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Naomi Rosenberg

Naomi Rosenberg is an American microbiologist and cancer researcher who developed the first tractable in vitro model of leukemia development and served as dean at Tufts.

Naomi Taylor

Naomi Taylor is an American immunologist and cancer researcher who leads a National Cancer Institute group studying CAR T cells and T cell metabolism for pediatric cancers.

Napoleone Ferrara

Napoleone Ferrara is a cell biologist and physician at UC San Diego, best known for isolating VEGF in 1989 and developing anti-VEGF therapies for cancer and blinding eye disease.

Narla Mohandas

Narla Mohandas, also known as Mohandas Narla, is an American hematologist and red cell physiologist who heads the Laboratory of Red Cell Physiology at the New York Blood Center.

Nasia Safdar

Nasia Safdar is an American infectious disease physician-scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Madison VA, known for preventing C. difficile infection and COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness studies.

Nasser H. Hanna

Nasser H. Hanna is an American medical oncologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, known for lung cancer clinical research and founding End Lung Cancer Now.

Nassim Kamar

Nassim Kamar, born 1972, is a French nephrologist and professor at Université Toulouse III who heads nephrology and organ transplantation at Hôpital Rangueil and established ribavirin as the treatment of chronic hepatitis E in transplant recipients.

Nathan B. Talbot

Nathan B. Talbot (1909–1994) was an American pediatric endocrinologist who built one of the first pediatric endocrine programs in the United States, at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Nathan D. Grubaugh

Nathan D. Grubaugh is an American virologist and genomic epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health who sequences virus genomes to track outbreaks of Zika, dengue, and COVID-19.

Nathan Edwin Brill

Nathan Edwin Brill (1860–1925) was an American physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York who first described Brill–Zinsser disease, the recrudescence of epidemic typhus.

Nathan Ford

Nathan Ford is an infectious-diseases researcher and public-health physician who has worked on HIV treatment and access to medicines with Médecins Sans Frontières since 1998.

Nathan Houchens

Nathan Houchens is an American hospital medicine physician and researcher at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and the University of Michigan, known for work on clinical reasoning and medical education.

Nathan Kuppermann

Nathan Kuppermann is an American pediatric emergency medicine physician and clinical epidemiologist who spent 29 years at UC Davis before joining Children's National in 2024, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2010.

Nathan Mantel

Nathan Mantel (1919–2002) was an American biostatistician who spent 1947 to 1974 at the National Cancer Institute and is best known for the Mantel–Haenszel procedure and the logrank test.

Nathan Wolfe

Nathan Wolfe is a Harvard-trained virus hunter who sampled bush-meat hunters in Central Africa from 2000, founded Global Viral and Metabiota, and wrote The Viral Storm.

Nathanael S. Gray

Nathanael S. Gray is a chemical and systems biologist and the Krishnan-Shah Family Professor at Stanford University whose laboratory's cancer drug discovery informed ceritinib, osimertinib, and asciminib.

Nathaniel Brown (infectious diseases expert)

Nathaniel A. Brown is an American infectious-diseases expert and pharmaceutical developer who led global clinical development of lamivudine and telbivudine for chronic hepatitis B, retiring in 2016.

National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine

National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine (Національна академія медичних наук України), founded 24 February 1993, Ukraine's highest medical research body: 35 institutes, 45 academicians, clinics with over 7,000 beds, now reorganizing into state non-profit enterprises by April 2027.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is an English public body producing evidence-based health and social care guidance for the NHS since 1999.

Naveed Sattar

Naveed Sattar is Professor of Cardiometabolic Medicine at the University of Glasgow, known for his research on diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease, and appointed the UK Government's Obesity Mission Chair in 2023.

Nazneen Rahman

Nazneen Rahman is a British human geneticist who identified cancer predisposition genes including PALB2 and led the Mainstreaming Cancer Genetics program, bringing testing to NHS patients through routine oncology care.

Neal A. Halsey

Neal A. Halsey, also known as Neal Halsey, is an American physician and Emeritus Professor at Johns Hopkins who founded the Institute for Vaccine Safety in 1997.

Neal D. Shore

Neal D. Shore is an American urologist and genitourinary oncology researcher who directs the Carolina Urologic Research Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and led the relugolix HERO trial.

Neal G. Copeland

Neal G. Copeland is an American cancer geneticist at MD Anderson who co-developed recombineering and used the Sleeping Beauty transposon to find cancer genes in mice.

Neal L. Benowitz

Neal L. Benowitz is an American physician-pharmacologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on nicotine pharmacology and tobacco regulation.

Neal S. Young

Neal S. Young, also known as Neal Young, is an American hematologist at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute known for work on aplastic anemia.

Ned H. Kalin

Ned H. Kalin is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist, chair of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin since 1991, known for research on the brain mechanisms of anxiety.

Neff Walker

Neff Walker is a Senior Scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health known for mathematical modeling of newborn, child, and maternal survival in low- and middle-income countries.

Neil H Riordan

Neil H Riordan is an American stem cell researcher and entrepreneur who founded the Stem Cell Institute in Panama, which treats diseases with umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells.

Neil H. Raskin

Neil H. Raskin (1935–2026) was an American neurologist and headache medicine researcher, professor emeritus at UCSF, known for describing hypnic and thunderclap headache, the Raskin Protocol for migraine, and the textbook Headache.