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JLA/Avengers

JLA/Avengers (Avengers/JLA on Marvel's issues) is a 2003 four-issue DC/Marvel crossover by Kurt Busiek and George Pérez uniting the Justice League and Avengers against Krona, after a doomed 1983 attempt, and the last major crossover for two decades.

JLL (company)

JLL, formerly Jones Lang LaSalle, is a global commercial real estate services and investment management company headquartered in Chicago, with 2025 revenue of $26.1 billion and more than 113,000 employees.

Jlloyd Samuel

Jlloyd Samuel (1981–2018), Trinidadian footballer, Premier League defender for Aston Villa and Bolton Wanderers; died in a 2018 car crash in Cheshire, England, confirmed by inquest.

JLS

JLS (Jack the Lad Swing) are a British pop-R&B boy band from London: Oritsé Williams, Aston Merrygold, Marvin Humes, and JB Gill. 2008 X Factor runners-up with five UK number-one singles, two Brits, five MOBOs, a 2013 split, and a 2021 reunion.

JM Ibarra

JM Ibarra (John Mark Daniel Ibarra, born 2000) is a Filipino actor and former Pinoy Big Brother: Gen 11 housemate who placed fifth; known as half of the JMFyang love team with Big Winner Fyang Smith, starring in Ghosting, Child No. 82, and Almost Us.

JMA Wireless Dome

JMA Wireless Dome, formerly the Carrier Dome, is Syracuse University's on-campus domed stadium, opened 1980, home of Syracuse Orange football, basketball, and lacrosse, with a 2020 fixed cable-truss roof replacing the air-supported roof.

Jmail

Jmail names several unrelated subjects: jmail.world, the 2025 Epstein email archive site by Riley Walz and Luke Igel; jmail.co.jp, a defunct 1998 Japanese free bilingual webmail; and a C++ JMail mail transfer agent; not a statute.

JMI Equity

JMI Equity is an American growth equity firm, founded in 1992, that invests in high-growth B2B software and AI-driven companies from offices in San Diego, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.

JmjC domain

JmjC domain (Jumonji C): ~160-amino-acid Fe(II)/2-oxoglutarate-dependent oxygenase domain, catalytic core of JMJD/KDM2-7 histone lysine demethylases; named for the cruciform jumonji mouse mutant.

JMKX000623 (Nav1.8 blocker)

JMKX000623 (JMKX-000623, ODM-111) is Jemincare's oral, selective Nav1.8 (SCN10A) blocker for pain, phase 2 in China for diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain, out-licensed to Orion outside Greater China.

JMKX002992 (oral AR degrader)

JMKX002992 (JMKX-002992) is an oral PROTAC androgen receptor degrader for prostate cancer from Jemincare, licensed worldwide to Roche/Genentech in 2022 for $60M upfront and up to $650M total.

JMKX1899 (KRAS inhibitor)

JMKX1899 (JMKX001899), a Jemincare-developed oral covalent KRAS G12C inhibitor licensed ex-China to HUYABIO, binds the Switch II pocket of GDP-bound KRAS G12C and crosses the blood-brain barrier (Kpuu_CSF 0.394 in mice), in Phase I/II trials for NSCLC with brain metastases.

JMP (statistical software)

JMP, pronounced "jump," is a family of statistical analysis software created by SAS co-founder John Sall in 1989, linking interactive data visualization with statistics through a point-and-click interface.

Jñāna Sambandhar

Jñāna Sambandhar (ஞானசம்பந்தர்), also called Sambandar, was a 7th-century Tamil Saiva bhakti saint and poet, one of the 63 Nayanars devoted to Shiva, ascribed the first three books of the Tevaram hymns.

Jnana Therapeutics

Jnana Therapeutics Inc. was a Boston, Massachusetts biotechnology company, launched in 2017, whose RAPID chemoproteomics platform drugged hard targets like solute carriers; Otsuka acquired it in 2024 for $800 million.

