Life and health scientists

Nelson L. Michael

Nelson L. Michael is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist who led the RV144 HIV vaccine trial in Thailand, the first to show protection, and developed the Army's ZPIV Zika vaccine.

Nelson Ruiz-Opazo is a Chilean-trained molecular biologist and Professor of Medicine at Boston University's Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, known for work on salt-sensitive hypertension genetics and the DEspR cancer target.

Nelson Spruston

Nelson Spruston is a Canadian-American neuroscientist who serves as Executive Director of HHMI's Janelia Research Campus and Vice President of HHMI, known for research on dendritic integration and hippocampal cell types.

Nenad Ban

Nenad Ban, born in Zagreb in 1966, is a Croatian structural biologist and ETH Zurich professor known for determining the atomic structure of the large ribosomal subunit.

Nenad Sestan

Nenad Šestan, born 1970 in Zadar, is a Croatian-born neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine who studies the genetic and molecular basis of human brain development and evolution.

Nettie Stevens

Nettie Maria Stevens (1861–1912), American geneticist at Bryn Mawr and the Carnegie Institution, discovered in 1905 via mealworm Tenebrio molitor sperm that the small Y chromosome determines male sex, co-discovered independently with E.B. Wilson, long under-credited.

Oct 21, 2026

Neurologists

Neurologists: specialist physicians who diagnose and treat nervous system disorders (brain, spinal cord, nerves, muscles) non-surgically; trained via neurology residency, ABPN-certified in the US, distinct from neurosurgeons and psychiatrists.

Neuroscientist

Neuroscientist: a scientist who studies the nervous system, from molecules and cells to circuits, behavior, and cognition. Interdisciplinary field formalized with the Society for Neuroscience in 1969; typically Ph.D.-trained.

Nevan Krogan

Nevan Krogan is a Canadian systems biologist and proteomics researcher who directs the Quantitative Biosciences Institute at UCSF and led the 2020 SARS-CoV-2 protein interaction map used to find COVID-19 drug candidates.

Neville R. Kallenbach

Neville R. Kallenbach was an American biophysical chemist and NYU chemistry professor known for protein hydrogen exchange and immobile nucleic acid junctions, a foundation of DNA nanotechnology.

Neville Sanjana

Neville Sanjana is an American functional genomicist at the New York Genome Center and NYU, known for genome-wide CRISPR screening and the 2017 PECASE award.

Nevin S. Scrimshaw

Nevin S. Scrimshaw, also known as Nevin Scrimshaw, was an American nutritionist who founded INCAP in Guatemala, chaired MIT's nutrition department, and won the 1991 World Food Prize.

Oct 10, 2026

Nevzat Tarhan

Nevzat Tarhan, born in Merzifon, Turkey in 1952, is a Turkish psychiatrist who founded NPİSTANBUL Hospital in 2006 and established Üsküdar University in Istanbul in 2011.

Oct 10, 2026

Newsha Ghaeli

Newsha Ghaeli is an Iran-born Canadian researcher and entrepreneur who led urban sensing projects at MIT's Senseable City Lab and is president and co-founder of Biobot Analytics, the first company to commercialize sewage data.

Newton Ennis Morton

Newton Ennis Morton (1929–2018) was an American population geneticist who founded genetic epidemiology and created the lod score method for detecting genetic linkage, working at Hawaii, Sloan-Kettering, and Southampton.

Nezam H. Afdhal

Nezam Afdhal is an Irish-trained hepatologist, chief of gastroenterology and hepatology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and a Harvard Medical School professor of medicine.

Niall Dillon

Niall Dillon is a chromatin and gene-regulation biologist, professor at Imperial College London, who led the Gene Regulation and Chromatin Group at the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre.

Nic Jones

Nic Jones is a British molecular biologist known for work on transcriptional control, cell-cycle regulation, and DNA tumour viruses, and for leading cancer research in Manchester.

Nicholas A. Peppas

Nicholas A. Peppas is a chemical and biomedical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, known for the Peppas equation for non-Fickian drug release and hydrogel drug carriers.

Nicholas A. Soter

Nicholas A. Soter (1939–2025) was an American dermatologist and tenured professor at New York University, known for research connecting mast-cell biology to urticaria, angioedema, and cutaneous necrotizing vasculitis.

Nicholas A. Wright

Sir Nicholas A. Wright, born 1943, is a British histopathologist at Queen Mary University of London known for work on gastrointestinal stem cells and clonal evolution in tumors.

Nicholas Arpaia

Nicholas Arpaia is an American immunologist and Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University, known for engineered probiotic bacteria that deliver tumor neoantigens as cancer vaccines.

Nicholas B. La Thangue

Nicholas B. La Thangue (born 1957) is a British molecular biologist, Professor of Cancer Biology at the University of Oxford, known for work on E2F and pRb.

Nicholas C. Grassly

Nicholas C. Grassly is a professor of vaccine epidemiology at Imperial College London whose polio vaccine research shaped the Global Polio Eradication Initiative; he advised the UK government on COVID-19 testing.

Nicholas C. Jones

Nicholas C. Jones (Nicholas Clwyd Jones) is a British cancer biologist known for adenovirus E1A research and for directing the Paterson Institute and Manchester Cancer Research Centre.

Nicholas C. Spitzer

Nicholas C. Spitzer is an American developmental neurobiologist at UC San Diego, known for showing that a neuron's neurotransmitter identity can be changed by its own electrical activity.

Nicholas C. Turner

Nicholas C. Turner is a British medical oncologist and Professor of Molecular Oncology at the Institute of Cancer Research, known for the SERENA-6 and INAVO120 breast cancer trials.

Nicholas C.P. Cross

Nicholas C.P. Cross is a British professor of human genetics at the University of Southampton and director of the Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, known for CML molecular monitoring and the 2009 JAK2 risk-factor discovery.

Nicholas Chiorazzi

Nicholas Chiorazzi is an American physician-scientist and immunologist known for chronic lymphocytic leukemia research; he heads the Karches Center for CLL Research at the Feinstein Institutes, Northwell Health.