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Naoki Sugimoto

Naoki Sugimoto (杉本 直己) is a Japanese biochemist at Konan University in Kobe who directed its Frontier Institute for Biomolecular Engineering Research and studies G-quadruplex DNA under molecular crowding.

Naomi Breslau

Naomi Breslau (1932–2018) was an Israeli-born American psychiatric epidemiologist at Henry Ford Health System and Michigan State University who showed PTSD occurs in ordinary urban populations, not only veterans.

Naomi Datta

Naomi Datta, born Naomi Goddard, was a British bacteriologist and microbial geneticist who discovered plasmids carrying antibiotic resistance genes and built their classification into compatibility groups.

Naomi E. Pierce

Naomi E. Pierce, born 1954, is an American evolutionary biologist, the Hessel Professor of Biology at Harvard, known for molecular phylogenies of butterflies and ants and studies of symbiosis.

Naomi Rosenberg

Naomi Rosenberg is an American microbiologist and cancer researcher who developed the first tractable in vitro model of leukemia development and served as dean at Tufts.

Naomi Taylor

Naomi Taylor is an American immunologist and cancer researcher who leads a National Cancer Institute group studying CAR T cells and T cell metabolism for pediatric cancers.

Naomi Wray

Naomi Wray is an Australian statistical geneticist, Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, known for methods in SNP-based heritability and polygenic risk prediction for psychiatric disorders.

Naomichi Matsumoto

Naomichi Matsumoto (松本 直通) is a Japanese human geneticist, professor and chair at Yokohama City University, known for identifying more than 90 disease-causing genes, including NSD1 in Sotos syndrome.

Naoyuki Taniguchi

Naoyuki Taniguchi (谷口 直之) is a Japanese biochemist and glycobiologist who cloned glycosyltransferase genes at Osaka University and RIKEN, winning the 2011 Japan Academy Prize for disease glycomics.

Napoleon Cybulski

Napoleon Nikodem Cybulski (1854–1919) was a Polish physiologist who held the chair of physiology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and co-discovered the adrenal hormone adrenaline.

Napoleone Ferrara

Napoleone Ferrara is a cell biologist and physician at UC San Diego, best known for isolating VEGF in 1989 and developing anti-VEGF therapies for cancer and blinding eye disease.

Narla Mohandas

Narla Mohandas, also known as Mohandas Narla, is an American hematologist and red cell physiologist who heads the Laboratory of Red Cell Physiology at the New York Blood Center.

Nasia Safdar

Nasia Safdar is an American infectious disease physician-scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Madison VA, known for preventing C. difficile infection and COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness studies.

Nasser H. Hanna

Nasser H. Hanna is an American medical oncologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, known for lung cancer clinical research and founding End Lung Cancer Now.

Nassim Kamar

Nassim Kamar, born 1972, is a French nephrologist and professor at Université Toulouse III who heads nephrology and organ transplantation at Hôpital Rangueil and established ribavirin as the treatment of chronic hepatitis E in transplant recipients.

Nat Sternberg

Nat Sternberg was a molecular biologist who discovered the Cre–lox recombination system of bacteriophage P1, now a widely used tool for genetic engineering in mice and plants.

Natalia Dudareva

Natalia Dudareva is a Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at Purdue University, an international authority on plant secondary metabolism, especially the biosynthesis of floral scent compounds.

Natalie Ahn

Natalie Ahn is an American biochemist, Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for showing how MAP kinase signaling drives cancer and for proteomics methods.

Natasha V. Raikhel

Natasha V. Raikhel, also known as Natasha Raikhel, is a Soviet-born American plant cell biologist who worked out vacuole protein targeting and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.

Nathalie Q. Balaban

Nathalie Q. Balaban (נטלי בלבן) is a professor of physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem known for showing that antibiotic-surviving bacterial persisters arise from a preexisting phenotypic switch.

Nathalie Rochefort

Nathalie L. Rochefort is a neuroscientist and Personal Chair of Visual Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh since 2022, known for two-photon calcium imaging of the mouse visual cortex.

Nathan A. Ellis

Nathan A. Ellis is an American molecular geneticist at the University of Arizona known for his work leading to the cloning of BLM, the Bloom's syndrome gene.

Nathan B. Talbot

Nathan B. Talbot (1909–1994) was an American pediatric endocrinologist who built one of the first pediatric endocrine programs in the United States, at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Nathan Bacheler

Nathan Bacheler is an American research fishery biologist at NOAA Fisheries Southeast Fisheries Science Center, coordinating a reef fish survey and receiving the 2013 Presidential Early Career Award.

Nathan D. Grubaugh

Nathan D. Grubaugh is an American virologist and genomic epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health who sequences virus genomes to track outbreaks of Zika, dengue, and COVID-19.

Nathan Edward Tolbert

Nathan Edward Tolbert, known as Ed Tolbert, was an American plant biochemist who discovered the glycolate pathway and leaf peroxisomes, establishing their role in photorespiration.

Nathan Edwin Brill

Nathan Edwin Brill (1860–1925) was an American physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York who first described Brill–Zinsser disease, the recrudescence of epidemic typhus.

Nathan Ford

Nathan Ford is an infectious-diseases researcher and public-health physician who has worked on HIV treatment and access to medicines with Médecins Sans Frontières since 1998.

Nathan Houchens

Nathan Houchens is an American hospital medicine physician and researcher at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and the University of Michigan, known for work on clinical reasoning and medical education.

Nathan Kuppermann

Nathan Kuppermann is an American pediatric emergency medicine physician and clinical epidemiologist who spent 29 years at UC Davis before joining Children's National in 2024, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2010.