Medical and health researchers

Naeemah Abrahams

Naeemah Abrahams is a South African public health researcher who leads the Gender and Health Research Unit of the South African Medical Research Council, known for national femicide studies.

Naga Chalasani

Naga Chalasani is an American hepatologist at Indiana University School of Medicine who led the Drug-Induced Liver Injury Network and wrote the AASLD fatty liver disease guidance.

Nagagopal Venna

Nagagopal Venna is a neurologist and neuroimmunologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for early work on HIV neurological complications and rare autoimmune disorders.

Nagahiro Minato

Nagahiro Minato (湊長博) is a Japanese immunologist known for research on PD-1 with Nobel laureate Tasuku Honjo, and president of Kyoto University from 2020 to 2026.

Nagahiro Saijo

Nagahiro Saijo (西條長宏) is a Japanese medical oncologist known for lung cancer drug trials, founding the Japan Society of Medical Oncology, and leading the JCOG 9511 trial.

Naiyer A Rizvi

Naiyer A Rizvi is a Canadian-trained American physician-scientist who led the CheckMate 063 trial behind nivolumab's lung cancer approval and served as Director of Thoracic Oncology at Columbia.

Najib M. Rahman

Najib M. Rahman is a British respiratory physician and Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Oxford, director of its trials unit, known for the MIST2 and RAMPP pleural disease trials.

Nancy A. Rigotti is an American general internist and tobacco-control researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for clinical trials of treatments for tobacco dependence.

Nancy Berliner

Nancy Berliner is an American hematologist who leads the Division of Hematology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and is a leading expert on adult HLH.

Nancy C. Andreasen

Nancy C. Andreasen, also known as Nancy Andreasen, is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the University of Iowa who pioneered using MRI to study schizophrenia and won the 2000 National Medal of Science.

Nancy C. Andrews

Nancy C. Andrews is an American physician-scientist in hematology and iron metabolism who has led Boston Children's Hospital research since 2021 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Nancy E. Kemeny

Nancy E. Kemeny is an American medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering known for developing hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy for colorectal cancer that has spread to the liver.

Nancy E. Lane

Nancy E. Lane is an American rheumatologist, Distinguished Professor at UC Davis and founding director of its Center for Musculoskeletal Health, known for osteoarthritis and bone research.

Nancy F. Olivieri

Nancy F. Olivieri is a Canadian hematologist and University of Toronto professor known for the 1990s dispute with Apotex over deferiprone, a landmark case in research ethics.

Nancy F. Woods

Nancy F. Woods, also known as Nancy Fugate Woods, is an American nurse scientist and dean emeritus of the University of Washington School of Nursing, known for menopause research.

Nancy Hogg

Nancy Hogg is an immunologist who led the Leukocyte Adhesion Laboratory in London and is known for LFA-1 integrin research and identifying KINDLIN3 mutations as the cause of leukocyte adhesion deficiency-III.

Nancy J. Brown

Nancy J. Brown is an American physician-scientist in clinical pharmacology who studies blood pressure and clotting, and has been dean of Yale School of Medicine, the first woman in the post, since 2020.

Nancy J. Sullivan

Nancy J. Sullivan is an American virologist and viral immunologist who developed the first Ebola vaccine shown to protect primates and discovered mAb114, FDA-approved as Ebanga in 2020.

Nancy L. Harris

Nancy Lee Harris is an American hematopathologist, emerita professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, who led the REAL lymphoma classification that became the WHO standard.

Nancy L. Keating

Nancy L. Keating, also known as Nancy Lynn Keating, is a Harvard Medical School professor and practicing internist who studies how cancer care is organized, delivered, and priced.

Nancy N. Baxter

Nancy N. Baxter, also published as Nancy Baxter, is a Canadian clinical epidemiologist and colorectal surgeon known for her 2014 study of surgical safety checklists in Ontario.

Nancy Padian

Nancy Padian is an American epidemiologist known for research on heterosexual HIV transmission and female-controlled prevention methods, including the MIRA trial of the diaphragm in southern Africa.

Nancy R. Cook

Nancy R. Cook, also known as Nancy Romanowicz Cook, is an American biostatistician at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital known for cardiovascular risk prediction research.

Nancy Raab‐Traub

Nancy Raab-Traub is an American virologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill known for her research on the Epstein–Barr virus and the cancers it causes.

Nancy Ratner

Nancy Ratner is an American Schwann-cell biologist and cancer researcher at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, known for identifying EGFR and MEK as drug targets in neurofibromatosis type 1.

Nancy Rothwell

Nancy Rothwell is a British physiologist and neuroscientist known for research on brain injury and stroke, and president of the University of Manchester from 2010 to 2024.

Nancy Wexler

Nancy Sabin Wexler is an American neuropsychologist who led the 23-year Venezuela study that produced the 1983 DNA marker and the 1993 identification of the Huntington's disease gene.

Nanette Frances Santoro

Nanette Frances Santoro is an American reproductive endocrinologist and E. Stewart Taylor Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Colorado, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018.

Nanette K. Wenger

Nanette Kass Wenger, born 1930, is an American cardiologist at Emory University and Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta who established coronary heart disease in women as a distinct field of research and care.