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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. Adrian Salic	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor on Cell Biology	HMS	BBS		Mechanisms of Vertebrate Hedgehog Signaling
Dr. Joshua Sanes		Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology	HU-Camb	NSCI		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		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		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		We aim to understand in detail how cancer genes such as BRCA1, BRCA2 and the Bloom's syndrome gene control recombination.
Dr. Brian Seed	Ph.D.	Professor of Genetics	MGH	BBS	IMM	Genetic analysis 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		Molecular genetics of inherited heart disease.
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		Characterization of signal transduction pathways.
Dr. Jagesh Shah	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Systems Biology	HMS	BBS
Dr. Arlene Sharpe	M.D., Ph.D.	George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology	HMS	BBS	IMM	In vivo analysis of costimulation; neuroimmunology.
Dr. Jen Sheen	Ph.D.	Professor of Genetics	MGH	BBS		Elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying signal transduction pathways that mediate plant responses to central growth regulators, such as sugars, stress and phytohormones.
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	Transcriptional repression in eukaryotic cells; interactions between viral oncoproteins and cellular transcription machinery. 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		Structural and cellular biology of insulin signal transduction, insulin resistance, diabetes and obesity.
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 cancer
Dr. Pamela Sklar	Ph.D., M.D.	Associate Professor of Psychiatry	MGH/E	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. Bruce Spiegelman	Ph.D.	Professor of Cell Biology	DFCI	BBS		Regulation of gene expression in mammalian cell differentiation; adipose cell and tissue development; nuclear hormone receptor and basic-helix-loop-helix families of transcription factors.
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; subcellular compartmentalization of bacterial antigens.
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	Regulation of gene expression by animal cell growth factors. Basic principles of signal transduction in nerve cells and the developing nervous system.
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		Molecular mechanism of gene regulation in eukaryotic organisms.
Dr. Vikas Sukhatme		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		Design of an RNA replicase and other new ribozymes.