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Stewart Shuman

Stewart Shuman is an American molecular biologist at the Sloan Kettering Institute, known for work on RNA and DNA ligases, mRNA capping enzymology, and the RNA polymerase II CTD code.

Struther Arnott

Struther Arnott (1934–2013) was a Scottish molecular biologist and X-ray crystallographer who determined DNA, RNA, and carbohydrate structures, developed linked-atom least-squares refinement, and served as Principal of the University of St Andrews.

Stuart A. Aaronson

Stuart A. Aaronson, born 1942, is an American cancer biologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai whose oncogene discoveries underlie the drug Herceptin.

Stuart A. Lipton

Stuart A. Lipton, also known as Stuart Lipton, is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Scripps Research in San Diego, known for the Alzheimer's drug memantine's mechanism.

Stuart B. Levy

Stuart B. Levy (1938–2019) was an American physician and microbiologist at Tufts University who showed that antibiotic use in farm animals spreads resistant bacteria to people.

Stuart C. Sealfon

Stuart C. Sealfon, also known as Stuart Sealfon, is a physician-scientist in neurology and pharmacology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

Stuart Cull-Candy

Stuart Cull-Candy is a British neuroscientist at University College London who pioneered patch-clamp studies of glutamate receptors and was elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2002.

Stuart Firestein

Stuart J. Firestein is an American neuroscientist at Columbia University who studies olfaction, gave the first functional evidence that cloned odorant receptor genes encode odor receptors, and wrote Ignorance and Failure.

Stuart G. Tangye

Stuart G. Tangye is an Australian immunologist who leads the Immunology & Immunodeficiency Lab at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, studying antibody responses and primary immunodeficiencies.

Stuart H. Yuspa

Stuart H. Yuspa is an American physician and cancer researcher who spent his career at the National Cancer Institute, defining the stages of skin carcinogenesis.

Stuart K. Kim

Stuart Kilsu Kim is an American developmental biologist and geneticist, emeritus professor at Stanford University, known for identifying a GATA transcription circuit that guides aging in C. elegans.

Stuart Kauffman

Stuart Alan Kauffman is an American theoretical biologist and complexity theorist who introduced random Boolean network models of genetic regulation in 1969 and won a MacArthur Fellowship in 1987.

Stuart Kornfeld

Stuart Kornfeld (1936–2025) was an American biochemist and physician at Washington University in St. Louis who discovered how lysosomal enzymes are tagged with mannose 6-phosphate, enabling enzyme replacement therapies.

Stuart L. Schreiber

Stuart L. Schreiber is an American chemical biologist, emeritus professor at Harvard and Broad Institute co-founder, known for coining "molecular glues" and leading Arena BioWorks since 2023.

Stuart Lindsay

Stuart M. Lindsay, born 1951 in London, is a British-born American physicist at Arizona State University known for recognition tunnelling, which identifies DNA bases and amino acids from electrical currents.

Stuart Linn

Stuart Linn is an American biochemist and molecular biologist, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley since 1968, known for DNA repair research including AP endonucleases and oxidative damage.

Stuart Orkin

Stuart H. Orkin, born 1946 in Manhattan, is an American hematologist and stem cell biologist at Harvard whose discoveries enabled the first approved CRISPR gene-editing therapy.

Stuart Schlossman

Stuart Franklin Schlossman (1935–2023) was an American immunologist who defined the surface molecules of human T lymphocytes and co-founded the international CD nomenclature at Harvard and Dana-Farber.

Sucharit Bhakdi

Sucharit Bhakdi (born 1946, Washington D.C.), Thai-German microbiologist, former head of the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene at Mainz University (retired 2012), noted for pore-forming toxin research, later a prominent spreader of debunked COVID-19 misinformation, acquitted of incitement in 2023.

Sue Biggins

Sue Biggins is an American cell biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center who studies the kinetochore and led the first isolation of kinetochores from yeast.

Sue Black (Scottish anatomist)

Sue Black, Baroness Black of Strome, is a Scottish forensic anthropologist who led mass-grave identification in Kosovo and built a hand-identification system convicting child abusers.

Sue Goo Rhee

Sue Goo Rhee is a Korean-born biochemist known for isolating the phospholipase C isozymes, discovering peroxiredoxins, and showing that hydrogen peroxide acts as an intracellular messenger.

Sue K. Donaldson

Sue K. Donaldson, also known as Sue Karen Donaldson, is an American nurse scientist who was dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing from 1994 to 2001.

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh is an American primatologist best known for her studies of language and cognition in bonobos, above all Kanzi, who acquired spoken-English comprehension and lexigram symbols.

Sue Wickner

Sue Wickner is an American molecular biologist at the NIH who studies ATP-dependent molecular chaperones and proteases, the cellular machines that fold and degrade proteins.

Suliana Manley

Suliana Manley is an American biophysicist and full professor at EPFL who heads the Laboratory of Experimental Biophysics, developing smart and super-resolution microscopy to study the mitochondrial life cycle.

Sumiko Inouye

Sumiko Inouye is a molecular biologist and biochemist at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, New Jersey, known for her work on bacterial msDNA, discovered in 1984.

Sun Hur

Sun Hur is a Korean-born structural biologist and immunologist at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital who studies how the immune system distinguishes self from non-self RNA.

Sune K. Bergström

Sune K. Bergström (1916–2004) was a Swedish biochemist who shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for isolating prostaglandins and determining their chemical structures.

Sune Kvist

Sune Kvist is an immunologist and molecular biologist known for his 1985 Cell paper showing that an adenovirus type 2 glycoprotein blocks MHC class I expression at the cell surface.