Life and health scientists

Stephen M. Davis

Stephen M. Davis is an Australian stroke neurologist, Professor of Translational Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne, known for the EXTEND-IA trials of thrombectomy and tenecteplase in acute stroke.

Stephen M. Krane

Stephen M. Krane (1927 to 2015) was an American rheumatologist and matrix biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who explained how collagen-degrading enzymes destroy joints in rheumatoid arthritis.

Stephen M. Plaza

Stephen M. Plaza is a computational neuroscientist and software engineering manager at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, known for reconstructing fruit fly neural circuits and developing segmentation algorithms.

Stephen M. Prescott

Stephen M. Prescott (1948–2021) was an American physician-scientist and lipid biochemist whose COX-2 research contributed to arthritis drugs; he led Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute and the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.

Stephen M. Shortell

Stephen M. Shortell is an American health services researcher and Dean Emeritus of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, serving as dean from 2002 to 2013.

Stephen M. Smith

Stephen M. Smith is an Oxford neuroscientist who co-founded the FSL brain MRI analysis software, led major parts of the Human Connectome Project, and leads UK Biobank's brain imaging.

Stephen MacMahon

Stephen MacMahon (S MacMahon) is an Australian cardiovascular physician-scientist and epidemiologist known for large-scale blood pressure studies and for co-founding The George Institute in Sydney in 1999.

Stephen Maren

Stephen Maren is an American neuroscientist known for research on the brain circuits of fear learning, extinction, and relapse. He directs the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Stephen Neidle

Stephen Neidle (born 1946) is a British chemical biologist and Emeritus Professor at the UCL School of Pharmacy known for establishing G-quadruplex DNA structures as targets for cancer drug discovery.

Stephen Nutt

Stephen Nutt, also published as Stephen L. Nutt, is an Australian immunologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, known for defining the roles of Pax5 and Blimp1.

Stephen O’Rahilly

Stephen O'Rahilly (born 1958) is an Irish-trained endocrinologist and physician-scientist at the University of Cambridge who established that mutations in single genes, including the leptin gene, cause severe obesity.

Stephen P. Bell

Stephen P. Bell is an American molecular biologist, the Whitaker Professor of Biology at MIT, who discovered the origin recognition complex that initiates eukaryotic DNA replication.

Stephen P. Fortmann

Stephen P. Fortmann is an American physician and cardiovascular epidemiologist at Stanford University who directed the Stanford Five-City Project and the Stanford Prevention Research Center.

Stephen P. Hubbell

Stephen P. Hubbell (born 1942) is an American ecologist, best known for the unified neutral theory of biodiversity and for founding the ForestGEO forest plot network.

Stephen P. Hunt

Stephen P. Hunt is a British neuroscientist and Professor of Molecular Neurobiology at University College London, known for research on the molecular biology of pain.

Stephen P. Long

Stephen P. Long (1950–2025) was a British crop scientist and plant physiologist who led the RIPE photosynthesis project and established Miscanthus as a bioenergy crop.

Stephen P. Peters

Stephen P. Peters is an American pulmonologist and asthma researcher who holds the Thomas H Davis Chair in Pulmonary Medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine.

Stephen P. Schoenberger

Stephen P. Schoenberger is a translational immunologist and professor at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, known for defining how helper T cells program killer T-cell immune memory.

Oct 10, 2026

Stephen Palumbi

Stephen Palumbi is an American marine biologist and conservation geneticist at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station, known for DNA forensics exposing whale-meat and seafood fraud.

Stephen Polasky

Stephen Polasky is an American environmental and ecological economist at the University of Minnesota who studies ecosystem services and biodiversity, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010.

Sep 19, 2026

Stephen Quake

Stephen Quake is a Stanford bioengineer and applied physicist whose lab pioneered microfluidic large-scale integration, single-molecule DNA sequencing, and the first non-invasive prenatal test for Down syndrome.

Stephen R. Bloom

Sir Stephen R. Bloom is a British endocrinologist at Imperial College London whose discovery of gut hormones' role in appetite led to GLP-1 drugs for diabetes and obesity.

Stephen R. Carpenter

Stephen R. Carpenter, born 1952, is an American limnologist and ecosystem ecologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for whole-lake experiments and the trophic cascade concept.

Stephen R. Durham

Stephen R. Durham is a British allergist and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London whose trials showed grass-pollen immunotherapy can stop after three years with lasting benefit.

Stephen R. Farmer

Stephen R. Farmer, also published as Stephen Farmer, is an American cell biologist and Professor of Biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine, known for work on adipocyte formation.

Stephen R. Holdsworth

Stephen R. Holdsworth, also known as Stephen Holdsworth, is an Australian clinician scientist at Monash University whose research established that macrophages and T cells drive glomerular injury in glomerulonephritis.

Stephen R. Palumbi

Stephen R. Palumbi is an American evolutionary biologist who directs Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

Stephen R. Sprang

Stephen R. Sprang, also known as S.R. Sprang, is an American structural biologist best known for determining the first crystal structure of a complete G protein heterotrimer in 1995.

Stephen S Lim

Stephen S Lim, also published as Stephen Lim, is a professor at the University of Washington's IHME, known for Global Burden of Disease risk-factor methods.