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Stephan Grill

Stephan W. Grill, born 1974 in Heidelberg, is a German biophysicist and director at MPI-CBG Dresden known for discovering how the actomyosin cortex generates forces and torques that shape embryos.

Stephan Gruber

Stephan Gruber is a molecular biologist and associate professor at the University of Lausanne, known for the 2003 discovery that cohesin forms a ring around sister chromatids.

Stephan Grzesiek

Stephan Grzesiek is a Swiss structural biologist and NMR spectroscopist who was Professor of Structural Biology at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, from 1999 until his retirement in 2025.

Stephan Herzig

Stephan Herzig is a German metabolic physiologist, director of the Helmholtz Diabetes Center and Institute for Diabetes and Cancer in Munich, known for work on fasting metabolism.

Stephan J. Guyenet

Stephan J. Guyenet is an obesity researcher and health writer who studies how the brain regulates body fat, wrote The Hungry Brain in 2017, and debated Gary Taubes in 2019.

Stephan J. Sigrist

Stephan J. Sigrist, born 1967 in Freiburg, is a German molecular neuroscientist and professor at Freie Universität Berlin who studies how presynaptic active zones organize neurotransmitter release.

Stephan R. Targan

Stephan R. Targan is a gastroenterologist and immunologist at Cedars-Sinai who established TNF's role in Crohn's disease and led the 1997 infliximab trial, the first biologic therapy for inflammatory bowel disease.

Stephan Saalfeld

Stephan Saalfeld is a computer scientist and Senior Group Leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, a founding developer of ImgLib2 and contributor to Fiji and ImageJ.

Stephan Stilgenbauer

Stephan Stilgenbauer, born 1966, is a German hematologist-oncologist known for defining the prognostic role of genomic aberrations in CLL and leading pivotal venetoclax trials as head of the Comprehensive Cancer Center Ulm.

Stephan Windecker

Stephan Windecker is a Swiss interventional cardiologist who directs the University Clinic of Cardiology at Bern's Inselspital, leads randomized stent and antithrombotic trials, and holds senior European Society of Cardiology roles.

Stéphane H. R. Oliet

Stéphane H. R. Oliet is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist at the Neurocentre Magendie in Bordeaux, known for showing that astrocyte-derived D-serine controls NMDA receptors and synaptic plasticity.

Stéphane Noselli

Stéphane Noselli is a French developmental geneticist and CNRS Research Director in Nice, known for discovering how the myosin 1D gene controls left–right asymmetry in Drosophila.

Stephanie A. Amiel

Stephanie A. Amiel, also known as Stephanie Amiel, is a British physician-scientist and Emeritus Professor of Diabetes Research at King's College London, known for hypoglycaemia research and co-creating DAFNE.

Stephanie B. Seminara

Stephanie B. Seminara is a reproductive endocrinologist who is Chief of the Reproductive Endocrine Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Harvard Medical School professor.

Stephanie C. Eisenbarth

Stephanie C. Eisenbarth is an American physician-scientist in allergy and immunology who directs the Center for Human Immunobiology and serves as Chief of Allergy and Immunology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Stéphanie Debette

Stéphanie Debette, born 1976, is a French vascular neurologist and genetic epidemiologist known for research on the genetics of stroke and cerebral small vessel disease.

Stephanie J. Lee

Stephanie J. Lee, also known as Stephanie Lee, is an American hematologist at Fred Hutch Cancer Center known for research on chronic graft-versus-host disease and transplant survivorship.

Stephanie J. Schrag

Stephanie J. Schrag is an epidemiologist who led the CDC's Respiratory Diseases Branch epidemiology team, overseeing group B streptococcal prevention from 2000 and shaping the 2002 national prenatal screening guidelines.

Stéphanie P. Lacour

Stéphanie P. Lacour is an electrical engineer and full professor at EPFL in Lausanne, known for soft, stretchable implantable neural interfaces, notably the electronic dura mater described in Science in 2015.

Stephen A. Harrison

Stephen A. Harrison (1969–2024) was an American hepatologist who retired from the Army as a Colonel, led the trials behind the first FDA-approved MASH drug, and died at 55.

Stephen A. Liebhaber

Stephen A. Liebhaber is an American geneticist and Emeritus Professor of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania, known for work on alpha-globin genes and messenger RNA stability.

Stephen A. Osmani

Stephen A. Osmani is a cell biologist and fungal geneticist at Ohio State University known for discovering NIMA, the founding member of the Nek kinase family.

Stephen A. Spector

Stephen A. Spector is an American pediatric infectious diseases physician-scientist at UC San Diego who led trials that cut mother-to-child HIV transmission from 25% to under 2%.

Stephen Albert Johnston

Stephen Albert Johnston is an American molecular biologist who directs the Center for Innovations in Medicine at Arizona State University, known for immunosignaturing and cancer vaccine research.

Stephen Alfred Forbes

Stephen Alfred Forbes (1844–1930) was an American entomologist and ecologist whose 1887 lecture "The Lake as a Microcosm" is counted among the founding documents of American ecology.

Stephen Archer

Stephen L. Archer is a Canadian cardiologist and physician-scientist at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, known for research on oxygen sensing and mitochondrial dynamics in pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Stephen B. Baylin

Stephen B. Baylin is an American physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University who pioneered cancer epigenetics, showing that promoter DNA hypermethylation can silence tumor suppressor genes in cancer.

Stephen B. Freedman

Stephen B. Freedman is a Canadian pediatric emergency physician and professor at the University of Calgary, known for large New England Journal of Medicine trials on treating children's gastroenteritis.

Stephen B. H. Kent

Stephen B. H. Kent, born 1945, is a University of Chicago chemist who pioneered total chemical synthesis of proteins and invented native chemical ligation, making such synthesis practical.

Stephen B. Hanauer

Stephen B. Hanauer is an American gastroenterologist specializing in inflammatory bowel disease who joined Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine on January 1, 2014.