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Stephen A. Liebhaber

Stephen A. Liebhaber is an American geneticist and Emeritus Professor of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania, known for work on alpha-globin genes and messenger RNA stability.

Stephen A. Osmani

Stephen A. Osmani is a cell biologist and fungal geneticist at Ohio State University known for discovering NIMA, the founding member of the Nek kinase family.

Stephen Albert Johnston

Stephen Albert Johnston is an American molecular biologist who directs the Center for Innovations in Medicine at Arizona State University, known for immunosignaturing and cancer vaccine research.

Stephen B. Baylin

Stephen B. Baylin is an American physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University who pioneered cancer epigenetics, showing that promoter DNA hypermethylation can silence tumor suppressor genes in cancer.

Stephen B. H. Kent

Stephen B. H. Kent, born 1945, is a University of Chicago chemist who pioneered total chemical synthesis of proteins and invented native chemical ligation, making such synthesis practical.

Stephen B. Long

Stephen B. Long is a structural biologist and professor at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York, known for atomic structures of ion channels such as Orai.

Stephen B. Montgomery

Stephen B. Montgomery is a human geneticist and genomics researcher who holds an endowed professorship at Stanford University, studying how genetic variation alters gene expression across human tissues.

Stephen Beverley

Stephen M. Beverley is an American molecular parasitologist at Washington University School of Medicine known for Leishmania genetics and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.

Stephen Buratowski

Stephen Buratowski, born in 1962, is an American biochemist and Hamilton Kuhn Professor at Harvard Medical School known for the "CTD code" linking RNA polymerase II phosphorylation to mRNA processing.

Stephen Burgess

Stephen Burgess is a statistician at the University of Cambridge known for methods for Mendelian randomization, which uses genetic variants to test causal risk factors.

Stephen Busby

Stephen Busby, also known as Stephen J. W. Busby, is a British biochemist and Professor at the University of Birmingham known for work on transcription regulation in Escherichia coli.

Stephen C. Blacklow

Stephen C. Blacklow is a structural biologist who chairs Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School and a Dana-Farber member, known for Notch signaling and ADAM10 structures.

Stephen C. Jameson

Stephen C. Jameson is an American immunologist and Harry Kay Chair at the University of Minnesota who studies CD8+ T cell homeostasis and memory, and was AAI president from 2024.

Stephen C. Kowalczykowski

Stephen C. Kowalczykowski is a biochemist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis, known for defining how RecBCD loads RecA onto DNA and for single-molecule "visual biochemistry".

Stephen C. West

Stephen C. West is a British biochemist who leads the DNA Recombination and Repair Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute, known for discovering the RuvC and GEN1 Holliday junction resolvases.

Stephen C. Woods

Stephen C. Woods, also published as S.C. Woods, is a neuroscientist at the University of Cincinnati who showed in 1979 that brain insulin reduces food intake.

Stephen D. Bell

Stephen D. Bell is a Scottish molecular biologist who studies how archaea organize and duplicate their chromosomes, and has been a professor at The Ohio State University since 2024.

Stephen D. Liberles

Stephen D. Liberles is a neuroscientist, Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, known for mapping vagus nerve sensory neurons.

Stephen D. Roper

Stephen D. Roper, also published as Stephen Roper, is a neuroscientist at the University of Miami known for establishing ATP as the main transmitter linking taste cells to nerves.

Stephen Desiderio

Stephen V. Desiderio is an immunologist and Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University, known for work on V(D)J recombination and RAG proteins.

Stephen DiNardo

Stephen DiNardo is an American molecular and developmental biologist, emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for work on engrailed, hedgehog, and Drosophila stem cell niches.

Stephen Doxsey

Stephen J. Doxsey (1955–2025) was an American cell biologist and professor at UMass Chan Medical School who identified pericentrin and opened up centrosome biology as a molecular field.

Stephen E. Girardin

Stephen E. Girardin is an immunologist and microbiologist at the University of Toronto, best known for showing that the intracellular sensors Nod1 and Nod2 recognize bacterial peptidoglycan fragments.

Stephen E. Straus

Stephen E. Straus (1946–2007) was an American virologist and immunologist at NIH who discovered autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome and directed the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Stephen F. Altschul

Stephen F. Altschul is a computational biologist known for the BLAST family of sequence search programs and their statistical theory, long at NCBI, retiring in 2020.

Stephen F. Heinemann

Stephen F. Heinemann (1939–2014) was an American molecular neuroscientist at the Salk Institute who identified the genes encoding the brain's major excitatory neurotransmitter receptors activated by glutamate and acetylcholine.

Stephen F. Kingsmore

Stephen F. Kingsmore, also known as Stephen Kingsmore, is a geneticist who developed rapid whole-genome sequencing of critically ill newborns and served as president and CEO of the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine.

Stephen Fesik

Stephen W. Fesik is a biochemist and cancer researcher at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, best known for developing SAR by NMR, a foundation of fragment-based drug discovery.

Stephen Francis Traynelis

Stephen Francis Traynelis is an American pharmacologist at Emory University who studies glutamate receptor ion channels and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2025.

Stephen G. Lisberger

Stephen G. Lisberger is an American systems neuroscientist at Duke University who studies smooth pursuit eye movements and cerebellar motor learning, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.