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Said A. Ibrahim

Said A. Ibrahim is an American physician and health services researcher known for studying racial disparities in joint replacement care, and dean of Sidney Kimmel Medical College since 2023.

Salih J. Wakil

Salih J. Wakil (1927–2019) was an Iraqi-born American biochemist at Baylor College of Medicine who discovered acetyl-CoA carboxylase and fatty acid synthase, key enzymes of fatty acid synthesis.

Salim Abdool Karim

Salim Abdool Karim is a South African infectious diseases epidemiologist who led the CAPRISA 004 trial proving antiretrovirals prevent HIV, and chaired South Africa's COVID-19 advisory committee.

Salim S. Abdool Karim

Salim S. Abdool Karim is a South African clinical epidemiologist, director of CAPRISA since 2002, known for HIV prevention trials and leading South Africa's COVID-19 response.

Salim S. Hayek

Salim S. Hayek, also published as Salim Hayek, is a cardiologist whose research on suPAR and kidney injury led UTMB to name him Chair of Internal Medicine in 2025.

Salim Yusuf

Salim Yusuf is an Indian-born Canadian cardiologist and clinical trialist at McMaster University, founder of PHRI, whose trials of beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, and the polypill shaped global heart disease guidelines.

Salima Hacein‐Bey‐Abina

Salima Hacein-Bey-Abina is a French professor of immunology at Université Paris Cité and Hôpital Bicêtre who led the first gene therapy trial treating children with SCID-X1 in Paris.

Sallie W. Chisholm

Sallie "Penny" W. Chisholm (born 1947), MIT Institute Professor, discovered Prochlorococcus, Earth's most abundant photosynthetic organism, using flow cytometry in the 1980s; National Medal of Science 2011, Crafoord Prize 2019, opponent of ocean fertilization.

Sally Blower

Sally Blower is a mathematical modeller of infectious disease who directs the Center for Biomedical Modeling at UCLA, known for transmission models of HIV, drug resistance, and tuberculosis.

Sally E. Wenzel

Sally E. Wenzel, also cited as Sally Wenzel, is an American pulmonary physician-scientist at the University of Pittsburgh who established severe asthma as distinct biological phenotypes.

Sally F. Barrington

Sally Barrington is a British physician in nuclear medicine who is Professor of PET Imaging at King's College London and co-leads the UK PET Core Lab research network.

Sally Grantham‐McGregor

Sally Margaret Grantham-McGregor is a physician-scientist in pediatric nutrition and early child development, emeritus professor at UCL, whose Jamaican trials and Reach Up program earned the 2026 Yidan Prize.

Sally Hopewell

Sally Hopewell is a British clinical trials methodologist, professor at the University of Oxford, known for leading the CONSORT 2025 reporting guideline update and leading randomised trials in musculoskeletal medicine.

Sally Kornbluth

Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist known for research on apoptosis and cell-cycle control who became the 18th president of MIT in 2023 after a career at Duke University.

Sally L. Hodder

Sally L. Hodder is an American infectious-diseases physician at West Virginia University who led major HIV clinical trials and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

Sally Temple

Sally Temple is a British-born developmental neuroscientist who showed in 1989 that the embryonic brain contains stem cells, and co-founded the Neural Stem Cell Institute in New York.

Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch

Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch (1907–2007) was a German-born American developmental geneticist who established mammalian developmental genetics, showing that Mendelian genes direct mouse development, and won the 1993 National Medal of Science.

Salomon Eberhard Henschen

Salomon Eberhard Henschen (1847–1930) was a Swedish neurologist who led the proof that the visual center lies in the calcarine cortex, and professor of medicine at Uppsala University from 1882.

Salvador Aznar Benitah

Salvador Aznar Benitah, born 1975 in Montreal, is a Spanish-Canadian stem-cell biologist who leads a lab at IRB Barcelona, studying circadian clocks, aging, and metastasis.

Salvador E. Luria

Salvador E. Luria was an Italian-American microbiologist who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize for work on bacterial viruses, known for the 1943 fluctuation experiment and his later career at MIT.

Salvador Moncada

Salvador Moncada, born in Honduras in 1944, is a pharmacologist who discovered prostacyclin and thromboxane synthase and showed that endothelium-derived relaxing factor is nitric oxide.

Salvatore DiMauro

Salvatore DiMauro, born in Verona, Italy, is an Italian-born neurologist at Columbia University who discovered CPT deficiency in 1973 and leads research on mitochondrial diseases of muscle and brain.

Salvatore Oliviero

Salvatore Oliviero, born 1956 in Moncalieri, Turin, is an Italian molecular biologist, Full Professor at the University of Turin since 2013, who studies epigenetics, DNA methylation, and cancer.

Salvatore Siena

Salvatore Siena is an Italian medical oncologist who has directed the Oncologia Falck division at Milan's Niguarda Cancer Center since 1999, leading trials including HERACLES and DESTINY-CRC01 in colorectal cancer.

Salvatore V. Pizzo

Salvatore V. Pizzo is a pathologist at Duke University who chaired its Pathology department from 1991 to 2014 and identified ATP synthase as angiostatin's endothelial receptor.

Sam Behjati

Sam Behjati is a German-born pediatrician and Clinical Professor of Paediatric Oncology at the University of Cambridge who studies the developmental origins of childhood cancer.

Sam Gandy

Sam Gandy, or Samuel E. Gandy, is an American neurologist and Alzheimer's researcher who led the 1989 discovery of the first drugs that could lower amyloid formation in the brain.

Sam Granick

Sam Granick (1909–1977) was an American biochemist who spent his career at the Rockefeller Institute, known for work on ferritin, chloroplast structure, and the biosynthesis of heme and chlorophyll.

Sam M. Janes

Sam M. Janes, also known as Sam Janes, is a British respiratory physician at University College London who leads SUMMIT, Europe's largest lung cancer screening trial.

Sam Schulman

Sam Schulman is a Swedish-trained physician-scientist in hematology and blood coagulation, a McMaster University professor since 2004 who directs the Thrombosis Service at Hamilton General Hospital and led landmark trials on oral anticoagulants.