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Shivani Misra

Shivani Misra is a British physician-scientist in diabetes and metabolism at Imperial College London, known for research on early-onset type 2 diabetes and the NHS T2DAY program.

Shizuo Akira

Shizuo Akira (審良静男, born 1953) is a Japanese immunologist at The University of Osaka who used knockout mice to define what each Toll-like receptor recognizes, discovering TLR9 and TLR7.

Shlomo Melmed

Shlomo Melmed is a South African-born endocrinologist who served as dean of the medical faculty at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and studies pituitary tumors and acromegaly.

Shlomo Shinnar

Shlomo Shinnar is an American child neurologist and epilepsy researcher, Professor Emeritus at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, known for leading the FEBSTAT study of prolonged febrile seizures in children.

Shmuel Muallem

Shmuel Muallem is an Israeli-born physiologist who studies calcium signaling and bicarbonate transport in epithelial cells, and has led a research section at the NIH since 2010.

Shöichiro Tsukita

Shoichiro Tsukita (1953–2005) was a Japanese cell biologist and Kyoto University professor who led the molecular dissection of tight junctions, identifying occludin, the claudins, and tricellulin.

Shoji Tsuji

Shoji Tsuji (辻 省次) is a Japanese neurologist and molecular geneticist known for identifying genes underlying neurological diseases, from Gaucher disease in 1987 to repeat-expansion epilepsies.

Sholom Wacholder

Sholom Wacholder (1955–2015) was an American biostatistician and cancer epidemiologist who spent nearly 30 years at the National Cancer Institute, leading statistics for HPV vaccine trials including the Costa Rica HPV Vaccine Trial.

Shona Murphy

Shona Murphy is a molecular biologist and Professor of Molecular Genetics at Oxford's Dunn School of Pathology, known for work on RNA polymerase II and snRNA genes.

Shonni J. Silverberg

Shonni J. Silverberg is an American endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine at Columbia University whose 10-year study of primary hyperparathyroidism shaped international treatment guidelines and co-directs its NIH-funded endocrinology fellowship.

Shosaku Numa

Shosaku Numa (沼 正作, 1929–1992) was a Japanese molecular biochemist, professor at Kyoto University from 1968, who pioneered recombinant DNA study of receptors and ion channels.

Shoshana Levy

Shoshana Levy (1939–2022) was an Israeli-born American immunologist who identified the tetraspanin family of cell-surface proteins in 1990, best known for their role in cancer metastasis.

Shou‐Wei Ding

Shou-Wei Ding is a distinguished professor of microbiology and plant pathology at UC Riverside who established RNA interference as a common antiviral defense across plants, insects, and mammals, receiving the 2020 Noel T. Keen Award.

Shoukat Dedhar

Shoukat Dedhar is a Canadian cancer biologist, Distinguished Scientist at BC Cancer and professor at UBC, known for discovering integrin-linked kinase and co-founding SignalChem Lifesciences.

Shoukhrat Mitalipov

Shoukhrat Mitalipov (Shoukhrat M. Mitalipov) is a Kazakh-born stem-cell and reproductive biologist at Oregon Health & Science University, first to derive human embryonic stem cells by somatic cell nuclear transfer in 2013.

Shruti Naik

Shruti Naik is an immunologist and stem cell biologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for discovering inflammatory memory in skin stem cells.

Shu Chien

Shu Chien (钱煦), born 1931 in Beijing, is a Chinese-born American bioengineer and physiologist at UC San Diego known for his work on blood viscosity, blood flow forces, and atherosclerosis.

Shu-Bing Qian

Shu-Bing Qian is a molecular biologist who studies translational control of gene expression, holding the James Jamison Professor of Nutrition chair at Cornell University since 2008.

Shu-ou Shan

Shu-ou Shan is a biochemist at Caltech known for her work on molecular chaperones and protein folding, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Shuh Narumiya

Shuh Narumiya (成宮 周) is a Japanese pharmacologist at Kyoto University who identified all eight prostanoid receptors and defined the roles of Rho kinase (ROCK).

Shuibing Chen

Shuibing Chen is a chemical biologist and stem cell researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine known for building human stem cell-derived organoids to model disease and screen drugs.

Shuji Ogino

Shuji Ogino (荻野周二) is a Japanese-born pathologist-epidemiologist and Harvard professor who helped define molecular pathological epidemiology, studying how molecular tumor features interact with lifestyle and environment.

Shunichi Takeda

Shunichi Takeda (武田 俊一) is a Japanese molecular biologist, professor at Kyoto University since 1998, known for establishing the chicken DT40 line to study DNA repair and homologous recombination.

Shunsuke Ishii

Shunsuke Ishii (石井 俊輔) is a Japanese molecular biologist and Chief Scientist at RIKEN Tsukuba since 1989, known for showing that stress effects can be inherited through chromatin changes.

Shuo Li

Shuo Li is a medical image analysis and AI researcher at Case Western Reserve University who directs the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics.

Shuo Lin

Shuo Lin (林硕) is a developmental biologist and geneticist who has been a professor at UCLA since 2003, known for making retroviral vectors usable in zebrafish and for zebrafish genome-editing methods.

Shyam Prabhakar

Shyam Prabhakar is a computational and systems biologist at the Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, known for the BANKSY spatial omics algorithm and the Asian Immune Diversity Atlas.

Shyam Sundar (Indian physician)

Shyam Sundar (born 1953) is an Indian infectious diseases physician and professor at Banaras Hindu University whose clinical trials changed the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis, or kala-azar, in South Asia.

Shyamala Maheswaran

Shyamala Maheswaran (S. Maheswaran) is a cancer biologist and Harvard Medical School professor at Massachusetts General Hospital known for circulating tumor cell research and liquid biopsy.

Siamon Gordon

Siamon Gordon, born 1938, is a South African-born immunologist and Emeritus Glaxo Wellcome Professor at Oxford, known for decades of macrophage research and the F4/80 antibody marker.