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Nachum Ulanovsky

Nachum Ulanovsky is a neuroscientist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, known for decoding how the bat hippocampus represents space.

Nadav Ahituv

Nadav Ahituv is a human geneticist at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies regulatory elements, directs its Institute for Human Genetics, and pioneered cis-regulation therapy.

Nadav Amdursky

Nadav Amdursky is an Israeli biophysical chemist known for protein-based proton-conducting elastomers, who led a lab at the Technion before becoming Professor of Biophysical Chemistry at Sheffield in 2024.

Nader Sanai

Nader Sanai is an American neurosurgeon and brain tumor researcher who is Chief of Neurosurgical Oncology at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, and founded the Ivy Brain Tumor Center.

Nader Shaikh

Nader Shaikh is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh whose research on childhood ear infections shaped antibiotic treatment guidelines and produced an AI diagnostic app.

Nadia Harbeck

Nadia Harbeck is a German breast oncologist who directs the Breast Center of the LMU women's hospital in Munich and led the IMpassion031 trial of atezolizumab in triple-negative breast cancer.

Nadia Rosenthal

Nadia Rosenthal is a US-born molecular biologist who studies how heart and skeletal muscle develop and repair, and is Scientific Director at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Nadrian C. Seeman

Nadrian C. Seeman, known as Ned, was an American chemist who founded structural DNA nanotechnology, using DNA as a programmable building material, and won the 2010 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience.

Naeemah Abrahams

Naeemah Abrahams is a South African public health researcher who leads the Gender and Health Research Unit of the South African Medical Research Council, known for national femicide studies.

Naga Chalasani

Naga Chalasani is an American hepatologist at Indiana University School of Medicine who led the Drug-Induced Liver Injury Network and wrote the AASLD fatty liver disease guidance.

Nagagopal Venna

Nagagopal Venna is a neurologist and neuroimmunologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for early work on HIV neurological complications and rare autoimmune disorders.

Nagahiro Minato

Nagahiro Minato (湊 長博) is a Japanese immunologist known for research on PD-1 with Nobel laureate Tasuku Honjo, and president of Kyoto University from 2020 to 2026.

Nagahiro Saijo

Nagahiro Saijo (西條長宏) is a Japanese medical oncologist known for lung cancer drug trials, founding the Japan Society of Medical Oncology, and leading the JCOG 9511 trial.

Nahum Sonenberg

Nahum Sonenberg is a Canadian biochemist at McGill University who discovered eIF4E and IRES-mediated translation initiation, showing that faulty translational control underlies cancer and neurological disease.

Naiyer A Rizvi

Naiyer A Rizvi is a Canadian-trained American physician-scientist who led the CheckMate 063 trial behind nivolumab's lung cancer approval and served as Director of Thoracic Oncology at Columbia.

Najib M. Rahman

Najib M. Rahman is a British respiratory physician and Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Oxford, director of its trials unit, known for the MIST2 and RAMPP pleural disease trials.

Nalini M. Nadkarni

Nalini M. Nadkarni is an American ecologist who pioneered the study of forest canopies, showing treetop epiphytes and roots store nutrients, and brought science to prisons.

Nam‐Hai Chua

Nam-Hai Chua (蔡南海) is a plant molecular biologist trained at Singapore and Harvard, Mellon Professor Emeritus at Rockefeller University, known for phytochrome signaling and the 35S promoter.

Nan Yan

Nan Yan is a Chinese-born American immunologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for work on innate antiviral immunity, especially the STING pathway and the DNase TREX1.

Nancy A. Jenkins

Nancy A. Jenkins is an American cancer geneticist at MD Anderson Cancer Center known for using mouse models and the Sleeping Beauty transposon to find cancer genes.

Nancy A. Moran

Nancy A. Moran, born 1954, is an American evolutionary biologist at the University of Texas at Austin known for research on genome evolution in insect bacterial symbionts and bee gut microbes.

Nancy A. Rigotti

Nancy A. Rigotti is an American general internist and tobacco-control researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for clinical trials of treatments for tobacco dependence.

Nancy A. Speck

Nancy A. Speck, also published as Nancy Speck, is an American hematologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for research on RUNX1, blood stem cells, and leukemia.

Nancy B. Grimm

Nancy B. Grimm is an American ecosystem ecologist at Arizona State University, known for work on nitrogen cycling in desert streams and as a co-founder of urban ecology.

Nancy Berliner

Nancy Berliner is an American hematologist who leads the Division of Hematology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and is a leading expert on adult HLH.

Nancy Bonini

Nancy M. Bonini is an American neurogeneticist at the University of Pennsylvania who created the first fruit fly model of a human neurodegenerative disease and studies Huntington's, Parkinson's, and ALS.

Nancy C. Andreasen

Nancy C. Andreasen, also known as Nancy Andreasen, is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the University of Iowa who pioneered using MRI to study schizophrenia and won the 2000 National Medal of Science.

Nancy C. Andrews

Nancy C. Andrews is an American physician-scientist in hematology and iron metabolism who has led Boston Children's Hospital research since 2021 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Nancy Carrasco

Nancy Carrasco is a Mexican-born molecular physiologist who was the first scientist to clone the sodium/iodide symporter, the protein that transports iodide into the thyroid, and now chairs Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Vanderbilt.

Nancy E. Davidson

Nancy E. Davidson is an American breast cancer physician-scientist at Fred Hutch Cancer Center who led practice-changing breast cancer trials and led both ASCO and AACR.