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Se-Jin Lee

Se-Jin Lee is a physician-scientist and muscle biologist who discovered myostatin, the protein that restrains muscle growth, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.

Séamus J. Martin

Séamus J. Martin is an Irish molecular biologist and immunologist who holds the Smurfit Chair of Medical Genetics at Trinity College Dublin, studying cell death and inflammation.

Sean Bendall

Sean Bendall is an Associate Professor of Pathology at Stanford University known for CyTOF mass cytometry and MIBI tissue imaging, and for founding Ionpath to commercialize MIBI.

Sean Davis (physician-scientist)

Sean Davis (Sean R. Davis) is an American physician-scientist and bioinformatician who builds open-source software for cancer genomics and is known for the R package GEOquery.

Sean E. Egan

Sean Egan is a Canadian cancer biologist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto who studies Notch signaling in the mammary gland and breast cancer.

Sean Megason

Sean G. Megason is a developmental biologist and Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School who studies how a genome's program turns an egg into an embryo.

Sean Morrison (stem cell biologist)

Sean J. Morrison is a Canadian-born stem cell biologist and cancer researcher who founded and directs the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern in Dallas.

Sean Munro

Sean Munro is a cell biologist and group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for identifying the KDEL ER retention signal and studying golgins.

Sean P. Colgan

Sean P. Colgan is a mucosal inflammation researcher and Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where he directs the Mucosal Inflammation Program and studies inflammatory bowel disease.

Sean R. Eddy

Sean R. Eddy is an American computational biologist at Harvard, known as lead developer of the HMMER sequence-search software and a founder of the Rfam RNA database.

Sebastián Amigorena

Sebastian Amigorena is a French immunologist, a CNRS research director at Institut Curie in Paris, known for work on dendritic cell antigen presentation and cancer immunotherapy.

Sebastian Bonhoeffer

Sebastian Bonhoeffer is a German-born theoretical biologist who has been professor of theoretical biology at ETH Zurich since 2005 and directs the Collegium Helveticum, modeling infectious disease dynamics.

Sebastian Deindl

Sebastian Deindl is a structural biologist and molecular biophysicist, professor at Uppsala University and, since 2026, Humboldt Professor at Tübingen, known for resolving how chromatin remodelers step and slide molecule by molecule.

Sebastian Jessberger

Sebastian Jessberger, born 1974 in Mannheim, Germany, is a neuroscientist who directs the Brain Research Institute at the University of Zurich and studies neural stem cells.

Sebastian Klinge

Sebastian Klinge is a structural biologist at Rockefeller University who studies how eukaryotic cells assemble ribosomes, and who in 2011 solved the first atomic structure of a eukaryotic large ribosomal subunit.

Sebastian Lourido

Sebastian Lourido is an American parasitologist, associate professor of biology at MIT and a Whitehead Institute member, known for genome-wide CRISPR screens of Toxoplasma gondii.

Sebastian Seung

Sebastian Seung, also known as H. Sebastian Seung, is a computational neuroscientist at Princeton University known for connectomics and for creating the crowd-sourced brain-mapping platforms EyeWire and FlyWire.

Seigo Izumo

Seigo Izumo is a physician-scientist in cardiac molecular biology who studied heart-muscle growth signaling as a Harvard professor and later led cardiovascular research at Novartis and Gilead.

Seigo Shima

Seigo Shima (嶋 盛吾) is a biochemist and research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany, where he has worked since 1995.

Seiji Ogawa

Seiji Ogawa (小川誠二), born 1934 in Tokyo, is a Japanese biophysicist who discovered the BOLD contrast mechanism at Bell Laboratories in 1990, the basis of functional MRI.

Seiji Takayama

Seiji Takayama (高山 誠司) is a Japanese plant molecular biologist, formerly professor at NAIST and the University of Tokyo, known for defining the molecular mechanism of self-incompatibility in Brassicaceae.

Sekar Kathiresan

Sekar Kathiresan is an American preventive cardiologist and human geneticist who co-founded and led Verve Therapeutics, a gene-editing company acquired by Eli Lilly in 2025.

Selig Hecht

Selig Hecht (1892–1947) was an American biophysicist and professor at Columbia University who established the duplex retina and showed a single rod can respond to one photon.

Selma Masri

Selma Masri is a circadian biologist and Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry at UC Irvine whose laboratory studies how circadian clock disruption drives lung, colorectal, and pancreatic tumors.

Sen-Lin Lai

Sen-Lin Lai is a Drosophila developmental neuroscientist affiliated with HHMI and the University of Oregon, known for work on neuroblast temporal identity, quiescence, and lineage-to-circuit mapping.

Sen‐itiroh Hakomori

Sen-itiroh Hakomori (1929–2020) was a Japanese-born American biochemist at the University of Washington, a leading researcher on glycosphingolipids called "Dr. Glycolipid" who devised the permethylation method.

Senyon Choe

Senyon Choe is a structural biologist who uses X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy to determine the structures of ion channels, membrane proteins, and the TGF-beta receptor system.

Seok-Yong Lee

Seok-Yong Lee is a structural biologist at Duke University School of Medicine who studies membrane proteins and ion channels, known for his 2022 Nature structures of the folate carrier SLC19A1.

Seppo Ylä‐Herttuala

Seppo Ylä-Herttuala is a Finnish Academy Professor at the University of Eastern Finland's A.I. Virtanen Institute in Kuopio, known for cardiovascular gene therapy and pioneering adenoviral gene transfer to human arteries.

Serena Nik‐Zainal

Serena Nik-Zainal is a physician-scientist in cancer genomics at the University of Cambridge who developed mutational signatures and discovered kataegis, localized hypermutation in tumors, and received the 2019 Dr Josef Steiner Cancer Research Award.