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Ned Lamb

Ned J. C. Lamb is a molecular biologist and CNRS research director in Montpellier, known for 1990–1991 Cell papers on cyclin A and p34cdc2 kinase.

Ned S. Wingreen

Ned S. Wingreen is an American theoretical physicist turned molecular biologist, a Howard A. Prior Professor at Princeton University known for work on protein folding, quorum sensing, and systems immunology.

Neelima Sinha

Neelima R. Sinha is a plant developmental biologist and professor of plant biology at UC Davis, known for landmark studies of how genes shape leaf development and evolution.

Neff Walker

Neff Walker is a Senior Scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health known for mathematical modeling of newborn, child, and maternal survival in low- and middle-income countries.

Neil A. Holtzman

Neil A. Holtzman, born 1934, is an American physician-geneticist and Johns Hopkins professor known for phenylketonuria screening research and for chairing the federal Task Force on Genetic Testing.

Neil Brockdorff

Neil Brockdorff is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018, known for showing that Xist RNA controls X chromosome inactivation.

Neil Burgess (neuroscientist)

Neil Burgess, born 1966, is a British neuroscientist and Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at University College London, known for work on the hippocampus, spatial navigation, and episodic memory.

Neil H Riordan

Neil H Riordan is an American stem cell researcher and entrepreneur who founded the Stem Cell Institute in Panama, which treats diseases with umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells.

Neil H. Raskin

Neil H. Raskin (1935–2026) was an American neurologist and headache medicine researcher, professor emeritus at UCSF, known for describing hypnic and thunderclap headache, the Raskin Protocol for migraine, and the textbook Headache.

Neil H. Shubin

Neil H. Shubin, also known as Neil Shubin, is an American paleontologist at the University of Chicago, best known for discovering the fossil fish Tiktaalik roseae.

Neil Hamilton Fairley

Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley (1891–1966) was an Australian physician and army officer who led Allied malaria control in the Second World War, proving atebrin could suppress the disease.

Neil Hunter

Neil Hunter is a British molecular biologist at the University of California, Davis and an HHMI Investigator, known for research on meiotic recombination and DNA repair.

Neil Kaplowitz

Neil Kaplowitz is an American physician-scientist and professor of medicine at the University of Southern California, known for research on glutathione transport, alcoholic liver injury, and drug-induced liver damage.

Neil M Vora

Neil M Vora is a physician-epidemiologist who spent nearly ten years at the CDC, led New York City's COVID-19 contact tracing program, and now works on preventing pandemics.

Neil M. Ferguson

Neil M. Ferguson is a mathematical modeller of infectious disease and professor at Imperial College London, known for models of BSE, foot-and-mouth, and COVID-19 that shaped Britain's 2020 lockdown.

Neil M. Resnick

Neil M. Resnick, also known as Neil Resnick, is an American geriatrician who was Chief of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC until 2023.

Neil Osheroff

Neil Osheroff is an American biochemist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine known for research on type II topoisomerases and the anticancer and antibacterial drugs targeting them.

Neil Pearce

Neil Pearce is a New Zealand epidemiologist and biostatistician, professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, known for asthma research and co-founding ISAAC.

Neil Q. McDonald

Neil Q. McDonald, also known as Neil McDonald, is a structural biologist and Professor at Birkbeck, joint with the Francis Crick Institute, known for the 1991 nerve growth factor structure.

Neil R Poulter

Neil R Poulter is a British physician-scientist, Professor of Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine at Imperial College London since 1997, and Chief Investigator of May Measurement Month.

Neil R. Blacklow

Neil R. Blacklow is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, and founding chief of its Division of Infectious Diseases.

Neil R. Cashman

Neil R. Cashman is a Canadian neurologist and professor at the University of British Columbia known for showing that misfolded SOD1 spreads in a prion-like manner in ALS.

Neil R. Powe

Neil R. Powe is an American physician-scientist who has served as chief of medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and professor at UCSF since 2009.

Neil Risch

Neil Risch is an American statistical geneticist and genetic epidemiologist who directs human genetics at UCSF, co-leads a large Kaiser Permanente biobank, and won the 2023 ASHG Lifetime Achievement Award.

Neil Scolding

Neil J. Scolding is a British clinical neuroscientist and neurologist known for multiple sclerosis research and adult stem-cell therapy, and the first Burden Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Bristol, from 1999.

Neil W. Schluger

Neil W. Schluger is an American pulmonologist and tuberculosis researcher, dean of the School of Medicine at New York Medical College since 2023 after leading Columbia's pulmonary division.

Neill Epperson

Cynthia Neill Epperson is an American reproductive and perinatal psychiatrist who chairs psychiatry at the University of Colorado and studies hormones, stress, and women's mental health.

Nektarios Tavernarakis

Nektarios Tavernarakis, born in Crete in 1967, is a Greek biologist who studies the neurobiology of aging at the University of Crete and FORTH, and chairs the European Molecular Biology Conference.

Nels Elde

Nels Elde is an American evolutionary geneticist, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Utah, a 2020 MacArthur Fellow, and an HHMI Investigator known for studying host-pathogen conflict.

Nelson B. Freimer

Nelson B. Freimer is an American psychiatrist and human geneticist at UCLA who directs the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge and studies the genetics of depression.