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Stefan Mundlos

Stefan Mundlos is a German human geneticist who directs the Institute of Medical Genetics at Charité Berlin and showed that changes in non-coding DNA far from genes can disturb gene regulation and cause rare skeletal disease.

Stefan Pöhlmann

Stefan Pöhlmann is a German virologist who heads the Infection Biology Unit at the German Primate Center in Göttingen, known for identifying how SARS-CoV-2 enters cells.

Stefan Raunser

Stefan Raunser (born 1976 in Landau) is a German structural biologist who has directed the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund since 2014.

Stefan Schreiber

Stefan Schreiber is a German physician-scientist who heads the Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology at Kiel University and researches the genetics and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.

Stefan Somlo

Stefan Somlo is an American nephrologist and geneticist at Yale School of Medicine, known for identifying PKD2, the second gene for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.

Stefan Thor

Stefan Thor is a Swedish developmental biologist and neuroscientist, Professor of Developmental Biology at the University of Queensland since 2019, after holding a chair at Linköping University.

Stefanie Dimmeler

Stefanie Dimmeler, born 1967 in Ravensburg, Germany, is a biologist who directs the Institute of Cardiovascular Regeneration at Goethe University Frankfurt and won the 2005 Leibniz Prize.

Stefano Biffo

Stefano Biffo is an Italian molecular biologist, a full professor at the University of Milan who leads a laboratory at INGM in Milan and studies translational control of gene expression.

Stefano Mancuso

Stefano Mancuso, born 1965 in Calabria, is an Italian botanist at the University of Florence who co-founded plant neurobiology, directs LINV, and studies plant intelligence.

Stefano Piccolo

Stefano Piccolo is a professor of molecular biology at the University of Padua and PI at IFOM, known for showing that YAP/TAZ convert cell shape and mechanical cues into gene regulation.

Steffen Jung

Steffen Jung is a German-born immunologist and full professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, known for fate-mapping studies of monocytes and tissue macrophages.

Stein Aerts

Stein Aerts is a Belgian computational biologist and full professor at KU Leuven who studies how enhancers switch genes on, known for the SCENIC tools.

Sten Eirik W. Jacobsen

Sten Eirik W. Jacobsen, born 1961 in Oslo, is a Norwegian hematologist and stem cell biologist who studies blood stem cells, professor at Karolinska Institutet since 2015.

Sten Grillner

Sten Grillner is a Swedish neurophysiologist and Distinguished Professor at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for showing that spinal cord networks generate locomotion and for developing the lamprey as a model vertebrate.

Sten Linnarsson

Sten Linnarsson, born 1971, is a Swedish molecular systems biologist and professor at Karolinska Institutet, known for single-cell brain atlases, RNA velocity, and spatial transcriptomics, and Karolinska's Academic Vice President since 2026.

Sten Orrenius

Sten Orrenius (1937–2020) was a Swedish toxicologist and cell-death researcher, Professor Emeritus at Karolinska Institutet, best known for linking calcium signaling, mitochondrial oxidative stress, and apoptosis.

Stephan A. Sieber

Stephan A. Sieber, born 1976, is a bioorganic chemist who has held the Chair of Organic Chemistry II at the Technical University of Munich since 2009.

Stephan Beck

Stephan Beck is a geneticist and Emeritus Professor of Medical Genomics at the UCL Cancer Institute, known for sequencing the human genome and co-founding the Human Epigenome Project.

Stephan C. Schuster

Stephan C. Schuster is a genomicist known for the first genome-wide sequence of an extinct animal, the woolly mammoth, and for the first complete genomes of southern African Khoisan hunter-gatherers.

Stephan Grill

Stephan W. Grill, born 1974 in Heidelberg, is a German biophysicist and director at MPI-CBG Dresden known for discovering how the actomyosin cortex generates forces and torques that shape embryos.

Stephan Gruber

Stephan Gruber is a molecular biologist and associate professor at the University of Lausanne, known for the 2003 discovery that cohesin forms a ring around sister chromatids.

Stephan Grzesiek

Stephan Grzesiek is a Swiss structural biologist and NMR spectroscopist who was Professor of Structural Biology at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, from 1999 until his retirement in 2025.

Stephan J. Sigrist

Stephan J. Sigrist, born 1967 in Freiburg, is a German molecular neuroscientist and professor at Freie Universität Berlin who studies how presynaptic active zones organize neurotransmitter release.

Stephan R. Targan

Stephan R. Targan is a gastroenterologist and immunologist at Cedars-Sinai who established TNF's role in Crohn's disease and led the 1997 infliximab trial, the first biologic therapy for inflammatory bowel disease.

Stephan Saalfeld

Stephan Saalfeld is a computer scientist and Senior Group Leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, a founding developer of ImgLib2 and contributor to Fiji and ImageJ.

Stéphane H. R. Oliet

Stéphane H. R. Oliet is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist at the Neurocentre Magendie in Bordeaux, known for showing that astrocyte-derived D-serine controls NMDA receptors and synaptic plasticity.

Stéphane Noselli

Stéphane Noselli is a French developmental geneticist and CNRS Research Director in Nice, known for discovering how the myosin 1D gene controls left–right asymmetry in Drosophila.

Stephanie B. Seminara

Stephanie B. Seminara is a reproductive endocrinologist who is Chief of the Reproductive Endocrine Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Harvard Medical School professor.

Stéphanie Debette

Stéphanie Debette, born 1976, is a French vascular neurologist and genetic epidemiologist known for research on the genetics of stroke and cerebral small vessel disease.

Stéphanie P. Lacour

Stéphanie P. Lacour is an electrical engineer and full professor at EPFL in Lausanne, known for soft, stretchable implantable neural interfaces, notably the electronic dura mater described in Science in 2015.