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Svante Pääbo

Svante Pääbo, Swedish geneticist and 2022 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, founder of paleogenomics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; sequenced the Neanderthal genome, discovered the Denisovans, and showed ~2% Neanderthal DNA in modern non-Africans.

Sven Cnattingius

Sven Cnattingius is a Swedish reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist and professor emeritus at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for large register-based studies of maternal smoking, snus, and obesity in pregnancy.

Sven Diederichs

Sven Diederichs is a German molecular biologist and professor at University Hospital Freiburg, known for discovering the long non-coding RNA MALAT1 and for work on microRNAs and FGFR mutations.

Sven Enerbäck

Sven Enerbäck is a Swedish molecular biologist and professor at the University of Gothenburg known for showing in 2009 that adults, like infants, carry active brown fat.

Sven Erik Jørgensen

Sven Erik Jørgensen was a Danish ecologist and chemist who founded the journal Ecological Modelling and won the 2004 Stockholm Water Prize for his work on ecosystems.

Sven-Eric Jordt

Sven-Eric Jordt is an American-based sensory neuroscientist and toxicologist, Professor of Anesthesiology at Duke University, known for identifying TRPA1 as the receptor for airway irritants like tear gas.

Svetlana Mojsov

Svetlana Mojsov, born 1947 in Skopje, is a Macedonian-born biochemist at Rockefeller University who identified GLP-1 as the incretin hormone stimulating insulin release, the basis of Ozempic and Wegovy.

Svyatoslav Fyodorov

Svyatoslav Fyodorov (Святослав Николаевич Фёдоров) was a Soviet and Russian ophthalmologist who pioneered radial keratotomy and artificial-lens implantation, and ran for president of Russia in 1996.

Swee Lay Thein

Swee Lay Thein is a Malaysian-born hematologist at the US National Institutes of Health whose work on fetal hemoglobin enabled CRISPR gene therapy for sickle cell disease.

Sydney Brenner

Sydney Brenner was a South African-born British molecular biologist at Cambridge who established messenger RNA, made the worm C. elegans a model organism, and shared the 2002 Nobel Prize.

Sydney E. Salmon

Sydney E. Salmon (1936–1999) was an American physician-scientist in hematology and oncology who founded the University of Arizona Cancer Center and co-created the Durie–Salmon staging system for multiple myeloma.

Sydney Kustu

Sydney Kustu (1943–2014) was an American bacterial geneticist at UC Berkeley who discovered the Ntr system of nitrogen regulation and showed that bacteria possess transcriptional enhancers.

Sydney M. Finegold

Sydney M. Finegold (1921–2018), known to colleagues as "Mr. Anaerobe," was an American clinical microbiologist at UCLA whose laboratory identified Clostridium difficile as the cause of pseudomembranous colitis.

Sydney S. Cash

Sydney S. Cash is an American neurologist and neuroscientist who studies epilepsy, sleep physiology, and brain-computer interfaces, and is Chief of Clinical Neurophysiology at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Sylvain Latour

Sylvain Latour is a French CNRS immunologist who directs a laboratory at Institut Imagine in Paris, known for identifying inborn errors of immunity to Epstein-Barr virus.

Sylvie Euvrard

Sylvie Euvrard is a French dermatologist at Hôpital Edouard Herriot in Lyon who led the 2003 NEJM review of skin cancers after organ transplantation and the 2012 TUMORAPA sirolimus trial.

T S Low-Beer

T S Low-Beer, born Thomas Stephen Low-Beer in Brno in 1932, was a British gastroenterologist at Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, known for research on bile salts and gallstones.

T. Alp İkizler

T. Alp İkizler (Talat Alp Ikizler) is a nephrologist directing nephrology and hypertension at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known for research on protein energy wasting in dialysis patients.

T. Bernard Kinane

T. Bernard Kinane, also known as Thomas Bernard Kinane, is a pediatric pulmonologist who has led the Pediatric Pulmonary Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital since 2000.

T. Conrad Gilliam

T. Conrad Gilliam is a human geneticist and Dean for Basic Science at the University of Chicago, known for mapping the Huntington's disease gene to chromosome 4.

T. Geoffrey Flynn

T. Geoffrey Flynn (born 1937) is a Canadian biochemist and Emeritus Professor at Queen's University who co-determined the first amino acid sequence of atrial natriuretic factor.

T. Jake Liang

T. Jake Liang (Tsanyang Jake Liang) is an NIH hepatologist and virologist who leads hepatitis B and C research at NIDDK and joined the National Academy of Medicine in 2016.

T. K. Sreepada Rao

T. K. Sreepada Rao is a nephrologist at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn who described heroin-associated kidney disease and was among the first to define the renal disease of AIDS.

T. Keith Blackwell

T. Keith Blackwell is a biologist at Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School who studies aging and stress responses in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, focusing on the transcription factor SKN-1.

T. Kent Kirk

T. Kent Kirk (1940–2025) was an American biochemist who discovered lignin peroxidase, founding lignin biodegradation research, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988.

T. Martin Embley

T. Martin Embley is an evolutionary molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor at Newcastle University whose work on mitochondrial evolution and eukaryotic origins reshaped the tree of life.

T.C. Northfield

T.C. Northfield, full name Timothy Clive Northfield (1935–2008), was a British gastroenterologist and professor of medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School in London, known for pioneering endoscopic laser therapy for bleeding peptic ulcers.

T.H. Tahirov

T.H. Tahirov, also known as Tahir H. Tahirov, is a structural biologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center known for crystal structures of DNA replication and transcription complexes.

T.L. Dormandy

T.L. Dormandy, born Thomas Dormandy in Budapest in 1926, was a Hungarian-born British chemical pathologist at London's Whittington Hospital who helped establish free-radical research and later wrote a history of tuberculosis.

T.L. Poulos

T.L. Poulos, also known as Thomas L. Poulos, is an American biochemist and Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine who solved the first cytochrome P450 crystal structure in 1985.