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Simon J. Davis

Simon J. Davis is a British immunologist and Professor of Molecular Immunology at the University of Oxford, best known for the kinetic-segregation model of T-cell receptor activation.

Simon J. Draper

Simon J. Draper is a professor of vaccinology at the University of Oxford whose group developed the RH5.1 blood-stage malaria vaccine, 55% effective in a Burkina Faso trial.

Simon Karpatkin

Simon Karpatkin was an American hematologist and Director of Hematology at NYU School of Medicine who established platelet heterogeneity and platelets' role in tumor metastasis.

Simon M. Helfgott

Simon M. Helfgott is an American rheumatologist and Harvard Medical School associate professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, known for the NEJM Case Records.

Simon Mead

Simon Mead is a British consultant neurologist, Clinical Lead of the UK National Prion Clinic and Deputy Director of the MRC Prion Unit at University College London.

Simón Méndez‐Ferrer

Simón Méndez-Ferrer is a Spanish hematology researcher, Professor of Transfusion Medicine at the University of Cambridge, known for his 2008 Nature finding that circadian rhythms regulate blood stem cell release.

Simon Myers

Simon R. Myers is a University of Oxford professor of mathematical genomics known for mapping recombination hotspots in the human genome and dating admixture from modern DNA.

Simon Newstead

Simon Newstead (born 1979) is a British structural biologist and David Phillips Professor of Molecular Biophysics at Oxford, known for crystallographic and cryo-EM structures of SLC membrane transport proteins.

Simon Rasmussen

Simon Rasmussen is a bioinformatician and professor at the University of Copenhagen known for VAMB, a deep-learning tool for reconstructing microbial genomes from metagenomic data.

Simon Rodbard

Simon Rodbard (1911–1975) was an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular and pulmonary physiology, long at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago and Director of Cardiology at the City of Hope from 1963.

Simon Scheuring

Simon Scheuring is a Swiss and French biophysicist at Weill Cornell Medicine who develops high-speed atomic force microscopy to watch single membrane proteins at work.

Simon Shorvon

Simon David Shorvon is a British neurologist and emeritus professor of clinical neurology at UCL, known for epilepsy research and prize-winning histories of epilepsy, receiving the ILAE Lifetime Achievement Award in 2025.

Simon Stewart (cardiovascular nurse scientist)

Simon Stewart is an Australian cardiovascular nurse scientist and health services researcher known for home-based heart failure care, including a 1999 Lancet trial and the Heart of Soweto Study.

Simon Stuart (conservation biologist)

Simon Stuart is a conservation biologist who developed the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria, led the Global Amphibian Assessment, and chaired the IUCN Species Survival Commission from 2008 to 2016.

Simon Tavaré

Simon Tavaré is a statistician and computational biologist known for coalescent theory and cancer evolution, and Founding Director of Columbia's Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics since 2018.

Simon Travis

Simon P.L. Travis, born 1958, is a British gastroenterologist at Oxford known for the UCEIS index, the Oxford index for acute severe colitis, and the EARNEST trial.

Simon van Creveld

Simon van Creveld (1894–1971) was a Dutch pediatrician at the University of Amsterdam who co-described Ellis–van Creveld syndrome and opened the world's first hemophilia clinic in 1964.

Simon W M John

Simon W M John is an American glaucoma geneticist at Columbia University known for the DBA/2J mouse model and showing vitamin B3 prevents glaucoma in mice.

Simon Wain–Hobson

Simon Wain-Hobson is a virologist who led the Molecular Retrovirology Unit at the Pasteur Institute, sequenced the AIDS virus LAV in 1985, and retired in 2021.

Simon Wessely

Simon Wessely is a British psychiatrist and epidemiologist, Professor of Psychological Medicine at King's College London and, since 2017, the first Regius Professor of Psychiatry in the United Kingdom.

Simona Francese

Simona Francese is an Italian-born chemist and Professor of Forensic and Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry at Sheffield Hallam University, best known for pioneering molecular fingerprinting of fingermarks.

Simone Di Giovanni

Simone Di Giovanni is a physician-scientist and Professor of Neuroscience at Imperial College London, where he holds the James W Hartnett Chair in Restorative Neuroscience and studies axonal repair.

Simone Sanna‐Cherchi

Simone Sanna-Cherchi is a nephrologist and associate professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center who studies genetic causes of kidney disease, especially congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract.

Sina Bavari

Sina Bavari is a pharmaceutical scientist and biodefense researcher who led filovirus drug countermeasure research at USAMRIID in Maryland, contributing to remdesivir and the Marburg drug AVI-7288.

Sing Sing Way

Sing Sing Way is an American physician-scientist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital who studies how the immune system responds to pregnancy and to infection in newborn babies.

Sinisa Urban

Siniša Urban is a Croatian-born, Canada-raised molecular biologist and Johns Hopkins professor known for discovering the rhomboid proteases, enzymes that cut proteins within the membrane bilayer.

Siobhan Brady

Siobhan Brady is a plant biologist and professor at the University of California, Davis, known for mapping gene regulatory networks that control root cell development, and an HHMI Investigator since 2024.

Sir Bernard Katz

Sir Bernard Katz, also known as Bernard Katz, was a German-born British biophysicist at University College London who won the 1970 Nobel Prize for establishing how nerve signals pass to muscle.

Sir Charles Sherrington

Sir Charles Sherrington was an English physiologist, Waynflete Professor at Oxford, who won the 1932 Nobel Prize for discoveries about neurons and coined the term "synapse" in 1897.

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet was an Australian virologist and immunologist who won the 1960 Nobel Prize for acquired immunological tolerance and proposed clonal selection theory.