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Niels Geijsen
Niels Geijsen is a developmental biologist and professor who heads the Department of Anatomy and Embryology at Leiden University Medical Center, known for stem-cell-derived blastoids and iTOP protein delivery.
Niels K. Jerne
Niels Kaj Jerne (1911–1994) was a Danish immunologist who shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for theories on the specificity and control of the immune system.
Niels Mailand
Niels Mailand is a Danish molecular cell biologist who studies how ubiquitin and SUMO signaling control DNA damage responses, and who leads a genome maintenance group at the Danish Cancer Institute.
Niels Ringstad
Niels Ringstad is an American neuroscientist and professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who uses C. elegans to study the development and function of neuromodulatory systems.
Niels Ryberg Finsen
Niels Ryberg Finsen was a Faroese-born Danish physician who founded modern phototherapy, treating the skin tuberculosis lupus vulgaris with concentrated light, and won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Nigel Benjamin
Nigel Benjamin is a British clinical pharmacologist known for research on nitric oxide, professor at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London, elected FMedSci in 2001.
Nigel D. F. Grindley
Nigel D. F. Grindley, born 1945, is a British molecular biologist who joined Yale in 1980 and worked out the mechanism of γδ resolvase, the prototype serine recombinase.
Nigel J. Robinson
Nigel J. Robinson is a molecular geneticist and Emeritus Professor at Durham University, known for work on metalloproteins, metal sensing, and the FRO2 iron-uptake gene.
Nigel Mackman
Nigel Mackman is a hematologist and John Parker Distinguished Professor at UNC Chapel Hill since 2007, known for research on tissue factor, thrombosis, and coagulation-inflammation crosstalk in cancer and sickle cell disease.
Nigel Scrutton
Nigel S. Scrutton is a British biochemist, Professor of Molecular Enzymology at the University of Manchester, known for work on hydrogen tunnelling in enzyme catalysis and new biological cofactors.
Nigel Unwin
Nigel Unwin, born in 1942, is a structural biologist and Emeritus Professor at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, known for membrane protein and acetylcholine receptor structures.
Nigel W. Bunnett
Nigel W. Bunnett is a neuroscientist and pharmacologist at New York University known for work on protease-activated receptors, neurogenic inflammation, and endosomal signaling in chronic pain.
Nihal Altan-Bonnet
Nihal Altan-Bonnet is a cell biologist and virologist who studies how viruses exploit host-cell membranes and lipids; she leads a laboratory at the NIH and won a PECASE award at Rutgers in 2012.
Nika N. Danial
Nika N. Danial is a cell biologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, known for showing that the BAD protein links glycolysis to apoptosis in mitochondria.
Nikhil C. Munshi
Nikhil C. Munshi is an Indian-born hematologist who directs myeloma research and CAR T-cell therapy at Dana-Farber, and led the 2021 trial of idecabtagene vicleucel for myeloma.
Nikhil R Bhagwat
Nikhil R Bhagwat is a molecular biologist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and UC Davis, known for defining how the XPF-ERCC1 nuclease repairs DNA cross-links.
Nikhil S. Joshi
Nikhil S. Joshi, also published as Nikhil Joshi, is an American immunologist and Associate Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University who studies how T cells eliminate tumors.
Nikhil S. Malvankar
Nikhil S. Malvankar is an Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University, known for cryo-electron microscopy structures showing that microbial nanowires are built from stacked cytochrome hemes.
Nikhil Wagle
Nikhil Wagle is an American physician-scientist in cancer genomics and precision oncology, a Harvard Medical School associate professor and breast medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Niki M. Moutsopoulos
Niki M. Moutsopoulos, also published as Niki Moutsopoulos, is a Greek-trained American physician-scientist in oral mucosal immunology who leads oral immunity research at NIH and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.
Niko Beerenwinkel
Niko Beerenwinkel is a computational biologist and Full Professor at ETH Zurich in Basel who develops mathematical models for HIV drug resistance, cancer evolution, and viral sequencing.
Niko Geldner
Niko Geldner is a Swiss plant cell and developmental biologist, professor at the University of Lausanne, known for work on the root endodermis and endosomal signaling.
Nikola P. Pavletich
Nikola P. Pavletich (born 1964) is a structural biologist at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York, known for crystal structures of p53, BRCA2-RAD51, and the mTOR kinase.
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Nikolaas Tinbergen was a Dutch-born British ethologist at Oxford, a founding father of ethology who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Konrad Lorenz and Karl von Frisch.
Nikolai Cholodny
Nikolai Cholodny (Микола Холодний) was a Ukrainian plant physiologist whose 1927 hormonal theory of tropisms, the Cholodny–Went hypothesis, remains the dominant explanation of how roots bend toward gravity.
Nikolai Vavilov (Николай Иванович Вавилов)
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (Николай Иванович Вавилов), Soviet geneticist and botanist, father of genebanks; proposed eight centers of origin of cultivated plants, collected 250,000+ seed samples, arrested 1940 under Lysenko's influence, died of starvation in Saratov prison in 1943.
Nikolaus Grigorieff
Nikolaus Grigorieff is a German-born biophysicist and HHMI investigator at UMass Chan Medical School who develops cryo-electron microscopy methods and open-source software, including cisTEM, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Nikolaus Pfanner
Nikolaus Pfanner, born 1956 in Simmerberg, Germany, is a German biochemist and professor at the University of Freiburg known for working out how proteins are imported into mitochondria, honored with the 2004 Leibniz Prize.
Nikolaus Rajewsky
Nikolaus Rajewsky is a systems biologist and Full Professor at the Max Delbrück Center and Charité in Berlin, known for the 2013 discovery of circular RNAs and the Open-ST method.
Nikolaus Schultz
Nikolaus Schultz is a computational oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who co-leads cBioPortal and OncoKB, a precision oncology knowledge base partially recognized by the US FDA.