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Shadmehr Demehri

Shadmehr Demehri, who publishes as Shawn Demehri, is an American dermatologist and physician-scientist, Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School and director of MGH's High Risk Skin Cancer Clinic.

Shafali Jeste

Shafali Jeste, full name Shafali Spurling Jeste, is an American behavioral child neurologist and physician-scientist at UCLA known for EEG biomarkers of autism and the PECASE award.

Shah Ebrahim

Shah Ebrahim is a British clinical epidemiologist who studies heart disease and stroke, founded the British Women's Heart & Health Study, and co-edited the International Journal of Epidemiology.

Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola

Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola (1931–2018) was a cardiologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Southern California who coined the concepts of hibernating myocardium and prosthesis-patient mismatch, reshaping cardiovascular practice.

Shahin Lockman

Shahin Lockman is an infectious diseases physician and HIV researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard who has conducted HIV clinical research in Botswana since 1996.

Shahin Nasr

Shahin Nasr is a cognitive neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who maps the human visual cortex with ultra-high-field fMRI, winning a 2025 PECASE award.

Shahin Rafii

Shahin Rafii is a physician-scientist in vascular biology and stem cell medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, best known for establishing the angiocrine concept of blood-vessel signals directing organ repair.

Shahragim Tajbakhsh

Shahragim Tajbakhsh is a developmental biologist at the Institut Pasteur in Paris who studies skeletal muscle stem cells and leads the Stem Cells and Development unit.

Shahriar Mobashery

Shahriar Mobashery, publishing as S. Mobashery, is a bioorganic and medicinal chemist who has held the Navari Family Professorship at Notre Dame since 2003, studying the bacterial cell wall and antibiotic resistance.

Shai Shaham

Shai Shaham is a developmental neuroscientist who leads the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics at The Rockefeller University, where he studies programmed cell death and glial cells using C. elegans.

Shai Shen-Orr

Shai Shen-Orr is a systems immunologist and professor at the Technion Faculty of Medicine who created the IMM-AGE immune-age metric and co-founded CytoReason, an AI drug-development company.

Shaji Kumar

Shaji K. Kumar is an American hematologist-oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, specializing in multiple myeloma and AL amyloidosis, who received the 2024 Robert A. Kyle Lifetime Achievement Award.

Shakila Thangaratinam

Shakila Thangaratinam is a British obstetrician and clinical academic, Executive Dean of the Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences at the University of Liverpool.

Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted

Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted (born 1949) is a Trinidad-born, Danish nutrition scientist who won the 2021 World Food Prize for farming small fish such as mola with carp in Bangladesh ponds.

Shalender Bhasin

Shalender Bhasin (S. Bhasin) is a physician-scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for research on testosterone therapy, muscle loss with aging, and men's health.

Shalev Itzkovitz

Shalev Itzkovitz is an Israeli systems biologist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science who pioneered single-molecule transcript imaging, building spatial cell atlases of the liver and intestine.

Sham Mailankody

Sham Mailankody is an Indian-trained medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York who leads clinical trials of CAR T-cell therapies for multiple myeloma.

Shamez Ladhani

Shamez Ladhani is a British pediatric infectious-diseases physician and epidemiologist at St George's, University of London and the UK Health Security Agency, known for leading England's meningococcal B vaccine evaluation.

Shamil Sunyaev

Shamil Sunyaev is a computational genomicist who studies genetic variation and the biology of mutation, and is a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute.

Shamir R. Mehta

Shamir R. Mehta is a Canadian interventional cardiologist and clinical trialist at McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, known for the COMPLETE trial of complete revascularization in myocardial infarction.

Shams El Arifeen

Shams El Arifeen, also published as Shams Arifeen, is a Bangladeshi epidemiologist and emeritus senior scientist at icddr,b in Dhaka, known for the Projahnmo and IMCI trials that cut newborn and child deaths.

Shamshad Cockcroft

Shamshad Cockcroft is a cell biologist and Professor of Cell Physiology at University College London, known for work on phosphoinositide signaling, the P2X7 receptor, and G-protein regulation of phospholipase C.

Shane Campbell-Staton

Shane Campbell-Staton is an American evolutionary biologist at Princeton University known for research on tuskless elephants in Mozambique, urban lizards in Puerto Rico, and PBS science hosting.

Shane Crotty

Shane Crotty, born 1974, is an American immunologist and Chief Scientific Officer at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology whose lab studies how vaccines generate durable antibody responses.

Shang Fa Yang

Shang Fa Yang (杨祥发, 1932–2007) was a Taiwanese-born American plant biochemist at UC Davis who identified ACC as the precursor of the plant hormone ethylene, winning the 1991 Wolf Prize.

Shanna Swan

Shanna H. Swan is an American environmental and reproductive epidemiologist at Mount Sinai, known for research showing sperm counts have roughly halved in Western countries.

Shannon Brunjes

Shannon Brunjes is an American physician and catecholamine researcher who published in the New England Journal of Medicine on postoperative shock after pheochromocytoma removal, MAO-inhibitor overdose, and hypertension.

Shannon J. Turley

Shannon J. Turley is an American immunologist known for her work on stromal-immune interactions in the tumor microenvironment and TGFβ signaling in cancer immunotherapy, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Shannon M. Bates

Shannon M. Bates, also known as Shannon Bates, is a Canadian hematologist at McMaster University known for research on venous thromboembolism, especially thrombosis in women.

Shanthini Sockanathan

Shanthini Sockanathan is a Malaysian-born molecular neurobiologist and professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins who joined HHMI in 2025 and is known for discovering GDE2, an enzyme that triggers motor neuron differentiation.