Medical and health researchers

Sir James W. Black

Sir James W. Black, also known as James Black, was a Scottish pharmacologist who developed beta-blockers and cimetidine and shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Sir John R. Vane

Sir John R. Vane (1927–2004) was a British pharmacologist who shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in Medicine for showing in 1971 how aspirin works and for prostaglandin discoveries.

Sjoerd H. van der Burg

Sjoerd H. van der Burg is a Dutch immunologist, full professor of immunotherapy of solid tumors at Leiden University Medical Center since 2010, studying T cells and cancer.

Sjoerd Rodenhuis

Sjoerd Rodenhuis is a Dutch clinical oncologist, professor at the University of Amsterdam from 1996 to 2016, known for K-ras oncogene work in lung cancer and Dutch high-dose breast cancer trials.

Smita Bhatia

Smita Bhatia is an India-trained pediatric oncologist and cancer survivorship researcher who directs the Institute for Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Oct 20, 2026

Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM), founded 1977, Washington, DC: nonprofit society of 6,500+ maternal-fetal medicine subspecialists and colleagues; publishes Consult Series, PREGNANCY journal, safety checklists; hosts the Pregnancy Meeting.

Soffia Guðbjörnsdóttir

Soffia Guðbjörnsdóttir, born 1962 in Reykjavik, is a Swedish diabetologist and professor of register research at the University of Gothenburg, register holder of the Swedish National Diabetes Register since 2000.

Sofia Jawed-Wessel

Sofia Jawed-Wessel is an American public health researcher at the University of Nebraska at Omaha who studies the sexual health of women and couples entering parenthood.

Sep 17, 2026

Sohail F. Tavazoie

Sohail F. Tavazoie is an American physician-scientist at Rockefeller University who studies how cancers spread, known for the first metastasis-suppressor microRNAs and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.

Sohan Singh Hayreh

Sohan Singh Hayreh, known as S. S. Hayreh (1927–2022), was an Indian-born ophthalmologist and University of Iowa professor whose research defined the ocular circulation and ischemic optic neuropathy.

Sohrab Shah

Sohrab P. Shah is a computational oncologist who studies how cancers evolve cell by cell, known for PyClone and single-cell studies of breast and ovarian cancer.

Sol Sherry

Sol Sherry (1916–1993) was an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular medicine whose work on the fibrinolytic enzyme system laid the foundation for streptokinase and other clot-dissolving drugs.

Solange Peters

Solange Peters is a Swiss medical oncologist, professor at the University of Lausanne, who led the ALEX and IPSOS lung-cancer trials and was ESMO president from 2020 to 2022.

Soldano Ferrone

Soldano Ferrone (1940–2023) was an Italian-born immunologist and cancer immunotherapy researcher who developed monoclonal antibodies to HLA and melanoma antigens and showed how tumors escape immunity.

Solomon A. Berson

Solomon A. Berson (1918–1972) was an American physician and endocrinology researcher who co-developed radioimmunoassay for measuring minute quantities of hormones in blood, then chaired medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Solomon Tesfaye

Solomon Tesfaye is a consultant physician and Professor of Diabetes Medicine at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, known for research on the causes and treatment of diabetic neuropathy.

Soma Weiss

Soma Weiss (1899–1942) was a Hungarian-born American physician and pharmacologist, Hersey Professor at Harvard and Physician-in-Chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, known for Mallory-Weiss syndrome.

Sonia Caprio

Sonia Caprio is a pediatric endocrinologist and professor at Yale School of Medicine known for research on obesity, type 2 diabetes, and fatty liver disease in children.

Sonia Hernández–Dı́az

Sonia Hernández-Díaz is a Spanish-trained physician and pharmacoepidemiologist, professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for drug safety research in pregnancy.

Sonia S. Anand

Sonia S. Anand is a Canadian vascular medicine specialist and epidemiologist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, known for the SHARE and INTERHEART studies of heart attack risk.

Sonja J. Olsen

Sonja J. Olsen is an American epidemiologist at the CDC in Atlanta who led the 2003 SARS aircraft study, directed CDC influenza work in Thailand, and investigated H5N1.

Sonja Schrepfer

Sonja Schrepfer is a German physician-scientist in transplant immunology and stem cell immunobiology, a professor of surgery at UCSF and scientific founder of Sana Biotechnology's hypoimmune cell platform.

Sonja Ständer

Sonja Ständer is a German dermatologist and professor at the University of Münster who heads the Center for Chronic Pruritus and led the clinical studies behind nemolizumab.

Sook‐Bin Woo

Sook-Bin Woo is an American oral medicine specialist and oral pathologist at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for her 2006 review linking bisphosphonate drugs to osteonecrosis of the jaw.

Sophia Zoungas

Sophia Zoungas is an Australian endocrinologist and clinical trialist whose diabetes trials shaped global guidelines, and Executive Director of The George Institute for Global Health Australia from 2026.

Sophie D. Fosså

Sophie D. Fosså (born 1941) is a Norwegian oncologist and professor emerita at Oslo University Hospital known for prostate and testicular cancer research and late-effects studies.

Sophie Wallace

Sophie Wallace, also known as Sophia Wallace, is an Australian anesthesiology researcher who manages the clinical trials program at The Alfred and Monash University in Melbourne, including the RELIEF trial.

Søren Holth

Søren Holth (1863–1937) was a Norwegian ophthalmologist ranked among the foremost eye doctors of his time in Norway, known for new refraction methods and his iridencleisis operation for glaucoma.

Sotirios Tsimikas

Sotirios Tsimikas, often published as Sam Tsimikas, is a Greek-American cardiologist and vascular medicine researcher at UC San Diego who established oxidized phospholipids on lipoprotein(a) as biomarkers of heart disease.