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Sirpa Jalkanen
Sirpa Jalkanen, born 1954, is a Finnish immunologist at the University of Turku whose research established how immune cells enter inflamed tissue; she identified VAP-1 and was named Academician of Science in 2015.
Siyu Zhang
Siyu Zhang is a Chinese systems neuroscientist who has been Principal Investigator at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine since 2016, studying top-down attention and basal forebrain sleep-wake circuits.
Sjors Scheres
Sjors Scheres is a Dutch structural biologist and group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for RELION, the most used cryo-EM structure determination program.
Sjur Olsnes
Sjur Olsnes (1939–2014) was a Norwegian biochemist and cancer researcher at the University of Oslo known for defining how the toxic lectins abrin and ricin kill cells.
Slavé Petrovski
Slavé Petrovski is an Australian human geneticist known for developing the RVIS gene-tolerance score, who has led AstraZeneca's Centre for Genomics Research in Cambridge since 2021.
Smita Mohanty
Smita Mohanty is a structural biologist and solution NMR spectroscopist, Professor of Chemistry at Oklahoma State University, known for NMR structures of moth pheromone-binding proteins and winner of the 1999 PECASE award.
Smita S. Patel
Smita S. Patel is an American biochemist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, known for quantitative studies of DNA helicases and mitochondrial replication enzymes.
Snorri S. Thorgeirsson
Snorri S. Thorgeirsson is a cancer researcher known for gene-expression profiling of hepatocellular carcinoma and for leading the Laboratory of Experimental Carcinogenesis at the National Cancer Institute.
So Iwata
So Iwata (岩田想, born 1963) is a Japanese structural biologist known for X-ray crystallography of membrane proteins, a Kyoto University professor and 2010 Gregori Aminoff Prize winner.
Sofie R Salama
Sofie Reda Salama is a genomics and stem-cell biologist, professor at UC Santa Cruz, known for the Shasta genome assembler, the HAR1 and NOTCH2NL genes, and the Treehouse pediatric cancer initiative.
Sohaila Rastan
Sohaila Rastan is a mouse geneticist known for work on X-chromosome inactivation, especially characterizing the mouse Xist gene, and later director of science funding at the Wellcome Trust.
Sohyun Ahn
Sohyun Ahn is a South Korean-born neuroscientist who heads the Unit on Developmental Neurogenetics at NIH's NICHD and won a 2005 Presidential Early Career Award.
Sol Spiegelman
Sol Spiegelman (1914–1983) was an American molecular biologist who pioneered DNA–RNA hybridization, synthesized infectious viral RNA in a test tube, and led Columbia's Institute of Cancer Research.
Solomon H. Snyder
Solomon H. Snyder, born 1938 in Washington, D.C., is an American neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins known for the 1973 demonstration of opiate receptors in nervous tissue.
Soman N. Abraham
Soman N. Abraham is an American immunologist, the Grace Kerby Distinguished Professor of Pathology at Duke University Medical Center, known for mast cell vaccine adjuvants and bacterial expulsion from infected cells.
Somasekar Seshagiri
Somasekar Seshagiri, known as Sekar Seshagiri, is a cancer genomics researcher who spent 21 years at Genentech and first-authored a 2012 Nature study of R-spondin fusions in colon cancer.
Sonia Garel
Sonia Garel, born 1972 in Paris, is a French neurobiologist who studies how brain circuits are assembled during development and how microglia take part in that assembly.
Sonja Gisela Lorenz
Sonja Gisela Lorenz is a structural biochemist who leads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, known for defining how ubiquitination enzymes select ubiquitin chain types.
Sonja Hofer
Sonja Hofer is a neuroscientist who leads a research group at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London, studying how visual circuits build predictions.
Sonya Neal
Sonya Neal is an American cell biologist and Associate Professor at UC San Diego who studies how cells detect and destroy misfolded proteins, and received the 2025 PECASE award.
Sophia Y. Tsai
Sophia Y. Tsai is a molecular biologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston known for discovering the COUP transcription factors, which regulate development, angiogenesis, and metabolism.
Sophie Martin
Sophie G. Martin is a Swiss cell biologist known for research on cell polarity and cell fusion in fission yeast, and a professor at the University of Geneva.
Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott is a British cognitive neuroscientist, Professor and Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, known for research on speech and laughter and for presenting the 2017 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.
Sophien Kamoun
Sophien Kamoun is a Tunisian-born plant pathologist and Royal Society fellow at the University of East Anglia who studies potato blight and wheat blast to develop disease-resistant crops.
Søren K. Moestrup
Søren K. Moestrup, also known as Søren Kragh Moestrup, is a professor at Aarhus University who identified CD163 as the hemoglobin scavenger receptor and won the 2013 Novo Nordisk Prize.
Sotirios K. Karathanasis
Sotirios K. Karathanasis is a molecular biologist and biochemist known for cloning the apolipoprotein A-I gene and showing its variants mark premature coronary artery disease and low HDL.
Spencer Fullerton Baird
Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823–1887) was an American naturalist, the Smithsonian's second Secretary, and first U.S. Fish Commissioner who grew its collections from 6,000 to over 2.5 million specimens.
Spencer Smith (neuroscientist)
Spencer L. Smith is an American neuroscientist and neuroengineer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whose laboratory builds two-photon microscopes recording many neurons across multiple brain areas.
Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas
Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas is a Greek molecular biologist known for deciphering the Notch signaling pathway, a professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School and the Collège de France.
Squire Booker
Squire J. Booker is an American mechanistic enzymologist known for radical SAM enzymes, an HHMI investigator since 2015, elected to the NAS in 2019, now at Penn.