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Jeffrey Ravetch

Jeffrey V. Ravetch, born 1951, is an immunologist and professor at The Rockefeller University whose work on antibody Fc receptors shaped engineered antibody drugs for cancer and autoimmunity.

Jeffrey Rimer

Jeffrey Rimer is an American chemical engineer and Abraham E. Dukler Professor at the University of Houston, known for kidney stone crystal growth inhibitors and zeolite catalyst design.

Jeffrey Robbins

Jeffrey Robbins (1950–2022) was an American cardiac molecular biologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, known as the "father of cardiac transgenesis" for pioneering tissue-specific promoters and gene-targeting approaches for the heart.

Jeffrey Roberts

Jeffrey Warren Roberts, born 1944, is an American molecular biologist and biochemist, the Robert J. Appel Professor Emeritus at Cornell University known for discovering the Rho transcription termination factor.

Jeffrey S. Beck

Jeffrey S. Beck (1962–2012) was an American industrial chemist at Mobil and ExxonMobil who co-discovered M41S mesoporous molecular sieves and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011.

Jeffrey S. Chamberlain

Jeffrey S. Chamberlain is an American molecular geneticist at the University of Washington who invented micro-dystrophin, work underlying the first FDA-approved gene therapy for a muscular dystrophy.

Jeffrey S. Diamond

Jeffrey S. Diamond is an American neuroscientist at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Scientific Director since 2023, known for work on glutamate transporters and retinal computation.

Jeffrey S. Flier

Jeffrey S. Flier is an American endocrinologist known for research on insulin resistance and obesity, and Dean of Harvard Medical School from 2007 to 2016.

Jeffrey S. Ginsberg

Jeffrey S. Ginsberg, also known as Jeffrey Ginsberg, was a Canadian internist and thrombosis researcher at McMaster University known for research on venous thromboembolism and thrombosis in pregnancy.

Jeffrey S. Glenn

Jeffrey S. Glenn is an American physician-scientist at Stanford University who studies viral hepatitis and broad-spectrum antivirals, directing the Center for Hepatitis and Liver Tissue Engineering.

Jeffrey S. Johnson

Jeffrey S. Johnson, also known as Jeffrey Johnson, is an American synthetic organic chemist and A. Ronald Gallant Distinguished Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, known for asymmetric catalysis.

Jeffrey S. Kieft

Jeffrey S. Kieft is an RNA structural biologist and virologist known for work on viral IRES RNAs, and Executive Director of the New York Structural Biology Center since 2023.

Jeffrey S. Mogil

Jeffrey S. Mogil is a Canadian pain researcher at McGill University known for founding pain genetics and showing that male and female mice process pain differently.

Jeffrey S. Moore

Jeffrey S. Moore (born 1962) is an American chemist, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for polymer mechanochemistry and self-healing polymers; he directed the Beckman Institute from 2017 to 2022.

Jeffrey S. Robinson

Jeffrey S. Robinson, born in Northern Ireland in 1941, was an Australian perinatal researcher and professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Adelaide.

Jeffrey S. Ross-Ibarra

Jeffrey S. Ross-Ibarra is an American population geneticist and professor at the University of California, Davis, known for research on the evolutionary genetics of maize and its wild relatives.

Jeffrey S. Weber

Jeffrey S. Weber, also known as Jeffrey Weber, was an American medical oncologist and melanoma immunotherapy researcher who served as Deputy Director of NYU Langone's Perlmutter Cancer Center.

Jeffrey S. White

Jeffrey S. White, also known as Jeffrey Steven White, is a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of California, appointed by George W. Bush in 2002.

Jeffrey Sachs (economist)

Jeffrey Sachs is an American economist, a University Professor at Columbia University, known for shock therapy advice to Bolivia, Poland, and Russia and for UN poverty and disease work.

Jeffrey Schlom

Jeffrey Schlom is an American cancer immunologist who led the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology for about 30 years and developed the PANVAC and PROSTVAC vaccines.

Jeffrey Schlupp

Jeffrey Schlupp, born 1992 in Hamburg, is a Ghanaian versatile footballer; Leicester academy graduate, 2015/16 Premier League winner, eight and a half years at Crystal Palace, later Celtic and Norwich.

Jeffrey Settleman

Jeffrey Settleman is an American cancer biologist who serves as Chief Scientific Officer for Oncology R&D at Pfizer, after 18 years as a Harvard Medical School professor.

Jeffrey Sfire

Jeffrey Sfire is an American DJ and producer from Detroit who plays 1980s italo disco, high NRG, and Chicago house, and is one half of the production project Sfire with Samuel Long, better known as SOPHIE.

Jeffrey Shainline

Jeffrey Shainline is a physicist who pioneered a neuromorphic computer using photonics and superconducting circuits at NIST in Boulder, winning a 2024 PECASE award, and founded Great Sky in 2024.

Jeffrey Shaman

Jeffrey Shaman is an epidemiologist and environmental scientist at Columbia University known for forecasting influenza outbreaks and estimating that most early COVID-19 infections in China were undocumented.

Jeffrey Sinclair

Jeffrey Sinclair is the fictional first commander of the Babylon 5 station in the TV series Babylon 5, played by Michael O'Hare; a Battle of the Line survivor who later becomes the Minbari leader Valen.

Jeffrey Siow

Jeffrey Siow (萧振祥; Jeffrey Siow Chen Siang) is a Singaporean politician and former civil servant serving as Minister for Transport and Second Minister for Finance since 2025.

Jeffrey Skiles

Jeffrey Skiles, known as Jeff Skiles, is an American retired airline pilot who was First Officer on US Airways Flight 1549, ditched in the Hudson River in 2009.

Jeffrey Skilling

Jeffrey K. Skilling, Enron's president, COO, and 2001 CEO, was convicted in 2006 of conspiracy, securities fraud, and insider trading; resentenced to 168 months after Skilling v. United States narrowed honest-services fraud.

Jeffrey Sklar

Jeffrey L. Sklar is a pathologist and physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine whose laboratory identified genes central to the molecular diagnosis of cancer, including BCL2 and NOTCH1.