Life and health scientists

Stephen S. Wachtel

Stephen S. Wachtel is an American geneticist whose 1975 and 1976 New England Journal of Medicine papers used the H-Y antigen to detect Y-chromosomal material in sex-reversed patients.

Stephen Shaw (immunologist)

Stephen Shaw is an immunologist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, known for establishing the adhesion molecule ICAM-1 as the ligand for LFA-1 in 1988.

Stephen G. Sligar is an American biochemist and biophysicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for inventing Nanodisc technology and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Stephen Smale

Stephen Smale, also known as Steve Smale, is an American mathematician born in 1930 who won the 1966 Fields Medal and created the Smale horseshoe model of chaos.

Stephen T. Crews

Stephen T. Crews is a molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for defining how the single-minded gene controls CNS midline development in Drosophila.

Stephen T. Emlen

Stephen T. Emlen is a Cornell University professor emeritus and authority on the evolution of vertebrate social behavior, especially birds, known for work on mating systems and animal families.

Stephen T. Holgate

Sir Stephen T. Holgate is a British physician-scientist, MRC Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology at the University of Southampton since 1987, known for asthma and air pollution research.

Stephen T. Mason

Stephen T. Mason is a behavioral neuroscientist who showed in Nature papers from 1975 that rats depleted of forebrain noradrenaline learn normally but respond abnormally to reward omission.

Stephen T. Reeders

Stephen T. Reeders is a geneticist and physician who in 1985 first mapped the gene for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease to chromosome 16, enabling diagnostic and prenatal tests.

Stephen T. Warren

Stephen T. Warren (1953–2021) was an American human geneticist who led the team that identified the FMR1 gene as the cause of fragile X syndrome in 1991.

Stephen V. Faraone

Stephen V. Faraone is a psychiatric geneticist known for research on ADHD genetics, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University and president of the World Federation of ADHD.

Stephen W. Barthold

Stephen W. Barthold is an American veterinary pathologist who studied Lyme disease in mice, helped develop the first Lyme vaccine, and led comparative medicine at UC Davis.

Stephen W. Michnick

Stephen W. Michnick is a Canadian biophysical chemist and professor at the Université de Montréal, known for originating protein-fragment complementation assays for measuring protein interactions in living cells.

Stephen W. Pacala

Stephen W. Pacala, also known as Stephen Pacala, is an American ecologist and climate scientist, Princeton professor emeritus, known for the 2004 Stabilization Wedges climate paper and carbon cycle modeling.

Stephen W. Ragsdale

Stephen W. Ragsdale is an American biological chemist at the University of Michigan known for his work on the nickel enzymes that make methane and fix carbon dioxide.

Stephen W. Scherer

Stephen W. Scherer is a Canadian human geneticist, Chief of Research at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, known for co-discovering genome-wide copy number variation and for his work on the genetics of autism.

Stephen W. Wilson

Stephen W. Wilson, known as Steve Wilson, is a developmental neurobiologist, Professor of Developmental Genetics at University College London who studies how the zebrafish forebrain and eyes develop.

Stephen Walter Ranson

Stephen Walter Ranson (1880–1942) was an American neuroanatomist and neurologist who mapped hypothalamic functions in cats and monkeys and directed Northwestern University's Institute of Neurology from 1928 until his death.

Stephen Zamenhof

Stephen Zamenhof (1911–1998) was a Polish-born American biochemist, nephew of the creator of Esperanto, who worked on nucleic acid chemistry and chemical mutagenesis at Columbia and UCLA.

Sterling C. Johnson

Sterling C. Johnson is an American clinical neuropsychologist and Alzheimer's researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for early detection work and validating the plasma p-tau217 blood test.

Sterling Emerson

Sterling Emerson was an American geneticist at Caltech known for his quantitative model of gene conversion; he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1970.

Stevan R. Hubbard

Stevan R. Hubbard is a structural biologist and adjunct professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, known for determining the crystal structure of the insulin receptor tyrosine kinase domain.

Steve A. Kay

Steve A. Kay, also published as Steve Kay, is a chronobiologist at the University of Southern California who studies circadian clocks in plants, mice, and human cells.

Steve E. Humphries

Steve E. Humphries is a British cardiovascular geneticist who was British Heart Foundation Professor at University College London from 1991 to 2015, known for work on familial hypercholesterolaemia genetics.

Steve Horvath

Steve Horvath is a German-born American biostatistician and aging researcher known for the epigenetic aging clock and the WGCNA method, and a UCLA professor from 2000 to 2022.

Steve P. Watson

Steve P. Watson is a British platelet biologist and Emeritus British Heart Foundation Professor at the University of Birmingham, known for establishing how the platelet collagen receptor GPVI signals.

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Steve Pascolo

Steve Pascolo, born 1970, is a French immunologist who co-founded CureVac in 2000, ran the first clinical trials of synthetic mRNA vaccines in humans, and later worked in Zurich.

Steve R. Ommen

Steve R. Ommen is an American cardiologist at Mayo Clinic who directs its Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic and chaired the 2020 AHA/ACC guideline for the condition.

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Steve Ramirez

Steve Ramirez, born 1988, is an American neuroscientist at Boston University whose lab artificially modulates memories in mice, best known for implanting a false memory in 2013.