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Steve Weiner

Steve Weiner, full name Stephen Weiner, is a professor emeritus at the Weizmann Institute of Science who studies biomineralization, coauthored the field's primary textbook, and founded microarchaeology.

Steven A. Benner

Steven A. Benner (born 1954) is an American chemist and astrobiologist whose laboratory first synthesized a gene encoding an enzyme and DNA with 12 nucleotides.

Steven A. Goldman

Steven A. Goldman is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at the University of Rochester known for research on neural stem cells and glial progenitor cell therapy.

Steven A. Hillyard

Steven A. Hillyard (born 1942) is an American cognitive neuroscientist at UC San Diego who showed that selective attention amplifies attended inputs and codiscovered the N400 brain potential.

Steven A. Narod

Steven A. Narod, also known as Steven Narod, is a Canadian medical geneticist who studies hereditary breast and ovarian cancer at Women's College Hospital in Toronto.

Steven A. Porcelli

Steven A. Porcelli is an American immunologist and physician-scientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, known for establishing that CD1 molecules present lipid antigens to T cells.

Steven A. Rosenberg

Steven A. Rosenberg is an American cancer immunotherapy researcher who, as Chief of the National Cancer Institute's Surgery Branch since 1974, developed the first effective immunotherapies for advanced cancer.

Steven A. Siegelbaum

Steven A. Siegelbaum is an American neuroscientist at Columbia University who studies ion channels and hippocampal circuits underlying learning, memory, and social behavior, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2012.

Steven A. Wasserman

Steven A. Wasserman is a molecular biologist at the University of California, San Diego who uses Drosophila to study Toll signaling in development and innate immunity.

Steven C. Almo

Steven C. Almo is an American structural biologist and biochemist who chairs Biochemistry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and led an NIH structural genomics consortium.

Steven C. Hebert

Steven C. Hebert (1946–2008) was an American nephrologist and physiologist who cloned the kidney salt transporters NKCC2 and ROMK and the calcium-sensing receptor, and chaired physiology at Yale.

Steven Cannon

Steven Cannon is an American plant genomicist and USDA-ARS Research Geneticist in Ames, Iowa, and adjunct professor at Iowa State, known for legume genomics and the 2012 PECASE award.

Steven Clarke

Steven G. Clarke, born 1949, is an American biochemist at UCLA known for discovering the protein L-isoaspartyl repair methyltransferase and the first protein arginine methyltransferase family member.

Steven D. Munger

Steven D. Munger is an American neuroscientist studying taste and smell, honored with the 2003 Presidential Early Career Award and now a professor at the University of Virginia.

Steven D. Rosen

Steven D. Rosen is an American glycobiologist and Professor Emeritus of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco, known for cloning the lymphocyte homing receptor L-selectin in 1989.

Steven D. Tanksley

Steven D. Tanksley is an American molecular geneticist and emeritus professor of plant breeding at Cornell University, known for the first molecular maps of tomato and rice.

Steven E. Artandi

Steven E. Artandi is an American oncologist and cancer biologist who studies telomerase in cancer and aging; he directs the Stanford Cancer Institute and holds an endowed professorship at Stanford.

Steven E. Brenner

Steven E. Brenner is a computational biologist and professor at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for WebLogo, RNA splicing regulation, and newborn genome screening.

Steven E. Hyman

Steven E. Hyman is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Harvard who directed the National Institute of Mental Health from 1996 to 2001 and served as Harvard provost from 2001 to 2011.

Steven E. Lindow

Steven E. Lindow is an American plant pathologist and microbial ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for discovering how ice-nucleation-active bacteria cause crop frost damage and developing biological controls against it.

Steven E. Petersen

Steven E. Petersen is an American cognitive neuroscientist at Washington University in St. Louis, known for neuroimaging studies of attention networks, single-word processing, and the brain's functional organization.

Steven E. Rokita

Steven E. Rokita is a professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, since 2012, known for chemical probes of DNA structure and the flavin-dependent iodotyrosine deiodinase.

Steven F Dowdy

Steven F Dowdy is an American cell biologist and professor at UC San Diego, known for protein transduction technology delivering proteins into living cells via TAT peptides.

Steven Finkbeiner

Steven Finkbeiner, also known as Steve Finkbeiner, is a neuroscientist who directs the Center for Systems and Therapeutics at the Gladstone Institutes and is known for inventing robotic microscopy.

Steven Flavell

Steven W. Flavell is a systems neuroscientist, Associate Professor at MIT's Picower Institute, and an HHMI Investigator who studies long-lasting behavioral states in C. elegans.

Steven G. Boxer

Steven G. Boxer is an American biophysical chemist, the Camille Dreyfus Professor at Stanford, known for vibrational Stark spectroscopy and electric fields in enzyme catalysis.

Steven Grant

Steven Grant is an American physician-scientist at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, known for research into drug combinations that kill blood cancers by disrupting survival signaling.

Steven H. Sacks

Steven H. Sacks is a British nephrologist and transplantation immunologist at King's College London known for showing that locally made complement C3 regulates kidney graft rejection.

Steven Hahn

Steven Hahn is an American molecular biologist at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle, known for cloning the yeast TATA-binding protein and defining how the transcription preinitiation complex assembles.

Steven Henikoff

Steven Henikoff is an American molecular biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, an HHMI Investigator since 1990 known for centromere research and the CUT&RUN and CUT&Tag methods.