Life scientists

Samuel S. Epstein

Samuel S. Epstein (1926–2018) was a British-born American physician, professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, known for work on preventable environmental causes of cancer.

Samuel Sheng-Hung Wang, born 1967, is a neuroscientist at Princeton University who studies the cerebellum and autism, and is also known for election forecasting and directing the Princeton Gerrymandering Project.

Samuel Schacher

Samuel Schacher is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist at Columbia University known for research on long-term synaptic plasticity in Aplysia, showing how short-term and long-term memory differ at a single synapse.

Samuel Shepard

Samuel S. Shepard is an American computational biologist who has worked at the CDC in Atlanta since 2013, known for the IRMA viral genome assembler and genomic surveillance of influenza and SARS-CoV-2.

Samuel Stehman Haldeman

Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1812–1880) was an American naturalist and philologist known for his monograph on American freshwater mollusks and his prize-winning work on English spelling reform.

Samuel Waxman

Samuel Waxman, born 1936, is an American physician-scientist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai known for pioneering differentiation therapy of cancer and founding his cancer research foundation in 1976.

Samuel Weiss (Canadian neuroscientist)

Samuel Weiss is a Canadian neuroscientist at the University of Calgary known for the 1992 discovery of neural stem cells in adult mammalian brains and the 1985 co-discovery of the metabotropic glutamate receptor.

Samuel Wendell Williston

Samuel Wendell Williston (1851–1918) was an American paleontologist, entomologist, and physician, professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago and the foremost American student of flies of his time.

Samuli Ripatti

Samuli Ripatti is a Finnish statistical and medical geneticist, Director of the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland and Professor of Biometry at the University of Helsinki.

Sandeep Mallipattu

Sandeep K. Mallipattu is an American physician-scientist nephrologist who leads the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at Stony Brook Medicine and won a 2019 PECASE award.

Sandeep R. Datta

Sandeep R. Datta, also known as Sandeep Robert Datta, is a systems neuroscientist and Harvard Medical School professor who studies olfaction and natural behavior in mice.

Sander J. Tans

Sander J. Tans is a biophysicist who leads the biophysics group at AMOLF in Amsterdam and is a professor at Delft University of Technology, studying protein folding.

Sandra Aamodt

Sandra Aamodt is a neuroscientist and science writer, formerly editor in chief of Nature Neuroscience, known for arguing that the brain defends a body-weight set point, making diets fail.

Sandra L. Schmid

Sandra L. Schmid is a Canadian-born cell biologist known for her work on clathrin-mediated endocytosis and dynamin, and Chief Scientific Officer of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network since 2020.

Sandra L. Wolin

Sandra L. Wolin is an American RNA biologist and physician-scientist, Chief of the RNA Biology Laboratory at the National Cancer Institute, known for work on the Ro60 and La autoantigens.

Sandrine Etienne-Manneville

Sandrine Etienne-Manneville is a French cell biologist who leads the Cell Polarity, Migration, and Cancer laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, studying glioblastoma invasion.

Sandrine Thuret

Sandrine Thuret is a French neuroscientist and professor at King's College London who studies how diet, exercise, and mood affect new neuron formation in the adult hippocampus.

Sandro Romani

Sandro Romani is a computational and systems neuroscientist who leads a lab at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, where he studies how hippocampal and cortical circuits encode information.

Sandy Chang

Sandy Chang is a Taiwanese-born American physician-scientist and pathologist at Yale School of Medicine whose laboratory studies telomeres, known for the first faithful mouse model of Werner syndrome and work on the shelterin protein POT1.

Sanford A. Asher

Sanford A. Asher was an American physical and analytical chemist at the University of Pittsburgh who pioneered ultraviolet resonance Raman spectroscopy and invented photonic crystal hydrogel chemical sensors.

Sanford M. Simon

Sanford M. Simon is an American cell biologist and biophysicist at The Rockefeller University known for imaging single molecules in living cells and studying fibrolamellar carcinoma.

Sanford Palay

Sanford Palay (1918–2002) was an American cell biologist and Harvard Medical School professor who used the electron microscope to establish the fine structure of neurons and synapses, becoming a founder of modern neurocytology.

Sang Yup Lee (이상엽)

Sang Yup Lee (이상엽) is a South Korean biochemical engineer at KAIST who established systems metabolic engineering, designing microorganisms that produce fuels, chemicals, and materials.

Sanjay K. Nigám

Sanjay K. Nigám is a physician-scientist in nephrology at the University of California San Diego, known for discovering OAT1, a major kidney drug and uremic-toxin transporter.

Sanjay Tyagi

Sanjay Tyagi is a molecular biologist and Professor of Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School who invented molecular beacons, fluorescent probes for imaging RNA in cells.

Sanjaya Rajaram

Sanjaya Rajaram (1943–2021) was an Indian-born Mexican wheat breeder who succeeded Norman Borlaug at CIMMYT, developed more than 480 wheat varieties, and won the 2014 World Food Prize.

Sankar Adhya

Sankar Adhya is a molecular biologist and geneticist who heads the Developmental Genetics Section at the National Cancer Institute, known for work on the E. coli gal operon and phage lambda.

Sankar Ghosh

Sankar Ghosh is an Indian-born immunologist and biochemist at Columbia University who studies NF-κB, the transcription factor that regulates genes of the mammalian immune system.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), Spanish histologist and father of modern neuroscience, established the neuron doctrine that neurons are independent cells communicating by contact, and shared the 1906 Nobel Prize with Camillo Golgi.