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Stephen Brusatte

Stephen L. Brusatte is an American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist who holds a chair at the University of Edinburgh, specializing in dinosaur evolution and the origin of birds.

Stephen Buratowski

Stephen Buratowski, born in 1962, is an American biochemist and Hamilton Kuhn Professor at Harvard Medical School known for the "CTD code" linking RNA polymerase II phosphorylation to mRNA processing.

Stephen Burgess

Stephen Burgess is a statistician at the University of Cambridge known for methods for Mendelian randomization, which uses genetic variants to test causal risk factors.

Stephen Busby

Stephen Busby, also known as Stephen J. W. Busby, is a British biochemist and Professor at the University of Birmingham known for work on transcription regulation in Escherichia coli.

Stephen C. Blacklow

Stephen C. Blacklow is a structural biologist who chairs Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School and a Dana-Farber member, known for Notch signaling and ADAM10 structures.

Stephen C. Jameson

Stephen C. Jameson is an American immunologist and Harry Kay Chair at the University of Minnesota who studies CD8+ T cell homeostasis and memory, and was AAI president from 2024.

Stephen C. Kowalczykowski

Stephen C. Kowalczykowski is a biochemist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis, known for defining how RecBCD loads RecA onto DNA and for single-molecule "visual biochemistry".

Stephen C. Lazarus

Stephen C. Lazarus is an American pulmonary physician-scientist and UCSF professor emeritus known for large asthma and COPD trials, including the 2019 mometasone versus tiotropium study and the STATCOPE trial.

Stephen C. Textor

Stephen C. Textor (1948–2024) was an American nephrologist and hypertension specialist who joined Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1988 and studied renovascular hypertension and ischemic nephropathy.

Stephen C. West

Stephen C. West is a British biochemist who leads the DNA Recombination and Repair Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute, known for discovering the RuvC and GEN1 Holliday junction resolvases.

Stephen C. Woods

Stephen C. Woods, also published as S.C. Woods, is a neuroscientist at the University of Cincinnati who showed in 1979 that brain insulin reduces food intake.

Stephen Chanock

Stephen J. Chanock is an American physician-scientist and cancer geneticist who has directed the National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics since 2013.

Stephen D. Bell

Stephen D. Bell is a Scottish molecular biologist who studies how archaea organize and duplicate their chromosomes, and has been a professor at The Ohio State University since 2024.

Stephen D. Liberles

Stephen D. Liberles is a neuroscientist, Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, known for mapping vagus nerve sensory neurons.

Stephen D. Nimer

Stephen D. Nimer is an American physician-scientist who studies leukemia and blood formation and has directed the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in Miami since 2012.

Stephen D. Roper

Stephen D. Roper, also published as Stephen Roper, is a neuroscientist at the University of Miami known for establishing ATP as the main transmitter linking taste cells to nerves.

Stephen D. Silberstein

Stephen D. Silberstein is an American neurologist and headache-medicine specialist who directed the Jefferson Headache Center in Philadelphia, led the fremanezumab HALO trial, and won the American Headache Society's 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Stephen D. Wiviott

Stephen D. Wiviott is an American cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor who led the TRITON-TIMI 38 and DECLARE-TIMI 58 trials at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Stephen Desiderio

Stephen V. Desiderio is an immunologist and Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University, known for work on V(D)J recombination and RAG proteins.

Stephen DiNardo

Stephen DiNardo is an American molecular and developmental biologist, emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for work on engrailed, hedgehog, and Drosophila stem cell niches.

Stephen Doxsey

Stephen J. Doxsey (1955–2025) was an American cell biologist and professor at UMass Chan Medical School who identified pericentrin and opened up centrosome biology as a molecular field.

Stephen E. Girardin

Stephen E. Girardin is an immunologist and microbiologist at the University of Toronto, best known for showing that the intracellular sensors Nod1 and Nod2 recognize bacterial peptidoglycan fragments.

Stephen E. Malawista

Stephen E. Malawista (1934–2013) was an American rheumatologist, professor of medicine at Yale, and co-discoverer of Lyme disease, whose 1983 paper established its spirochete cause.

Stephen E. Sallan

Stephen E. Sallan is a pediatric oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School whose ALL treatment protocols helped raise childhood leukemia survival from below 20 percent to about 90 percent.

Stephen E. Straus

Stephen E. Straus (1946–2007) was an American virologist and immunologist at NIH who discovered autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome and directed the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Stephen Elledge

Stephen J. Elledge, born 1956, is an American geneticist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital who mapped the DNA damage response and created the VirScan blood test.

Stephen F. Altschul

Stephen F. Altschul is a computational biologist known for the BLAST family of sequence search programs and their statistical theory, long at NCBI, retiring in 2020.

Stephen F. Badylak

Stephen F. Badylak is a physician-scientist in regenerative medicine at the University of Pittsburgh whose laboratory developed extracellular matrix bioscaffolds that have treated more than 13 million patients.

Stephen F. Heinemann

Stephen F. Heinemann (1939–2014) was an American molecular neuroscientist at the Salk Institute who identified the genes encoding the brain's major excitatory neurotransmitter receptors activated by glutamate and acetylcholine.

Stephen F. Kingsmore

Stephen F. Kingsmore, also known as Stephen Kingsmore, is a geneticist who developed rapid whole-genome sequencing of critically ill newborns and served as president and CEO of the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine.