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Steven J. Luck

Steven J. Luck is an American cognitive neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UC Davis since 2016, known for research on attention, working memory, and ERP methods.

Steven J.D. Karlish

Steven J.D. Karlish is an Israeli biochemist and emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for research on the Na,K-ATPase sodium pump.

Steven J.M. Jones

Steven J.M. Jones, also known as Steven Jones, is a Canadian molecular biologist and bioinformatician who leads bioinformatics at BC Cancer's Genome Sciences Centre and assembled the SARS coronavirus genome in 2003.

Steven Jacobsen

Steven E. Jacobsen is an American plant biologist and geneticist at UCLA, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator known for pioneering epigenetic gene silencing research in plants.

Steven Jacobson

Steven Jacobson is an American viroimmunologist who joined NIH in 1981 and leads the Viral Immunology Section at NINDS, known for his 1997 work linking HHV-6 to multiple sclerosis.

Steven Josefowicz

Steven Zvi Josefowicz is an American immunologist and epigeneticist, an Associate Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine known for regulatory T-cell research who received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.

Steven K. Beckendorf

Steven K. Beckendorf is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for his research on Drosophila salivary gland glue protein genes.

Steven Kleinman

Steven H. Kleinman is a Canadian physician-researcher in transfusion medicine, Clinical Professor of Pathology at the University of British Columbia, who studies the risk that HIV and other pathogens spread through blood transfusion.

Steven L. Gortmaker

Steven L. Gortmaker, born 1949, is an American sociologist and emeritus professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health known for childhood obesity research.

Steven L. Regen

Steven L. Regen is an American chemist who worked at Marquette University and then Lehigh University, where he studied lipid membranes, cholesterol's structural role, and drug delivery.

Steven L. Reiner

Steven L. Reiner is an immunologist and Charles H. Revson Professor at Columbia University, known for T-bet, eomesodermin's control of CD8 T cells, and asymmetric lymphocyte division.

Steven L. Teitelbaum

Steven L. Teitelbaum was an American bone biologist and pathologist at Washington University in St. Louis who won the 2019 King Faisal International Prize for clarifying how osteoclasts resorb bone.

Steven Laureys

Steven Laureys is a Belgian neurologist and consciousness researcher at the University of Liège who founded the Coma Science Group and won the 2017 Francqui Prize.

Steven M. Asch

Steven M. Asch is an American physician and health services researcher at Stanford and the Palo Alto VA, known for quality measurement research and receiving a 2004 Presidential Early Career Award.

Steven M. Block

Steven M. Block is a Stanford professor emeritus of applied physics and biology, a founder of single-molecule biophysics who pioneered optical tweezers for studying molecular motors, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007.

Steven M. Haffner

Steven M. Haffner is an American endocrinologist and diabetes epidemiologist at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, known for the San Antonio Heart Study.

Steven M. Holland

Steven M. Holland is an American physician-scientist at the National Institutes of Health who studies inherited immune defects predisposing patients to specific infections, and is an NIH Distinguished Investigator.

Steven M. Larson

Steven M. Larson (Steven Mark Larson) is an American nuclear medicine physician-scientist who led Memorial Sloan Kettering's PET program from 1988 to 2013 and pioneered FDG-PET cancer imaging and radioimmunotherapy.

Steven M. Opal

Steven M. Opal was an American infectious-diseases physician and sepsis researcher, professor of medicine at Brown University who published more than 200 articles and died in August 2024.

Steven M. Paul

Steven M. Paul, also known as Steven Paul, is an American neuroscientist who led NIMH research, ran Lilly Research Laboratories, and co-founded several biotech companies.

Steven M. Reppert

Steven M. Reppert is a chronobiologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology at UMass Chan Medical School, known for research on the monarch butterfly's time-compensated sun compass.

Steven M. Rowe

Steven M. Rowe is an American physician-scientist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who directs its cystic fibrosis research center and leads CFTR modulator trials.

Steven M. Sine

Steven M. Sine is a neuroscientist who leads the Receptor Biology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, studying how nicotinic acetylcholine receptors open their ion channels.

Steven M. Stanley

Steven M. Stanley is an American paleobiologist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, known for fossil-based tests supporting punctuated equilibrium, studies of mass extinction, and the textbook Earth System History.

Steven M. Strasberg

Steven M. Strasberg is a Canadian hepatobiliary-pancreatic surgeon at Washington University in St. Louis known for the Critical View of Safety and the Strasberg bile duct injury classification.

Steven M. Wolinsky

Steven M. Wolinsky is a physician and virologist who studies HIV-1 pathogenesis and host genetics, holding the Sackett Professorship of Infectious Diseases at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

Steven McCarroll

Steven A. McCarroll is a geneticist and neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute, known for Drop-Seq and the C4 gene link to schizophrenia.

Steven McKnight

Steven L. McKnight is an American biochemist at UT Southwestern Medical Center who identified the leucine zipper, showed that low-complexity protein domains organize cells, and won the 2025 Lasker Award.

Steven N. Goodman

Steven N. Goodman is an American physician, epidemiologist, and biostatistician, a Stanford professor since 2011 who co-founded METRICS and helped establish meta-research as a field.

Steven O. Marx

Steven O. Marx is an American cardiac electrophysiologist at Columbia University who studies ion channel regulation in arrhythmias and heart failure, and directs its cardiovascular fellowship program.