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Shosaku Numa

Shosaku Numa (沼 正作, 1929–1992) was a Japanese molecular biochemist, professor at Kyoto University from 1968, who pioneered recombinant DNA study of receptors and ion channels.

Shou‐Wei Ding

Shou-Wei Ding is a distinguished professor of microbiology and plant pathology at UC Riverside who established RNA interference as a common antiviral defense across plants, insects, and mammals, receiving the 2020 Noel T. Keen Award.

Shoukat Dedhar

Shoukat Dedhar is a Canadian cancer biologist, Distinguished Scientist at BC Cancer and professor at UBC, known for discovering integrin-linked kinase and co-founding SignalChem Lifesciences.

Shoukhrat Mitalipov

Shoukhrat Mitalipov (Shoukhrat M. Mitalipov) is a Kazakh-born stem-cell and reproductive biologist at Oregon Health & Science University, first to derive human embryonic stem cells by somatic cell nuclear transfer in 2013.

Shruti Naik

Shruti Naik is an immunologist and stem cell biologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for discovering inflammatory memory in skin stem cells.

Shu-Bing Qian

Shu-Bing Qian is a molecular biologist who studies translational control of gene expression, holding the James Jamison Professor of Nutrition chair at Cornell University since 2008.

Shu-ou Shan

Shu-ou Shan is a biochemist at Caltech known for her work on molecular chaperones and protein folding, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Shuibing Chen

Shuibing Chen is a chemical biologist and stem cell researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine known for building human stem cell-derived organoids to model disease and screen drugs.

Shunichi Takeda

Shunichi Takeda (武田 俊一) is a Japanese molecular biologist, professor at Kyoto University since 1998, known for establishing the chicken DT40 line to study DNA repair and homologous recombination.

Shunsuke Ishii

Shunsuke Ishii (石井 俊輔) is a Japanese molecular biologist and Chief Scientist at RIKEN Tsukuba since 1989, known for showing that stress effects can be inherited through chromatin changes.

Shuo Lin

Shuo Lin (林硕) is a developmental biologist and geneticist who has been a professor at UCLA since 2003, known for making retroviral vectors usable in zebrafish and for zebrafish genome-editing methods.

Shyam Prabhakar

Shyam Prabhakar is a computational and systems biologist at the Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, known for the BANKSY spatial omics algorithm and the Asian Immune Diversity Atlas.

Siamon Gordon

Siamon Gordon, born 1938, is a South African-born immunologist and Emeritus Glaxo Wellcome Professor at Oxford, known for decades of macrophage research and the F4/80 antibody marker.

Sichen Shao

Sichen (Susan) Shao is a molecular and cell biologist, an HHMI Investigator since 2024, and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School known for work on ribosome-associated quality control.

Siddharth Balachandran

Siddharth Balachandran is a virologist and cancer researcher who directs the Center for Immunology at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia and studies inflammatory cell death in virus infections.

Siddhartha Roy

Siddhartha Roy, born 1954, is an Indian biophysicist and structural biologist known for work on gene regulation and protein structure, who won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1999 and directed CSIR-IICB in Kolkata.

Sidney Altman

Sidney Altman was a Canadian American molecular biologist at Yale who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering that RNA can act as a catalyst.

Sidney Dillon Ripley

Sidney Dillon Ripley was an American ornithologist and conservationist, an expert on the birds of India, and eighth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1964 to 1984, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985.

Sidney E. Grossberg

Sidney E. Grossberg is an American physician-scientist and virologist who chaired microbiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin from 1966 to 1997 and studied interferons.

Sidney Fleischer

Sidney Fleischer (1930–2016) was an American biochemist at Vanderbilt University whose laboratory purified the ryanodine receptor from muscle and showed it is the calcium release channel that initiates contraction.

Sidney Hecht

Sidney M. Hecht (born 1944) is an American chemist at Arizona State University who helped develop the cancer drug Hycamtin and studies tRNA chemistry and unnatural amino acids.

Sidney Irving Smith

Sidney Irving Smith (1843–1926) was an American zoologist and carcinologist, professor of comparative anatomy at Yale University, and an authority on the marine crustaceans of the western Atlantic.

Sidney R. Kushner

Sidney R. Kushner is a bacterial geneticist and molecular biologist at the University of Georgia, known for establishing how RNase E and RNase P mature transfer RNA in E. coli.

Sidney Strickland

Sidney Strickland is a molecular biologist at Rockefeller University known for linking the protease plasmin to Alzheimer's disease and for deaning graduate studies from 2000 to 2022.

Sidney Udenfriend

Sidney Udenfriend was an American biochemist who defined collagen proline hydroxylation, identified tyrosine hydroxylase, and was the first director of the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology.

Sidney Weinhouse

Sidney Weinhouse (1909–2001) was an American biochemist at Temple University who used isotopic tracers to study fatty acid oxidation and ketone bodies, and challenged Warburg's theory that cancer stems from defective respiration.

Sidonia Fagarasan

Sidonia Fagarasan is an immunologist at RIKEN in Japan whose research established how gut bacteria and the immune system regulate each other through the antibody IgA.

Siegfried Hekimi

Siegfried Hekimi is a biologist at McGill University who studies the molecular genetics of aging, known for showing that mitochondrial superoxide signaling can trigger longevity.

Siegfried W. de Laat

Siegfried W. de Laat is a Dutch molecular biologist who directed the Hubrecht Laboratory in Utrecht from 1983 to 2000, known for work on how growth factors signal through calcium.

‪Siewert J. Marrink

Siewert J. Marrink, also known as Siewert-Jan Marrink, is a Dutch physical chemist and professor of Molecular Dynamics at the University of Groningen, developer of the Martini coarse-grained force field.