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Srinivas C Turaga

Srinivas C Turaga is a computational neuroscientist who has led a group at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus since 2014, applying deep learning to connectomics and biology.

Sriram Subramaniam

Sriram Subramaniam is a cryo-electron microscopy structural biologist and professor at the University of British Columbia, known for atomic-resolution structures of cancer targets and pathogens.

Staffan Normark

Staffan Normark is a Swedish medical microbiologist known for work on bacterial pathogenesis and antibiotic resistance, and winner of the 2018 Robert Koch Gold Medal.

Staffan Persson

Staffan Persson is a Swedish plant cell biologist, professor at the University of Copenhagen since 2020, who studies how plants build cell walls and make cellulose.

Stanford Moore

Stanford Moore (1913–1982) was an American biochemist at The Rockefeller University who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on the enzyme ribonuclease.

Stanislas Dehaene

Stanislas Dehaene, born 1965, is a French cognitive neuroscientist, chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the Collège de France and director of NeuroSpin, known for the number-sense hypothesis and neuronal recycling theory.

Stanislas Leibler

Stanislas Leibler is a Polish-born, French-trained physicist turned systems biologist, head of the Laboratory of Living Matter at Rockefeller University since 2001, known for the repressilator.

Stanislav S. Zakharenko

Stanislav S. Zakharenko is a neuroscientist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis who directs the Division of Neural Circuits and Behavior and studies the auditory thalamus.

Stanislav Y. Shvartsman

Stanislav Y. Shvartsman is a Princeton professor of molecular biology who studies the quantitative biology of developing tissues, combining fruit fly experiments with mathematical and computational modeling.

Stanley B. Kater

Stanley B. Kater is a retired cellular and molecular neuroscientist who worked at Iowa, Colorado State, and Utah, showing that calcium levels in the growth cone steer developing nerve fibers.

Stanley B. Prusiner

Stanley B. Prusiner, born in 1942, is an American biochemist and neurologist at UCSF who discovered and named prions, winning the 1997 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Stanley C. Froehner

Stanley C. Froehner is an American molecular biologist at the University of Washington who studies skeletal muscle and gene therapy, known for discovering the syntrophin proteins.

Stanley Cohen (biochemist)

Stanley Cohen (1922–2020) was an American biochemist who discovered epidermal growth factor and characterized its receptor, sharing the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Rita Levi-Montalcini for discoveries of growth factors.

Stanley Dwight Beck

Stanley Dwight Beck (1919–1997) was an American insect physiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for work on insect photoperiodism, artificial diets, and corn pest resistance.

Stanley Falkow

Stanley Falkow (1934–2018) was an American microbiologist and Stanford professor known as the father of molecular microbial pathogenesis, honored with the 2008 Lasker Award and the National Medal of Science.

Stanley Fields (molecular biologist)

Stanley Fields is an American molecular biologist and geneticist, Professor Emeritus of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, known for the yeast two-hybrid method and deep mutational scanning.

Stanley G Nathenson

Stanley G Nathenson is an immunologist and cell biologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine whose work on H-2 transplantation antigens established the basis of transplant rejection.

Stanley George Stephens

Stanley George Stephens (1911–1986) was an English-born plant geneticist who studied the genetics and evolution of cotton, working in Trinidad and at North Carolina State University.

Stanley J. Korsmeyer

Stanley J. Korsmeyer (1950–2005) was an American physician-scientist who showed that BCL2 causes cancer by blocking cell death rather than driving growth, founding the molecular study of apoptosis in cancer.

Stanley J. Peloquin

Stanley J. Peloquin was an American plant geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for potato breeding research and election to the National Academy of Sciences.

Stanley M. Gartler

Stanley M. Gartler (S.M. Gartler; 1923–2026) was an American human geneticist at the University of Washington who showed that tumors arise from a single cell and exposed HeLa contamination of cell lines.

Stanley Norman Cohen

Stanley Norman Cohen is an American geneticist at Stanford who, with Herbert Boyer, carried out the first cloning and transfer of genes between organisms in 1973.

Stanton Segal

Stanton Segal (1927 to 2007) was an American physician and clinical biochemist who spent 41 years at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia studying galactosemia, cystinuria, and other inborn errors of metabolism.

Stavros C. Manolagas

Stavros C. Manolagas is a physician-scientist, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, known for research on osteoporosis and sex steroid action in bone.

Stavros Lomvardas

Stavros Lomvardas is an American neuroscientist and epigeneticist who studies how each olfactory neuron expresses one receptor gene, and is a professor and principal investigator at Columbia University since 2014.

Stefan Feske

Stefan Feske is a German-trained immunologist and physician, Jeffrey Bergstein Professor of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, who identified the first patients with mutations in ORAI1 and STIM1, defining the immunodeficiency CRAC channelopathy.

Stefan Hell

Stefan Hell (Stefan Walter Hell, born 1962 in Arad, Romania) is a physicist who invented STED nanoscale microscopy, winning the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Stefan Heller

Stefan Heller is a sensory neuroscientist and hearing researcher who holds a professorship in otolaryngology at Stanford, working on hair cell regeneration and stem-cell treatments for hearing loss.

Stefan Jentsch

Stefan Jentsch (1955–2016) was a German molecular biologist who led the Molecular Cell Biology Department at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry from 1998 until his death.

Stefan Knapp

Stefan Knapp is a structural and chemical biologist, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2015, known for studies of protein kinases and bromodomains.