Life and health scientists

Sergio Stagno

Sergio Stagno is a Chilean-trained physician-scientist in pediatric infectious diseases who spent his career at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, defining the epidemiology of congenital cytomegalovirus infection.

Sergiu P. Pașca

Sergiu P. Pașca, also published as Sergiu Pasca, is a Romanian-born Stanford physician-scientist who pioneered assembloids, human neural circuits built from stem cells to study brain development and disease.

Serpil Erzurum

Serpil C. Erzurum is an American pulmonologist-scientist and Cleveland Clinic's Chief Research and Academic Officer, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017 for asthma research.

Seth A. Darst

Seth A. Darst is an American structural biologist who heads the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics at Rockefeller University, known for crystal structures of bacterial RNA polymerase and SARS-CoV-2 polymerase work.

Seth Blackshaw

Seth Blackshaw is an American neuroscientist and professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, on the faculty since 2004, known for large-scale gene expression studies of the retina and hypothalamus.

Seth G. N. Grant

Seth G. N. Grant is a Professor of Molecular Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh who studies how synapse proteins underlie learning, memory, and behavior.

Seth L. Masters

Seth L. Masters is an Australian immunologist who heads the Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases at the Hudson Institute and is known for characterizing novel autoinflammatory diseases.

Seth R. Bordenstein

Seth R. Bordenstein is an evolutionary geneticist and microbiologist who holds the Huck Endowed Chair in Microbiome Sciences at Penn State, known for Wolbachia and holobiont research.

Seth Rakoff-Nahoum

Seth Rakoff-Nahoum is an American physician-scientist who studies the gut microbiome as a Senior Associate Physician at Boston Children's Hospital and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, known for work on host–microbiota mutualism and colonization resistance.

Seth S. Blair

Seth S. Blair is a developmental geneticist and Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies pattern formation and intercellular signaling in Drosophila.

Setsuko K. Chambers

Setsuko K. Chambers is an American gynecologic oncologist and physician-scientist at the University of Arizona, known for a trastuzumab trial in uterine serous carcinoma and fallopian tube cytology for early ovarian cancer detection.

Setsuro Ebashi

Setsuro Ebashi (江橋節郎, 1922–2006) was a Japanese physiologist at the University of Tokyo who discovered troponin and established the calcium theory of muscle contraction regulation.

Seung K. Kim

Seung K. Kim is a Stanford physician-scientist and KM Mulberry Professor who studies how insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells develop and regenerate, work aimed at replacing the cells lost in diabetes.

Seung Y. Rhee

Seung Y. Rhee, also known as Seung Yon Rhee (이승연) or Sue Rhee, is a plant biologist directing Michigan State University's Plant Resilience Institute since 2023.

Seung‐Woo Cho

Seung-Woo Cho (조승우) is a South Korean biomedical engineer, a professor at Yonsei University since 2010, known for stem cell research, biomaterials, and organ-on-a-chip models of brain disease.

Séverine Vermeire

Séverine Vermeire is a Belgian gastroenterologist and inflammatory bowel disease researcher, Full Professor at KU Leuven, president of ECCO from 2014 to 2016, and rector of KU Leuven since 2025.

Severo Ochoa

Severo Ochoa was a Spanish-born American biochemist who won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the enzyme polynucleotide phosphorylase, which synthesizes RNA.

Sewall Wright

Sewall Wright was an American geneticist who laid the mathematical foundations of population genetics and is credited with the inbreeding coefficient, F-statistics, and the shifting balance theory of evolution.

Seymour Benzer

Seymour Benzer was an American scientist who pioneered the molecular study of the gene in bacteriophage and founded neurogenetics through genetic analysis of fruit fly behavior.

Seymour Grufferman

Seymour Grufferman is an American physician-epidemiologist known for research on Hodgkin's disease, including a 1977 study finding a sevenfold risk in siblings of young-adult cases.

Seymour J. Klebanoff

Seymour J. Klebanoff (1927–2016) was an American immunologist and physician at the University of Washington who discovered the myeloperoxidase antimicrobial system used by neutrophils to kill bacteria.

Seymour Jonathan Singer

Seymour Jonathan Singer, often published as S. Jonathan Singer, was an American biochemist at UC San Diego best known for the fluid mosaic model of cell membranes, proposed in 1972.

Seymour Kaufman

Seymour Kaufman (1924–2009) was an American biochemist and neurochemist at the National Institute of Mental Health who identified tetrahydrobiopterin as the cofactor for aromatic amino acid hydroxylation.

Seymour Lieberman

Seymour Lieberman (1916–2012) was an American steroid biochemist and endocrinologist who spent over 60 years at Columbia University studying steroid hormone metabolism, pioneering the field.

Seymour M. Antelman

Seymour M. Antelman, known as Sy Antelman, was an American neuroscientist and psychopharmacologist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, known for Time-Dependent Sensitization and a stress-induced overeating model.

Seymour Reichlin

Seymour Reichlin is an American neuroendocrinologist who led endocrinology at Rochester and Tufts, wrote landmark NEJM reviews on neuroendocrinology and somatostatin, and turned 100 in 2024.

Seymour Rosen

Seymour Rosen is an American renal pathologist and Harvard Medical School professor at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, known for showing the kidney's oxygen-poor medulla explains drug- and contrast-induced injury.

Seymour S. Cohen

Seymour S. Cohen (1917–2018) was an American biochemist who opened the biochemical study of virus-infected cells, establishing virus-induced enzymes and a chemical basis for selective antiviral drugs.

Seymour S. Kety

Seymour S. Kety, also known as S. S. Kety, was an American physician-scientist who devised the first method for measuring human cerebral blood flow and led adoption studies proving schizophrenia's genetic basis.