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Shanu Modi

Shanu Modi is a Canadian-trained breast medical oncologist and attending physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, known for leading the pivotal trastuzumab deruxtecan trials.

Shao‐Cong Sun

Shao‐Cong Sun (孙少聪) is a Chinese immunologist known for discoveries in NF-κB signaling, who left MD Anderson in 2022 to lead an immunology institute in Beijing.

Shaomeng Wang

Shaomeng Wang (汪少萌) is a Chinese-born medicinal chemist and cancer drug discovery researcher at the University of Michigan who created the PDBbind database and edits the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.

Sharon A. Tooze

Sharon A. Tooze is a British-based cell biologist who studies autophagy and has led the Molecular Cell Biology of Autophagy Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute since 2015.

Sharon B. Murphy

Sharon B. Murphy, also known as Sharon Murphy, was an American pediatric oncologist at St. Jude who created the Murphy staging system for childhood non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Sharon Dent

Sharon Dent is an American molecular biologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center known for research on chromatin regulation and cancer, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Sharon Friel

Sharon Friel is an Australian professor of health equity at the Australian National University who researches the social, commercial, and planetary determinants of health inequities.

Sharon K. Inouye

Sharon K. Inouye is an American geriatric medicine physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School known for creating the Confusion Assessment Method and the Hospital Elder Life Program.

Sharon M. Wahl

Sharon M. Wahl is an American immunologist at NIH's dental research institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for work on HIV reservoirs, SLPI, and regulatory T cells.

Sharon Peacock

Sharon J. Peacock is a British clinical microbiologist and pathogen genomicist, founding director of the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium and Master of Churchill College, Cambridge.

Sharon R. Long

Sharon R. Long, also published as Sharon Long, is an American plant biologist and Stanford professor who established the genetics of the rhizobia-legume symbiosis and won the MacArthur Fellowship.

Sharon Straus

Sharon E. Straus is a Canadian geriatrician and clinical epidemiologist, Chief Medical Officer of Unity Health Toronto and a University of Toronto professor known for knowledge translation research.

Sharon Y. Strauss

Sharon Y. Strauss (born 1956) is an American evolutionary ecologist and UC Davis professor emerita known for work on plant communities and coexistence of related species.

Sharon‐Lise T. Normand

Sharon-Lise T. Normand is a Canadian-born American biostatistician who holds a professorship of health care policy at Harvard Medical School, known for Bayesian provider-profiling methods.

Sharyn A. Endow

Sharyn A. Endow is an American cell biologist and Professor of Cell Biology at Duke University School of Medicine, known for discovering the Ncd kinesin motor protein.

Shashi Petry

Shashi Petry is a structural biologist, first author of the 2005 Cell study solving ribosome structures with release factors RF1 and RF2, cited in the Nobel Committee's 2009 chemistry background.

Shaul G. Massry

Shaul G. Massry (1930–2023) was an Iraqi-born American nephrologist who led nephrology at USC and built the evidence that excess parathyroid hormone is a uremic toxin.

Shaul Hestrin

Shaul Hestrin is a neuroscientist and Professor of Comparative Medicine at Stanford University known for Nature papers on NMDA receptor currents, electrical synapses among fast-spiking cells, and neocortical wiring.

Shaun Purcell

Shaun Purcell (Shaun M. Purcell) is an American-based psychiatric and sleep geneticist, creator of the open-source PLINK genome-wide association software and researcher on schizophrenia genetics.

Shaun R. Coughlin

Shaun R. Coughlin is an American cardiovascular scientist who discovered the thrombin receptor PAR1, led UCSF's Cardiovascular Research Institute from 1997 to 2017, and joined Novartis in 2017.

Shawn D. Aaron

Shawn D. Aaron, also published as Shawn Aaron, is a Canadian respirologist at the University of Ottawa known for large trials on diagnosing and treating COPD and asthma.

Shawn Marie McLaughlin

Shawn Marie McLaughlin is a marine parasitologist with NOAA's National Ocean Service known for describing the clam parasite Perkinsus chesapeaki and for detecting influenza A virus in bivalves.

Sheena E. Radford

Sheena E. Radford is a British biochemist and biophysicist who is Astbury Professor of Biophysics at the University of Leeds, studying protein folding and amyloid disease.

Sheena Josselyn

Sheena Josselyn is a Canadian neuroscientist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto who studies how memories, called engrams, form in the mouse brain.

Shehzad Basaria

Shehzad Basaria, who publishes as S. Basaria, is an endocrinologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, first author of the 2010 trial linking testosterone to cardiovascular events.

Sheila A. Lukehart

Sheila A. Lukehart is a microbiologist and emeritus professor of medicine and global health at the University of Washington, known for research on syphilis and Treponema pallidum.

Sheila K. Singh

Sheila K. Singh (Sheila Kumari Singh) is a Canadian physician-scientist and pediatric neurosurgeon known for identifying brain tumor stem cells and developing CAR T cell immunotherapies against glioblastoma.

Sheila K. West

Sheila K. West is an American ophthalmic epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins' Wilmer Eye Institute whose face-washing and azithromycin trials in Kongwa, Tanzania, informed WHO trachoma control guidelines.

Sheila L. Arvikar

Sheila L. Arvikar, also published as Sheila Leah Arvikar and S. Arvikar, is an American rheumatologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who studies and treats Lyme arthritis.

Sheila Nirenberg

Sheila Nirenberg is an American neuroscientist and Weill Cornell professor who deciphered the retina's output code and applied it to an optogenetic gene therapy for restoring vision in retinal disease.