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Shideng Bao

Shideng Bao is a cancer biologist at Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, known for showing in 2006 that glioma stem cells drive radioresistance in glioblastoma.

Shields Warren

Shields Warren (1898–1980) was an American pathologist and Harvard professor who pioneered radiation pathology and served as the first director of the Atomic Energy Commission's Division of Biology and Medicine.

Shigeaki Kato

Shigeaki Kato (加藤 茂明) is a Japanese molecular endocrinologist at Fukushima Medical University known for cloning the vitamin D-activating enzyme gene and linking it to hereditary rickets.

Shigekazu Nagata

Shigekazu Nagata (長田重一) is a Japanese molecular biologist at Osaka University known for identifying Fas ligand and Fas and linking failed apoptosis to autoimmune disease.

Shigeo Koyasu

Shigeo Koyasu (小安 重夫) is a Japanese immunologist, born in Tokyo in 1955, who discovered ILC2 natural helper cells and leads the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology.

Shigeo Okabe

Shigeo Okabe (岡部 繁男), born in Tokyo in 1960, is a Japanese neuroscientist at the University of Tokyo who won the 2025 Japan Academy Prize for imaging techniques.

Shigeru Kinoshita

Shigeru Kinoshita (木下 茂) is a Japanese ophthalmologist and professor at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, known for cultivated corneal endothelial cell therapy for bullous keratopathy.

Shigetada Nakanishi

Shigetada Nakanishi (中西重忠, born 1942) is a Japanese molecular neuroscientist who cloned the NMDA and metabotropic glutamate receptors and won the 2007 Gruber Neuroscience Prize.

Shigetake Sasayama

Shigetake Sasayama (篠山 重威) is a Japanese cardiologist and physician-scientist, professor of cardiovascular medicine at Kyoto University from 1991 to 2001, known for research on cytokines in heart failure.

Shigeyoshi Itohara

Shigeyoshi Itohara (糸原重美) is a Japanese neuroscientist who leads the Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science, studying neural circuit genetics in mice.

Shigeyuki Yokoyama

Shigeyuki Yokoyama (横山茂之) is a Japanese structural biologist known for work on tRNA structure and recognition, for leading Japan's Protein 3000 structural genomics project, and for cell-free protein synthesis.

Shimon Glick

Shimon Glick (born 1932) is an Israeli physician-scientist and endocrinologist who helped found Ben-Gurion University's Faculty of Health Sciences in 1974 and served as its dean.

Shimon Sakaguchi

Shimon Sakaguchi (坂口 志文, born 1951) is a Japanese immunologist at the University of Osaka who discovered regulatory T cells and won a third of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Shimon Weiss

Shimon Weiss is an Israeli-born biophysicist and UCLA professor known as a founder of single-molecule biophysics and bionanotechnology, whose lab introduced single-molecule FRET and quantum dots for biological imaging.

Shin-Ichi Nishikawa

Shin-Ichi Nishikawa (西川伸一, born 1948) is a Japanese stem-cell and developmental biologist who led the Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe from 2000.

Shin-ichiro Imai

Shin-ichiro Imai (今井真一郎) is a Japanese-born, US-based aging and longevity researcher at Washington University School of Medicine known for work on SIRT1, NAMPT, and NMN.

Shin-ya Takemura

Shin-ya Takemura is a neuroscientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus and a central contributor to the FlyEM project, which builds connectomes of the fruit fly brain.

Shingo Kajimura

Shingo Kajimura is a cell biologist studying brown and beige fat and energy metabolism, a Harvard Medical School professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 2022.

Shinichi Aizawa

Shinichi Aizawa is a Japanese developmental biologist known for genetic studies of vertebrate head development at RIKEN, where his group identified the head-formation factor Shisa.

Shinobu Kitayama

Shinobu Kitayama (北山 忍) is a Japanese social psychologist at the University of Michigan, known for the theory of independent and interdependent selves and his 1991 culture-and-self paper.

Shinya Inoué

Shinya Inoué (1921–2019) was a Japanese-American cell biologist and microscopist who proved spindle fibers exist in living cells and pioneered polarized-light microscopy of living cells.

Shinya Yamanaka (山中伸弥)

Shinya Yamanaka (山中伸弥), born 1962 in Osaka, is a Japanese physician-scientist who created induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells with four transcription factors (OSKM) in 2006 and shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; he led Kyoto University's CiRA and the CiRA Foundation.

Shinya Yoshikawa

Shinya Yoshikawa is a Japanese biochemist at the University of Hyogo who determined the crystal structure of bovine heart cytochrome c oxidase and its proton-pumping mechanism.

Shirley Jeffrey

Shirley Winifred Jeffrey (1930–2014) was an Australian marine biologist and biochemist at CSIRO, best known for isolating chlorophyll c and founding the Australian National Algal Culture Collection.

Shirley M. Tilghman

Shirley M. Tilghman, born 1946 in Toronto, is a Canadian molecular biologist known for genomic imprinting research and as Princeton's 19th president, the first woman to hold the office.

Shiro Ikegawa

Shiro Ikegawa (池川 志郎) is a Japanese medical geneticist and orthopedic surgeon who led RIKEN's Laboratory for Bone and Joint Diseases in Tokyo for over two decades.

Shitij Kapur

Shitij Kapur is a psychiatrist and psychopharmacology researcher who has led King's College London as Vice-Chancellor since 2021, known for the aberrant-salience framework of psychosis and research on antipsychotic drugs and dopamine.

Shiv I. Grewal

Shiv I. S. Grewal is a molecular biologist who leads a laboratory at the National Cancer Institute, known for showing that heterochromatic gene silencing is inherited epigenetically.

Shiv Kumar Sarin

Shiv Kumar Sarin is an Indian hepatologist who heads the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in New Delhi and created the standard classification of gastric varices.

Shiv Pillai

Shiv Pillai (Shiv Subramaniam Pillai) is an Indian-born American immunologist and physician-scientist at Harvard and the Ragon Institute who studies B cells and germinal centers.