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Suchitra Nelson

Suchitra Nelson is an American epidemiologist, Professor and Associate Dean at Case Western Reserve University's School of Dental Medicine, and a 2007 PECASE award recipient.

Sudha Seshadri

Sudha Seshadri is a behavioral neurologist and founding director of the Glenn Biggs Institute at UT Health San Antonio, and a senior investigator at the Framingham Heart Study.

Sudhansu K. Dey

Sudhansu K. Dey is an American reproductive biologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, known for a landmark 1997 Cell paper showing COX-2 is essential for embryo implantation.

Sudhir Kumar

Sudhir Kumar is an American computational evolutionary biologist, founding director of Temple University's Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine, best known for the MEGA software and TimeTree database.

Sudhir V. Shah

Sudhir V. Shah, also published as Sudhir Shah and S. V. Shah, is an American nephrologist who led the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences nephrology division from 1990 to 2015.

Sue Biggins

Sue Biggins is an American cell biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center who studies the kinetochore and led the first isolation of kinetochores from yeast.

Sue Black (Scottish anatomist)

Sue Black, Baroness Black of Strome, is a Scottish forensic anthropologist who led mass-grave identification in Kosovo and built a hand-identification system convicting child abusers.

Sue Goo Rhee

Sue Goo Rhee is a Korean-born biochemist known for isolating the phospholipase C isozymes, discovering peroxiredoxins, and showing that hydrogen peroxide acts as an intracellular messenger.

Sue Hartley

Sue Hartley is a British ecologist at the University of Sheffield known for research on silicon-based plant defenses and the 2009 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

Sue J. Goldie

Sue J. Goldie, full name Susanne Goldie, is an American physician and Harvard professor who models the health benefits and costs of disease prevention strategies.

Sue K. Donaldson

Sue K. Donaldson, also known as Sue Karen Donaldson, is an American nurse scientist who was dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing from 1994 to 2001.

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh is an American primatologist best known for her studies of language and cognition in bonobos, above all Kanzi, who acquired spoken-English comprehension and lexigram symbols.

Sue Wickner

Sue Wickner is an American molecular biologist at the NIH who studies ATP-dependent molecular chaperones and proteases, the cellular machines that fold and degrade proteins.

Suliana Manley

Suliana Manley is an American biophysicist and full professor at EPFL who heads the Laboratory of Experimental Biophysics, developing smart and super-resolution microscopy to study the mitochondrial life cycle.

Sumanta K. Pal

Sumanta K. Pal, known as Monty Pal, is an American medical oncologist specializing in kidney cancer who co-directs the Kidney Cancer Program at City of Hope in California.

Sumiko Inouye

Sumiko Inouye is a molecular biologist and biochemist at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, New Jersey, known for her work on bacterial msDNA, discovered in 1984.

Sumit K. Chanda

Sumit K. Chanda is an immunologist and virologist who studies how human cells and viruses interact, and has been Professor of Immunology and Microbiology at Scripps Research since 2021.

Sun Hur

Sun Hur is a Korean-born structural biologist and immunologist at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital who studies how the immune system distinguishes self from non-self RNA.

Sunao Tawara

Sunao Tawara (田原淳), 1873 to 1952, was a Japanese pathologist at Kyushu University who discovered the AV node and mapped the heart's conduction system in his 1906 monograph.

Sundar Jagannath

Sundar Jagannath is a hematologist-oncologist and multiple myeloma specialist who is Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and led the STORM trial of selinexor.

Sundeep Khosla

Sundeep Khosla is an American endocrinologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who studies age-related bone loss and leads its Osteoporosis and Bone Biology Laboratory.

Sune K. Bergström

Sune K. Bergström (1916–2004) was a Swedish biochemist who shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for isolating prostaglandins and determining their chemical structures.

Sune Kvist

Sune Kvist is an immunologist and molecular biologist known for his 1985 Cell paper showing that an adenovirus type 2 glycoprotein blocks MHC class I expression at the cell surface.

Sunetra Gupta

Sunetra Gupta is a Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, known for modeling pathogen strains and for co-authoring the Great Barrington Declaration.

Sung Wan Kim

Sung Wan Kim (1940–2020) was a Korean-born American pharmaceutics scientist at the University of Utah, a pioneer of controlled drug delivery elected to both national academies.

Sung‐Hou Kim

Sung-Hou Kim (김성호), born 1937, is a Korean-American structural biologist at UC Berkeley known for crystal structures of transfer RNA and the Ras cancer protein.

Sunil K. Ahuja

Sunil K. Ahuja is a physician-scientist and professor at UT Health San Antonio known for research on how CCL3L1 and CCR5 genes shape HIV-1 susceptibility and AIDS progression.

Sunil R. Hingorani

Sunil R. Hingorani is an American medical oncologist and cancer biologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center known for the KPC mouse model of pancreatic cancer.

Sunil Sazawal

Sunil Sazawal is a physician and public-health researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health known for large community trials of zinc and iron supplementation in children.

Sunney I. Chan

Sunney I. Chan (1936–2025) was an American chemist and biophysicist, a Caltech professor who later led Academia Sinica in Taiwan and established the tricopper-cluster mechanism of methane oxidation.