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Silva Arslanian

Silva A. Arslanian is a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of Pittsburgh who studies type 2 diabetes and obesity in youth, leading GLP-1 medication trials including liraglutide and semaglutide.

Silvia Arber

Silvia Arber, born 1968 in Geneva, is a Swiss neuroscientist at the University of Basel who studies the neuronal circuits controlling movement, and won the Brain Prize in 2022.

Silvia Corvera

Silvia Corvera is a Mexican-trained physician-scientist and Professor of Molecular Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School, studying how adipose tissue development relates to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.

Silvia Franceschi

Silvia Franceschi is an Italian cancer epidemiologist whose multicentre studies established HPV as the necessary cause of cervical cancer, leading the Infections and Cancer Epidemiology Group at IARC in Lyon.

Silvia G. Priori

Silvia G. Priori (Silvia Giuliana Priori), born 1960 in Torino, is an Italian cardiologist at the University of Pavia known for genetic research on inherited arrhythmias and gene therapy.

Silvio C. E. Tosatto

Silvio C. E. Tosatto is an Italian computational biologist, Full Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Padua, who heads the BioComputing UP laboratory studying protein intrinsic disorder.

Silvio Danese

Silvio Danese is an Italian gastroenterologist and inflammatory bowel disease researcher, professor and gastroenterology head at San Raffaele in Milan, and president of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation from 2018 to 2020.

Silvio E. Inzucchi

Silvio E. Inzucchi is an American endocrinologist and diabetes researcher at Yale School of Medicine, where he directs the Yale Diabetes Center and studies diabetes drugs and heart disease.

Silvio Garattini

Silvio Garattini is an Italian pharmacologist born in Bergamo in 1928 who founded the Mario Negri Institute in Milan in 1963 and directed it for 55 years.

Silviu Itescu

Silviu Itescu is a physician-scientist in transplant immunology and stem-cell medicine who described diffuse infiltrative lymphocytosis syndrome in HIV in 1989 and leads the Australian cell-therapy company Mesoblast.

Simeon Burt Wolbach

Simeon Burt Wolbach (1880–1954) was an American pathologist at Harvard Medical School whose studies established the tick-borne transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever and the cause of epidemic typhus.

Simeon I. Taylor

Simeon I. Taylor is an American physician-scientist known for research on insulin resistance and the insulin receptor gene, and a professor at the University of Maryland.

Simin Liu

Simin Liu is a physician-scientist and epidemiologist known for large prospective studies of sex hormones and type 2 diabetes, now Distinguished Professor and chair at UC Irvine.

Simon A. Levin

Simon A. Levin, also published as Simon Levin, is an American mathematical ecologist at Princeton University credited with founding spatial ecology and winner of the Kyoto Prize.

Simon Alberti

Simon Alberti is a molecular biologist who has held the Chair of Cellular Biochemistry at TU Dresden's Biotechnology Center since 2018, studying biomolecular condensates in stress, DNA repair, and aging.

Simon Anders

Simon Anders is a German bioinformatician and junior professor at BioQuant, Heidelberg University, known for developing the DESeq, DESeq2, and HTSeq tools for analyzing RNA-seq data.

Simon Baron-Cohen

Simon Baron-Cohen, British cognitive neuroscientist, Cambridge professor of developmental psychopathology and Director of the Autism Research Centre; known for mindblindness, empathizing–systemizing, and extreme male brain theories of autism, the AQ screening questionnaire, and a 2021 knighthood.

Simon Berrow

Simon Berrow is an Irish marine biologist who founded the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group in 1990 and leads research on the basking shark, the world's second-largest fish.

Simon Boulton

Simon J. Boulton is a biologist who studies DNA repair and genome stability, leads a laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, and co-founded the cancer-drug company Artios Pharma.

Simon Capewell

Simon Capewell is a British cardiovascular epidemiologist and the first Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Liverpool, appointed in 1999, known for the IMPACT model of coronary heart disease deaths.

Simon Carette

Simon Carette is a Canadian rheumatologist known for New England Journal of Medicine trials on corticosteroid injections for back pain, then a Toronto career centered on systemic vasculitis.

Simon Cauchemez

Simon Cauchemez, born 1978, is an epidemiologist and mathematical modeller of infectious diseases who heads the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, and advised the French government on COVID-19.

Simon Conway Morris

Simon Conway Morris, born 1951, is a British palaeobiologist, emeritus professor at Cambridge, known for reinterpreting the Burgess Shale fauna and for arguing evolution is predictable, winning the 2026 Templeton Prize.

Simon Cousens

Simon Cousens is a British statistician and epidemiologist, Emeritus Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for stillbirth and newborn health research.

Simon E. Fisher

Simon E. Fisher, born 1970 in London, is a British neurogeneticist known for discovering FOXP2, the first gene found mutated in a speech and language disorder.

Simon Flexner

Simon Flexner (1863–1946) was an American pathologist and bacteriologist, first director of the Rockefeller Institute, who developed a meningitis serum and transmitted polio to monkeys.

Simon G. Thompson

Simon G. Thompson is a biostatistician and cardiovascular epidemiologist who directed the MRC Biostatistics Unit and was Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Cambridge.

Simon Gilroy

Simon Gilroy is a British plant cell biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for calcium signaling research and plant experiments on the International Space Station.

Simon Heller

Simon R. Heller is a British diabetologist, Professor of Clinical Diabetes at the University of Sheffield, known for research on hypoglycemia and for developing the DAFNE education program.

Simon I. Hay

Simon I. Hay is an infectious disease epidemiologist who co-founded the Malaria Atlas Project and is a professor and Director of Research Strategy at IHME in Seattle.