuel Goldstein
Samuel Goldstein (1938–1994) was a Canadian physician and cellular gerontologist who used cultured human fibroblasts to study aging, publishing as S. Goldstein on progeria and Werner's syndrome.
Samuel H. Barondes
Samuel H. Barondes is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for discovering the galectins and for genetic linkage studies of severe bipolar disorder.
Samuel H. Gellman
Samuel H. Gellman is an American chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for pioneering foldamers and MNG amphiphiles, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.
Samuel H. Sternberg
Samuel H. Sternberg is an American biochemist, an HHMI Investigator and associate professor at Columbia University who trained with Jennifer Doudna and is known for discovering CRISPR-associated transposases that insert DNA without double-strand breaks.
Samuel Hubbard Scudder
Samuel Hubbard Scudder (1837–1911) was an American entomologist and paleontologist, considered the founder of insect paleontology in the United States and a leading figure in American entomology.
Samuel I. Miller
Samuel Irving Miller is an American microbiologist and infectious-disease physician who studies bacterial pathogenesis and innate immunity at the University of Washington, known for work on Salmonella's PhoP/PhoQ system.
Samuel Karlin
Samuel Karlin (1924–2007) was a Polish-born American applied mathematician and Stanford professor whose Karlin–Altschul statistics underlie BLAST, the tool for comparing DNA sequences.
Samuel L. Pfaff
Samuel L. Pfaff, born 1961, is an American neurobiologist at the Salk Institute known for identifying genetic pathways that build motor neurons and their circuits.
Samuel M. Kariuki
Samuel M. Kariuki is a Kenyan microbiologist, a Senior Principal Research Scientist at KEMRI and Continental Lead for Africa at DNDi, elected to the US National Academy of Medicine.
Samuel McDonald McCann
Samuel McDonald McCann (1925–2007) was an American neuroendocrinologist who demonstrated that the hypothalamus controls the pituitary gland through releasing hormones, and helped establish neuroimmunomodulation while chairing physiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Samuel P. Bessman
Samuel P. Bessman was a physician-biochemist in intermediary metabolism known for hepatic coma ammonia studies, phenylketonuria research, and the 1981 Science paper on the muscle phosphorylcreatine energy shuttle.
Samuel Randall Detwiler
Samuel Randall Detwiler (1890–1957) was an American experimental embryologist, professor of anatomy at Columbia University, who worked out how the vertebrate nervous system and eye develop through transplantation experiments on salamander embryos.