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Shivani Misra

Shivani Misra is a British physician-scientist in diabetes and metabolism at Imperial College London, known for research on early-onset type 2 diabetes and the NHS T2DAY program.

Shizuo Akira

Shizuo Akira (審良静男, born 1953) is a Japanese immunologist at The University of Osaka who used knockout mice to define what each Toll-like receptor recognizes, discovering TLR9 and TLR7.

Shlomo Melmed

Shlomo Melmed is a South African-born endocrinologist who served as dean of the medical faculty at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and studies pituitary tumors and acromegaly.

Shlomo Shinnar

Shlomo Shinnar is an American child neurologist and epilepsy researcher, Professor Emeritus at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, known for leading the FEBSTAT study of prolonged febrile seizures in children.

Shoji Tsuji

Shoji Tsuji (辻 省次) is a Japanese neurologist and molecular geneticist known for identifying genes underlying neurological diseases, from Gaucher disease in 1987 to repeat-expansion epilepsies.

Sholom Wacholder

Sholom Wacholder (1955–2015) was an American biostatistician and cancer epidemiologist who spent nearly 30 years at the National Cancer Institute, leading statistics for HPV vaccine trials including the Costa Rica HPV Vaccine Trial.

Shonni J. Silverberg

Shonni J. Silverberg is an American endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine at Columbia University whose 10-year study of primary hyperparathyroidism shaped international treatment guidelines and co-directs its NIH-funded endocrinology fellowship.

Shoshana Levy

Shoshana Levy (1939–2022) was an Israeli-born American immunologist who identified the tetraspanin family of cell-surface proteins in 1990, best known for their role in cancer metastasis.

Shu Chien

Shu Chien (钱煦), born 1931 in Beijing, is a Chinese-born American bioengineer and physiologist at UC San Diego known for his work on blood viscosity, blood flow forces, and atherosclerosis.

Shuh Narumiya

Shuh Narumiya (成宮 周) is a Japanese pharmacologist at Kyoto University who identified all eight prostanoid receptors and defined the roles of Rho kinase (ROCK).

Shuji Ogino

Shuji Ogino (荻野周二) is a Japanese-born pathologist-epidemiologist and Harvard professor who helped define molecular pathological epidemiology, studying how molecular tumor features interact with lifestyle and environment.

Shuo Li

Shuo Li is a medical image analysis and AI researcher at Case Western Reserve University who directs the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics.

Shyam Sundar (Indian physician)

Shyam Sundar (born 1953) is an Indian infectious diseases physician and professor at Banaras Hindu University whose clinical trials changed the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis, or kala-azar, in South Asia.

Shyamala Maheswaran

Shyamala Maheswaran (S. Maheswaran) is a cancer biologist and Harvard Medical School professor at Massachusetts General Hospital known for circulating tumor cell research and liquid biopsy.

Sibylle Loibl

Sibylle Loibl is a German gynecologic oncologist who chairs the German Breast Group, leading over 115 breast cancer studies, and is an associate professor at Goethe University Frankfurt.

Sid Gilman

Sid Gilman (Sidney Gilman, born 1932) is an American neurologist who chaired the University of Michigan's neurology department from 1977 to 2004 and pioneered PET imaging of brain disorders.

Siddharthan Chandran

Siddharthan Chandran is a Scottish regenerative neurologist, MacDonald Professor of Neurology at the University of Edinburgh, and Director and CEO of the UK Dementia Research Institute since 2023.

Sidi Chen

Sidi Chen is a geneticist and Associate Professor at Yale School of Medicine known for genome-wide CRISPR screens in living animals that uncover cancer immunotherapy targets.

Sidney C. Smith

Sidney C. Smith is an American cardiologist at UNC Chapel Hill known for writing the ACC/AHA cardiovascular guidelines and a past president of the American Heart Association.

Sidney C. Werner

Sidney C. Werner was an American endocrinologist at Columbia University who classified the eye changes of Graves' disease and edited The Thyroid, first published in 1955.

Sidney Cohen

Sidney Cohen is an American gastroenterologist and clinical investigator of gastrointestinal motility who led gastroenterology at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University, and received the American Gastroenterological Association's 2002 Julius M. Friedenwald Medal.

Sidney H. Ingbar

Sidney H. Ingbar was an American endocrinologist, Chief of Endocrinology at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard professor, who published over 350 articles on thyroid function and led the Endocrine Society.

Sidney J. Winawer

Sidney J. Winawer is an American gastroenterologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, known for leading the National Polyp Study, which showed removing polyps prevents colorectal cancer.

Sidney Leskowitz

Sidney Leskowitz is an immunologist known for work on delayed hypersensitivity and hapten–carrier immunochemistry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard, and Tufts from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Sidney Pestka

Sidney Pestka (1936–2016) was an American biochemist known as the "Father of Interferon" for first purifying and cloning interferon and developing the recombinant drug Roferon A.

Silas Weir Mitchell (physician)

Silas Weir Mitchell, also known as S. Weir Mitchell, was an American neurologist in Philadelphia who named causalgia, devised the rest cure, and wrote bestselling novels.

Silva Arslanian

Silva A. Arslanian is a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of Pittsburgh who studies type 2 diabetes and obesity in youth, leading GLP-1 medication trials including liraglutide and semaglutide.

Silvia Corvera

Silvia Corvera is a Mexican-trained physician-scientist and Professor of Molecular Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School, studying how adipose tissue development relates to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.

Silvia Franceschi

Silvia Franceschi is an Italian cancer epidemiologist whose multicentre studies established HPV as the necessary cause of cervical cancer, leading the Infections and Cancer Epidemiology Group at IARC in Lyon.

Silvia G. Priori

Silvia G. Priori (Silvia Giuliana Priori), born 1960 in Torino, is an Italian cardiologist at the University of Pavia known for genetic research on inherited arrhythmias and gene therapy.