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Steven Laureys

Steven Laureys is a Belgian neurologist and consciousness researcher at the University of Liège who founded the Coma Science Group and won the 2017 Francqui Prize.

Steven M. Asch

Steven M. Asch is an American physician and health services researcher at Stanford and the Palo Alto VA, known for quality measurement research and receiving a 2004 Presidential Early Career Award.

Steven M. Block

Steven M. Block is a Stanford professor emeritus of applied physics and biology, a founder of single-molecule biophysics who pioneered optical tweezers for studying molecular motors, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007.

Steven M. Haffner

Steven M. Haffner is an American endocrinologist and diabetes epidemiologist at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, known for the San Antonio Heart Study.

Steven M. Holland

Steven M. Holland is an American physician-scientist at the National Institutes of Health who studies inherited immune defects predisposing patients to specific infections, and is an NIH Distinguished Investigator.

Steven M. Larson

Steven M. Larson (Steven Mark Larson) is an American nuclear medicine physician-scientist who led Memorial Sloan Kettering's PET program from 1988 to 2013 and pioneered FDG-PET cancer imaging and radioimmunotherapy.

Steven M. Opal

Steven M. Opal was an American infectious-diseases physician and sepsis researcher, professor of medicine at Brown University who published more than 200 articles and died in August 2024.

Steven M. Paul

Steven M. Paul, also known as Steven Paul, is an American neuroscientist who led NIMH research, ran Lilly Research Laboratories, and co-founded several biotech companies.

Steven M. Reppert

Steven M. Reppert is a chronobiologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology at UMass Chan Medical School, known for research on the monarch butterfly's time-compensated sun compass.

Steven M. Rowe

Steven M. Rowe is an American physician-scientist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who directs its cystic fibrosis research center and leads CFTR modulator trials.

Steven M. Sine

Steven M. Sine is a neuroscientist who leads the Receptor Biology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, studying how nicotinic acetylcholine receptors open their ion channels.

Steven M. Stanley

Steven M. Stanley is an American paleobiologist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, known for fossil-based tests supporting punctuated equilibrium, studies of mass extinction, and the textbook Earth System History.

Steven M. Strasberg

Steven M. Strasberg is a Canadian hepatobiliary-pancreatic surgeon at Washington University in St. Louis known for the Critical View of Safety and the Strasberg bile duct injury classification.

Steven M. Wolinsky

Steven M. Wolinsky is a physician and virologist who studies HIV-1 pathogenesis and host genetics, holding the Sackett Professorship of Infectious Diseases at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

Steven McCarroll

Steven A. McCarroll is a geneticist and neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute, known for Drop-Seq and the C4 gene link to schizophrenia.

Steven McKnight

Steven L. McKnight is an American biochemist at UT Southwestern Medical Center who identified the leucine zipper, showed that low-complexity protein domains organize cells, and won the 2025 Lasker Award.

Steven N. Goodman

Steven N. Goodman is an American physician, epidemiologist, and biostatistician, a Stanford professor since 2011 who co-founded METRICS and helped establish meta-research as a field.

Steven O. Marx

Steven O. Marx is an American cardiac electrophysiologist at Columbia University who studies ion channel regulation in arrhythmias and heart failure, and directs its cardiovascular fellowship program.

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. Gross

Steven P. Gross is an American biophysicist and professor of developmental and cell biology at UC Irvine who studies how cells move cargo along microtubules with molecular motors such as kinesin and dynein.

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 Schwaitzberg

Steven Schwaitzberg is an American surgeon known for minimally invasive surgery who chaired the Department of Surgery at the University at Buffalo from 2015 until 2026.

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.