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Sung‐Hou Kim

Sung-Hou Kim (김성호), born 1937, is a Korean-American structural biologist at UC Berkeley known for crystal structures of transfer RNA and the Ras cancer protein.

Sunney I. Chan

Sunney I. Chan (1936–2025) was an American chemist and biophysicist, a Caltech professor who later led Academia Sinica in Taiwan and established the tricopper-cluster mechanism of methane oxidation.

Suresh Subramani

Suresh Subramani, who publishes as S. Subramani, is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC San Diego, known for discoveries on how proteins are imported into peroxisomes.

Surinder Vasal

Surinder Kumar Vasal, born 1938 in Amritsar, India, is an Indian plant geneticist who shared the 2000 World Food Prize for developing quality protein maize at CIMMYT.

Susan Amara

Susan G. Amara is an American neuroscientist known for cloning the human noradrenaline transporter and serving as Scientific Director of the NIMH Intramural Research Program since 2013.

Susan Carey

Susan Carey is an American developmental psychologist known for her work on innate foundations of human knowledge and conceptual change in children, author of The Origin of Concepts.

Susan D. Iversen

Susan D. Iversen (1940–2025) was a British neuropsychopharmacologist who worked at Cambridge, directed behavioral pharmacology at Merck Sharp & Dohme, and led Oxford's psychology department.

Susan E. Mango

Susan E. Mango is a developmental biologist and professor at the University of Basel who studies how organs form in the nematode C. elegans, and a 2008 MacArthur Fellow.

Susan Ferro‐Novick

Susan Ferro-Novick is an American cell biologist at UC San Diego known for identifying the TRAPP complex that tethers vesicles between the ER and Golgi.

Susan Gasser

Susan M. Gasser (born 1955) is a Swiss molecular biologist known for research on chromatin organization and genome stability, and director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute from 2004 to 2019.

Susan Gelman

Susan Gelman is a developmental psychologist at the University of Michigan whose research shows that young children assume categories have hidden underlying realities, a view called psychological essentialism.

Susan Goldin-Meadow

Susan Goldin-Meadow is an American developmental psychologist at the University of Chicago, known for showing that deaf children without language input create structured gesture systems.

Susan Gottesman

Susan Gottesman is an American molecular geneticist at the National Cancer Institute who helped found two fields of bacterial gene regulation, controlled proteolysis and small regulatory RNAs.

Susan Greenfield

Susan Greenfield is a British neuroscientist whose research on acetylcholinesterase led her to found Neuro-Bio in 2013, and who directed the Royal Institution from 1998 to 2010.

Susan Harbison

Susan Harbison is an American biologist who studies the genetics of sleep in fruit flies as a Senior Investigator at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, and received the 2012 PECASE award.

Susan K. Buchanan

Susan K. Buchanan is an American structural biologist at the National Institutes of Health who determined structures of bacterial outer membrane proteins, including BamA, and received a 2002 PECASE award.

Susan K. Dutcher

Susan K. Dutcher is an American geneticist at Washington University School of Medicine known for her research on cilia and flagella using the alga Chlamydomonas.

Susan K. McConnell

Susan K. McConnell is a neuroscientist who studies cerebral cortex development and has been a Stanford professor since 1989, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

Susan L. Ackerman

Susan L. Ackerman is an American neuroscientist, the Stephen Kuffler Professor at UC San Diego and an HHMI Investigator since 2005, known for mouse genetics showing that transfer RNA defects cause neurodegeneration.

Susan L. Hamilton

Susan L. Hamilton is a molecular physiologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston whose research on ryanodine receptor calcium channels underlies malignant hyperthermia and heat stroke.

Susan L. Swain

Susan L. Swain is an American immunologist known for her work on CD4 T-cell memory and immune aging, and a professor at UMass Chan Medical School.

Susan Leeman

Susan Leeman was an American neuroscientist at Boston University who isolated and chemically defined the neuropeptides substance P and neurotensin, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1991.

Susan Lindquist

Susan Lindquist (1949–2016) was an American molecular biologist, MIT professor, and director of the Whitehead Institute who showed that protein folding, not just DNA, drives inheritance, evolution, and disease.

Susan M. Kaech

Susan M. Kaech, also known as Susan Kaech, is an American immunologist known for discovering how memory CD8 T cells form and how tumors disable them, and director of immunology at the Allen Institute since 2026.

Susan M. Kingsman

Susan M. Kingsman is a molecular biologist who ran a large retrovirus research group at Oxford and co-founded the gene-therapy company Oxford BioMedica in 1995, serving as its research director.

Susan M. Lea

Susan M. Lea is a British structural biologist, Endowed Chair at St Jude Children's Research Hospital, formerly at Oxford and the National Cancer Institute, studying host-pathogen interactions.

Susan M. Parkhurst

Susan M. Parkhurst, also known as Susan Parkhurst, is an American molecular biologist and geneticist who has led a laboratory at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle since 1992.

Susan Marqusee

Susan Marqusee is an American biophysical chemist at UC Berkeley known for work on protein folding, including the de novo design of an alpha-helical peptide.

Susan McCouch

Susan McCouch is an American rice geneticist at Cornell University who developed the first molecular genetic map of rice and helped make rice a model organism.

Susan R. Wente

Susan R. Wente, also known as Susan Wente, is an American cell biologist known for work on nuclear pores and mRNA export, and Wake Forest University's 14th president.