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Sigal Ben‐Yehuda
Sigal Ben-Yehuda is an Israeli microbiologist and full professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for discovering nanotube-mediated communication between bacteria and for work on bacterial spore formation.
Silvia Arber
Silvia Arber, born 1968 in Geneva, is a Swiss neuroscientist at the University of Basel who studies the neuronal circuits controlling movement, and won the Brain Prize in 2022.
Silvio C. E. Tosatto
Silvio C. E. Tosatto is an Italian computational biologist, Full Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Padua, who heads the BioComputing UP laboratory studying protein intrinsic disorder.
Simeon I. Taylor
Simeon I. Taylor is an American physician-scientist known for research on insulin resistance and the insulin receptor gene, and a professor at the University of Maryland.
Simon Alberti
Simon Alberti is a molecular biologist who has held the Chair of Cellular Biochemistry at TU Dresden's Biotechnology Center since 2018, studying biomolecular condensates in stress, DNA repair, and aging.
Simon Anders
Simon Anders is a German bioinformatician and junior professor at BioQuant, Heidelberg University, known for developing the DESeq, DESeq2, and HTSeq tools for analyzing RNA-seq data.
Simon E. Fisher
Simon E. Fisher, born 1970 in London, is a British neurogeneticist known for discovering FOXP2, the first gene found mutated in a speech and language disorder.
Simon Gilroy
Simon Gilroy is a British plant cell biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for calcium signaling research and plant experiments on the International Space Station.
Simon J. Davis
Simon J. Davis is a British immunologist and Professor of Molecular Immunology at the University of Oxford, best known for the kinetic-segregation model of T-cell receptor activation.
Simon Mead
Simon Mead is a British consultant neurologist, Clinical Lead of the UK National Prion Clinic and Deputy Director of the MRC Prion Unit at University College London.
Simon Myers
Simon R. Myers is a University of Oxford professor of mathematical genomics known for mapping recombination hotspots in the human genome and dating admixture from modern DNA.
Simon Newstead
Simon Newstead (born 1979) is a British structural biologist and David Phillips Professor of Molecular Biophysics at Oxford, known for crystallographic and cryo-EM structures of SLC membrane transport proteins.
Simon Rasmussen
Simon Rasmussen is a bioinformatician and professor at the University of Copenhagen known for VAMB, a deep-learning tool for reconstructing microbial genomes from metagenomic data.
Simon Scheuring
Simon Scheuring is a Swiss and French biophysicist at Weill Cornell Medicine who develops high-speed atomic force microscopy to watch single membrane proteins at work.
Simon Tavaré
Simon Tavaré is a statistician and computational biologist known for coalescent theory and cancer evolution, and Founding Director of Columbia's Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics since 2018.
Simon W M John
Simon W M John is an American glaucoma geneticist at Columbia University known for the DBA/2J mouse model and showing vitamin B3 prevents glaucoma in mice.
Simon Wain–Hobson
Simon Wain-Hobson is a virologist who led the Molecular Retrovirology Unit at the Pasteur Institute, sequenced the AIDS virus LAV in 1985, and retired in 2021.
Simona Francese
Simona Francese is an Italian-born chemist and Professor of Forensic and Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry at Sheffield Hallam University, best known for pioneering molecular fingerprinting of fingermarks.
Simone Di Giovanni
Simone Di Giovanni is a physician-scientist and Professor of Neuroscience at Imperial College London, where he holds the James W Hartnett Chair in Restorative Neuroscience and studies axonal repair.
Sing Sing Way
Sing Sing Way is an American physician-scientist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital who studies how the immune system responds to pregnancy and to infection in newborn babies.
Sinisa Urban
Siniša Urban is a Croatian-born, Canada-raised molecular biologist and Johns Hopkins professor known for discovering the rhomboid proteases, enzymes that cut proteins within the membrane bilayer.
Siobhan Brady
Siobhan Brady is a plant biologist and professor at the University of California, Davis, known for mapping gene regulatory networks that control root cell development, and an HHMI Investigator since 2024.
Sir Bernard Katz
Sir Bernard Katz, also known as Bernard Katz, was a German-born British biophysicist at University College London who won the 1970 Nobel Prize for establishing how nerve signals pass to muscle.
Sir Charles Sherrington
Sir Charles Sherrington was an English physiologist, Waynflete Professor at Oxford, who won the 1932 Nobel Prize for discoveries about neurons and coined the term "synapse" in 1897.
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet was an Australian virologist and immunologist who won the 1960 Nobel Prize for acquired immunological tolerance and proposed clonal selection theory.
Sir Frederick Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861–1947) was an English biochemist at Cambridge who shared the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of vitamins, and became its first Professor of Biochemistry.
Sir John B. Gurdon
Sir John B. Gurdon, known as John Gurdon, was a British developmental biologist at Cambridge who shared the 2012 Nobel Prize for showing mature cells can be reprogrammed.
Sir John Eccles
Sir John Eccles (1903–1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for work on ionic mechanisms of excitation and inhibition in nerve cell membranes.
Sir Kenneth Blaxter
Sir Kenneth Blaxter (1919–1991) was a British agricultural nutritionist, Director of the Rowett Research Institute from 1965 to 1982, whose metabolisable energy system became Britain's official feeding standard.
Sir Peter Mansfield
Sir Peter Mansfield (1933–2017) was a British physicist at the University of Nottingham who pioneered MRI, invented echo-planar imaging, and shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.