Life scientists

Seymour Kaufman

Seymour Kaufman (1924–2009) was an American biochemist and neurochemist at the National Institute of Mental Health who identified tetrahydrobiopterin as the cofactor for aromatic amino acid hydroxylation.

Seymour M. Antelman

Seymour M. Antelman, known as Sy Antelman, was an American neuroscientist and psychopharmacologist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, known for Time-Dependent Sensitization and a stress-induced overeating model.

Seymour S. Cohen

Seymour S. Cohen (1917–2018) was an American biochemist who opened the biochemical study of virus-infected cells, establishing virus-induced enzymes and a chemical basis for selective antiviral drugs.

Shahin Nasr

Shahin Nasr is a cognitive neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who maps the human visual cortex with ultra-high-field fMRI, winning a 2025 PECASE award.

Shahin Rafii

Shahin Rafii is a physician-scientist in vascular biology and stem cell medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, best known for establishing the angiocrine concept of blood-vessel signals directing organ repair.

Shahragim Tajbakhsh

Shahragim Tajbakhsh is a developmental biologist at the Institut Pasteur in Paris who studies skeletal muscle stem cells and leads the Stem Cells and Development unit.

Shahriar Mobashery

Shahriar Mobashery, publishing as S. Mobashery, is a bioorganic and medicinal chemist who has held the Navari Family Professorship at Notre Dame since 2003, studying the bacterial cell wall and antibiotic resistance.

Shai Shaham

Shai Shaham is a developmental neuroscientist who leads the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics at The Rockefeller University, where he studies programmed cell death and glial cells using C. elegans.

Shai Shen-Orr

Shai Shen-Orr is a systems immunologist and professor at the Technion Faculty of Medicine who created the IMM-AGE immune-age metric and co-founded CytoReason, an AI drug-development company.

Shalev Itzkovitz

Shalev Itzkovitz is an Israeli systems biologist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science who pioneered single-molecule transcript imaging, building spatial cell atlases of the liver and intestine.

Shamil Sunyaev

Shamil Sunyaev is a computational genomicist who studies genetic variation and the biology of mutation, and is a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute.

Shamshad Cockcroft

Shamshad Cockcroft is a cell biologist and Professor of Cell Physiology at University College London, known for work on phosphoinositide signaling, the P2X7 receptor, and G-protein regulation of phospholipase C.

Shang Fa Yang

Shang Fa Yang (杨祥发, 1932–2007) was a Taiwanese-born American plant biochemist at UC Davis who identified ACC as the precursor of the plant hormone ethylene, winning the 1991 Wolf Prize.

Shanthini Sockanathan

Shanthini Sockanathan is a Malaysian-born molecular neurobiologist and professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins who joined HHMI in 2025 and is known for discovering GDE2, an enzyme that triggers motor neuron differentiation.

Shao‐Cong Sun

Shao‐Cong Sun (孙少聪) is a Chinese immunologist known for discoveries in NF-κB signaling, who left MD Anderson in 2022 to lead an immunology institute in Beijing.

Sharon A. Tooze

Sharon A. Tooze is a British-based cell biologist who studies autophagy and has led the Molecular Cell Biology of Autophagy Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute since 2015.

Sharon Dent

Sharon Dent is an American molecular biologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center known for research on chromatin regulation and cancer, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Sharon M. Wahl

Sharon M. Wahl is an American immunologist at NIH's dental research institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for work on HIV reservoirs, SLPI, and regulatory T cells.

Sharon R. Long

Sharon R. Long, also published as Sharon Long, is an American plant biologist and Stanford professor who established the genetics of the rhizobia-legume symbiosis and won the MacArthur Fellowship.

Sharyn A. Endow

Sharyn A. Endow is an American cell biologist and Professor of Cell Biology at Duke University School of Medicine, known for discovering the Ncd kinesin motor protein.

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Shashi Petry

Shashi Petry is a structural biologist, first author of the 2005 Cell study solving ribosome structures with release factors RF1 and RF2, cited in the Nobel Committee's 2009 chemistry background.

Shaul Hestrin

Shaul Hestrin is a neuroscientist and Professor of Comparative Medicine at Stanford University known for Nature papers on NMDA receptor currents, electrical synapses among fast-spiking cells, and neocortical wiring.

Shaun Purcell

Shaun Purcell (Shaun M. Purcell) is an American-based psychiatric and sleep geneticist, creator of the open-source PLINK genome-wide association software and researcher on schizophrenia genetics.

Shawn Marie McLaughlin

Shawn Marie McLaughlin is a marine parasitologist with NOAA's National Ocean Service known for describing the clam parasite Perkinsus chesapeaki and for detecting influenza A virus in bivalves.

Sheena E. Radford

Sheena E. Radford is a British biochemist and biophysicist who is Astbury Professor of Biophysics at the University of Leeds, studying protein folding and amyloid disease.

Sheena Josselyn

Sheena Josselyn is a Canadian neuroscientist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto who studies how memories, called engrams, form in the mouse brain.

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Sheila Nirenberg

Sheila Nirenberg is an American neuroscientist and Weill Cornell professor who deciphered the retina's output code and applied it to an optogenetic gene therapy for restoring vision in retinal disease.

Sheldon Penman

Sheldon Penman (1930–2021) was an American molecular biologist at MIT who was among the first to show messenger RNA in a mammalian cell and studied RNA metabolism.

Shelley E. Taylor

Shelley E. Taylor, also known as Shelley Taylor, is an American social psychologist at UCLA known for the tend-and-befriend stress model and research on positive illusions.