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Steven P. Balk

Steven P. Balk is a physician-scientist and Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, known for research on prostate cancer and the androgen receptor.

Steven P. Briggs

Steven P. Briggs is an American plant geneticist who studies disease resistance and heterosis, is Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2000.

Steven P. Treon

Steven P. Treon is an American hematologist-oncologist who directs the Bing Center for Waldenström's Macroglobulinemia Research at Dana-Farber and is a Harvard Medical School professor of medicine.

Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker (born 1954, Montreal), also known for The Language Instinct and Better Angels, is a Harvard cognitive psychologist researching language, verbs, common knowledge, and violence, and author of thirteen books including Enlightenment Now (2018).

Steven R. Cummings

Steven R. Cummings is an American epidemiologist who studies osteoporosis and aging, led the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures and the FREEDOM denosumab trial, and is a UCSF professor emeritus.

Steven Reilly

Steven Reilly is an American geneticist and assistant professor of genetics at Yale School of Medicine who studies cis-regulatory elements, the DNA that controls gene activity.

Steven Rose

Steven Rose (1938–2025) was a British neurobiologist who spent his career searching for the molecular traces of memory in chick brains while campaigning against genetic determinism.

Steven Rosenberg

Steven Rosenberg is an American surgeon and cancer researcher who has led the National Cancer Institute's Surgery Branch since 1974, pioneering IL-2, TIL, and CAR T-cell immunotherapies for cancer.

Steven Salzberg

Steven L. Salzberg is a computational biologist at Johns Hopkins University, known for developing the widely used genome-sequencing software tools Bowtie, HISAT, and StringTie, and for contributing to the first draft human genome sequence.

Steven T. DeKosky

Steven T. DeKosky is an American neurologist and Alzheimer's disease researcher at the University of Florida, known for synaptic-loss studies and amyloid PET imaging trials.

Steven T. Kosak

Steven T. Kosak is an American cell biologist and assistant professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine who received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2012.

Steven W. J. Lamberts

Steven W. J. Lamberts, born 1944, is a Dutch endocrinologist at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, known for introducing long-acting somatostatin analog therapy for acromegaly.

Steven W. Pipe

Steven W. Pipe (Steven Wesley Pipe) is an American pediatric hematologist at the University of Michigan known for leading pivotal gene therapy trials in hemophilia.

Steven W. Running

Steven W. Running is an American ecologist at the University of Montana who leads NASA's MODIS land productivity work and shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Steven Warach

Steven Warach is an American vascular neurologist, professor at Dell Medical School and stroke director for Ascension Texas, known for introducing diffusion-weighted MRI into acute stroke diagnosis.

Stevo Julius

Stevo Julius (1929–2025) was a Croatian-born American physician-scientist who spent six decades at the University of Michigan, known for defining borderline hypertension and leading major hypertension trials.

Steward Pickett

Steward Pickett is an American plant and urban ecologist, Distinguished Senior Scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, known for forest succession research and founding the Baltimore Ecosystem Study.

Stewart H. Clifford

Stewart H. Clifford was an American pediatrician at Harvard and Boston Children's Hospital who described the postmaturity syndrome known as Clifford's syndrome and led the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1958.

Stewart Shuman

Stewart Shuman is an American molecular biologist at the Sloan Kettering Institute, known for work on RNA and DNA ligases, mRNA capping enzymology, and the RNA polymerase II CTD code.

Stewart T. Cole

Stewart Thomas Cole is a British mycobacterial geneticist known for his pioneering research on M. tuberculosis genomics and his tenure as President of the Institut Pasteur from 2018.

Struther Arnott

Struther Arnott (1934–2013) was a Scottish molecular biologist and X-ray crystallographer who determined DNA, RNA, and carbohydrate structures, developed linked-atom least-squares refinement, and served as Principal of the University of St Andrews.

Stuart A. Aaronson

Stuart A. Aaronson, born 1942, is an American cancer biologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai whose oncogene discoveries underlie the drug Herceptin.

Stuart A. Lipton

Stuart A. Lipton, also known as Stuart Lipton, is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Scripps Research in San Diego, known for the Alzheimer's drug memantine's mechanism.

Stuart A. West

Stuart A. West, also published as Stuart West, is an evolutionary biologist and Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Oxford, known for work on social evolution.

Stuart Altman

Stuart Altman (1937–2026) was an American health economist who chaired federal ProPAC from 1984 to 1996 and was the inaugural chair of the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission.

Stuart B. Levy

Stuart B. Levy (1938–2019) was an American physician and microbiologist at Tufts University who showed that antibiotic use in farm animals spreads resistant bacteria to people.

Stuart C. Finch

Stuart C. Finch was an American hematologist at Yale University School of Medicine whose research ranged from leukemia and lupus to radiation-induced leukemia and sickle-cell trait.

Stuart C. Sealfon

Stuart C. Sealfon, also known as Stuart Sealfon, is a physician-scientist in neurology and pharmacology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

Stuart Cull-Candy

Stuart Cull-Candy is a British neuroscientist at University College London who pioneered patch-clamp studies of glutamate receptors and was elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2002.

Stuart Firestein

Stuart J. Firestein is an American neuroscientist at Columbia University who studies olfaction, gave the first functional evidence that cloned odorant receptor genes encode odor receptors, and wrote Ignorance and Failure.