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Nicolas Maurice Arthus

Nicolas Maurice Arthus (1862–1945) was a French immunologist and physiologist who discovered the Arthus reaction, a localized immune-complex inflammation from repeated serum injections, and demonstrated calcium's essential role in blood coagulation.

Nicole Casadevall

Nicole Casadevall, born 1945, is a French physician-scientist and hematologist at Inserm and Hôtel-Dieu de Paris who identified neutralizing anti-erythropoietin antibodies as the cause of epoetin-induced pure red-cell aplasia.

Nicole Lurie

Nicole Lurie is an American physician and health services researcher who served as US Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at HHS from 2009 to 2017.

Nicoletta Colombo

Nicoletta Colombo is an Italian gynecologic oncologist who directs the Division of Medical Gynecologic Oncology at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan and led the KEYNOTE-826 trial.

Nicolino Ruperto

Nicolino Ruperto is an Italian pediatric rheumatologist who co-founded the PRINTO trials network in 1996 and became a full professor at the University of Milan-Bicocca in 2024.

Nicos A. Nicola

Nicos A. Nicola, born 1950 in Cyprus, is an Australian biochemist and cytokine biologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne who purified G-CSF and discovered SOCS proteins.

Niels Borregaard

Niels Borregaard (1951–2017) was a Danish physician-scientist and hematologist who defined the cell biology of the neutrophil granulocyte, discovering the secretory vesicle and the antimicrobial proteins NGAL and hCAP-18.

Niels Ryberg Finsen

Niels Ryberg Finsen was a Faroese-born Danish physician who founded modern phototherapy, treating the skin tuberculosis lupus vulgaris with concentrated light, and won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Nigel Benjamin

Nigel Benjamin is a British clinical pharmacologist known for research on nitric oxide, professor at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London, elected FMedSci in 2001.

Nigel Mackman

Nigel Mackman is a hematologist and John Parker Distinguished Professor at UNC Chapel Hill since 2007, known for research on tissue factor, thrombosis, and coagulation-inflammation crosstalk in cancer and sickle cell disease.

Nigel W. Bunnett

Nigel W. Bunnett is a neuroscientist and pharmacologist at New York University known for work on protease-activated receptors, neurogenic inflammation, and endosomal signaling in chronic pain.

Nikhil C. Munshi

Nikhil C. Munshi is an Indian-born hematologist who directs myeloma research and CAR T-cell therapy at Dana-Farber, and led the 2021 trial of idecabtagene vicleucel for myeloma.

Nikhil Wagle

Nikhil Wagle is an American physician-scientist in cancer genomics and precision oncology, a Harvard Medical School associate professor and breast medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Niki M. Moutsopoulos

Niki M. Moutsopoulos, also published as Niki Moutsopoulos, is a Greek-trained American physician-scientist in oral mucosal immunology who leads oral immunity research at NIH and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

Nikolaus Schultz

Nikolaus Schultz is a computational oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who co-leads cBioPortal and OncoKB, a precision oncology knowledge base partially recognized by the US FDA.

Nilesh J. Samani

Nilesh J. Samani is a British cardiologist and human geneticist, Professor of Cardiology at the University of Leicester, whose research established the inherited basis of coronary artery disease.

Nils-Göran Larsson

Nils-Göran Larsson is a Swedish physician-scientist in mitochondrial genetics, Professor at Karolinska Institutet since 2016 and a former founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing.

Nima Sharifi

Nima Sharifi is a prostate cancer medical oncologist and physician-scientist who identified the HSD3B1 mutation driving castration-resistant prostate cancer, leading the Desai Sethi Urology Institute since 2023.

Nina Agabian

Nina Agabian is a molecular parasitologist and Professor Emeritus of Cell and Tissue Biology at UCSF, known for 1984 work establishing trans-splicing in trypanosomes and later Candida albicans genome studies.

Nina Bhardwaj

Nina Bhardwaj is an American physician-scientist in cancer immunotherapy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

Nina G. Jablonski

Nina G. Jablonski is an American biological anthropologist and paleobiologist, emerita professor at Penn State, known for her research on the evolution of human skin and its pigmentation.

Nina Tandon

Nina Tandon is an American tissue engineering researcher and biotech entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of EpiBone, which brought stem-cell grown living bone into human clinical trials.

Nino Stocchetti

Nino Stocchetti is an Italian anesthesiologist at the University of Milan specializing in neurointensive care for acute brain injury, known for research on traumatic intracranial hypertension.

Nir Hacohen

Nir Hacohen is an American immunologist who directs cancer immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital and is known for building single-cell maps of immune cells in tumors.

Nish Chaturvedi

Nishi Chaturvedi is a British clinical epidemiologist, Professor and Director of the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at University College London, known for diabetic eye disease trials.

Nissim Hay

Nissim Hay is an Israeli-trained cancer biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, known for work on Akt signaling and tumor glucose metabolism.

Niteesh K. Choudhry

Niteesh K. Choudhry is a Canadian-trained physician and pharmacoepidemiologist, professor at Harvard Medical School, known for the 2011 MI FREEE trial eliminating copayments for heart medications.

Nitzan Rosenfeld

Nitzan Rosenfeld is a cancer researcher known for developing liquid biopsy methods that detect circulating tumor DNA in blood plasma. He directs the Barts Cancer Institute in London and co-founded Inivata.

Nizar J. Bahlis

Nizar J. Bahlis is a Canadian hematologist and multiple myeloma researcher at the University of Calgary, where he is an Associate Professor of Medicine, known for leading trials of elranatamab and mezigdomide.

Noa Dagan

Noa Dagan (נעה דגן) is an Israeli public health physician and medical informatics researcher who heads the Data and AI-driven Medicine Department at Clalit Innovation.