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Sol Sherry

Sol Sherry (1916–1993) was an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular medicine whose work on the fibrinolytic enzyme system laid the foundation for streptokinase and other clot-dissolving drugs.

Sol Spiegelman

Sol Spiegelman (1914–1983) was an American molecular biologist who pioneered DNA–RNA hybridization, synthesized infectious viral RNA in a test tube, and led Columbia's Institute of Cancer Research.

Solange Peters

Solange Peters is a Swiss medical oncologist, professor at the University of Lausanne, who led the ALEX and IPSOS lung-cancer trials and was ESMO president from 2020 to 2022.

Soldano Ferrone

Soldano Ferrone (1940–2023) was an Italian-born immunologist and cancer immunotherapy researcher who developed monoclonal antibodies to HLA and melanoma antigens and showed how tumors escape immunity.

Solomon A. Berson

Solomon A. Berson (1918–1972) was an American physician and endocrinology researcher who co-developed radioimmunoassay for measuring minute quantities of hormones in blood, then chaired medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Solomon H. Snyder

Solomon H. Snyder, born 1938 in Washington, D.C., is an American neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins known for the 1973 demonstration of opiate receptors in nervous tissue.

Solomon Tesfaye

Solomon Tesfaye is a consultant physician and Professor of Diabetes Medicine at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, known for research on the causes and treatment of diabetic neuropathy.

Soma Weiss

Soma Weiss (1899–1942) was a Hungarian-born American physician and pharmacologist, Hersey Professor at Harvard and Physician-in-Chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, known for Mallory-Weiss syndrome.

Soman N. Abraham

Soman N. Abraham is an American immunologist, the Grace Kerby Distinguished Professor of Pathology at Duke University Medical Center, known for mast cell vaccine adjuvants and bacterial expulsion from infected cells.

Somasekar Seshagiri

Somasekar Seshagiri, known as Sekar Seshagiri, is a cancer genomics researcher who spent 21 years at Genentech and first-authored a 2012 Nature study of R-spondin fusions in colon cancer.

Sonia Caprio

Sonia Caprio is a pediatric endocrinologist and professor at Yale School of Medicine known for research on obesity, type 2 diabetes, and fatty liver disease in children.

Sonia Garel

Sonia Garel, born 1972 in Paris, is a French neurobiologist who studies how brain circuits are assembled during development and how microglia take part in that assembly.

Sonia Hernández–Dı́az

Sonia Hernández-Díaz is a Spanish-trained physician and pharmacoepidemiologist, professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for drug safety research in pregnancy.

Sonia S. Anand

Sonia S. Anand is a Canadian vascular medicine specialist and epidemiologist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, known for the SHARE and INTERHEART studies of heart attack risk.

Sonja Gisela Lorenz

Sonja Gisela Lorenz is a structural biochemist who leads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, known for defining how ubiquitination enzymes select ubiquitin chain types.

Sonja Hofer

Sonja Hofer is a neuroscientist who leads a research group at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London, studying how visual circuits build predictions.

Sonja J. Olsen

Sonja J. Olsen is an American epidemiologist at the CDC in Atlanta who led the 2003 SARS aircraft study, directed CDC influenza work in Thailand, and investigated H5N1.

Sonja Schrepfer

Sonja Schrepfer is a German physician-scientist in transplant immunology and stem cell immunobiology, a professor of surgery at UCSF and scientific founder of Sana Biotechnology's hypoimmune cell platform.

Sonja Ständer

Sonja Ständer is a German dermatologist and professor at the University of Münster who heads the Center for Chronic Pruritus and led the clinical studies behind nemolizumab.

Sonya Neal

Sonya Neal is an American cell biologist and Associate Professor at UC San Diego who studies how cells detect and destroy misfolded proteins, and received the 2025 PECASE award.

Sook‐Bin Woo

Sook-Bin Woo is an American oral medicine specialist and oral pathologist at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for her 2006 review linking bisphosphonate drugs to osteonecrosis of the jaw.

Sophia Y. Tsai

Sophia Y. Tsai is a molecular biologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston known for discovering the COUP transcription factors, which regulate development, angiogenesis, and metabolism.

Sophia Zoungas

Sophia Zoungas is an Australian endocrinologist and clinical trialist whose diabetes trials shaped global guidelines, and Executive Director of The George Institute for Global Health Australia from 2026.

Sophie D. Fosså

Sophie D. Fosså (born 1941) is a Norwegian oncologist and professor emerita at Oslo University Hospital known for prostate and testicular cancer research and late-effects studies.

Sophie Martin

Sophie G. Martin is a Swiss cell biologist known for research on cell polarity and cell fusion in fission yeast, and a professor at the University of Geneva.

Sophie Scott

Sophie Scott is a British cognitive neuroscientist, Professor and Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, known for research on speech and laughter and for presenting the 2017 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

Sophie Wallace

Sophie Wallace, also known as Sophia Wallace, is an Australian anesthesiology researcher who manages the clinical trials program at The Alfred and Monash University in Melbourne, including the RELIEF trial.

Sophien Kamoun

Sophien Kamoun is a Tunisian-born plant pathologist and Royal Society fellow at the University of East Anglia who studies potato blight and wheat blast to develop disease-resistant crops.

Søren Holth

Søren Holth (1863–1937) was a Norwegian ophthalmologist ranked among the foremost eye doctors of his time in Norway, known for new refraction methods and his iridencleisis operation for glaucoma.

Søren K. Moestrup

Søren K. Moestrup, also known as Søren Kragh Moestrup, is a professor at Aarhus University who identified CD163 as the hemoglobin scavenger receptor and won the 2013 Novo Nordisk Prize.