Life and health scientists

Stanley B. Kater

Stanley B. Kater is a retired cellular and molecular neuroscientist who worked at Iowa, Colorado State, and Utah, showing that calcium levels in the growth cone steer developing nerve fibers.

Stanley B. Prusiner

Stanley B. Prusiner, born in 1942, is an American biochemist and neurologist at UCSF who discovered and named prions, winning the 1997 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Stanley C. Froehner

Stanley C. Froehner is an American molecular biologist at the University of Washington who studies skeletal muscle and gene therapy, known for discovering the syntrophin proteins.

Stanley C. Jordan is an American transplant nephrologist and immunologist who directs nephrology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, known for antibody-removal desensitization therapies enabling HLA-incompatible kidney transplants.

Stanley Cohen (biochemist)

Stanley Cohen (1922–2020) was an American biochemist who discovered epidermal growth factor and characterized its receptor, sharing the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Rita Levi-Montalcini for discoveries of growth factors.

Stanley Dwight Beck

Stanley Dwight Beck (1919–1997) was an American insect physiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for work on insect photoperiodism, artificial diets, and corn pest resistance.

Stanley E. Bradley

Stanley E. Bradley (1913–1999) was an American renal physiologist and physician-scientist at Columbia University, known for work on the renal and hepatic circulations and the nephrotic syndrome.

Stanley Fahn

Stanley Fahn is an American neurologist and emeritus professor at Columbia University, widely described as a founder of movement disorders, who led the ELLDOPA trial and founded the Movement Disorder Society.

Stanley Falkow

Stanley Falkow (1934–2018) was an American microbiologist and Stanford professor known as the father of molecular microbial pathogenesis, honored with the 2008 Lasker Award and the National Medal of Science.

Stanley Fields (molecular biologist)

Stanley Fields is an American molecular biologist and geneticist, Professor Emeritus of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, known for the yeast two-hybrid method and deep mutational scanning.

Stanley G Nathenson

Stanley G Nathenson is an immunologist and cell biologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine whose work on H-2 transplantation antigens established the basis of transplant rejection.

Stanley George Stephens

Stanley George Stephens (1911–1986) was an English-born plant geneticist who studied the genetics and evolution of cotton, working in Trinidad and at North Carolina State University.

Stanley J. Korsmeyer

Stanley J. Korsmeyer (1950–2005) was an American physician-scientist who showed that BCL2 causes cancer by blocking cell death rather than driving growth, founding the molecular study of apoptosis in cancer.

Stanley J. Peloquin

Stanley J. Peloquin was an American plant geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for potato breeding research and election to the National Academy of Sciences.

Stanley J. Szefler

Stanley J. Szefler is an American pediatric allergist-immunologist who directed the Pediatric Asthma Research Program at Children's Hospital Colorado, individualizing childhood asthma therapy, and retired in 2026.

Stanley J. Watson

Stanley J. Watson Jr is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist at the University of Michigan Medical School known for mapping brain opioid systems and psychiatric genomics.

Stanley J. Wolfe

Stanley J. Wolfe (1923–2018) was an American physician and liver researcher at Harvard Medical School and Boston City Hospital, later a gastroenterologist and clinical professor at UCSF.

Stanley L. Hazen

Stanley L. Hazen is an American physician-scientist at the Cleveland Clinic who discovered that gut microbes convert dietary choline and L-carnitine into TMAO, a metabolite linked to atherosclerosis.

Stanley M Lemon

Stanley M. Lemon is a physician-scientist in viral hepatitis, professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Stanley M. Gartler

Stanley M. Gartler (S.M. Gartler; 1923–2026) was an American human geneticist at the University of Washington who showed that tumors arise from a single cell and exposed HeLa contamination of cell lines.

Stanley Nattel

Stanley Nattel, born in 1951, is a Canadian cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute and Université de Montréal, a global authority on atrial fibrillation appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2024.

Stanley Norman Cohen

Stanley Norman Cohen is an American geneticist at Stanford who, with Herbert Boyer, carried out the first cloning and transfer of genes between organisms in 1973.

Stanley P. Azen

Stanley P. Azen is an American biostatistician and epidemiologist at the University of Southern California, co-author of the EPAT and ELITE estrogen trials and the Los Angeles Latino Eye Study.

Stanley Perlman

Stanley Perlman is a coronavirus researcher and professor of microbiology and pediatrics at the University of Iowa, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Stanley Plotkin

Stanley A. Plotkin is an American vaccinologist who developed the RA 27/3 rubella vaccine at the Wistar Institute in the 1960s and edited the standard textbook, Plotkin's Vaccines.

Stanley R. Hamilton

Stanley R. Hamilton is an American gastrointestinal and molecular pathologist known for colorectal cancer genetics work and for chairing pathology at City of Hope from 2020 to 2025.

Stanley Riddell

Stanley R. Riddell is a tumor immunologist and physician-scientist at Fred Hutch Cancer Center who pioneered adoptive T cell therapy for cancer and co-founded Juno Therapeutics in 2013.

Stanley Shaldon

Stanley Shaldon (1931–2013) was a British nephrologist who pioneered the percutaneous Shaldon catheter for dialysis access, introduced home and nocturnal dialysis in the UK, and won the 2011 ERA-EDTA Award.

Stanton A. Glantz

Stanton A. Glantz, also known as Stanton Glantz, is an American researcher and retired UCSF professor of medicine known for analyzing tobacco industry documents and shaping smoke-free air policy.