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Dr. Bernardo Sabatini	Ph.D., M.D.	Associate Professor of Neurobiology	HMS	NSCI		The role of dendritic protein translation in the modification of synapses.
Dr. David Sachs	M.D.	Paul S. Russell/Warner Lambert Professor of Surgery	MGH/E	IMM		Transplantation, xenotransplantation, immunogenetics and tolerance.
Dr. Manish Sagar	M.D.	Assistant Professor of Medicine	BWH	BBS	VIR	Pathogenesis of HIV-1 transmission
Dr. Mustafa Sahin	M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Neurology	CH	BBS		Cellular mechanism(s) of axon guidance
Dr. Adrian Salic	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor on Cell Biology	HMS	BBS		Mechanisms of Vertebrate Hedgehog Signaling
Dr. Joshua Sanes	Ph.D.	Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology	HU-Camb	NSCI	BBS	Cellular and Molecular Studies of Synapse Formation in the Vertebrate Nervous System
Dr. Clifford Saper	M.D., Ph.D.	James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology	BIDMC	NSCI	BBS	Neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of hypothalamic control of wake-sleep states, feeding, and immune response, as well as alterations in human neurodegenerative diseases.
Dr. David Scadden	M.D.	Gerald and Darlene Jordan Professor of Medicine	MGH	IMM	BBS	Focus on Stem Cells and the Stem Cell Niche
Dr. Priscilla Schaffer	Ph.D.	Professor of Medicine (Microbiology & Molecular Genetics)	BIDMC	VIR		Molecular and biological aspects of herpes simplex virus (HSV) gene expression, DNA replication and latency. Research focused on molecular and biological aspects of herpes simplex virus (HSV) gene expression, DNA replication and latency (VIR)
Dr. Alexander Schier	Ph.D.	Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology	MCB	NSCI	BBS	Sensory Neuron Development and Sleep Using Genetics and Live Imaging in Zebrafish
Dr. Stuart Schlossman	M.D.	Baruj Benacerraf Professor of Medicine, Emeritus	DFCI	IMM		Immunochemical Aspects of Immune Reactions
Dr. Dietmar Schmucker	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Neurobiology	DFCI	NSCI		Diversity and function of the Dscam receptor.
Dr. Stuart Schreiber	Ph.D.	Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology	HU-Camb	IMM		Biological chemistry of signal transduction.
Dr. Peter Schur	M.D.	Professor of Medicine	BWH	IMM		Immunoregulation and immunogenetics of lupus.
Dr. Thomas Schwarz	Ph.D.	Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology in the Department of Neurology	CH	NSCI	BBS	Genetics of Neuronal Cell Biology
Dr. Ralph Scully	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Medicine	BIDMC	BBS		Recombination functions of the BRCA genes
Dr. Brian Seed	Ph.D.	Professor of Genetics	MGH	BBS	IMM	Molecular biology of signal transduction
Dr. Rosalind Segal	M.D., Ph.D.	Professor of Neurobiology	DFCI	NSCI	BBS	The role of neurotrophins in cerebellar development; Neurotrophin signaling in vivo.
Dr. Christine Seidman	M.D.	Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine	HMS	BBS		Molecular genetics basis of human disease, particularly cardiovascular pathogenesis
Dr. Jonathan Seidman	Ph.D.	Henrietta B. and Frederick H. Bugher Foundation Professor of Genetics	HMS	BBS		Inherited human disorders
Dr. Dennis Selkoe	M.D.	Vincent and Stella Coates Professor of Neurologic Diseases	BWH	NSCI	BBS	Molecular, biochemical and cell biological studies of the pathogenetic mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease and related studies of beta- amyloid precursor protein and other gene products.
Dr. Charles Serhan	Ph.D.	Simon Gelman Professor of Anaesthesia	BWH	BBS		Chemical mediators in inflammation and resoultion
Dr. Jeffrey Settleman	Ph.D.	Professor of Medicine	MGH/E	BBS		Genetic and Biochemical Analysis of Signal Transduction Pathways
Dr. Jagesh Shah	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Systems Biology	HMS	BBS		Biophysical Techniques in Cell Biology
Dr. Arlene Sharpe	M.D., Ph.D.	George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology	HMS	BBS	IMM	Regulation of T-cell Mediated Immune Response
Dr. Jen Sheen	Ph.D.	Professor of Genetics	MGH	BBS		Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Signal Transduction
Dr. Jie Shen	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Neurology	BWH	NSCI		Molecular biology of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases using mouse genetic approaches.
