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Stefaan C. De Smedt

Stefaan C. De Smedt (born 1967) is a Belgian pharmaceutical scientist and full professor at Ghent University known for nanomedicine research, including laser-induced nanobubbles that ablate vitreous opacities.

Stefan Baral

Stefan D. Baral is a Canadian physician epidemiologist and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, known for the 2016 Lancet series on transgender health.

Stefan Blankenberg

Stefan Blankenberg (born 1968) is a German cardiologist, director of cardiology at the University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg and president of the German Society of Cardiology since 2025.

Stefan D. Anker

Stefan D. Anker, born 1965 in Berlin, is a German cardiologist and professor at the Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, known for landmark heart-failure trials on intravenous iron and SGLT2 inhibition.

Stefan Engelhardt

Stefan Engelhardt (born 1969 in Munich) is a German pharmacologist and professor at the Technical University of Munich who established microRNA-21 as a driver of heart disease.

Stefan Fröhling

Stefan Fröhling is a German physician-scientist in hematology and medical oncology, Managing Director of NCT Heidelberg since 2020 and head of Translational Medical Oncology at the German Cancer Research Center.

Stefan G. Tullius

Stefan G. Tullius is a German-born American transplantation surgeon who leads the Division of Transplant Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and is Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Stefan H. E. Kaufmann

Stefan H. E. Kaufmann is a German immunologist and microbiologist known for research on immunity to tuberculosis and for developing the vaccine candidate VPM1002, tested through phase 3 trials.

Stefan H. Hohnloser

Stefan H. Hohnloser is a German cardiologist specializing in clinical electrophysiology, professor emeritus at University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, known for leading the ATHENA and RE-DUAL PCI trials.

Stefan James

Stefan K. James is a Swedish interventional cardiologist, professor of cardiology at Uppsala University, and scientific director of Uppsala Clinical Research Center, known for large randomized myocardial infarction trials.

Stefan Kiechl

Stefan Kiechl is an Austrian neurologist and physician-scientist who studies atherosclerosis, stroke, and vascular aging, directing neurology at the Medical University of Innsbruck since 2019.

Stefan Laufer

Stefan Laufer (Stefan A. Laufer) is a German pharmaceutical and medicinal chemist who has held the pharmaceutical chemistry chair at the University of Tübingen since 1999, developing kinase inhibitors such as licofelone and skepinone-L.

Stefan Lohmander

Stefan Lohmander is a Swedish physician and orthopedic researcher, professor emeritus at Lund University, known for osteoarthritis research and for leading the 2010 ACL treatment trial.

Stefan Meuer

Stefan Meuer is a German physician and immunologist known for identifying the human T-cell antigen receptor and directing Heidelberg University Hospital's Institute of Immunology from 1995 to 2021.

Stefan Neubauer

Stefan Neubauer is a physician-scientist and Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford, where he directs the Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research.

Stefan Offermanns

Stefan Offermanns (born 1964 in Berlin) is a German pharmacologist who directs the Department of Pharmacology at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim.

Stefan Pfister

Stefan M. Pfister is a German pediatric neuro-oncologist and cancer genomicist who heads pediatric neurooncology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and won the 2023 Leibniz Prize.

Stefan R. Bornstein

Stefan R. Bornstein, also known as Stefan Bornstein, is a German physician-scientist in diabetes and endocrinology who has chaired the diabetes department at TU Dresden since 2004.

Stefan S. Fajans

Stefan S. Fajans (1918–2014) was an American endocrinologist at the University of Michigan who first described maturity-onset diabetes of the young and helped establish that diabetes has several subtypes.

Stefan Zeuzem

Stefan Zeuzem is a German hepatologist and professor at University Hospital Frankfurt who led the phase 3 trials that replaced interferon with 8- to 12-week oral cures for hepatitis C.

Stefania Jabłońska

Stefania Jabłońska, born Stefania Shelah Ginsburg (1920–2017), was a Polish dermatologist at the Medical University of Warsaw who first described the link between HPV and skin cancer in 1972.

Stefano Cascinu

Stefano Cascinu is an Italian medical oncologist, full professor at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and head of medical oncology at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan since 2019, known for gastrointestinal cancer trials.

Stefano Del Prato

Stefano Del Prato is an Italian physician-scientist in endocrinology and diabetes, Professor at the University of Pisa from 2001 to 2022 and President of the EASD from 2020 to 2022.

Stefano M Bertozzi

Stefano M Bertozzi is a health economist, physician, and former dean of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health who led the WHO Global Programme on AIDS.

Stefanos N. Kales

Stefanos N. Kales is an American physician-scientist in occupational and environmental medicine, Chief of Occupational Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance and a Harvard professor known for showing how strenuous emergency duties trigger cardiac death in firefighters.

Steffanie A. Strathdee

Steffanie A. Strathdee is a Canadian-American infectious disease epidemiologist at UC San Diego, known for HIV research among people who inject drugs and for reviving phage therapy.

Steffen Maßberg

Steffen Maßberg is a German cardiologist and physician-scientist who has held the Chair of Cardiology at LMU Munich since 2012, known for research on immunothrombosis and the antiplatelet drug Revacept.

Steffie Woolhandler

Steffie Woolhandler (Stephanie Joan Woolhandler, born 1951) is an American physician and health policy researcher at Hunter College, CUNY, known for studies of medical bankruptcy and health care administrative costs.

Sten Eriksson

Sten Eriksson is a Swedish physician and researcher at Lund University and Malmö General Hospital who co-discovered alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency in 1963 and later quantified its risks of cirrhosis and liver cancer.

Stephan A. Grupp

Stephan A. Grupp is a pediatric oncologist and cell therapy researcher at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia whose trials led to Kymriah, the first CAR T-cell therapy approved in the United States.