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Nir Hacohen

Nir Hacohen is an American immunologist who directs cancer immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital and is known for building single-cell maps of immune cells in tumors.

Nir Yosef

Nir Yosef is an Israeli computational biologist who studies T cells with single-cell genomics and machine learning, and is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Niraj H. Tolia

Niraj H. Tolia is a structural biologist and malaria researcher who leads a vaccine design section at NIAID, after teaching at Washington University in St. Louis.

Nirao M. Shah

Nirao M. Shah is a neuroscientist who studies the neural circuits controlling social behavior, and a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and of Neurobiology at Stanford University.

Nirmalya Chatterjee

Nirmalya Chatterjee is an Indian-born Drosophila geneticist who studies oxidative-stress signaling and energy metabolism, known for Nrf2 work and reviews of fly models of obesity and diabetes.

Nish Chaturvedi

Nishi Chaturvedi is a British clinical epidemiologist, Professor and Director of the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at University College London, known for diabetic eye disease trials.

Nissim Benvenisty

Nissim Benvenisty is an Israeli stem cell biologist who directs the Azrieli Center for Stem Cells and Genetic Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and founded the biotech company NewStem.

Nissim Hay

Nissim Hay is an Israeli-trained cancer biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, known for work on Akt signaling and tumor glucose metabolism.

Niteesh K. Choudhry

Niteesh K. Choudhry is a Canadian-trained physician and pharmacoepidemiologist, professor at Harvard Medical School, known for the 2011 MI FREEE trial eliminating copayments for heart medications.

Nitin S. Baliga

Nitin S. Baliga is an Indian-born American systems biologist, a founding member and director of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, known for predicting cellular responses.

Nitzan Rosenfeld

Nitzan Rosenfeld is a cancer researcher known for developing liquid biopsy methods that detect circulating tumor DNA in blood plasma. He directs the Barts Cancer Institute in London and co-founded Inivata.

Nitzan Shabek

Nitzan Shabek is a structural plant biologist and Associate Professor of Plant Biology at UC Davis, known for structural work on strigolactone hormone signaling and ubiquitin ligases.

Nizar J. Bahlis

Nizar J. Bahlis is a Canadian hematologist and multiple myeloma researcher at the University of Calgary, where he is an Associate Professor of Medicine, known for leading trials of elranatamab and mezigdomide.

Noa Dagan

Noa Dagan (נעה דגן) is an Israeli public health physician and medical informatics researcher who heads the Data and AI-driven Medicine Department at Clalit Innovation.

Noah A. Rosenberg

Noah A. Rosenberg is a population geneticist and professor at Stanford University, known for the 2002 Science study of human genetic structure and the CLUMPP program.

Noah Fierer

Noah Fierer is an American microbial ecologist and professor at the University of Colorado Boulder whose work established that soil pH, not latitude or temperature, controls bacterial diversity.

Noah W. Palm

Noah W. Palm is a professor of immunobiology at Yale University School of Medicine whose laboratory studies gut microbiota and immune interactions, known for IgA-SEQ and metabolite screening platforms.

Noam Sobel

Noam Sobel is an Israeli neuroscientist who studies the brain mechanisms of human smell, heading olfactory research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

Noboru Mizushima

Noboru Mizushima (水島 昇) is a Japanese cell biologist, professor at the University of Tokyo since 2012, known for defining how autophagy, the cellular recycling process, works in mammals.

Noboru Sueoka

Noboru Sueoka (1929–2021) was a Japanese-born American molecular biologist and geneticist, based at Princeton and Colorado Boulder, known for the 1959 DNA density discovery and the directional mutation pressure hypothesis.

Nobuhiko Hamazaki (浜崎 信彦)

Nobuhiko Hamazaki (浜崎 信彦) is a Japanese developmental and stem-cell biologist who has been an assistant professor at the University of Washington since 2023, known for reconstituting oocyte development and early embryogenesis in vitro.

Nobuhiko Kamada

Nobuhiko Kamada (鎌田 信彦) is a Japanese-born immunologist and microbiome researcher, professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan, known for work on gut bacteria and inflammatory bowel disease.

Nobuhiko Kayagaki

Nobuhiko Kayagaki is an immunologist at Genentech in South San Francisco, California, known for discovering the non-canonical inflammasome pathway and showing that NINJ1 mediates plasma membrane rupture.

Nobuhiro Yamada

Nobuhiro Yamada is a Japanese endocrinologist and professor at the University of Tsukuba whose laboratory studies lipid metabolism, insulin resistance, and atherosclerosis, including the Elovl6 fatty acid elongase.

Nobuo Suga

Nobuo Suga, born 1933, is a Japanese-born neurophysiologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for discovering combination-sensitive neurons in the mustached bat's auditory cortex.

Nobutaka Hirokawa

Nobutaka Hirokawa (廣川 信隆) is a Japanese cell biologist, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, known for identifying the kinesin superfamily of motor proteins that move cargo along microtubules.

Nobuyo Maeda

Nobuyo Maeda (前田伸代) is a Japanese geneticist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who created the apolipoprotein E knockout mouse, a leading model of atherosclerosis.

Noël Bouck

Noël Bouck, also published as Noel P. Bouck, is a molecular biologist who showed that tumor suppressor genes restrain angiogenesis through secreted proteins such as thrombospondin-1.

Noël Fiessinger

Noël Fiessinger (1881–1946) was a French physician and professor of medicine who, with Edgar Leroy, described in 1916 the conjunctivo-urethro-synovial syndrome now called reactive arthritis.

Noel G. McElvaney

Noel G. McElvaney (Noel Gerry McElvaney) is an Irish respiratory physician-scientist, Professor of Medicine at RCSI since 1998, known for cystic fibrosis and alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency research.