Dr. Yang Shi	Ph.D.	Professor of Pathology	HMS	BBS	VIR	Transcriptiona control in differntiation/development and tumorigenesis Transcription in cell fate determination, differentiation, and tumorogenesis (VIR)
Dr. Yujiang Shi	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Medicine	BWH	BBS		Epigenomics and Chromatin Systems Biology
Dr. William Shih	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology	DFCI	BBS		Biomolecular nanotechnology
Dr. Ramesh Shivdasani	M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Medicine	DFCI	BBS		Cancer and development, thrombopoiesis, intestinal development
Dr. Steven Shoelson	M.D., Ph.D.	Professor of Medicine	JDC	BBS		Signal transduction and related molecular pathophysiology
Dr. Piotr Sicinski	M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Pathology	DFCI	BBS		Cell cycle proteins in development and cancer
Dr. Pamela Silver	Ph.D.	Professor of Systems Biology	HMS	BBS		Systems and Synthetic Biology
Dr. David Sinclair	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Pathology	HMS	BBS		Molecular mechanisms of aging and age related disease
Dr. Pamela Sklar	M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Psychiatry	MGH	BBS		Genetics of psychiatric disorders
Dr. Susan Slaugenhaupt	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Neurology	MGH	BBS		Genetics of Human Disease
Dr. Scott Snapper	M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Medicine	MGH	BBS	IMM	Signal Transduction, Host-Microbial Interactions and Immunology.
Dr. Joseph Sodroski	M.D.	Professor of Pathology	DFCI	VIR	IMM	HIV envelope glycoproteins; HIV-1 pathogenesis; HIV-1 vaccine development. Molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis by human transforming and immunodeficiency viruses; immune responses to human immunodeficiency virus; viral envelope glycoproteins (VIR)
Dr. Peter Sorger	Ph.D.	Professor of Systems Biology	HMS	BBS		Systems biology of mammalian signal transduction
Dr. Bruce Spiegelman	Ph.D.	Professor of Cell Biology	DFCI	BBS		Mechanisms of Mammalian Cell Differentiation and Gene Expression
Dr. Timothy Springer	Ph.D.	Latham Family Professor of Pathology	HMS	BBS	IMM	Molecular basis of cell adhesion and migration
Dr. Michael Starnbach	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics	HMS	BBS	IMM	T-lymphocyte responses to bacterial pathogens
Dr. Joan Stein-Streilein	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Ophthalmology	SERI	IMM		Mechanisms used by innate immune cells in trafficking and generating immune peripheral tolerance in the secondary lymphoid organs.
Dr. Richard Stevens	Ph.D.	Professor of Medicine	BWH	IMM		Differentiation of mast cells.
Dr. Charles Stiles	Ph.D.	Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics	DFCI	BBS	NSCI	Growth Factors and Signal Transduction
Dr. Gary Strichartz	Ph.D.	Professor of Anaesthesia (Pharmacology)	BWH	NSCI		Mechanisms in the peripheral nervous system that encode both acute and chronic pain and the development of drugs to prevent or reverse pain.
Dr. Terry Strom	M.D.	Professor of Medicine	BIDMC	IMM		The Fundamental Nature of and the Means to Produce T Cell Tolerance to Allo- and Auto-Antigens
Dr. Jack Strominger	M.D.	Higgins Professor of Biochemistry	DFCI	VIR	IMM	MHC proteins, T cells and natural killer cells. Natural killer cells; autoimmunity and immunosurveillance; Epstein-Barr Virus (VIR)
Dr. Kevin Struhl	Ph.D.	David Wesley Gaiser Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology	HMS	BBS		Eukaryotic Gene Regulation
Dr. Vikas Sukhatme	M.D.	Victor J. Aresty Professor of Medicine	BIDMC	BBS		Cancer Biology: Metabolism and Angiogenesis
Dr. Shamil Sunyaev	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology.	BWH	BBS		Computational analysis of sequence variation and divergence
Dr. Megan Sykes	M.D.	Harold and Ellen Danser Professor of Surgery	MGH/E	IMM		Transplantation biology, bone marrow transplantation and tolerance to alloantigens and xenoantigens.
Dr. Jack Szostak	Ph.D.	Professor of Genetics	MGH	BBS		Structure and activities of Ribozymes