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Sam Shuster

Sam Shuster (born 1927) is a British dermatologist and emeritus professor at Newcastle University whose research links skin disease to the gut, hormones, and aging.

Sam W. Lee

Sam W. Lee is a molecular biologist known for his work on p53 cell-fate decisions and for selectively killing cancer cells by targeting their ROS stress response.

Samantha Maragh

Samantha Maragh is an American human geneticist and molecular biologist at NIST who leads its Genome Editing Program, sets genome editing measurement standards, and received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.

Samantha Morris

Samantha A. Morris is a developmental biologist and stem cell researcher known for CellNet, CellTag lineage indexing, and CellOracle, tools for reading and reprogramming cell identity.

Samara Reck-Peterson

Samara Reck-Peterson is an American cell biologist and HHMI Investigator, chair of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine since 2025, known for single-molecule studies of the motor protein dynein.

Samba Ousemane Sow

Samba Ousemane Sow is a Malian doctor and epidemiologist who directs the CVD-Mali vaccine research center in Bamako and served as Mali's health minister from 2017 to 2019.

Samba Ousmane Sow

Samba Ousmane Sow is a Malian epidemiologist who directs the vaccine research center CVD-Mali in Bamako and served as Mali's Minister of Health from 2017 to 2019.

Samer Hattar

Samer Hattar is a neuroscientist who leads the light and circadian rhythms section at the National Institute of Mental Health, known for identifying photosensitive retinal ganglion cells.

Sami I. Said

Sami I. Said (1928–2013) was an Egyptian-born American pulmonary physician-scientist who codiscovered vasoactive intestinal peptide in 1970 and ended his career as a Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University.

Sami Viskin

Sami Viskin (Samuel Viskin) is an Israeli cardiologist and researcher on inherited arrhythmias at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and editor in chief of the journal Heart Rhythm since 2024.

Samie R. Jaffrey

Samie R. Jaffrey is an American pharmacologist and RNA biologist, the Greenberg-Starr Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, who founded epitranscriptomics and created fluorescent RNA aptamers.

Samih H. Nasr

Samih Nasr is a renal pathologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for work on kidney disease caused by monoclonal immunoglobulins, including MGRS and PGNMID.

Samir Hanash

Samir Hanash is a cancer proteomics researcher and professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where he directs the McCombs Institute for early cancer detection.

Samir Jaber

Samir Jaber, born 1967, is a French anesthesiologist and intensivist, full professor since 2007 and head of Anesthesia and Critical Care at Saint-Eloi University Hospital, Montpellier.

Samir Kapadia

Samir Kapadia is an American interventional cardiologist who chairs cardiovascular medicine at Cleveland Clinic and led major trials of transcatheter aortic valve replacement, including PROTECTED TAVR.

Samra Turajlic

Samra Turajlic is a cancer researcher and medical oncologist who studies how tumors evolve and spread, and is known for leading the TRACERx Renal study of kidney cancer evolution.

Samson T. Jacob

Samson T. Jacob is a molecular biologist known for work on mammalian RNA polymerases, RNA processing, and transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in liver cancer and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Samuel A. Bozzette

Samuel A. Bozzette is an American infectious diseases physician and health services researcher, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego, known for national studies of HIV care in the United States.

Samuel A. Latt

Samuel A. Latt, also known as S A Latt, was an American physician and geneticist at Harvard Medical School who developed fluorescence-based methods for detecting chromosome damage.

Samuel A. Levine

Samuel A. Levine (1891–1966) was an American cardiologist and Harvard professor whose six-grade murmur scale, Levine sign, and early mobilization after heart attack remain part of medicine.

Samuel A. Wells

Samuel A. Wells is an American endocrine surgeon at the National Cancer Institute who pioneered prophylactic thyroidectomy for inherited RET mutations and led the ZETA trial of vandetanib.

Samuel Achilefu

Samuel Achilefu is a molecular imaging scientist and inaugural chair of Biomedical Engineering at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for Cancer Vision Goggles for image-guided cancer surgery.

Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson

Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1874 or 1878 to 1937) was a British neurologist, born in New Jersey, whose 1912 description of progressive lenticular degeneration gave medicine Wilson's disease.

Samuel Aparicio

Samuel Aparicio is a molecular pathologist and breast cancer genomicist at BC Cancer and the University of British Columbia, co-leading the METABRIC breast cancer taxonomy study.

Samuel B. Guzé

Samuel B. Guze (1923–2000) was an American psychiatrist at Washington University in St. Louis who, with Eli Robins and George Winokur, built the medical model of reliable psychiatric diagnosis that shaped the Feighner criteria and DSM-III.

Samuel Baron

Samuel Baron (1928–2015) was an American physician-scientist and virologist who became the recognized leader of interferon research, after twenty years at NIH and chairing Microbiology at UTMB Galveston from 1975 to 1997.

Samuel Bedson

Sir Samuel Phillips Bedson (1886–1969) was a British bacteriologist who showed during the 1929–1930 psittacosis pandemic that its cause was a filterable agent, later grouped as Chlamydia.

Samuel Benchimol

Samuel Benchimol is a Canadian cancer biologist known for research on the p53 tumor suppressor gene and for identifying the ligase Pirh2, which promotes p53 degradation.

Samuel Bogoch

Samuel Bogoch is a physician and neurochemist who studied brain glycoproteins and gangliosides at Harvard, Boston University, and the Nathan Kline Institute from the late 1950s onward.

Samuel Broder

Samuel Broder is an American oncologist and immunologist who directed the National Cancer Institute from 1989 to 1995 and whose NIH laboratory helped develop the first AIDS drugs, including AZT.