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Stephen E. Sallan

Stephen E. Sallan is a pediatric oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School whose ALL treatment protocols helped raise childhood leukemia survival from below 20 percent to about 90 percent.

Stephen E. Straus

Stephen E. Straus (1946–2007) was an American virologist and immunologist at NIH who discovered autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome and directed the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Stephen Elledge

Stephen J. Elledge, born 1956, is an American geneticist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital who mapped the DNA damage response and created the VirScan blood test.

Stephen F. Altschul

Stephen F. Altschul is a computational biologist known for the BLAST family of sequence search programs and their statistical theory, long at NCBI, retiring in 2020.

Stephen F. Badylak

Stephen F. Badylak is a physician-scientist in regenerative medicine at the University of Pittsburgh whose laboratory developed extracellular matrix bioscaffolds that have treated more than 13 million patients.

Stephen F. Heinemann

Stephen F. Heinemann (1939–2014) was an American molecular neuroscientist at the Salk Institute who identified the genes encoding the brain's major excitatory neurotransmitter receptors activated by glutamate and acetylcholine.

Stephen F. Kingsmore

Stephen F. Kingsmore, also known as Stephen Kingsmore, is a geneticist who developed rapid whole-genome sequencing of critically ill newborns and served as president and CEO of the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine.

Stephen F. Traynelis

Stephen F. Traynelis is an American pharmacologist and professor at Emory University School of Medicine known for his work on the biophysics and pharmacology of glutamate receptors.

Stephen F. Vatner

Stephen F. Vatner is an American cardiovascular physiologist who argued in 1975 for studying conscious animals, helped discover myocardial stunning, and chaired cell biology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Stephen Feinstone

Stephen M. Feinstone, born 1944, is an American virologist who first visualized the hepatitis A virus in 1973 and later helped develop the first licensed hepatitis A vaccines.

Stephen Fesik

Stephen W. Fesik is a biochemist and cancer researcher at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, best known for developing SAR by NMR, a foundation of fragment-based drug discovery.

Stephen Francis Traynelis

Stephen Francis Traynelis is an American pharmacologist at Emory University who studies glutamate receptor ion channels and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2025.

Stephen Franks

Stephen Franks is a British reproductive endocrinologist and Emeritus Professor of Reproductive Endocrinology at Imperial College London, described by the Academy of Medical Sciences as the world authority on polycystic ovary syndrome.

Stephen G. Ellis

Stephen G. Ellis is an American interventional cardiologist who directs interventional cardiology at Cleveland Clinic and led randomized coronary stent trials including FINESSE and ABSORB III.

Stephen G. Lisberger

Stephen G. Lisberger is an American systems neuroscientist at Duke University who studies smooth pursuit eye movements and cerebellar motor learning, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Stephen G. Oliver

Stephen G. Oliver is a molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor of Systems Biology at the University of Cambridge, known for yeast functional genomics and systems biology.

Stephen G. Pauker

Stephen G. Pauker (1942–2024) was an American physician and medical decision scientist who spent over 50 years at Tufts, founding the field of medical decision making.

Stephen G. Waxman

Stephen G. Waxman is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Yale University who chaired its neurology department from 1986 to 2009 and identified sodium channels as the molecular basis of inherited pain disorders.

Stephen G. Young

Stephen G. Young (born 1952) is an American physician-scientist at UCLA whose research covers triglyceride metabolism and nuclear envelope diseases, including his discovery of the endothelial protein GPIHBP1.

Stephen Goff

Stephen Goff is an American virologist at Columbia University known for genetic analysis of retrovirus replication and for showing that clam leukemia spreads as a transmissible cancer.

Stephen H. Bryant

Stephen H. Bryant is a computational biologist and Senior Investigator at NCBI, NIH, known for PubChem and the Conserved Domain Database, and a 2016 Herman Skolnik Award recipient.

Stephen H. Embury

Stephen H. Embury is an American hematologist and physician-scientist who joined UCSF in 1977, known for research on the molecular genetics of sickle cell disease and thalassemia and for founding Vanguard Therapeutics.

Stephen H. Friend

Stephen H. Friend is a clinician-scientist who led the team that cloned the first human cancer susceptibility gene, founded Sage Bionetworks, worked at Apple on digital health, and co-founded 4YouandMe.

Stephen H. Howell

Stephen H. Howell is an American plant molecular biologist at Iowa State University known for introducing recombinant DNA into plants and for work on plant stress responses.

Stephen H. Hughes

Stephen H. Hughes is an American virologist known for structural work on HIV reverse transcriptase and for showing that HIV-infected cells persist by clonal expansion.

Stephen H. Leppla

Stephen H. Leppla is an American bacterial toxin biologist who is Chief of the Microbial Pathogenesis Section at NIAID in Bethesda, Maryland, studying anthrax toxin.

Stephen H. Robinson

Stephen H. Robinson (died 1998) was an American hematologist at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital, known for work on heme metabolism, bilirubin formation, and the porphyrias.

Stephen H. Scott

Stephen H. Scott is a neuroscientist at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, known for research on voluntary motor control, who invented the KINARM robotic system in 1998.

Stephen H. Zinner

Stephen H. Zinner is an American infectious disease physician and pharmacology researcher, Charles S. Davidson Distinguished Professor at Mount Auburn Hospital and a Harvard Medical School professor since 1999.

Stephen Harrison (structural biologist)

Stephen Harrison, also known as Stephen C. Harrison, is an American structural biologist at Harvard Medical School who pioneered high-resolution virus crystallography, beginning with tomato bushy stunt virus in 1978.