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Sean Munro

Sean Munro is a cell biologist and group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for identifying the KDEL ER retention signal and studying golgins.

Sean P. Colgan

Sean P. Colgan is a mucosal inflammation researcher and Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where he directs the Mucosal Inflammation Program and studies inflammatory bowel disease.

Sean Parks

Sean Parks is an American research landscape ecologist at the US Forest Service's Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute in Missoula, Montana, who received a PECASE award in 2019.

Sean R. Eddy

Sean R. Eddy is an American computational biologist at Harvard, known as lead developer of the HMMER sequence-search software and a founder of the Rfam RNA database.

Sean Wharton

Sean Wharton is a Canadian internal-medicine physician and researcher in weight management and diabetes, lead investigator of the 2025 ATTAIN-1 orforglipron trial and first author of the 2020 Canadian adult obesity guideline.

Sebastiaan Luyssaert

Sebastiaan Luyssaert is a forest ecologist and land surface modeler at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, known for the 2008 finding that old-growth forests keep storing carbon.

Sebastián Amigorena

Sebastian Amigorena is a French immunologist, a CNRS research director at Institut Curie in Paris, known for work on dendritic cell antigen presentation and cancer immunotherapy.

Sebastian Bonhoeffer

Sebastian Bonhoeffer is a German-born theoretical biologist who has been professor of theoretical biology at ETH Zurich since 2005 and directs the Collegium Helveticum, modeling infectious disease dynamics.

Sebastian Deindl

Sebastian Deindl is a structural biologist and molecular biophysicist, professor at Uppsala University and, since 2026, Humboldt Professor at Tübingen, known for resolving how chromatin remodelers step and slide molecule by molecule.

Sebastian Jessberger

Sebastian Jessberger, born 1974 in Mannheim, Germany, is a neuroscientist who directs the Brain Research Institute at the University of Zurich and studies neural stem cells.

Sebastian Klinge

Sebastian Klinge is a structural biologist at Rockefeller University who studies how eukaryotic cells assemble ribosomes, and who in 2011 solved the first atomic structure of a eukaryotic large ribosomal subunit.

Sebastian L. Johnston

Sebastian L. Johnston, born 1959, is a British physician-scientist and Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College London who established the viral cause of asthma attacks.

Sebastian Lourido

Sebastian Lourido is an American parasitologist, associate professor of biology at MIT and a Whitehead Institute member, known for genome-wide CRISPR screens of Toxoplasma gondii.

Sebastian Schneeweiß

Sebastian Schneeweiß is a German-trained physician and pharmacoepidemiologist who is Professor at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Sebastian Seung

Sebastian Seung, also known as H. Sebastian Seung, is a computational neuroscientist at Princeton University known for connectomics and for creating the crowd-sourced brain-mapping platforms EyeWire and FlyWire.

Sébastien Gagneux

Sébastien Gagneux is a Swiss infectious-disease researcher who leads the Tuberculosis Ecology and Evolution group at Swiss TPH and is a professor at the University of Basel.

Seema Jain

Seema Jain is an American physician-epidemiologist at the CDC in Atlanta, board-certified in internal medicine and infectious disease, known for leading the EPIC pneumonia studies.

Seena Fazel

Seena Fazel is a forensic psychiatrist and clinician scientist, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, known for large register-based studies of suicide and violence risk.

Seetha Shankaran

Seetha Shankaran is an American pediatric neonatologist and Wayne State University professor in Detroit who led the 2005 whole-body hypothermia trial, a cooling treatment that reduces death and disability in oxygen-deprived newborns.

Seigo Izumo

Seigo Izumo is a physician-scientist in cardiac molecular biology who studied heart-muscle growth signaling as a Harvard professor and later led cardiovascular research at Novartis and Gilead.

Seigo Shima

Seigo Shima (嶋 盛吾) is a biochemist and research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany, where he has worked since 1995.

Seiji Ogawa

Seiji Ogawa (小川誠二), born 1934 in Tokyo, is a Japanese biophysicist who discovered the BOLD contrast mechanism at Bell Laboratories in 1990, the basis of functional MRI.

Seiji Takayama

Seiji Takayama (高山 誠司) is a Japanese plant molecular biologist, formerly professor at NAIST and the University of Tokyo, known for defining the molecular mechanism of self-incompatibility in Brassicaceae.

Seishi Ogawa

Seishi Ogawa (小川誠司) is a Japanese hematologist and oncologist, professor of pathology and tumor biology at Kyoto University since 2013, known for sequencing blood disorders.

Seizō Katsunuma

Seizō Katsunuma (勝沼精蔵, 1886–1963) was a Japanese hematologist who founded the Japanese Society of Hematology and served as Nagoya University's third president from 1949 to 1959.

Sejal Saglani

Sejal Saglani is a pediatric respiratory physician and Professor of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College London, known for research on severe childhood asthma and preschool wheeze.

Sekar Kathiresan

Sekar Kathiresan is an American preventive cardiologist and human geneticist who co-founded and led Verve Therapeutics, a gene-editing company acquired by Eli Lilly in 2025.

Selig Hecht

Selig Hecht (1892–1947) was an American biophysicist and professor at Columbia University who established the duplex retina and showed a single rod can respond to one photon.

Selma Masri

Selma Masri is a circadian biologist and Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry at UC Irvine whose laboratory studies how circadian clock disruption drives lung, colorectal, and pancreatic tumors.

Selman Waksman

Selman Abraham Waksman (1888–1973) was an American soil microbiologist at Rutgers University who coined the word "antibiotic" and won the 1952 Nobel Prize for streptomycin.