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Sanford J. Shattil

Sanford J. Shattil, also known as Sanford Shattil, is an American hematologist and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego, known for work on platelet integrin αIIbβ3 signaling.

Sangram S. Sisodia

Sangram S. Sisodia is a neurobiologist at the University of Chicago who studies the cell biology of Alzheimer's disease, including amyloid precursor protein and presenilins.

Sangyong Jon

Sangyong Jon (전상용) is a South Korean nanomedicine researcher, a professor of biological sciences at KAIST since 2012 and director of the Center for Precision Bio-Nanomedicine, known for bilirubin nanoparticles.

Sanjay Basu

Sanjay Basu is an American physician-epidemiologist trained at MIT, Oxford, and Yale, a Stanford assistant professor who applies mathematical modeling to chronic disease prevention and cardiovascular risk prediction.

Sanjay H. Chotirmall

Sanjay H. Chotirmall is a respiratory physician-scientist and Vice Dean (Research) at NTU's Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in Singapore, known for work on the lung microbiome in bronchiectasis and cystic fibrosis.

Sanjay Popat

Sanjay Popat is a British thoracic medical oncologist who leads the Lung Unit at The Royal Marsden Hospital and is Professor of Thoracic Oncology at the Institute of Cancer Research.

Sanjay Rajagopalan

Sanjay Rajagopalan is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist whose studies helped establish air pollution as a major preventable cardiovascular risk factor in national and international guidelines.

Sanjay Saint

Sanjay Saint is an American physician-scientist who is Chief of Medicine at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and known for national programs preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infection.

Sanjay Sharma (British cardiologist)

Sanjay Sharma is a British cardiologist, professor at St George's, University of London, who led the 2017 international ECG criteria for athletes and the CRY cardiac screening program.

Sanjay Sisodiya

Sanjay M. Sisodiya is a British neurologist, Professor of Neurology at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, known for research in epilepsy genetics and drug-resistant epilepsy.

Sanjeev Krishna

Sanjeev Krishna is a British physician-scientist, Professor of Molecular Parasitology and Medicine at St George's, University of London, known for work on artemisinin antimalarials and malaria diagnostics.

Sanjit S. Jolly

Sanjit S. Jolly is an interventional cardiologist and clinical trialist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, who led the TOTAL trial of thrombectomy and the RIVAL trial of radial versus femoral access.

Sanjiv Gambhir

Sanjiv "Sam" Gambhir (1962–2020) was an American physician-scientist who chaired Radiology at Stanford and pioneered molecular imaging, including a PET reporter gene for tracking cells.

Sant‐Rayn Pasricha

Sant-Rayn Pasricha is an Australian hematologist and epidemiologist at WEHI who researches iron deficiency and anemia and heads the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health.

Sara A. Hurvitz

Sara A. Hurvitz, also known as Sara Hurvitz, is an American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer, directing clinical research at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle since 2023.

Sara Fuchs

Sara Fuchs (S. Fuchs) was an Israeli immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science whose research established the acetylcholine receptor's role in myasthenia gravis and dopamine receptors' involvement in schizophrenia; she died in 2025.

Sara Lindstroem

Sara Lindstroem is a Swedish-born genetic epidemiologist, Professor at the University of Washington, who studies how inherited variants shape cancer risk and won a 2019 PECASE award.

Sara M. Tolaney

Sara M. Tolaney is an American breast medical oncologist who is Chief of the Division of Breast Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School.

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, born 1946, is an American evolutionary anthropologist and primatologist, professor emerita at UC Davis, known for work on female reproductive strategies and cooperative breeding.

Sarah E Lamb

Sarah E Lamb, known professionally as Sallie Lamb, is a British clinical trials researcher in trauma rehabilitation, now a professor at the University of Exeter.

Sarah Hawkes

Sarah Hawkes is a medical doctor and global health researcher working on gender and health equity; she co-founded Global Health 50/50 and co-chairs the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health.

Sarah Stewart (physician)

Sarah Elizabeth Stewart was a Mexican American microbiologist who, with Bernice Eddy, proved one virus could cause many tumors, and the SE polyomavirus is named for them.

Sardjito

Sardjito (1889–1970) was an Indonesian physician and bacteriologist who saved the smallpox vaccine during the 1946 burning of Bandung and became the first rector of Universitas Gadjah Mada.

Saroj Vadhan‐Raj

Saroj Vadhan-Raj, also published as S. Vadhan-Raj, is a physician-scientist in hematology and oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, known for clinical trials of the growth factors GM-CSF and thrombopoietin.

Sascha Ellington

Sascha Ellington is an American CDC epidemiologist who documented COVID-19 risks in pregnancy. Her research showed symptomatic pregnant women faced roughly triple the risk of ICU admission in 2020.

Sattva S. Neelapu

Sattva S. Neelapu is a physician-scientist at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston who develops CAR T-cell immunotherapies for B-cell malignancies and led the pivotal ZUMA-1 trial.

Satu Mustjoki

Satu Mustjoki is a Finnish physician-scientist and Professor of Translational Hematology at the University of Helsinki since 2017, known for discovering somatic STAT3 mutations in large granular lymphocytic leukemia.

Saturnin Arloing

Saturnin Arloing (1846–1911) was a French veterinarian, physiologist, and bacteriologist who co-discovered blackleg and its vaccine, directed the Lyon veterinary school from 1887, and was nominated for the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Saul Krugman

Saul Krugman (1911–1995) was an American pediatrician at NYU and Bellevue Hospital who distinguished hepatitis A from B and created the first hepatitis B vaccine prototype.

Saul Villeda

Saul Villeda is an American neuroscientist at UC San Francisco who studies how blood-borne factors change the aging brain, showing in mice that young blood can reverse cognitive decline.