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S. Michael Mauer

S. Michael Mauer is an American pediatric nephrologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota, known for showing that pancreas transplantation can reverse diabetic kidney disease.

S. Murray Sherman

S. Murray Sherman, born in 1944, is an American neuroscientist and Maurice Goldblatt Professor at the University of Chicago, known for driver and modulator glutamatergic pathways and transthalamic corticocortical routes.

S. Steven Potter

S. Steven Potter, also known as Steven Potter, was an American molecular biologist (1949–2024) at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, known for work on transposable elements and fetal blood formation.

S. Thomas Carmichael

S. Thomas Carmichael is an American neurologist and neuroscientist who chairs neurology at UCLA and studies how the brain repairs itself after stroke, including stem cell therapies.

S. Vincent Rajkumar

S. Vincent Rajkumar, also known as Vincent Rajkumar, is an American hematologist-oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for redefining myeloma diagnosis and leading pivotal myeloma drug trials.

S. Walter Englander

S. Walter Englander, full name Solomon Walter Englander, is an American biophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania known for developing hydrogen exchange studies of protein folding.

S.I. Chiriev

S.I. Chiriev (Sergei Ivanovich Chiriev) was a Russian physiologist and doctor of medicine who headed the physiology chair at St Vladimir University in Kyiv from 1884.

S.J. Gamblin

Steven J. Gamblin, known as Steve Gamblin, is a structural biologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London, known for influenza haemagglutinin and SARS-CoV-2 spike structures.

S.P. Allison

S.P. Allison, or Simon P. Allison, is a British physician-scientist in clinical nutrition and metabolism at Nottingham, known for his 1979 work using insulin to spare protein after injury.

Saad Omer

Saad B. Omer is a vaccine epidemiologist and founding dean of the Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Saad Z. Usmani

Saad Z. Usmani is a hematologic oncologist specializing in multiple myeloma who has been Chief of the Myeloma Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 2021.

Saar Gill

Saar I. Gill is an Australian-trained physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania known for CAR T cell immunotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia, including CRISPR-edited stem cell shielding.

Sabeeha Merchant

Sabeeha Merchant is an American biochemist at UC Berkeley who studies trace-metal use in photosynthetic cells and led the sequencing of the Chlamydomonas genome, published in Science in 2007.

Sabine Ehrt

Sabine Ehrt is a microbiologist who studies how Mycobacterium tuberculosis persists and evades treatment, and became chair of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine in 2025.

Sabine Hadida

Sabine Hadida is a Spanish medicinal chemist, senior vice president at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, who led the chemistry team behind the cystic fibrosis medicines Kalydeco and Trikafta.

Sabine Kastner

Sabine Kastner (Sabine Kästner) is a German cognitive neuroscientist at Princeton University known for showing that attention acts at many stages of the visual system.

Sabine Werner

Sabine Werner, born 1960, is a biochemist and cell biologist who has been Full Professor of Cell Biology at ETH Zurich since 1999, known for wound-healing research.

Sabrina Diano

Sabrina Diano is an Italian-born neuroscientist studying how the hypothalamus regulates energy and glucose metabolism; she directs Columbia's Institute of Human Nutrition and won the 2018 Helmholtz Diabetes Award.

Sabrina Leigh Spencer

Sabrina Leigh Spencer, published as Sabrina L. Spencer, is a cell biologist and Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2014.

Sabrina Paganoni

Sabrina Paganoni is an Italian-born physician-scientist and physiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who studies and treats ALS and led the CENTAUR drug trial.

Sabrina Sholts

Sabrina Sholts is an American biological anthropologist, Curator of Biological Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, who studies how human behavior and environmental change drive disease emergence.

Sacha B. Nelson

Sacha B. Nelson, also published as Sacha Nelson, is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist at Brandeis University who discovered synaptic scaling, a form of homeostatic plasticity, in 1998.

Sachin Kheterpal

Sachin Kheterpal is an American anesthesiologist and medical informaticist at the University of Michigan who built the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group, a consortium of more than 70 hospitals.

Sachin Patel

Sachin Patel is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist studying how the brain's endocannabinoid system regulates stress responses; he received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2016.

Sadaf Farooqi

Sadaf Farooqi is a University of Cambridge clinician scientist known for discovering genetic causes of severe childhood obesity and showing the leptin-melanocortin pathway controls human appetite and body weight.

Sadiya Khan

Sadiya Khan is an American preventive cardiologist and cardiovascular epidemiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, known for cardio-obstetrics and for chairing the American Heart Association working group behind the PREVENT risk equations.

Saeed Tavazoie

Saeed Tavazoie is a systems biologist and Columbia University professor who applies machine learning to gene-expression data, known for showing that microbes can predict changes in their environments.

Sagar Lonial

Sagar Lonial is an American hematologic oncologist who chairs hematology and medical oncology at Emory University and leads pivotal multiple myeloma trials, including daratumumab, elotuzumab, and iberdomide.

Sahachiro Hata

Sahachiro Hata (秦佐八郎), 1873–1938, was a Japanese bacteriologist who demonstrated in Paul Ehrlich's Frankfurt laboratory that compound 606 was effective against syphilis, producing Salvarsan, the first modern chemotherapeutic.

Sai Reddy

Sai T. Reddy is a Swiss-based systems and synthetic immunologist, a Full Professor at ETH Zurich in Basel who heads its Laboratory for Systems and Synthetic Immunology.