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Sanjeev Krishna

Sanjeev Krishna is a British physician-scientist, Professor of Molecular Parasitology and Medicine at St George's, University of London, known for work on artemisinin antimalarials and malaria diagnostics.

Sanjit S. Jolly

Sanjit S. Jolly is an interventional cardiologist and clinical trialist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, who led the TOTAL trial of thrombectomy and the RIVAL trial of radial versus femoral access.

Sanjiv Gambhir

Sanjiv "Sam" Gambhir (1962–2020) was an American physician-scientist who chaired Radiology at Stanford and pioneered molecular imaging, including a PET reporter gene for tracking cells.

Sankar Adhya

Sankar Adhya is a molecular biologist and geneticist who heads the Developmental Genetics Section at the National Cancer Institute, known for work on the E. coli gal operon and phage lambda.

Sankar Ghosh

Sankar Ghosh is an Indian-born immunologist and biochemist at Columbia University who studies NF-κB, the transcription factor that regulates genes of the mammalian immune system.

Sant‐Rayn Pasricha

Sant-Rayn Pasricha is an Australian hematologist and epidemiologist at WEHI who researches iron deficiency and anemia and heads the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), Spanish histologist and father of modern neuroscience, established the neuron doctrine that neurons are independent cells communicating by contact, and shared the 1906 Nobel Prize with Camillo Golgi.

Santiago Schnell

Santiago Schnell is a Venezuelan mathematical biologist known for the Schnell–Mendoza equation, a 1997 closed-form solution in enzyme kinetics, and Dartmouth's provost since July 2025.

Santiago Vernia

Santiago Vernia is a cell biologist and Group Leader at the Institute of Biomedicine of Valencia (CSIC), known for research on autophagy in Lafora disease and cardiac glycosides as senolytics.

Sara A. Hurvitz

Sara A. Hurvitz, also known as Sara Hurvitz, is an American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer, directing clinical research at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle since 2023.

Sara Cherry

Sara Cherry is an American virologist and immunologist who is the John W. Eckman Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for high-throughput drug and genetic screening against RNA viruses.

Sara Courtneidge

Sara Courtneidge is a cancer biologist known for her work on Src family kinases and cancer cell invasion, now Professor Emeritus at Oregon Health & Science University.

Sara Fuchs

Sara Fuchs (S. Fuchs) was an Israeli immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science whose research established the acetylcholine receptor's role in myasthenia gravis and dopamine receptors' involvement in schizophrenia; she died in 2025.

Sara L. F. Sunden

Sara L. F. Sunden is a genetics researcher affiliated with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Iowa who coauthored a 1997 Science paper identifying a gene causing primary open angle glaucoma.

Sara Lindstroem

Sara Lindstroem is a Swedish-born genetic epidemiologist, Professor at the University of Washington, who studies how inherited variants shape cancer risk and won a 2019 PECASE award.

Sara Linse

Sara Linse is a Swedish biochemist and professor at Lund University known for research on protein–nanoparticle interactions and the mechanism of amyloid fibrillation linked to Alzheimer's disease.

Sara M. Tolaney

Sara M. Tolaney is an American breast medical oncologist who is Chief of the Division of Breast Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School.

Sara Wickström

Sara A. Wickström, born 1976, is a Finnish physician and cell biologist at Helsinki and the Max Planck Institute in Münster who won the 2026 Körber Prize.

Sara-Jane Dunn

Sara-Jane Dunn is a computational biologist who models living cells as programs, known for a 2014 Science model of mouse embryonic stem cell self-renewal built with Microsoft's Z3 theorem prover.

Sarah A. Tishkoff

Sarah A. Tishkoff, also cited as Sarah Tishkoff, is a geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies genomic variation and disease risk in ethnically diverse African populations.

Sarah A. Woodson

Sarah A. Woodson is the T.C. Jenkins Professor of Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University, whose laboratory's work on RNA folding and ribosome assembly earned her the 2023 Ignacio Tinoco Award.

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, born 1946, is an American evolutionary anthropologist and primatologist, professor emerita at UC Davis, known for work on female reproductive strategies and cooperative breeding.

Sarah C. R. Elgin

Sarah C. R. Elgin is an American molecular biologist, Viktor Hamburger Professor Emerita at Washington University in St. Louis, whose laboratory identified Heterochromatin Protein 1, central to heterochromatin formation and gene silencing in Drosophila.

Sarah E Lamb

Sarah E Lamb, known professionally as Sallie Lamb, is a British clinical trials researcher in trauma rehabilitation, now a professor at the University of Exeter.

Sarah E. Hobbie

Sarah E. Hobbie is an American ecosystem ecologist and Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota, known for research on soil carbon, nutrient cycling, and urban biogeochemistry.

Sarah Hake

Sarah Hake is an American plant developmental geneticist who cloned knotted1, the first developmental gene cloned in plants, and led the USDA Plant Gene Expression Center in Albany, California.

Sarah Hawkes

Sarah Hawkes is a medical doctor and global health researcher working on gender and health equity; she co-founded Global Health 50/50 and co-chairs the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health.

Sarah J. Bray

Sarah J. Bray is Professor of Developmental Biology at the University of Cambridge, a leading expert on the Notch signaling pathway and its role in development and cancer.

Sarah J. Tabrizi

Sarah J. Tabrizi, also known as Sarah Tabrizi, is a British neurologist and professor at University College London who led the first huntingtin-lowering clinical trials for Huntington's disease.

Sarah L. Gaffen

Sarah L. Gaffen is an American immunologist and Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Pittsburgh, known for her research on IL-17 cytokines and immunity to the fungus Candida albicans.