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Silvio Danese

Silvio Danese is an Italian gastroenterologist and inflammatory bowel disease researcher, professor and gastroenterology head at San Raffaele in Milan, and president of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation from 2018 to 2020.

Silvio E. Inzucchi

Silvio E. Inzucchi is an American endocrinologist and diabetes researcher at Yale School of Medicine, where he directs the Yale Diabetes Center and studies diabetes drugs and heart disease.

Silvio Garattini

Silvio Garattini is an Italian pharmacologist born in Bergamo in 1928 who founded the Mario Negri Institute in Milan in 1963 and directed it for 55 years.

Silviu Itescu

Silviu Itescu is a physician-scientist in transplant immunology and stem-cell medicine who described diffuse infiltrative lymphocytosis syndrome in HIV in 1989 and leads the Australian cell-therapy company Mesoblast.

Simeon Burt Wolbach

Simeon Burt Wolbach (1880–1954) was an American pathologist at Harvard Medical School whose studies established the tick-borne transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever and the cause of epidemic typhus.

Simin Liu

Simin Liu is a physician-scientist and epidemiologist known for large prospective studies of sex hormones and type 2 diabetes, now Distinguished Professor and chair at UC Irvine.

Simon Baron-Cohen

Simon Baron-Cohen, British cognitive neuroscientist, Cambridge professor of developmental psychopathology and Director of the Autism Research Centre; known for mindblindness, empathizing–systemizing, and extreme male brain theories of autism, the AQ screening questionnaire, and a 2021 knighthood.

Simon Boulton

Simon J. Boulton is a biologist who studies DNA repair and genome stability, leads a laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, and co-founded the cancer-drug company Artios Pharma.

Simon Capewell

Simon Capewell is a British cardiovascular epidemiologist and the first Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Liverpool, appointed in 1999, known for the IMPACT model of coronary heart disease deaths.

Simon Carette

Simon Carette is a Canadian rheumatologist known for New England Journal of Medicine trials on corticosteroid injections for back pain, then a Toronto career centered on systemic vasculitis.

Simon Cauchemez

Simon Cauchemez, born 1978, is an epidemiologist and mathematical modeller of infectious diseases who heads the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, and advised the French government on COVID-19.

Simon Cousens

Simon Cousens is a British statistician and epidemiologist, Emeritus Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for stillbirth and newborn health research.

Simon Flexner

Simon Flexner (1863–1946) was an American pathologist and bacteriologist, first director of the Rockefeller Institute, who developed a meningitis serum and transmitted polio to monkeys.

Simon G. Thompson

Simon G. Thompson is a biostatistician and cardiovascular epidemiologist who directed the MRC Biostatistics Unit and was Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Cambridge.

Simon Heller

Simon R. Heller is a British diabetologist, Professor of Clinical Diabetes at the University of Sheffield, known for research on hypoglycemia and for developing the DAFNE education program.

Simon I. Hay

Simon I. Hay is an infectious disease epidemiologist who co-founded the Malaria Atlas Project and is a professor and Director of Research Strategy at IHME in Seattle.

Simon J. Draper

Simon J. Draper is a professor of vaccinology at the University of Oxford whose group developed the RH5.1 blood-stage malaria vaccine, 55% effective in a Burkina Faso trial.

Simon Karpatkin

Simon Karpatkin was an American hematologist and Director of Hematology at NYU School of Medicine who established platelet heterogeneity and platelets' role in tumor metastasis.

Simon M. Helfgott

Simon M. Helfgott is an American rheumatologist and Harvard Medical School associate professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, known for the NEJM Case Records.

Simón Méndez‐Ferrer

Simón Méndez-Ferrer is a Spanish hematology researcher, Professor of Transfusion Medicine at the University of Cambridge, known for his 2008 Nature finding that circadian rhythms regulate blood stem cell release.

Simon Rodbard

Simon Rodbard (1911–1975) was an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular and pulmonary physiology, long at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago and Director of Cardiology at the City of Hope from 1963.

Simon Shorvon

Simon David Shorvon is a British neurologist and emeritus professor of clinical neurology at UCL, known for epilepsy research and prize-winning histories of epilepsy, receiving the ILAE Lifetime Achievement Award in 2025.

Simon Stewart (cardiovascular nurse scientist)

Simon Stewart is an Australian cardiovascular nurse scientist and health services researcher known for home-based heart failure care, including a 1999 Lancet trial and the Heart of Soweto Study.

Simon Travis

Simon P.L. Travis, born 1958, is a British gastroenterologist at Oxford known for the UCEIS index, the Oxford index for acute severe colitis, and the EARNEST trial.

Simon van Creveld

Simon van Creveld (1894–1971) was a Dutch pediatrician at the University of Amsterdam who co-described Ellis–van Creveld syndrome and opened the world's first hemophilia clinic in 1964.

Simon Wessely

Simon Wessely is a British psychiatrist and epidemiologist, Professor of Psychological Medicine at King's College London and, since 2017, the first Regius Professor of Psychiatry in the United Kingdom.

Simone Sanna‐Cherchi

Simone Sanna-Cherchi is a nephrologist and associate professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center who studies genetic causes of kidney disease, especially congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract.

Sina Bavari

Sina Bavari is a pharmaceutical scientist and biodefense researcher who led filovirus drug countermeasure research at USAMRIID in Maryland, contributing to remdesivir and the Marburg drug AVI-7288.

Sir Henry Dale

Sir Henry Dale, also known as Henry Hallett Dale, was a British physiologist and pharmacologist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize for discovering chemical transmission of nerve impulses.

Sir Howard Florey

Sir Howard Florey was an Australian pathologist who, with Ernst Chain, purified penicillin for clinical use, sharing the 1945 Nobel Prize with Fleming and Chain.