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Nikolay Dubinin

Nikolay Dubinin (Дубинин Николай Петрович) was a Soviet and Russian geneticist, born in 1906, who worked on evolutionary, radiation, and human genetics and founded two institutes.

Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky

Nikolay Vladimirovich Timofeev-Ressovsky (1900–1981) was a Soviet geneticist who worked in Berlin-Buch for twenty years, established the quantitative laws of radiation mutagenesis, and founded Soviet radiobiology.

Nikolay V. Dokholyan

Nikolay V. Dokholyan is an American computational biologist and protein engineer who held a professorship at Penn State College of Medicine, known for discrete molecular dynamics and protein logic gates.

Nikolay Zenkin

Nikolay Zenkin is a Russian-born RNA biologist and Professor of Molecular Biology at Newcastle University since 2013, known for transcript-assisted proofreading and the 2024 Nature finding that translation destroys stalled transcription complexes.

Nikos C. Kyrpides

Nikos C. Kyrpides (Νίκος Κυριπίδης) is a Greek computational biologist leading the Microbiome Data Science group at the DOE Joint Genome Institute in Berkeley, California.

Nikos K. Logothetis

Nikos K. Logothetis (Νίκος Κ. Λογοθέτης) is a Greek neuroscientist who directed the Department of Physiology of Cognitive Processes at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.

Nilabh Shastri

Nilabh Shastri (1952–2021) was an Indian-born American immunologist who spent thirty years at UC Berkeley and later Johns Hopkins, known for discovering cryptic antigens and the enzyme ERAAP.

Nilanjan Chatterjee

Nilanjan Chatterjee is a biostatistician and genetic epidemiologist who spent sixteen years at the National Cancer Institute before joining Johns Hopkins in 2015, known for polygenic risk prediction across diverse populations.

Nilesh J. Samani

Nilesh J. Samani is a British cardiologist and human geneticist, Professor of Cardiology at the University of Leicester, whose research established the inherited basis of coronary artery disease.

Nils Brose

Nils Brose (born 1962) is a German neuroscientist who directs Molecular Neurobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, studying synaptic vesicle priming and neurexin-neuroligin synapse proteins.

Nils Christian Stenseth

Nils Christian Stenseth, often published as Nils Chr. Stenseth, is a Norwegian population ecologist at the University of Oslo known for rodent cycles and climate effects on populations.

Nils Lonberg

Nils Lonberg is an American immunologist and antibody-discovery scientist whose transgenic-mouse platforms produced fully human antibodies, including ipilimumab (Yervoy), the first checkpoint blockade cancer therapy, FDA-approved in 2011.

Nils Stein

Nils Stein is a German plant geneticist who heads the Federal ex situ Genebank of Germany at IPK Gatersleben and has chaired the International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium since 2008.

Nils Walter

Nils G. Walter is a biophysical chemist at the University of Michigan, where he has been the Francis S. Collins Collegiate Professor since 2017, studying single-molecule RNA and DNA nanotechnology.

Nils Wiedemann

Nils Wiedemann is a German biochemist and professor at the University of Freiburg who has discovered and characterized many of the proteins that carry enzymes into mitochondria.

Nils-Åke Hillarp

Nils-Åke Hillarp (1916–1965) was a Swedish histologist, professor at the Karolinska Institute, who showed that amines are stored in cell granules with ATP and co-developed the Falck–Hillarp fluorescence method for visualizing neurotransmitters in nerve cells.

Nils-Göran Larsson

Nils-Göran Larsson is a Swedish physician-scientist in mitochondrial genetics, Professor at Karolinska Institutet since 2016 and a former founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing.

Nima Sharifi

Nima Sharifi is a prostate cancer medical oncologist and physician-scientist who identified the HSD3B1 mutation driving castration-resistant prostate cancer, leading the Desai Sethi Urology Institute since 2023.

Nina Agabian

Nina Agabian is a molecular parasitologist and Professor Emeritus of Cell and Tissue Biology at UCSF, known for 1984 work establishing trans-splicing in trypanosomes and later Candida albicans genome studies.

Nina Bhardwaj

Nina Bhardwaj is an American physician-scientist in cancer immunotherapy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

Nina G. Jablonski

Nina G. Jablonski is an American biological anthropologist and paleobiologist, emerita professor at Penn State, known for her research on the evolution of human skin and its pigmentation.

Nina Strokata

Nina Strokata (Ніна Строката; full name Nina Antonivna Strokata-Karavanska) was a Ukrainian microbiologist and human rights activist who was a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group in 1976.

Nina Tandon

Nina Tandon is an American tissue engineering researcher and biotech entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of EpiBone, which brought stem-cell grown living bone into human clinical trials.

Nina V. Fedoroff

Nina V. Fedoroff (born 1942) is an American plant molecular biologist who was the first to clone maize transposons, winning the 2006 National Medal of Science.

Ning Fang

Ning Fang (方宁) is a Chinese chemist, a professor at Xiamen University since 2021, known for developing SPORT, which tracks single nanoparticles rotating in living cells.

Ning Zheng

Ning Zheng is a structural biologist and HHMI Investigator at the University of Washington who uses cryo-EM and crystallography to study ubiquitin ligases and ion channels.

Ninghai Gan

Ninghai Gan is a structural biologist and Research Associate at HHMI and UT Southwestern since 2019, known for Nature papers on Legionella ubiquitination and ion channel structures.

Nino Stocchetti

Nino Stocchetti is an Italian anesthesiologist at the University of Milan specializing in neurointensive care for acute brain injury, known for research on traumatic intracranial hypertension.

Nipam H. Patel

Nipam H. Patel is an American developmental and evolutionary biologist who directs the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Nir Friedman

Nir Friedman is a computer scientist and biologist, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for applying probabilistic graphical models to gene regulation and chromatin.