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Nicholas O. Davidson

Nicholas O. Davidson is a physician-scientist in molecular biology and gastroenterology known for cloning Apobec-1, the enzyme that edits apolipoprotein B mRNA, at Washington University in St. Louis.

Nicholas P. Harberd

Nicholas P. Harberd, born 1956, is a plant scientist and Emeritus Professor at Oxford who showed how gibberellin regulates plant growth through DELLA proteins, explaining green revolution wheat dwarfing.

Nicholas P. Restifo

Nicholas P. Restifo is an American physician and immunologist known for developing cancer immunotherapies, leading anti-tumor T cell research at the National Cancer Institute for nearly three decades.

Nicholas Peter Franks

Nicholas Peter Franks, known as Nick Franks, is a British molecular biophysicist and Professor of Biophysics and Anaesthetics at Imperial College London who showed that general anaesthetics act by binding specific proteins.

Nicholas Proudfoot

Nicholas Proudfoot, often cited as N.J. Proudfoot, is a British molecular biologist at the University of Oxford who discovered the AAUAAA polyadenylation signal and defined mammalian transcription termination.

Nicholas R. Cozzarelli

Nicholas R. Cozzarelli (1938–2006) was an American biochemist at UC Berkeley and a leading authority on DNA topology who served as editor-in-chief of PNAS from 1995 until his death.

Nicholas R. J. Gascoigne

Nicholas R. J. Gascoigne is a British-born immunologist who showed how T-cell receptor binding strength shapes selection in the thymus and codiscovered the protein Themis.

Nicholas R. Thomson

Nicholas R. Thomson is a microbiologist and bioinformatician who heads the Parasites and Microbes Programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and is known for genomic studies of cholera.

Nicholas S. Fisher

Nicholas S. Fisher is an American marine biogeochemist and Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University known for research on how metals and radionuclides accumulate in marine organisms.

Nicholas S. Foulkes

Nicholas S. Foulkes is a chronobiologist who studies circadian clocks in fish, leading the Circadian Clock Biology group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and a companion group in Heidelberg.

Nicholas T. Ingolia

Nicholas T. Ingolia is a molecular biologist and professor at UC Berkeley known for developing ribosome profiling, a deep-sequencing technique measuring protein synthesis across the genome.

Nicholas Turk-Browne

Nicholas B. Turk-Browne is a cognitive neuroscientist, Professor of Psychology at Yale and Director of the Wu Tsai Institute, known for statistical learning research and fMRI imaging of awake infants.

Nicholas W. Bellono

Nicholas W. Bellono is a molecular and cellular biologist and Professor at Harvard University, known for work on octopus chemotactile sensation and electroreception in sharks and skates.

Nicholas W. Morrell

Nicholas W. Morrell is a British physician-scientist in pulmonary vascular medicine and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Cambridge, known for defining how BMPR-II mutations cause pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Nicholas Wald

Sir Nicholas John Wald, born 1944, is a British physician and epidemiologist who pioneered antenatal screening, showed folic acid prevents neural tube defects, and co-invented the Polypill.

Nicholas Wood

Nicholas Wood is a British neurologist and human geneticist, Galton Professor of Genetics at University College London, known for identifying Parkinson's disease genes including PINK1 and LRRK2.

Nicholas Wu

Nicholas Wu, also known as Nicholas C. Wu, is an American immunologist and virologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who predicts antibody binding sites on influenza and SARS-CoV-2 from sequence.

Nick Barker (biologist)

Nick Barker is a stem cell biologist at A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore, known for identifying Lgr5 as an adult stem cell marker.

Nick Barton

Nick Barton, born 1955 in London, is a British evolutionary geneticist, professor at IST Austria since 2008, known for work on hybrid zones, speciation, and multilocus selection models.

Nick Black

Sir Nick Black is a British physician-scientist and Emeritus Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for championing patient-reported outcome measures in the NHS.

Nick F. Ramsey

Nick F. Ramsey, known as Nick Ramsey, is a Dutch cognitive neuroscientist at UMC Utrecht who led the first fully implanted brain-computer interface for home use.

Nick Fox

Nick C. Fox is a British clinical neurologist and UCL professor who directs the Dementia Research Centre and developed MRI methods measuring brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease.

Nick Goldman

Nick Goldman is a computational biologist and Group Leader at EMBL-EBI in the United Kingdom, known for helping create DNA information storage and pandemic-scale phylogenetics.

Nick V. Grishin

Nick V. Grishin, also cited as Nick Grishin, is a Russian-born American computational biologist and Professor of Biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for PROMALS3D and ECOD.

Nick Watts

Nick Watts is an Australian- and UK-licensed medical doctor who directs the Centre for Sustainable Medicine at NUS, after serving as NHS England's first Chief Sustainability Officer.

Nico Eisenhauer

Nico Eisenhauer is a German soil ecologist and professor of Experimental Interaction Ecology at Leipzig University and iDiv, studying how earthworms and soil biodiversity shape ecosystems.

Nico H.J. Pijls

Nico H.J. Pijls, known as Nico Pijls, is a Dutch biomedical engineer and interventional cardiologist who originated fractional flow reserve and led the DEFER and FAME trials.

Nico Tjandra

Nico Tjandra is an American-based structural biophysicist who leads the Laboratory of Structural Biophysics at NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

Nico U.F. Dosenbach

Nico U.F. Dosenbach, known as Nico Dosenbach, is a German-born neurologist and systems neuroscientist at Washington University School of Medicine who pioneered precision functional mapping of individual human brains.

Nicola Aceto

Nicola Aceto (born 1982) is an Italian cancer biologist and professor of molecular oncology at ETH Zurich, known for discovering metastatic circulating tumor cell clusters.