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Susan R. Wessler
Susan R. Wessler is an American plant geneticist known for discovering MITEs and showing that transposable elements drive genome evolution in plants such as maize and rice.
Susan S. Golden
Susan S. Golden is an American molecular biologist at UC San Diego who studies the cyanobacterial circadian clock and directs its Center for Circadian Biology.
Susan S. Taylor
Susan S. Taylor, born 1942, is an American protein chemist and structural biologist at UC San Diego whose laboratory solved the first protein kinase crystal structure in 1991.
Susan Strome
Susan Strome is an American developmental geneticist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, known for discovering P granules and MES chromatin regulators in C. elegans.
Susan T. Lovett
Susan T. Lovett is a molecular biologist at Brandeis University who studies DNA repair, recombination, and genome instability in E. coli, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Susan W. Craig
Susan W. Craig is a cell biologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine known for her work on vinculin, which anchors actin filaments at cell adhesion junctions.
Susan W. Liebman
Susan W. Liebman is a yeast geneticist and prion biologist, Distinguished University Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois Chicago and now a research professor at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Susan Weiss
Susan R. Weiss is an American virologist and professor of microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania whose coronavirus research became a resource for SARS-CoV-2 studies after 2020.
Susana M. Coelho
Susana M. Coelho is a Portuguese evolutionary developmental biologist who uses brown algae to study multicellularity and sex determination, directing a department at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen since 2020.
Susanna M. Lewis
Susanna M. Lewis is an immunologist known for her work on V(D)J recombination, the DNA rearrangement that assembles antigen receptor genes in T and B cells.
Susanne Mandrup
Susanne Mandrup is a Danish molecular biologist and professor of biochemistry at the University of Southern Denmark who studies transcriptional networks regulating metabolism and adipocyte differentiation in obesity.
Susanne S. Renner
Susanne S. Renner is a German botanist who led the Munich Botanical Garden and herbaria from 2003 to 2020 and studies plant sexual systems and crop origins.
Susumu Hagiwara
Susumu Hagiwara (1922–1989) was a Japanese-born zoologist and physiologist, professor at UCLA and a National Academy of Sciences member, best remembered for his studies of calcium channels in excitable cells.
Susumu Nishimura
Susumu Nishimura (西村暹) was a Japanese biochemist at the National Cancer Center Research Institute in Tokyo known for queuosine and modified nucleosides in transfer RNA.
Susumu Ohno
Susumu Ohno (大野 進, 1928–2000) was a Japanese-born American geneticist who spent his career at City of Hope in California, studying sex chromosomes and evolution by gene duplication.
Susumu Tonegawa
Susumu Tonegawa (利根川進, 1939–2026) was a Japanese neuroscientist who won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering antibody diversity, then studied learning and memory at MIT.
Suyun Huang
Suyun Huang is a cancer biologist and professor at VCU School of Medicine who studies how cancers spread to the brain and the RNA modification m6A in glioma.
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Suzana Herculano-Houzel is a Brazilian neuroscientist who developed the isotropic fractionator, a method for counting brain cells, and used it to show the human brain has about 86 billion neurons.
Suzanne Adlof
Suzanne M. Adlof is a speech-language scientist and professor at the University of South Carolina known for research on developmental language disorder and dyslexia in children, and a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award recipient.
Suzanne Eaton
Suzanne Eaton (1959–2019) was an American cell biologist who studied how cells form tissues in the fruit fly, leading a research group at MPI-CBG in Dresden.
Suzanne J. Baker
Suzanne J. Baker is a molecular biologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis who studies pediatric high-grade glioma and co-discovered histone H3 mutations in these brain tumors.
Suzanne L. Topalian
Suzanne L. Topalian is an American surgeon and physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University whose trials of PD-1-blocking antibodies helped establish checkpoint blockade for melanoma, lung, and kidney cancer.
Suzanne R. Pfeffer
Suzanne R. Pfeffer is an American cell biologist at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for her work on Rab GTPases, vesicle trafficking, and inherited Parkinson's disease.
Suzanne Walker
Suzanne Walker is an American biochemist at Harvard Medical School known for her work on bacterial cell wall assembly and the human enzyme O-GlcNAc transferase.
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo, Swedish geneticist and 2022 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, founder of paleogenomics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; sequenced the Neanderthal genome, discovered the Denisovans, and showed ~2% Neanderthal DNA in modern non-Africans.
Sven Diederichs
Sven Diederichs is a German molecular biologist and professor at University Hospital Freiburg, known for discovering the long non-coding RNA MALAT1 and for work on microRNAs and FGFR mutations.
Sven Enerbäck
Sven Enerbäck is a Swedish molecular biologist and professor at the University of Gothenburg known for showing in 2009 that adults, like infants, carry active brown fat.
Sven-Eric Jordt
Sven-Eric Jordt is an American-based sensory neuroscientist and toxicologist, Professor of Anesthesiology at Duke University, known for identifying TRPA1 as the receptor for airway irritants like tear gas.
Svetlana Mojsov
Svetlana Mojsov, born 1947 in Skopje, is a Macedonian-born biochemist at Rockefeller University who identified GLP-1 as the incretin hormone stimulating insulin release, the basis of Ozempic and Wegovy.
Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner was a South African-born British molecular biologist at Cambridge who established messenger RNA, made the worm C. elegans a model organism, and shared the 2002 Nobel Prize.