Medical and health researchers

Neil Hamilton Fairley

Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley (1891–1966) was an Australian physician and army officer who led Allied malaria control in the Second World War, proving atebrin could suppress the disease.

Neil Kaplowitz is an American physician-scientist and professor of medicine at the University of Southern California, known for research on glutathione transport, alcoholic liver injury, and drug-induced liver damage.

Neil M Vora

Neil M Vora is a physician-epidemiologist who spent nearly ten years at the CDC, led New York City's COVID-19 contact tracing program, and now works on preventing pandemics.

Neil M. Ferguson

Neil M. Ferguson is a mathematical modeller of infectious disease and professor at Imperial College London, known for models of BSE, foot-and-mouth, and COVID-19 that shaped Britain's 2020 lockdown.

Neil M. Resnick

Neil M. Resnick, also known as Neil Resnick, is an American geriatrician who was Chief of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC until 2023.

Neil Pearce

Neil Pearce is a New Zealand epidemiologist and biostatistician, professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, known for asthma research and co-founding ISAAC.

Neil R Poulter

Neil R Poulter is a British physician-scientist, Professor of Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine at Imperial College London since 1997, and Chief Investigator of May Measurement Month.

Neil R. Cashman

Neil R. Cashman is a Canadian neurologist and professor at the University of British Columbia known for showing that misfolded SOD1 spreads in a prion-like manner in ALS.

Neil R. Powe

Neil R. Powe is an American physician-scientist who has served as chief of medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and professor at UCSF since 2009.

Neil Scolding

Neil J. Scolding is a British clinical neuroscientist and neurologist known for multiple sclerosis research and adult stem-cell therapy, and the first Burden Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Bristol, from 1999.

Neil W. Schluger

Neil W. Schluger is an American pulmonologist and tuberculosis researcher, dean of the School of Medicine at New York Medical College since 2023 after leading Columbia's pulmonary division.

Sep 17, 2026

Neill Epperson

Cynthia Neill Epperson is an American reproductive and perinatal psychiatrist who chairs psychiatry at the University of Colorado and studies hormones, stress, and women's mental health.

Nelson L. Michael

Nelson L. Michael is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist who led the RV144 HIV vaccine trial in Thailand, the first to show protection, and developed the Army's ZPIV Zika vaccine.

Nelson Ruiz‐Opazo

Nelson Ruiz-Opazo is a Chilean-trained molecular biologist and Professor of Medicine at Boston University's Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, known for work on salt-sensitive hypertension genetics and the DEspR cancer target.

Oct 21, 2026

Neurologists

Neurologists: specialist physicians who diagnose and treat nervous system disorders (brain, spinal cord, nerves, muscles) non-surgically; trained via neurology residency, ABPN-certified in the US, distinct from neurosurgeons and psychiatrists.

Nevin S. Scrimshaw

Nevin S. Scrimshaw, also known as Nevin Scrimshaw, was an American nutritionist who founded INCAP in Guatemala, chaired MIT's nutrition department, and won the 1991 World Food Prize.

Nevzat Tarhan

Nevzat Tarhan, born in Merzifon, Turkey in 1952, is a Turkish psychiatrist who founded NPİSTANBUL Hospital in 2006 and established Üsküdar University in Istanbul in 2011.

Newsha Ghaeli

Newsha Ghaeli is an Iran-born Canadian researcher and entrepreneur who led urban sensing projects at MIT's Senseable City Lab and is president and co-founder of Biobot Analytics, the first company to commercialize sewage data.

Nezam H. Afdhal

Nezam Afdhal is an Irish-trained hepatologist, chief of gastroenterology and hepatology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and a Harvard Medical School professor of medicine.

Nicholas A. Peppas

Nicholas A. Peppas is a chemical and biomedical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, known for the Peppas equation for non-Fickian drug release and hydrogel drug carriers.

Nicholas A. Soter

Nicholas A. Soter (1939–2025) was an American dermatologist and tenured professor at New York University, known for research connecting mast-cell biology to urticaria, angioedema, and cutaneous necrotizing vasculitis.

Nicholas A. Wright

Sir Nicholas A. Wright, born 1943, is a British histopathologist at Queen Mary University of London known for work on gastrointestinal stem cells and clonal evolution in tumors.

Nicholas C. Grassly

Nicholas C. Grassly is a professor of vaccine epidemiology at Imperial College London whose polio vaccine research shaped the Global Polio Eradication Initiative; he advised the UK government on COVID-19 testing.

Nicholas C. Turner

Nicholas C. Turner is a British medical oncologist and Professor of Molecular Oncology at the Institute of Cancer Research, known for the SERENA-6 and INAVO120 breast cancer trials.

Nicholas C.P. Cross

Nicholas C.P. Cross is a British professor of human genetics at the University of Southampton and director of the Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, known for CML molecular monitoring and the 2009 JAK2 risk-factor discovery.

Nicholas Chiorazzi

Nicholas Chiorazzi is an American physician-scientist and immunologist known for chronic lymphocytic leukemia research; he heads the Karches Center for CLL Research at the Feinstein Institutes, Northwell Health.

Nicholas D. Schiff

Nicholas D. Schiff, also published as Nicholas Schiff, is a neurologist and neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medical College known for research on disorders of consciousness after severe brain injury.

Nicholas Day (physician)

Nicholas P. J. Day is a British clinical tropical-medicine researcher, Professor of Tropical Medicine at Oxford and director of the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok.

Nicholas F. LaRusso

Nicholas F. LaRusso is an American gastroenterologist and hepatologist who spent his career at Mayo Clinic, named the bile duct cells called cholangiocytes, and won the 2014 Friedenwald Medal.