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Sheila Patek
Sheila Patek is a biologist at Duke University who studies the fastest movements in the animal kingdom, from mantis shrimp strikes to trap-jaw ant mandible snaps.
Sheila Sherlock
Sheila Sherlock was a British physician who built hepatology into a distinct specialty and became the first woman professor of medicine in the UK, at the Royal Free Hospital from 1959.
Shekhar Saxena
Shekhar Saxena is an Indian psychiatrist who directed the World Health Organization's Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse from 2010 to 2018, then became a Harvard professor.
Shekinah Elmore
Shekinah Elmore was an American radiation oncologist and global oncology researcher at UNC Chapel Hill who, diagnosed with two cancers at 27, wrote publicly about living with Li-Fraumeni syndrome.
Sheldon Cohen
Sheldon Cohen, born 1947, is an American psychologist at Carnegie Mellon known for viral-challenge experiments showing psychological stress and social relationships affect immunity and cold susceptibility.
Sheldon H. Landesman
Sheldon H. Landesman is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, best known for research on mother-to-child transmission of HIV and early responses to the AIDS epidemic in New York.
Sheldon Penman
Sheldon Penman (1930–2021) was an American molecular biologist at MIT who was among the first to show messenger RNA in a mammalian cell and studied RNA metabolism.
Shelley Berger
Shelley L. Berger is an American molecular biologist studying chromatin and epigenetics, the Daniel S. Och University Professor at Penn and a National Academy of Sciences member.
Shelley E. Taylor
Shelley E. Taylor, also known as Shelley Taylor, is an American social psychologist at UCLA known for the tend-and-befriend stress model and research on positive illusions.
Shelly Bernstein
Shelly C. Bernstein is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist and 1984 MacArthur Fellow, recognized at age 33 for cancer genetics research, who has practiced community pediatrics in Weston, Massachusetts since 1990.
Shelly P. Dev
Shelly P. Dev, also known as Shelly Dev, is a Canadian critical care physician and medical educator who has been a staff intensivist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto since 2006.
Shen‐Ying Zhang
Shen-Ying Zhang (born 1971) is a physician-scientist in immunology who studies the human genetics of severe viral brain infections, best known for linking childhood herpes simplex encephalitis to single-gene defects.
Sheng Ding
Sheng Ding is a chemist and stem cell biologist at the Gladstone Institutes and UCSF known for using small molecules to induce pluripotent and totipotent stem cells.
Sheng Luan
Sheng Luan is a plant biologist and professor of plant and microbial biology at UC Berkeley, known for Nature papers on how plants encode and decode calcium signals.
Sheng Yang He
Sheng Yang He, also published as Sheng-Yang He, is a Chinese-born American plant biologist at Duke University known for research on plant-pathogen interactions and stomatal immunity.
Sherene Loi
Sherene Loi is an Australian medical oncologist who heads a breast cancer genomics lab at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne and led early immunotherapy trials in breast cancer.
Sheri McCoy
Sheri McCoy is an American chemical engineer who spent 30 years at Johnson & Johnson and served as CEO of Avon Products from 2012 to 2018.
Sherif Abou Elela
Sherif Abou Elela is a molecular biologist at the Université de Sherbrooke who studies RNA processing and is known for showing that introns regulate gene expression.
Sherif F. Nagueh
Sherif F. Nagueh is an Egyptian-born American cardiologist at Houston Methodist whose tissue Doppler work, including the E/e′ ratio, shaped how echocardiography estimates filling pressures.
Sherif R. Zaki
Sherif R. Zaki (1956–2021) was an Egyptian-born American infectious disease pathologist who founded and led the CDC's Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch from the early 1990s.
Sherin U. Devaskar
Sherin U. Devaskar is an American pediatrician-scientist and neonatologist at UCLA. She is known for her research on prenatal environment programming and received the 2021 John Howland Award.
Sherine E. Gabriel
Sherine E. Gabriel is a rheumatologist and epidemiologist known for population studies of rheumatic disease and for leading Mayo Medical School, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and Rush University.
Sherman James
Sherman James is an American social epidemiologist, emeritus professor at Duke University and originator of the John Henryism hypothesis, which links high-effort coping with adversity to hypertension among Black Americans.
Sherman M. Weissman
Sherman M. Weissman is a molecular biologist and Sterling Professor of Genetics at Yale School of Medicine, known for defining SV40 gene structure and showing beta-thalassemia involves abnormal RNA splicing.
Sherrill J. Slichter
Sherrill J. Slichter was an American hematologist and transfusion-medicine researcher who spent over four decades at the Puget Sound Blood Center in Seattle, revolutionizing platelet transfusion therapy.
Sherwood L. Gorbach
Sherwood L. Gorbach (1934–2024) was an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at Tufts University who discovered C. difficile as the agent of antibiotic-associated colitis and developed the probiotic Lactobacillus GG.
Sherwood Moore
Sherwood Moore (1880–1963) was an American radiologist who became the first professor of radiology at Washington University, founded the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, and co-developed cholecystography, the x-ray imaging of the gallbladder.
Sherwood Washburn
Sherwood Washburn (1911–2000) was an American anthropologist and professor of anthropology at Berkeley, called the father of modern primatology, who reshaped the study of human origins.
Shiaw‐Yih Lin
Shiaw-Yih Lin is a molecular biologist and Professor and Deputy Chair of Systems Biology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for work on DNA damage response and tumor suppressor pathways.
Shibani S. Mukerji
Shibani S. Mukerji is an American neurologist and neuro-infectious diseases researcher at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for work on HIV and COVID-19 neurology.