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Selmar Aschheim

Selmar Aschheim (1878–1965) was a German gynecologist and histologist who, with Bernhard Zondek, developed the first reliable biological pregnancy test, used worldwide from the late 1920s.

Sen-Lin Lai

Sen-Lin Lai is a Drosophila developmental neuroscientist affiliated with HHMI and the University of Oregon, known for work on neuroblast temporal identity, quiescence, and lineage-to-circuit mapping.

Sen‐itiroh Hakomori

Sen-itiroh Hakomori (1929–2020) was a Japanese-born American biochemist at the University of Washington, a leading researcher on glycosphingolipids called "Dr. Glycolipid" who devised the permethylation method.

Senga Whittingham

Senga Whittingham is an Australian immunologist who spent 25 years at WEHI and the Royal Melbourne Hospital, defining autoimmune hepatitis, Down syndrome immunodeficiency, and Sjögren's diagnostics.

Senthil Muthuswamy

Senthil K. Muthuswamy is a cancer biologist known for pioneering 3D organoid and co-culture methods, and since 2026 Director of the National Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Research.

Senyon Choe

Senyon Choe is a structural biologist who uses X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy to determine the structures of ion channels, membrane proteins, and the TGF-beta receptor system.

Seok-Yong Lee

Seok-Yong Lee is a structural biologist at Duke University School of Medicine who studies membrane proteins and ion channels, known for his 2022 Nature structures of the folate carrier SLC19A1.

Seppo Ylä‐Herttuala

Seppo Ylä-Herttuala is a Finnish Academy Professor at the University of Eastern Finland's A.I. Virtanen Institute in Kuopio, known for cardiovascular gene therapy and pioneering adenoviral gene transfer to human arteries.

Serap Aksoy

Serap Aksoy is a Turkish-born American vector biologist at the Yale School of Public Health known for her research on the tsetse fly and sleeping sickness.

Serdar E. Bulun

Serdar E. Bulun is a physician-scientist who chairs obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2015 for endometriosis research.

Serena Nik‐Zainal

Serena Nik-Zainal is a physician-scientist in cancer genomics at the University of Cambridge who developed mutational signatures and discovered kataegis, localized hypermutation in tumors, and received the 2019 Dr Josef Steiner Cancer Research Award.

Sereno Watson

Sereno Watson (1826–1892) was an American botanist who served on the Fortieth Parallel survey and curated Harvard's Gray Herbarium from 1874 until his death.

Serge Charpak

Serge Charpak is a French neuroscientist at the Institut de la Vision in Paris who studies neurovascular coupling, the link between brain activity and blood flow.

Serge Daan

Serge Daan (1940–2018) was a Dutch chronobiologist at the University of Groningen who coauthored the 1976 Daan–Pittendrigh papers and the two-process model of sleep regulation.

Serge Przedborski

Serge Przedborski is a Belgian-trained physician-scientist at Columbia University, the Page and William Black Professor of Neurology, known for mechanistic work on neuronal death in Parkinson's disease and ALS.

Serge Y. Fuchs

Serge Y. Fuchs, also known as Serge Fuchs, is a cancer biologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine who studies how tumors disable interferon signaling.

Sergei Grivennikov

Sergei I. Grivennikov is a cancer biologist and immunologist, a professor at Cedars-Sinai since 2021, known for establishing IL-6 and STAT3 signaling as required for intestinal tumor development.

Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond

Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond is a computational biologist at Temple University known for the HyPhy and Datamonkey software for detecting natural selection in genetic data.

Sergei M. Mirkin

Sergei M. Mirkin is a molecular biologist and the White Family Chair in Biology at Tufts University, best known for discovering H-DNA, the first multi-stranded DNA structure found in natural DNA.

Sergei Maslov

Sergei Maslov is a Russian-born physicist turned computational systems biologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for work on protein network topology and the 2002 PECASE award.

Sergei Winogradsky

Sergei Winogradsky (1856–1953) was a Ukrainian-born microbiologist who described the nitrifying bacteria, named the process chemosynthesis, and pioneered microbial ecology; the Winogradsky column is named for him.

Sergei Y. Sokol

Sergei Y. Sokol is a developmental biologist and professor at Mount Sinai in New York, known for showing in 1991 that Wnt signaling induces a body axis in frog embryos.

Sergej Djuranovic

Sergej Djuranovic is a molecular biologist who studies how microRNAs and mRNA sequence motifs control protein synthesis, known for ordering the steps of miRNA silencing and professor at Brown University since 2025.

Sergey M. Bezrukov

Sergey M. Bezrukov, also published as S. M. Bezrukov, is a Russian-trained biophysicist who has led the Section on Molecular Transport at NIH since 2002.

Sergey N. Krylov

Sergey N. Krylov is a Russian-born Canadian researcher in bioanalytical chemistry at York University whose group invented kinetic capillary electrophoresis, NECEEM, and Non-SELEX aptamer selection.

Sergio Giralt

Sergio A. Giralt is a Cuban-born hematologist-oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center known for nonmyeloablative stem cell transplantation and for leading the KarMMa-3 CAR T-cell trial in multiple myeloma.

Sergio Grinstein

Sergio Grinstein is a Mexican-born cell biologist at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children who studies how macrophages ingest and destroy microbes and how cells regulate pH.

Sérgio Henrique Ferreira

Sérgio Henrique Ferreira (1934–2016) was a Brazilian pharmacologist at the University of São Paulo whose discovery in jararaca snake venom led to captopril and the ACE inhibitor drugs.

Sergio Moreno (molecular biologist)

Sergio Moreno Pérez, born 1960, is a Spanish molecular biologist and CSIC research professor who leads the IBFG in Salamanca, known for cell-cycle regulation studies with Paul Nurse.

Sergio Ottolenghi

Sergio Ottolenghi is an Italian molecular geneticist who showed in the 1970s that thalassemia results from globin gene deletions, and later studied the transcription factor Sox2 at the University of Milano-Bicocca.