Jñāna yoga (ज्ञान योग)

Jñāna yoga (ज्ञान योग), also called Gnana yoga or Gyan yoga, is the Indian path to liberation through knowledge, given its classical framework by the 8th-century philosopher Adi Shankara.

Jnanaghana

Jnanaghana (Sri Jnanaghanapada) is the fourth Jagadguru of Sringeri Sharada Peetham in the traditional lineage, said to have held office from 848 to 910 CE, and is credited with the Advaita treatise Tattvasuddhi.

Jnanagiri

Jnanagiri (ज्ञानगिरि) is, according to Sringeri Sharada Peetham's chronology, the sixth Jagadguru of that matha, holding the seat from 954 to 1038 CE between Jnanottama and Simhagiri.

Jnanasrimitra

Jnanasrimitra (ज्ञानश्रीमित्र) was an Indian Buddhist philosopher and logician of the late tenth and early eleventh centuries, based at Vikramasila monastery, best known for his Apohaprakarana on language and perception.

Jnanottama

Jnanottama (ज्ञानोत्तम) is the fifth Jagadguru of the Sringeri Sharada Peetham, traditionally listed from 910 to 954; the matha credits him with the sub-commentary Vidya Sri.

Jnanpith Award (ज्ञानपीठ पुरस्कार)

Jnanpith Award (ज्ञानपीठ पुरस्कार), India's highest literary honor, given by the Bharatiya Jnanpith trust since 1965 for lifetime contribution in Eighth Schedule languages or English; ₹11 lakh plus Vagdevi statuette; recent laureates Gulzar, Rambhadracharya, Vinod Kumar Shukla, R. Vairamuthu.

JNCO

JNCO is a Los Angeles streetwear label founded in 1985 by the Revah brothers, best known for ultra-wide-leg jeans and graffiti-derived graphics that made it a popular youth brand of the 1990s.

JNIM–ISSP war

The JNIM–ISSP war is the Sahel rivalry between al-Qaeda's JNIM and the Islamic State Sahel Province (ISGS/ISSP), which turned from cooperation to open turf war in 2019, fought mainly in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger.

JNK1/MAPK8-associated membrane protein

JKAMP (JAMP), JNK1/MAPK8-associated membrane protein, UniProt Q9P055, is a seven-transmembrane scaffold that prolongs stress-activated JNK1 signaling by blocking MKP5 and recruits proteasomes to the ER for ERAD.

JNR Class C62

The JNR Class C62 (C62形) was a Japanese 4-6-4 express passenger steam locomotive built in 1948 and 1949, hauling flagship limited expresses on the Tokaido and Sanyo main lines.

JNR Class D51

The JNR Class D51 (D51形), nicknamed Degoichi, is a Japanese 2-8-2 tender steam locomotive built for freight from 1936, with 1,115 units built, the most numerous single class in Japan.

Jô

Jô (João Alves de Assis Silva, born 1987) is a Brazilian retired centre-forward, Corinthians idol and Neo Química Arena top scorer, 2013 Libertadores winner with Atlético Mineiro, 2017 Brasileirão best player, and Brazil's 2013 Confederations Cup winner.

Jo & Joe

JO&JOE (Jo & Joe) is Accor's hybrid hotel-hostel "open house" brand, launched September 2016, first opened in Hossegor 2017, now part of Ennismore, with properties in Paris, Vienna, Rio, Medellín, Roma, Budapest, Auckland, and China.

Jo Aleh

Jo Aleh (Joanna Ayela Aleh, born 1986, Auckland) is a New Zealand sailor, four-time Olympian, and 470 gold medallist with Polly Powrie at London 2012 and silver at Rio 2016; later 49erFX with Molly Meech at Paris 2024.

Jo Ann Pflug

Jo Ann Pflug (born 1940, Atlanta, Georgia) is a retired American actress; Lt. "Dish" in the 1970 film M*A*S*H, voice of the Invisible Girl in the 1967-1968 Fantastic Four cartoon, and Samantha "Big Jack" Jack on The Fall Guy.