Medical and health researchers

S. Michael Mauer

S. Michael Mauer is an American pediatric nephrologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota, known for showing that pancreas transplantation can reverse diabetic kidney disease.

S. Vincent Rajkumar, also known as Vincent Rajkumar, is an American hematologist-oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for redefining myeloma diagnosis and leading pivotal myeloma drug trials.

S.P. Allison

S.P. Allison, or Simon P. Allison, is a British physician-scientist in clinical nutrition and metabolism at Nottingham, known for his 1979 work using insulin to spare protein after injury.

Saad Omer

Saad B. Omer is a vaccine epidemiologist and founding dean of the Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Saad Z. Usmani

Saad Z. Usmani is a hematologic oncologist specializing in multiple myeloma who has been Chief of the Myeloma Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 2021.

Saar Gill

Saar I. Gill is an Australian-trained physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania known for CAR T cell immunotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia, including CRISPR-edited stem cell shielding.

Sabine Ehrt

Sabine Ehrt is a microbiologist who studies how Mycobacterium tuberculosis persists and evades treatment, and became chair of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine in 2025.

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.

Sabrina Paganoni

Sabrina Paganoni is an Italian-born physician-scientist and physiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who studies and treats ALS and led the CENTAUR drug trial.

Sabrina Sholts

Sabrina Sholts is an American biological anthropologist, Curator of Biological Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, who studies how human behavior and environmental change drive disease emergence.

Sachin Kheterpal

Sachin Kheterpal is an American anesthesiologist and medical informaticist at the University of Michigan who built the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group, a consortium of more than 70 hospitals.

Sachin Patel

Sachin Patel is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist studying how the brain's endocannabinoid system regulates stress responses; he received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2016.

Sadaf Farooqi

Sadaf Farooqi is a University of Cambridge clinician scientist known for discovering genetic causes of severe childhood obesity and showing the leptin-melanocortin pathway controls human appetite and body weight.

Sadiya Khan

Sadiya Khan is an American preventive cardiologist and cardiovascular epidemiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, known for cardio-obstetrics and for chairing the American Heart Association working group behind the PREVENT risk equations.

Sagar Lonial

Sagar Lonial is an American hematologic oncologist who chairs hematology and medical oncology at Emory University and leads pivotal multiple myeloma trials, including daratumumab, elotuzumab, and iberdomide.

Sahachiro Hata

Sahachiro Hata (秦佐八郎), 1873–1938, was a Japanese bacteriologist who demonstrated in Paul Ehrlich's Frankfurt laboratory that compound 606 was effective against syphilis, producing Salvarsan, the first modern chemotherapeutic.

Said A. Ibrahim

Said A. Ibrahim is an American physician and health services researcher known for studying racial disparities in joint replacement care, and dean of Sidney Kimmel Medical College since 2023.

Salim Abdool Karim

Salim Abdool Karim is a South African infectious diseases epidemiologist who led the CAPRISA 004 trial proving antiretrovirals prevent HIV, and chaired South Africa's COVID-19 advisory committee.

Salim S. Abdool Karim

Salim S. Abdool Karim is a South African clinical epidemiologist, director of CAPRISA since 2002, known for HIV prevention trials and leading South Africa's COVID-19 response.

Salim S. Hayek

Salim S. Hayek, also published as Salim Hayek, is a cardiologist whose research on suPAR and kidney injury led UTMB to name him Chair of Internal Medicine in 2025.

Salim Yusuf

Salim Yusuf is an Indian-born Canadian cardiologist and clinical trialist at McMaster University, founder of PHRI, whose trials of beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, and the polypill shaped global heart disease guidelines.

Sally Blower

Sally Blower is a mathematical modeller of infectious disease who directs the Center for Biomedical Modeling at UCLA, known for transmission models of HIV, drug resistance, and tuberculosis.

Sally E. Wenzel

Sally E. Wenzel, also cited as Sally Wenzel, is an American pulmonary physician-scientist at the University of Pittsburgh who established severe asthma as distinct biological phenotypes.

Sally F. Barrington

Sally Barrington is a British physician in nuclear medicine who is Professor of PET Imaging at King's College London and co-leads the UK PET Core Lab research network.

Sally Grantham‐McGregor

Sally Margaret Grantham-McGregor is a physician-scientist in pediatric nutrition and early child development, emeritus professor at UCL, whose Jamaican trials and Reach Up program earned the 2026 Yidan Prize.

Sally Hopewell

Sally Hopewell is a British clinical trials methodologist, professor at the University of Oxford, known for leading the CONSORT 2025 reporting guideline update and leading randomised trials in musculoskeletal medicine.

Sally L. Hodder

Sally L. Hodder is an American infectious-diseases physician at West Virginia University who led major HIV clinical trials and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

Salomon Eberhard Henschen

Salomon Eberhard Henschen (1847–1930) was a Swedish neurologist who led the proof that the visual center lies in the calcarine cortex, and professor of medicine at Uppsala University from 1882.

Salvador Moncada

Salvador Moncada, born in Honduras in 1944, is a pharmacologist who discovered prostacyclin and thromboxane synthase and showed that endothelium-derived relaxing factor is nitric oxide.