Clinical pharmacology researchers

Roland R. Griffiths

Roland R. Griffiths (1946–2023) was an American psychopharmacologist at Johns Hopkins whose 2006 psilocybin study restarted modern psychedelic research; he founded its Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research in 2019.

RoseJ. Randall

Rose J. Randall, known as Posey, was an American pharmacology researcher at Johns Hopkins and Washington University, and fourth co-author of the 1951 Lowry protein assay paper.

Ryszard Kole

Ryszard Kole is a Polish American pharmacologist who showed pre-mRNA splicing can be a drug target, inventing splice-switching oligonucleotides that underlie approved drugs for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Sabine Hadida

Sabine Hadida is a Spanish medicinal chemist, senior vice president at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, who led the chemistry team behind the cystic fibrosis medicines Kalydeco and Trikafta.

Samuel James Meltzer

Samuel James Meltzer (1851–1920) was an American physiologist and pharmacologist who headed physiology and pharmacology at the Rockefeller Institute and pioneered artificial respiration by tracheal insufflation.

Samy Suissa

Samy Suissa is a Canadian pharmacoepidemiologist at McGill University who heads CNODES, a national drug safety network, and is known for studies showing inhaled corticosteroids prevent asthma deaths.

Sebastian Schneeweiß

Sebastian Schneeweiß is a German-trained physician and pharmacoepidemiologist who is Professor at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Sérgio Henrique Ferreira

Sérgio Henrique Ferreira (1934–2016) was a Brazilian pharmacologist at the University of São Paulo whose discovery in jararaca snake venom led to captopril and the ACE inhibitor drugs.

Shaomeng Wang

Shaomeng Wang (汪少萌) is a Chinese-born medicinal chemist and cancer drug discovery researcher at the University of Michigan who created the PDBbind database and edits the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.

Shuh Narumiya

Shuh Narumiya (成宮周) is a Japanese pharmacologist at Kyoto University who identified all eight prostanoid receptors and defined the roles of Rho kinase (ROCK).

Silvio Garattini

Silvio Garattini is an Italian pharmacologist born in Bergamo in 1928 who founded the Mario Negri Institute in Milan in 1963 and directed it for 55 years.

Sir Henry Dale

Sir Henry Dale, also known as Henry Hallett Dale, was a British physiologist and pharmacologist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize for discovering chemical transmission of nerve impulses.

Sir James W. Black

Sir James W. Black, also known as James Black, was a Scottish pharmacologist who developed beta-blockers and cimetidine and shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Sir John R. Vane

Sir John R. Vane (1927–2004) was a British pharmacologist who shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in Medicine for showing in 1971 how aspirin works and for prostaglandin discoveries.

Soma Weiss

Soma Weiss (1899–1942) was a Hungarian-born American physician and pharmacologist, Hersey Professor at Harvard and Physician-in-Chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, known for Mallory-Weiss syndrome.

Sonia Hernández–Dı́az

Sonia Hernández-Díaz is a Spanish-trained physician and pharmacoepidemiologist, professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for drug safety research in pregnancy.

Stefan Laufer

Stefan Laufer (Stefan A. Laufer) is a German pharmaceutical and medicinal chemist who has held the pharmaceutical chemistry chair at the University of Tübingen since 1999, developing kinase inhibitors such as licofelone and skepinone-L.

Stephen B. Liggett

Stephen B. Liggett is an American physician-scientist in GPCR biology, heart failure, and asthma, known for discovering the first GPCR polymorphism and bitter taste receptor bronchodilation.

Stephen F. Traynelis

Stephen F. Traynelis is an American pharmacologist and professor at Emory University School of Medicine known for his work on the biophysics and pharmacology of glutamate receptors.

Thomas L. Perry

Thomas L. Perry is a physician-biochemist who became a professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia in 1962, known for research on Huntington's chorea, Parkinson's disease, and inherited metabolic disorders of children.

Torald Hermann Sollmann

Torald Hermann Sollmann (1874–1965) was an American pharmacologist at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, called the "dean of American pharmacology", and a founding member of ASPET.

Toshiaki Katada

Toshiaki Katada is a Japanese pharmacologist and biochemist, professor at Musashino University, known for identifying the inhibitory G protein Gi as the substrate ADP-ribosylated by pertussis toxin.

Toshio Narahashi

Toshio Narahashi, born Toshio Ishii (1927–2013), was a Japanese-born American pharmacologist at Northwestern University who showed that tetrodotoxin blocks nerve sodium channels, a founding figure of neurotoxicology.

Trevor G. Smart

Trevor G. Smart (Trevor Graeme Smart) is a British pharmacologist and Schild Professor at University College London, known for Nature papers on GABAA receptors and neurosteroids.

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Tu Youyou (屠呦呦)

Tu Youyou (屠呦呦), born in 1930, is a Chinese pharmaceutical researcher whose team discovered artemisinin from sweet wormwood, earning half of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Veit Flockerzi

Veit Flockerzi is a German pharmacologist who has been Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Saarland University since 1997, known for work on calcium and TRP channels.

Vincenzo Di Marzo

Vincenzo Di Marzo is an Italian pharmacologist at the National Research Council of Italy in Naples and Université Laval, known for coining the names endocannabinoids and endovanilloids.

Vittorio Erspamer

Vittorio Erspamer (1909–1999) was an Italian pharmacologist at the University of Rome who identified enteramine as serotonin and screened amphibian skins and mollusks, discovering peptides including bombesin and the tachykinins.

Vladimir R. Muzykantov

Vladimir R. Muzykantov is a pharmacologist at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, known for immunotargeting drugs and enzymes to blood vessel endothelium and for red blood cell carriers.