Medical and health researchers

Seema Jain

Seema Jain is an American physician-epidemiologist at the CDC in Atlanta, board-certified in internal medicine and infectious disease, known for leading the EPIC pneumonia studies.

Seena Fazel

Seena Fazel is a forensic psychiatrist and clinician scientist, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, known for large register-based studies of suicide and violence risk.

Seetha Shankaran is an American pediatric neonatologist and Wayne State University professor in Detroit who led the 2005 whole-body hypothermia trial, a cooling treatment that reduces death and disability in oxygen-deprived newborns.

Seishi Ogawa

Seishi Ogawa (小川誠司) is a Japanese hematologist and oncologist, professor of pathology and tumor biology at Kyoto University since 2013, known for sequencing blood disorders.

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Seizō Katsunuma

Seizō Katsunuma (勝沼精蔵, 1886–1963) was a Japanese hematologist who founded the Japanese Society of Hematology and served as Nagoya University's third president from 1949 to 1959.

Sejal Saglani

Sejal Saglani is a pediatric respiratory physician and Professor of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College London, known for research on severe childhood asthma and preschool wheeze.

Selman Waksman

Selman Abraham Waksman (1888–1973) was an American soil microbiologist at Rutgers University who coined the word "antibiotic" and won the 1952 Nobel Prize for streptomycin.

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Selmar Aschheim

Selmar Aschheim (1878–1965) was a German gynecologist and histologist who, with Bernhard Zondek, developed the first reliable biological pregnancy test, used worldwide from the late 1920s.

Senga Whittingham

Senga Whittingham is an Australian immunologist who spent 25 years at WEHI and the Royal Melbourne Hospital, defining autoimmune hepatitis, Down syndrome immunodeficiency, and Sjögren's diagnostics.

Senthil Muthuswamy

Senthil K. Muthuswamy is a cancer biologist known for pioneering 3D organoid and co-culture methods, and since 2026 Director of the National Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Research.

Serap Aksoy

Serap Aksoy is a Turkish-born American vector biologist at the Yale School of Public Health known for her research on the tsetse fly and sleeping sickness.

Serdar E. Bulun

Serdar E. Bulun is a physician-scientist who chairs obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2015 for endometriosis research.

Serge Przedborski

Serge Przedborski is a Belgian-trained physician-scientist at Columbia University, the Page and William Black Professor of Neurology, known for mechanistic work on neuronal death in Parkinson's disease and ALS.

Sergei Grivennikov

Sergei I. Grivennikov is a cancer biologist and immunologist, a professor at Cedars-Sinai since 2021, known for establishing IL-6 and STAT3 signaling as required for intestinal tumor development.

Sergio Giralt

Sergio A. Giralt is a Cuban-born hematologist-oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center known for nonmyeloablative stem cell transplantation and for leading the KarMMa-3 CAR T-cell trial in multiple myeloma.

Sérgio Henrique Ferreira

Sérgio Henrique Ferreira (1934–2016) was a Brazilian pharmacologist at the University of São Paulo whose discovery in jararaca snake venom led to captopril and the ACE inhibitor drugs.

Sergio Ottolenghi

Sergio Ottolenghi is an Italian molecular geneticist who showed in the 1970s that thalassemia results from globin gene deletions, and later studied the transcription factor Sox2 at the University of Milano-Bicocca.

Serpil Erzurum

Serpil C. Erzurum is an American pulmonologist-scientist and Cleveland Clinic's Chief Research and Academic Officer, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017 for asthma research.

Setsuko K. Chambers

Setsuko K. Chambers is an American gynecologic oncologist and physician-scientist at the University of Arizona, known for a trastuzumab trial in uterine serous carcinoma and fallopian tube cytology for early ovarian cancer detection.

Seung K. Kim

Seung K. Kim is a Stanford physician-scientist and KM Mulberry Professor who studies how insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells develop and regenerate, work aimed at replacing the cells lost in diabetes.

Seung‐Woo Cho

Seung-Woo Cho (조승우) is a South Korean biomedical engineer, a professor at Yonsei University since 2010, known for stem cell research, biomaterials, and organ-on-a-chip models of brain disease.

Séverine Vermeire

Séverine Vermeire is a Belgian gastroenterologist and inflammatory bowel disease researcher, Full Professor at KU Leuven, president of ECCO from 2014 to 2016, and rector of KU Leuven since 2025.

Seymour Grufferman

Seymour Grufferman is an American physician-epidemiologist known for research on Hodgkin's disease, including a 1977 study finding a sevenfold risk in siblings of young-adult cases.

Seymour Lieberman

Seymour Lieberman (1916–2012) was an American steroid biochemist and endocrinologist who spent over 60 years at Columbia University studying steroid hormone metabolism, pioneering the field.

Seymour Reichlin

Seymour Reichlin is an American neuroendocrinologist who led endocrinology at Rochester and Tufts, wrote landmark NEJM reviews on neuroendocrinology and somatostatin, and turned 100 in 2024.

Seymour Rosen

Seymour Rosen is an American renal pathologist and Harvard Medical School professor at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, known for showing the kidney's oxygen-poor medulla explains drug- and contrast-induced injury.

Seymour S. Kety

Seymour S. Kety, also known as S. S. Kety, was an American physician-scientist who devised the first method for measuring human cerebral blood flow and led adoption studies proving schizophrenia's genetic basis.

Shabir Madhi

Shabir Madhi, also known as Shabir A. Madhi, is a South African vaccinologist and pediatrician who is Dean of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Shadmehr Demehri

Shadmehr Demehri, who publishes as Shawn Demehri, is an American dermatologist and physician-scientist, Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School and director of MGH's High Risk Skin Cancer Clinic.