Life scientists

Satyajit Mayor

Satyajit Mayor is an Indian cell biologist who directs NCBS in Bangalore and is known for showing that GPI-anchored proteins form actin-organized nanoclusters on cell membranes.

Saul Roseman (1921–2011) was an American biochemist, professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for establishing the structures of the sialic acids and co-discovering the bacterial sugar phosphotransferase system.

Saul Sternberg

Saul Sternberg is an American cognitive psychologist and University of Pennsylvania professor since 1985, formerly at Bell Labs, known for the 1966 memory-scanning study and the additive-factors method.

Saul W. Brusilow

Saul W. Brusilow (1927–2020) was an American pediatrician and biochemical geneticist at Johns Hopkins University whose diagnostic tests and ammonia-lowering drug therapies form the basis of treatment for urea cycle disorders.

Savio L.C. Woo

Savio L.C. Woo is an American molecular geneticist who cloned the phenylalanine hydroxylase gene, defined the molecular basis of phenylketonuria, and led gene therapy institutes at Baylor and Mount Sinai.

Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar

Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar is an American plant biologist and chair of Plant Biology at UC Davis, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Schahram Akbarian

Schahram Akbarian is a psychiatrist and molecular neuroscientist who studies the epigenetics of the human brain; he is Chief of Psychiatric Epigenomics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

Schraga Schwartz

Schraga Schwartz (שרגא שוורץ) is an Israeli molecular biologist who studies RNA chemical modifications, the epitranscriptome, at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

Scot A. Wolfe

Scot A. Wolfe is a molecular biologist and professor at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, known for work on protein–DNA recognition and CRISPR gene editing.

Scott A. Strobel

Scott A. Strobel is an American biochemist at Yale University, where he has served as provost since 2020 and is known for structural studies of RNA catalysis.

Scott Boyd

Scott D. Boyd is an American physician scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine, a Rhodes Scholar whose laboratory uses DNA sequencing to study immune responses, vaccination, and food allergy.

Scott C. Blanchard

Scott C. Blanchard is a biophysicist and Endowed Chair at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, known for single-molecule imaging of ribosomes and the 2025 Kazuhiko Kinosita Award.

Scott D. Emr

Scott D. Emr is an American cell biologist who discovered the ESCRT pathway, the conserved machinery that sorts membrane proteins for degradation, and founded Cornell's Weill Institute.

Scott Emmons

Scott Wilson Emmons is an American geneticist and neuroscientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine who led completion of the first whole-animal connectome, of the roundworm C. elegans.

Scott Horowitz

Scott Horowitz is an American biochemist and Associate Professor at the University of Denver who studies molecular chaperones and showed that RNA can act as a protein chaperone.

Scott J. Hultgren

Scott J. Hultgren is a molecular microbiologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for defining the chaperone-usher pathway and showing that uropathogenic E. coli hides inside bladder cells.

Scott J. Miller

Scott J. Miller, born 1966 in Buffalo, New York, is an American organic chemist and Sterling Professor at Yale known for peptide catalysts for asymmetric, site-selective synthesis.

Scott J. Russo

Scott J. Russo is a neuroscientist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai known for showing how stress and the immune system drive depression and social behavior.

Scott Keeney

Scott Keeney is an American molecular biologist at the Sloan Kettering Institute, an HHMI Investigator from 2008 to 2025, known for identifying Spo11 as the protein that initiates meiotic recombination.

Scott Kennedy (geneticist)

Scott G. Kennedy is the Philip and Aya Leder Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, studying small non-coding RNAs in gene regulation and epigenetic inheritance.

Scott L. O’Neill

Scott L. O'Neill (S. L. O'Neill) is an Australian entomologist who founded and directs the World Mosquito Program at Monash University, using Wolbachia to block dengue transmission.

Scott M Sternson

Scott M. Sternson is a neuroscientist and HHMI Investigator, professor at UC San Diego after 14 years at Janelia, known for appetite circuit research and chemogenetic tools.

Scott M Steward-Tharp

Scott M Steward-Tharp is an American oral and maxillofacial pathologist and immunology researcher at Emory University School of Medicine, known for work on JAK/STAT signaling in T cells.

Scott M. Hammond

Scott M. Hammond is an American microRNA biologist and cancer researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for identifying the mir-17-92 microRNA cluster as a potential oncogene.

Scott Powers

R. Scott Powers is a cancer geneticist who directs clinical cancer genomics at Stony Brook University and coauthored a 2016 Nature paper arguing extrinsic factors dominate cancer risk.

Scott R. Manalis

Scott R. Manalis is an MIT biological engineer who invented the suspended microchannel resonator, weighing single living cells with femtogram precision, and founded Travera and Affinity Biosensors.

Scott Silverman

Scott K. Silverman, born in 1972, is an American chemist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who studies deoxyribozymes, DNA molecules that catalyze chemical reactions.

Scott V. Edwards

Scott V. Edwards, born 1963 in Honolulu, is an evolutionary biologist and ornithologist at Harvard University who studies avian evolutionary genetics and is Curator of Ornithology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Scott W. Lowe

Scott W. Lowe is an American cancer biologist and geneticist known for work on p53 tumor suppressor networks, apoptosis, and cellular senescence, and chairs cancer biology programs at Memorial Sloan Kettering.