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Samuel S.‐H. Wang

Samuel Sheng-Hung Wang, born 1967, is a neuroscientist at Princeton University who studies the cerebellum and autism, and is also known for election forecasting and directing the Princeton Gerrymandering Project.

Samuel S.C. Yen

Samuel S.C. Yen (1927–2006) was a reproductive endocrinologist and neuroendocrine researcher at UC San Diego who led NIH-funded studies of DHEA, PCOS, athletic amenorrhea, and the menstrual cycle.

Samuel Saslaw

Samuel Saslaw was an American infectious diseases researcher and physician at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, known for volunteer challenge studies of tularemia vaccines.

Samuel Schacher

Samuel Schacher is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist at Columbia University known for research on long-term synaptic plasticity in Aplysia, showing how short-term and long-term memory differ at a single synapse.

Samuel Shapiro (epidemiologist)

Samuel Shapiro is a Boston-based physician-epidemiologist who moved from clinical medicine to drug-safety surveillance after arriving in the United States in 1967, co-founding Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center.

Samuel Shepard

Samuel S. Shepard is an American computational biologist who has worked at the CDC in Atlanta since 2013, known for the IRMA viral genome assembler and genomic surveillance of influenza and SARS-CoV-2.

Samuel Singer

Samuel Singer is a surgical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York who specializes in soft tissue sarcoma and directs the MSK Sarcoma Center.

Samuel Stehman Haldeman

Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1812–1880) was an American naturalist and philologist known for his monograph on American freshwater mollusks and his prize-winning work on English spelling reform.

Samuel Strober

Samuel Strober (1940–2022) was an American immunologist at Stanford University who developed radiation-based conditioning to induce immune tolerance in transplantation, freeing about 80% of matched kidney recipients from immunosuppression.

Samuel T. Darling

Samuel Taylor Darling (1872–1925) was an American pathologist, chief of the Panama Canal Zone health laboratories, discoverer of histoplasmosis, and a malaria specialist killed in a car accident near Beirut in 1925.

Samuel Waxman

Samuel Waxman, born 1936, is an American physician-scientist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai known for pioneering differentiation therapy of cancer and founding his cancer research foundation in 1976.

Samuel Weiss (Canadian neuroscientist)

Samuel Weiss is a Canadian neuroscientist at the University of Calgary known for the 1992 discovery of neural stem cells in adult mammalian brains and the 1985 co-discovery of the metabotropic glutamate receptor.

Samuel Wendell Williston

Samuel Wendell Williston (1851–1918) was an American paleontologist, entomologist, and physician, professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago and the foremost American student of flies of his time.

Samuel Z. Goldhaber

Samuel Z. Goldhaber is an American cardiologist who directs the Thrombosis Research Group at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is a Harvard Medical School professor.

Samuele Cortese

Samuele Cortese is an Italian-born child psychiatrist and Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Southampton, known for large meta-analyses of ADHD treatment.

Samuli Ripatti

Samuli Ripatti is a Finnish statistical and medical geneticist, Director of the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland and Professor of Biometry at the University of Helsinki.

Samy Suissa

Samy Suissa is a Canadian pharmacoepidemiologist at McGill University who heads CNODES, a national drug safety network, and is known for studies showing inhaled corticosteroids prevent asthma deaths.

Sana M. Al‐Khatib

Sana M. Al-Khatib is a Professor of Medicine at Duke University and clinical cardiac electrophysiologist known for research on implantable defibrillators and for chairing the 2017 AHA/ACC/HRS sudden cardiac death guideline.

Sandeep Mallipattu

Sandeep K. Mallipattu is an American physician-scientist nephrologist who leads the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at Stony Brook Medicine and won a 2019 PECASE award.

Sandeep R. Datta

Sandeep R. Datta, also known as Sandeep Robert Datta, is a systems neuroscientist and Harvard Medical School professor who studies olfaction and natural behavior in mice.

Sandeep S. Davé

Sandeep S. Davé, also published as Sandeep Dave, is a physician-scientist and Wellcome Clinical Distinguished Professor at Duke University known for genomic methods that reclassify lymphomas and predict survival.

Sander J. Tans

Sander J. Tans is a biophysicist who leads the biophysics group at AMOLF in Amsterdam and is a professor at Delft University of Technology, studying protein folding.

Sanders T. Frank

Sanders T. Frank was an American pulmonologist known for Frank's sign, the diagonal earlobe crease he reported in 1973 as a marker of coronary artery disease.

Sandra A. Daugherty

Sandra A. Daugherty was an American physician and epidemiologist who won the 1980 Lasker Award for hypertension research and taught at the University of Nevada.

Sandra Aamodt

Sandra Aamodt is a neuroscientist and science writer, formerly editor in chief of Nature Neuroscience, known for arguing that the brain defends a body-weight set point, making diets fail.

Sandra J. Bliss

Sandra J. Bliss, M.D., was a University of Michigan physician and first author of three New England Journal of Medicine Clinical Problem-Solving case reports, 2002 to 2004.

Sandra J. Horning

Sandra J. Horning is an American medical oncologist, Stanford professor emerita, who developed the Stanford V regimen and later served as Roche's chief medical officer.

Sandra L. Schmid

Sandra L. Schmid is a Canadian-born cell biologist known for her work on clathrin-mediated endocytosis and dynamin, and Chief Scientific Officer of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network since 2020.

Sandra L. Wolin

Sandra L. Wolin is an American RNA biologist and physician-scientist, Chief of the RNA Biology Laboratory at the National Cancer Institute, known for work on the Ro60 and La autoantigens.

Sandra Lavorel

Sandra Lavorel, born 1965 in Lyon, is a French functional ecologist and CNRS research director in Grenoble, known for pioneering the plant functional trait approach.