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Susan W. Liebman

Susan W. Liebman is a yeast geneticist and prion biologist, Distinguished University Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois Chicago and now a research professor at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Susan W. Tolle

Susan W. Tolle is an American physician and medical ethicist who directed OHSU's Center for Ethics in Health Care from 1989 to 2023 and led the POLST end-of-life program.

Susan Weiss

Susan R. Weiss is an American virologist and professor of microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania whose coronavirus research became a resource for SARS-CoV-2 studies after 2020.

Susana M. Coelho

Susana M. Coelho is a Portuguese evolutionary developmental biologist who uses brown algae to study multicellularity and sex determination, directing a department at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen since 2020.

Susana Magallón

Susana Magallón is a Mexican evolutionary biologist who studies the origin and diversification of flowering plants, directs UNAM's Institute of Biology, and joined the US National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Susanna C. Larsson

Susanna C. Larsson, also published as Susanna Larsson, is a Swedish nutritional and cardiovascular epidemiologist and professor at Karolinska Institutet known for large cohort studies of diet and disease risk.

Susanna M. Lewis

Susanna M. Lewis is an immunologist known for her work on V(D)J recombination, the DNA rearrangement that assembles antigen receptor genes in T and B cells.

Susanne Mandrup

Susanne Mandrup is a Danish molecular biologist and professor of biochemistry at the University of Southern Denmark who studies transcriptional networks regulating metabolism and adipocyte differentiation in obesity.

Susanne S. Renner

Susanne S. Renner is a German botanist who led the Munich Botanical Garden and herbaria from 2003 to 2020 and studies plant sexual systems and crop origins.

Susumu Hagiwara

Susumu Hagiwara (1922–1989) was a Japanese-born zoologist and physiologist, professor at UCLA and a National Academy of Sciences member, best remembered for his studies of calcium channels in excitable cells.

Susumu Nishimura

Susumu Nishimura (西村暹) was a Japanese biochemist at the National Cancer Center Research Institute in Tokyo known for queuosine and modified nucleosides in transfer RNA.

Susumu Ohno

Susumu Ohno (大野 進, 1928–2000) was a Japanese-born American geneticist who spent his career at City of Hope in California, studying sex chromosomes and evolution by gene duplication.

Susumu Seino

Susumu Seino (清野 進, 1948–2021) was a Japanese molecular physiologist at Kobe University who defined the β-cell KATP channel and discovered Epac2, winning the 2018 Japan Academy Prize.

Susumu Tonegawa

Susumu Tonegawa (利根川進, 1939–2026) was a Japanese neuroscientist who won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering antibody diversity, then studied learning and memory at MIT.

Suyun Huang

Suyun Huang is a cancer biologist and professor at VCU School of Medicine who studies how cancers spread to the brain and the RNA modification m6A in glioma.

Suzana Herculano-Houzel

Suzana Herculano-Houzel is a Brazilian neuroscientist who developed the isotropic fractionator, a method for counting brain cells, and used it to show the human brain has about 86 billion neurons.

Suzanne Adlof

Suzanne M. Adlof is a speech-language scientist and professor at the University of South Carolina known for research on developmental language disorder and dyslexia in children, and a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award recipient.

Suzanne C. Cannegieter

Suzanne C. Cannegieter is a Dutch clinical epidemiologist and professor at Leiden University Medical Center, known for a landmark 1995 study of anticoagulation in mechanical heart valve patients.

Suzanne Cory

Suzanne Cory, born in Melbourne in 1942, is an Australian molecular biologist known for work on oncogenes and cell death, and the first female director of WEHI.

Suzanne Eaton

Suzanne Eaton (1959–2019) was an American cell biologist who studied how cells form tissues in the fruit fly, leading a research group at MPI-CBG in Dresden.

Suzanne J. Baker

Suzanne J. Baker is a molecular biologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis who studies pediatric high-grade glioma and co-discovered histone H3 mutations in these brain tumors.

Suzanne L. Topalian

Suzanne L. Topalian is an American surgeon and physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University whose trials of PD-1-blocking antibodies helped establish checkpoint blockade for melanoma, lung, and kidney cancer.

Suzanne M. de la Monte

Suzanne M. de la Monte is an American neuropathologist and physician-scientist at Brown University and the Providence VA Medical Center, known for coining "Type 3 diabetes" in Alzheimer's research.

Suzanne Oparil

Suzanne Oparil is an American cardiologist and hypertension researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who led the UAB center of the SPRINT blood-pressure trial.

Suzanne P. Murphy

Suzanne P. Murphy is an American nutrition scientist and registered dietitian, an emeritus professor at the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2010.

Suzanne R. Pfeffer

Suzanne R. Pfeffer is an American cell biologist at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for her work on Rab GTPases, vesicle trafficking, and inherited Parkinson's disease.

Suzanne Schuh

Suzanne Schuh is a Canadian pediatric emergency medicine researcher at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, known for large multicenter trials including the 2018 PROGUT probiotic trial.

Suzanne W. Fletcher

Suzanne W. Fletcher is an American internist and clinical epidemiologist, Emerita professor at Harvard Medical School known for research on breast cancer screening benefits and harms.

Suzanne W. Simard

Suzanne W. Simard is a Canadian forest ecologist at the University of British Columbia whose 1997 carbon-tracing experiments launched the "wood wide web" research program.

Suzanne Walker

Suzanne Walker is an American biochemist at Harvard Medical School known for her work on bacterial cell wall assembly and the human enzyme O-GlcNAc transferase.