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Stephen G. Oliver

Stephen G. Oliver is a molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor of Systems Biology at the University of Cambridge, known for yeast functional genomics and systems biology.

Stephen Goff

Stephen Goff is an American virologist at Columbia University known for genetic analysis of retrovirus replication and for showing that clam leukemia spreads as a transmissible cancer.

Stephen H. Bryant

Stephen H. Bryant is a computational biologist and Senior Investigator at NCBI, NIH, known for PubChem and the Conserved Domain Database, and a 2016 Herman Skolnik Award recipient.

Stephen H. Friend

Stephen H. Friend is a clinician-scientist who led the team that cloned the first human cancer susceptibility gene, founded Sage Bionetworks, worked at Apple on digital health, and co-founded 4YouandMe.

Stephen H. Howell

Stephen H. Howell is an American plant molecular biologist at Iowa State University known for introducing recombinant DNA into plants and for work on plant stress responses.

Stephen H. Hughes

Stephen H. Hughes is an American virologist known for structural work on HIV reverse transcriptase and for showing that HIV-infected cells persist by clonal expansion.

Stephen H. Leppla

Stephen H. Leppla is an American bacterial toxin biologist who is Chief of the Microbial Pathogenesis Section at NIAID in Bethesda, Maryland, studying anthrax toxin.

Stephen H. Scott

Stephen H. Scott is a neuroscientist at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, known for research on voluntary motor control, who invented the KINARM robotic system in 1998.

Stephen Harrison (structural biologist)

Stephen Harrison, also known as Stephen C. Harrison, is an American structural biologist at Harvard Medical School who pioneered high-resolution virus crystallography, beginning with tomato bushy stunt virus in 1978.

Stephen Hedrick

Stephen M. Hedrick is an American immunologist at UC San Diego who helped identify the T cell antigen receptor and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Stephen J Smith

Stephen J Smith is an American cellular and molecular neuroscientist, Professor Emeritus at Stanford, known for pioneering calcium imaging in neurons and co-inventing array tomography.

Stephen J. Benkovic

Stephen J. Benkovic is an American enzymologist and chemical biologist at Pennsylvania State University, a Penn State faculty member since 1965, known for enzyme dynamics and discovering the purinosome.

Stephen J. Galli

Stephen J. Galli is an immunologist and the Mary Hewitt Loveless Professor at Stanford School of Medicine, known for research on mast cells, basophils, and IgE antibodies in allergy.

Stephen J. Giovannoni

Stephen J. Giovannoni is an American marine microbiologist at Oregon State University known for culturing SAR11, the most abundant ocean bacteria, and showing its genome is streamlined.

Stephen J. Gould

Stephen J. Gould is an American molecular biologist and Johns Hopkins professor who identified PEX1 and other genes behind peroxisome biogenesis disorders, and now studies exosomes.

Stephen J. Kish

Stephen J. Kish is a Canadian neuroscientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto known for post-mortem brain chemistry studies of Parkinson's disease and stimulant addiction.

Stephen J. Moss

Stephen J. Moss is a neuroscientist and professor of neuroscience at Tufts University School of Medicine known for research on how phosphorylation regulates GABA receptor trafficking.

Stephen J. O’Brien

Stephen J. O'Brien is an American geneticist who led the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Genomic Diversity from 1986 to 2012, known for cheetah genetics and the CCR5-Δ32 AIDS-resistance gene.

Stephen J. Russell

Stephen J. Russell, also known as Stephen Russell, is an American-based hematologist and molecular medicine researcher at Mayo Clinic known for oncolytic measles virotherapy and co-founding Vyriad.

Stephen J. Tapscott

Stephen J. Tapscott is an American molecular biologist and neurologist at Fred Hutch in Seattle, known for defining MyoD as a master switch for muscle formation.

Stephen Kuffler

Stephen Kuffler (1913–1980) was a Hungarian-born American neurobiologist who founded modern neurobiology, established the world's first neurobiology department at Harvard in 1966, and mentored Nobel laureates Hubel and Wiesel.

Stephen L. Gluck

Stephen L. Gluck is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist at UCSF known for his 1988 studies showing that kidney intercalated cells hold the proton pump that acidifies urine.

Stephen L. Hoffman

Stephen L. Hoffman is an American tropical medicine physician-scientist who led the Naval Medical Research Center malaria program and founded Sanaria Inc., developer of the PfSPZ malaria vaccine.

Stephen L. Mayo

Stephen L. Mayo is a computational biologist and protein designer at Caltech, known for the first fully automated protein sequence design system and the ORBIT and TRIAD software.

Stephen M. Cohen

Stephen M. Cohen (Stephen Michael Cohen) is a Canadian developmental biologist known for work on morphogen gradients and microRNAs, and a professor at the University of Copenhagen since 2014.

Stephen M. Plaza

Stephen M. Plaza is a computational neuroscientist and software engineering manager at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, known for reconstructing fruit fly neural circuits and developing segmentation algorithms.

Stephen M. Smith

Stephen M. Smith is an Oxford neuroscientist who co-founded the FSL brain MRI analysis software, led major parts of the Human Connectome Project, and leads UK Biobank's brain imaging.

Stephen Maren

Stephen Maren is an American neuroscientist known for research on the brain circuits of fear learning, extinction, and relapse. He directs the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Stephen Neidle

Stephen Neidle (born 1946) is a British chemical biologist and Emeritus Professor at the UCL School of Pharmacy known for establishing G-quadruplex DNA structures as targets for cancer drug discovery.

Stephen Nutt

Stephen Nutt, also published as Stephen L. Nutt, is an Australian immunologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, known for defining the roles of Pax5 and Blimp1.