Life and health scientists

Sotirios K. Karathanasis

Sotirios K. Karathanasis is a molecular biologist and biochemist known for cloning the apolipoprotein A-I gene and showing its variants mark premature coronary artery disease and low HDL.

Sotirios Tsimikas, often published as Sam Tsimikas, is a Greek-American cardiologist and vascular medicine researcher at UC San Diego who established oxidized phospholipids on lipoprotein(a) as biomarkers of heart disease.

Soumya Raychaudhuri

Soumya Raychaudhuri is a physician-scientist and computational geneticist at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute, known for the Harmony single-cell algorithm and rheumatoid arthritis genetics.

Soumya Swaminathan

Soumya Swaminathan is an Indian pediatrician and tuberculosis and HIV researcher who served as the World Health Organization's first Chief Scientist from 2019 to 2022.

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Soyapi L Mumba

Soyapi L Mumba is a Malawian health-informatics researcher and TED Fellow who, as a director at Baobab Health Trust in Lilongwe, led development of Malawi's national electronic health record system.

Spencer B. King

Spencer B. King is an American interventional cardiologist in Atlanta who led the EAST trial of angioplasty versus bypass surgery and built Emory's interventional cardiology program.

Spencer Fullerton Baird

Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823–1887) was an American naturalist, the Smithsonian's second Secretary, and first U.S. Fish Commissioner who grew its collections from 6,000 to over 2.5 million specimens.

Spencer Smith (neuroscientist)

Spencer L. Smith is an American neuroscientist and neuroengineer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whose laboratory builds two-photon microscopes recording many neurons across multiple brain areas.

Spotswood L. Spruance

Spotswood L. Spruance is an American infectious-disease physician and epidemiologist, emeritus at the University of Utah, known for defining the natural history of recurrent herpes simplex infections.

Spyridon G.A. Alivisatos

Spyridon G.A. Alivisatos, also published as S.G.A. Alivisatos, was a biochemist and neuropharmacologist trained at McGill University who studied how serotonin binds at receptors in the brain.

Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas

Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas is a Greek molecular biologist known for deciphering the Notch signaling pathway, a professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School and the Collège de France.

Squire Booker

Squire J. Booker is an American mechanistic enzymologist known for radical SAM enzymes, an HHMI investigator since 2015, elected to the NAS in 2019, now at Penn.

Srđan Verstovšek

Srdan Verstovsek (Srđan Verstovšek) is a hematologist-oncologist, Chief Medical Officer of Kartos Therapeutics since 2023, formerly of MD Anderson, known for leading the COMFORT-I and MOMENTUM trials of the first myelofibrosis drugs.

Srinivas C Turaga

Srinivas C Turaga is a computational neuroscientist who has led a group at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus since 2014, applying deep learning to connectomics and biology.

Srinivas R. Viswanathan

Srinivas R. Viswanathan, MD, PhD, is a medical oncologist and cancer genomics researcher at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School who studies prostate and kidney cancers.

Sripal Bangalore

Sripal Bangalore is an interventional cardiologist and outcomes researcher, Professor of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Bellevue Hospital.

Sriram Subramaniam

Sriram Subramaniam is a cryo-electron microscopy structural biologist and professor at the University of British Columbia, known for atomic-resolution structures of cancer targets and pathogens.

Stacie B. Dusetzina

Stacie B. Dusetzina is an American pharmacoepidemiologist and health services researcher at Vanderbilt University whose research on Medicare drug costs informed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

Stacy Sims

Stacy T. Sims, exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist (PhD, University of Otago, 2006), senior research associate at AUT's SPRINZ and adjunct at Stanford Lifestyle Medicine; author of ROAR and Next Level and lead author of the 2023 ISSN female athlete nutrition position stand; known for "women are not small men" and later retracting menstrual phase-based training advice.