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Stephen F. Vatner

Stephen F. Vatner is an American cardiovascular physiologist who argued in 1975 for studying conscious animals, helped discover myocardial stunning, and chaired cell biology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Stephen Feinstone

Stephen M. Feinstone, born 1944, is an American virologist who first visualized the hepatitis A virus in 1973 and later helped develop the first licensed hepatitis A vaccines.

Stephen Franks

Stephen Franks is a British reproductive endocrinologist and Emeritus Professor of Reproductive Endocrinology at Imperial College London, described by the Academy of Medical Sciences as the world authority on polycystic ovary syndrome.

Stephen G. Ellis

Stephen G. Ellis is an American interventional cardiologist who directs interventional cardiology at Cleveland Clinic and led randomized coronary stent trials including FINESSE and ABSORB III.

Stephen G. Pauker

Stephen G. Pauker (1942–2024) was an American physician and medical decision scientist who spent over 50 years at Tufts, founding the field of medical decision making.

Stephen G. Waxman

Stephen G. Waxman is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Yale University who chaired its neurology department from 1986 to 2009 and identified sodium channels as the molecular basis of inherited pain disorders.

Stephen G. Young

Stephen G. Young (born 1952) is an American physician-scientist at UCLA whose research covers triglyceride metabolism and nuclear envelope diseases, including his discovery of the endothelial protein GPIHBP1.

Stephen H. Embury

Stephen H. Embury is an American hematologist and physician-scientist who joined UCSF in 1977, known for research on the molecular genetics of sickle cell disease and thalassemia and for founding Vanguard Therapeutics.

Stephen H. Robinson

Stephen H. Robinson (died 1998) was an American hematologist at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital, known for work on heme metabolism, bilirubin formation, and the porphyrias.

Stephen H. Zinner

Stephen H. Zinner is an American infectious disease physician and pharmacology researcher, Charles S. Davidson Distinguished Professor at Mount Auburn Hospital and a Harvard Medical School professor since 1999.

Stephen I. Katz

Stephen I. Katz (1941–2018) was an American immunodermatologist who showed the skin is an active immune organ and directed NIH's NIAMS institute from 1995 until his death.

Stephen I. Rennard

Stephen I. Rennard is an American pulmonary physician-scientist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, known for COPD research including the 2011 ECLIPSE finding that FEV1 decline varies widely between patients.

Stephen I. Wasserman

Stephen I. Wasserman is an American physician-scientist in allergy and clinical immunology, an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego who chaired its Department of Medicine.

Stephen J. Freedland

Stephen J. Freedland is an American urologist and prostate cancer researcher who is Professor of Urology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and led the EMBARK trial of enzalutamide.

Stephen J. Marx

Stephen J. Marx is an American endocrinologist at the NIH's NIDDK who spent over twenty years treating MEN1 patients and helped positionally clone the MEN1 gene in 1997.

Stephen J. Nicholls

Stephen J. Nicholls is an Australian preventive cardiologist who directs the Victorian Heart Institute and Victorian Heart Hospital and is Professor of Cardiology at Monash University.

Stephen J. Schuster

Stephen J. Schuster is an American hematologist-oncologist at the University of Pennsylvania who directs its Lymphoma Program and led the first CAR T-cell trial in lymphoma.

Stephen J. Weiss

Stephen J. Weiss is an American cancer biologist and physician at the University of Michigan, known for characterizing MT-MMP proteases as master switches of cancer cell behavior.

Stephen Kennedy (reproductive medicine academic)

Stephen Kennedy, also known as Stephen H. Kennedy, is a British clinician-scientist in reproductive medicine at the University of Oxford, best known as co-leader of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project.

Stephen L. Hajduk

Stephen L. Hajduk is an American molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Georgia known for research on African trypanosomes, RNA editing, and trypanosome lytic factor.

Stephen L. Hauser

Stephen L. Hauser is an American neurologist and neuroimmunologist at UCSF whose B-cell research produced the first therapy of proven value for progressive multiple sclerosis, earning the 2025 Breakthrough Prize.

Stephen M. Ansell

Stephen M. Ansell (Stephen Ansell) is a South African–trained hematologist at Mayo Clinic who helped lead the trial that earned FDA approval of nivolumab for Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Stephen M. Davis

Stephen M. Davis is an Australian stroke neurologist, Professor of Translational Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne, known for the EXTEND-IA trials of thrombectomy and tenecteplase in acute stroke.

Stephen M. Krane

Stephen M. Krane (1927 to 2015) was an American rheumatologist and matrix biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who explained how collagen-degrading enzymes destroy joints in rheumatoid arthritis.

Stephen M. Prescott

Stephen M. Prescott (1948–2021) was an American physician-scientist and lipid biochemist whose COX-2 research contributed to arthritis drugs; he led Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute and the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.

Stephen M. Shortell

Stephen M. Shortell is an American health services researcher and Dean Emeritus of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, serving as dean from 2002 to 2013.

Stephen MacMahon

Stephen MacMahon (S MacMahon) is an Australian cardiovascular physician-scientist and epidemiologist known for large-scale blood pressure studies and for co-founding The George Institute in Sydney in 1999.

Stephen P. Fortmann

Stephen P. Fortmann is an American physician and cardiovascular epidemiologist at Stanford University who directed the Stanford Five-City Project and the Stanford Prevention Research Center.

Stephen P. Peters

Stephen P. Peters is an American pulmonologist and asthma researcher who holds the Thomas H Davis Chair in Pulmonary Medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine.

Stephen R. Durham

Stephen R. Durham is a British allergist and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London whose trials showed grass-pollen immunotherapy can stop after three years with lasting benefit.