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Stavros C. Manolagas

Stavros C. Manolagas is a physician-scientist, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, known for research on osteoporosis and sex steroid action in bone.

Stavros Konstantinides

Stavros V. Konstantinides (Greek: Σταύρος Κωνσταντινίδης) is a Greek-born German cardiologist who has spent 35 years studying pulmonary embolism and designed the 2014 PEITHO trial.

Stavros Lomvardas

Stavros Lomvardas is an American neuroscientist and epigeneticist who studies how each olfactory neuron expresses one receptor gene, and is a professor and principal investigator at Columbia University since 2014.

Stavroula Kousteni

Stavroula Kousteni is a physiologist at Columbia University, where she directs the Edward P. Evans Center for Myelodysplastic Syndromes and studies bone's hormonal role in metabolism and blood cancers.

Stefaan C. De Smedt

Stefaan C. De Smedt (born 1967) is a Belgian pharmaceutical scientist and full professor at Ghent University known for nanomedicine research, including laser-induced nanobubbles that ablate vitreous opacities.

Stefan Baral

Stefan D. Baral is a Canadian physician epidemiologist and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, known for the 2016 Lancet series on transgender health.

Stefan Blankenberg

Stefan Blankenberg (born 1968) is a German cardiologist, director of cardiology at the University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg and president of the German Society of Cardiology since 2025.

Stefan D. Anker

Stefan D. Anker, born 1965 in Berlin, is a German cardiologist and professor at the Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, known for landmark heart-failure trials on intravenous iron and SGLT2 inhibition.

Stefan Engelhardt

Stefan Engelhardt (born 1969 in Munich) is a German pharmacologist and professor at the Technical University of Munich who established microRNA-21 as a driver of heart disease.

Stefan Feske

Stefan Feske is a German-trained immunologist and physician, Jeffrey Bergstein Professor of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, who identified the first patients with mutations in ORAI1 and STIM1, defining the immunodeficiency CRAC channelopathy.

Stefan Fröhling

Stefan Fröhling is a German physician-scientist in hematology and medical oncology, Managing Director of NCT Heidelberg since 2020 and head of Translational Medical Oncology at the German Cancer Research Center.

Stefan G. Tullius

Stefan G. Tullius is a German-born American transplantation surgeon who leads the Division of Transplant Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and is Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Stefan H. E. Kaufmann

Stefan H. E. Kaufmann is a German immunologist and microbiologist known for research on immunity to tuberculosis and for developing the vaccine candidate VPM1002, tested through phase 3 trials.

Stefan H. Hohnloser

Stefan H. Hohnloser is a German cardiologist specializing in clinical electrophysiology, professor emeritus at University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, known for leading the ATHENA and RE-DUAL PCI trials.

Stefan Hell

Stefan Hell (Stefan Walter Hell, born 1962 in Arad, Romania) is a physicist who invented STED nanoscale microscopy, winning the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Stefan Heller

Stefan Heller is a sensory neuroscientist and hearing researcher who holds a professorship in otolaryngology at Stanford, working on hair cell regeneration and stem-cell treatments for hearing loss.

Stefan James

Stefan K. James is a Swedish interventional cardiologist, professor of cardiology at Uppsala University, and scientific director of Uppsala Clinical Research Center, known for large randomized myocardial infarction trials.

Stefan Jentsch

Stefan Jentsch (1955–2016) was a German molecular biologist who led the Molecular Cell Biology Department at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry from 1998 until his death.

Stefan Kiechl

Stefan Kiechl is an Austrian neurologist and physician-scientist who studies atherosclerosis, stroke, and vascular aging, directing neurology at the Medical University of Innsbruck since 2019.

Stefan Knapp

Stefan Knapp is a structural and chemical biologist, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2015, known for studies of protein kinases and bromodomains.

Stefan Laufer

Stefan Laufer (Stefan A. Laufer) is a German pharmaceutical and medicinal chemist who has held the pharmaceutical chemistry chair at the University of Tübingen since 1999, developing kinase inhibitors such as licofelone and skepinone-L.

Stefan Lohmander

Stefan Lohmander is a Swedish physician and orthopedic researcher, professor emeritus at Lund University, known for osteoarthritis research and for leading the 2010 ACL treatment trial.

Stefan Meuer

Stefan Meuer is a German physician and immunologist known for identifying the human T-cell antigen receptor and directing Heidelberg University Hospital's Institute of Immunology from 1995 to 2021.

Stefan Mundlos

Stefan Mundlos is a German human geneticist who directs the Institute of Medical Genetics at Charité Berlin and showed that changes in non-coding DNA far from genes can disturb gene regulation and cause rare skeletal disease.

Stefan Neubauer

Stefan Neubauer is a physician-scientist and Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford, where he directs the Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research.

Stefan Offermanns

Stefan Offermanns (born 1964 in Berlin) is a German pharmacologist who directs the Department of Pharmacology at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim.

Stefan Pfister

Stefan M. Pfister is a German pediatric neuro-oncologist and cancer genomicist who heads pediatric neurooncology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and won the 2023 Leibniz Prize.

Stefan Pöhlmann

Stefan Pöhlmann is a German virologist who heads the Infection Biology Unit at the German Primate Center in Göttingen, known for identifying how SARS-CoV-2 enters cells.

Stefan R. Bornstein

Stefan R. Bornstein, also known as Stefan Bornstein, is a German physician-scientist in diabetes and endocrinology who has chaired the diabetes department at TU Dresden since 2004.

Stefan Raunser

Stefan Raunser (born 1976 in Landau) is a German structural biologist who has directed the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund since 2014.