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Saulo Klahr

Saulo Klahr (1935–2010) was a Colombian-born nephrologist at Washington University in St. Louis who led the MDRD trial of diet and blood-pressure control in chronic kidney disease.

Scott A. Tomlins

Scott A. Tomlins is an American molecular pathologist known for discovering TMPRSS2:ETS gene fusions in prostate cancer and developing the MiPS urine test for its detection.

Scott Antonia

Scott Joseph Antonia is an American medical oncologist who directs the Duke Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and led the PACIFIC trial establishing durvalumab for stage III lung cancer.

Scott B. Halstead

Scott B. Halstead is an American physician-scientist and one of the world's foremost authorities on mosquito-borne viruses, best known for establishing antibody-dependent enhancement in dengue.

Scott C. Howard

Scott C. Howard, also known as Scott Howard, is an American pediatric oncologist known for his 2011 New England Journal of Medicine review on tumor lysis syndrome.

Scott D. Halpern

Scott D. Halpern is an American physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who runs large randomized trials of financial incentives and default options in medicine, from smoking cessation to end-of-life care.

Scott D. Holmberg

Scott D. Holmberg (born 1950) is an American physician and CDC epidemiologist who led influential HIV studies and heads the national Chronic Hepatitis Cohort Study (CHeCS).

Scott D. Solomon

Scott D. Solomon is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for leading the PARAGON-HF, DELIVER, and FINEARTS-HF heart failure trials.

Scott E. Hensley

Scott E. Hensley is a professor of microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania who studies influenza, known for immune imprinting and a 2022 mRNA vaccine against all 20 flu subtypes.

Scott E. Kern

Scott E. Kern is a professor of oncology and pathology at Johns Hopkins whose research established the molecular genetics of pancreatic cancer, including the SMAD4 discovery.

Scott H. Kaufmann

Scott H. Kaufmann is an American oncologist at Mayo Clinic whose Anticancer Drug Action Laboratory studies how targeted agents kill cancer cells and how resistance arises.

Scott H. Podolsky

Scott H. Podolsky is an American physician and historian of medicine, professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Center for the History of Medicine since 2006.

Scott H. Sicherer

Scott H. Sicherer is an American physician-scientist specializing in food allergy, known for widely cited prevalence surveys and reviews, who directs the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at Mount Sinai.

Scott K. Fridkin

Scott K. Fridkin is an infectious disease physician-epidemiologist who spent more than 20 years at the CDC studying MRSA before joining Emory University as a professor of medicine.

Scott Kopetz

Scott E. Kopetz is a medical oncologist and physician-scientist at MD Anderson Cancer Center whose BEACON and BREAKWATER trials established encorafenib combinations as standard treatment in BRAF V600E-mutated colorectal cancer.

Scott L. Friedman

Scott L. Friedman is an American hepatologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for isolating the hepatic stellate cell and founding liver fibrosis therapy.

Scott L. Rauch

Scott L. Rauch is an American psychiatrist whose neuroimaging research delineated the brain circuitry of anxiety disorders; he has led McLean Hospital in Massachusetts since 2006.

Scott M. Grundy

Scott M. Grundy (1933–2025) was an American physician-scientist in cholesterol and lipoprotein metabolism who founded the Center for Human Nutrition at UT Southwestern in Dallas.

Scott M. Hammer

Scott M. Hammer (died November 2021) was an American infectious diseases physician and HIV clinical trials researcher who was chief of infectious diseases at Columbia University.

Scott M. Lippman

Scott M. Lippman is an American medical oncologist and cancer-prevention researcher who led UC San Diego's Moores Cancer Center from 2012 and later launched the PreCancer Genome Atlas.

Scott Murphy

Scott Murphy is an American hematologist and transfusion medicine researcher whose 1969 work showed platelets for transfusion survive far better at room temperature than refrigerated.

Scott S. Zamvil

Scott S. Zamvil is an American neurologist and immunologist, Professor of Neurology at UCSF since 1998, known for research on immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis.

Scott T. Weiss

Scott T. Weiss, also known as Scott Weiss, is an American respiratory epidemiologist and Harvard Medical School professor known for the CAMP genetics work and the VDAART vitamin D asthma trial.

Sean Hennessy

Sean Hennessy is an American pharmacoepidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania who directs its Division of Epidemiology, leads CREST, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2015.

Sean J. Pittock

Sean J. Pittock (Sean Pittock) is an Irish neurologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who works in autoimmune neurology and led the PREVENT eculizumab trial for neuromyelitis optica.

Sean M. Wu

Sean M. Wu, also published as Sean Wu, is a physician-scientist, cardiologist, and tenured Stanford professor known for work on cardiac progenitor cells and heart regeneration.

Sean Wharton

Sean Wharton is a Canadian internal-medicine physician and researcher in weight management and diabetes, lead investigator of the 2025 ATTAIN-1 orforglipron trial and first author of the 2020 Canadian adult obesity guideline.

Sebastian L. Johnston

Sebastian L. Johnston, born 1959, is a British physician-scientist and Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College London who established the viral cause of asthma attacks.

Sebastian Schneeweiß

Sebastian Schneeweiß is a German-trained physician and pharmacoepidemiologist who is Professor at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Sébastien Gagneux

Sébastien Gagneux is a Swiss infectious-disease researcher who leads the Tuberculosis Ecology and Evolution group at Swiss TPH and is a professor at the University of Basel.