Stuart J. Edelstein (born 1941) is a biophysicist, emeritus professor from the University of Geneva, professeur extraordinaire at the École Normale Supérieure and visiting scientist at the Babraham Institute.

His research focuses on the properties of allosteric proteins, which conformations and activities are affected by the binding of ligands.

[4][5] Stuart Edelstein received a PhD (1967) in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.

[6] After a post-doctoral training at the Pasteur Institute in the laboratory of Jacques Monod, he joined the faculty of Cornell University, where he became professor in 1977.

He was a visiting scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science (1974) and spent two sabbatical years (1980–1981 and 1984–1985) in Paris as Professeur associé at the University of Paris XII (Créteil) in the laboratory of Jean Rosa and as visiting scientist at the Pasteur Institute In 1986 Edelstein moved as professor in the department of Biochemistry of the University of Geneva.