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John D. Baxter
John D. Baxter (1940–2011) was an American endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco, best known for cloning the first human growth hormone gene and pioneering work on nuclear hormone receptors.
John Raymond Murlin
John Raymond Murlin (1874–1960) was an American physiologist and nutritionist, Professor of Physiology at the University of Rochester, who co-discovered glucagon in 1923 and founded the American Institute of Nutrition.
John S. O’Neill
John S. O’Neill is a circadian biologist who leads a group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for showing that circadian clocks keep time without gene transcription.
Johnny Ludvigsson
Johnny Ludvigsson is a Swedish pediatrician and diabetes researcher, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at Linköping University, known for the Linköping Complication Study and GAD65 immunotherapy trials.
Joseph Dancis
Joseph Dancis was an American pediatrician and biochemist at New York University known for defining maple syrup urine disease and for studies of familial dysautonomia.
Joseph J. Pfiffner
Joseph J. Pfiffner (1903–1975) was an American biochemist who, with Wilbur Swingle at Princeton, developed the first practical cortin extract, used to treat Addison's disease.
Julianne Imperato‐McGinley
Julianne Imperato-McGinley is an American endocrinologist and physician-scientist at Weill Cornell Medical College who identified inherited 5-alpha-reductase deficiency in the Dominican Republic in 1974, work that informed finasteride.
Juro Sakai
Juro Sakai (酒井 寿郎) is a Japanese molecular biologist, professor at Tohoku University, known for showing that SREBP is released from cell membranes by two sequential cleavages.
Kay Tanaka
Kay Tanaka is a clinical biochemist at Yale University who described isovaleric acidemia, explained the biochemistry of Jamaican vomiting sickness, and established the acyl-CoA dehydrogenase enzyme family.
Kazuhiko Umesono
Kazuhiko Umesono (梅園和彦) was a Japanese molecular biologist who, working in Ronald Evans's Salk Institute laboratory, discovered the 3-4-5 rule for nuclear hormone receptor DNA recognition.
Keith R. Yamamoto
Keith R. Yamamoto is an American molecular biologist who spent his career at UCSF studying how steroid receptors regulate gene expression and helped develop precision medicine.
Kenji Kangawa
Kenji Kangawa (寒川 賢治) is a Japanese biochemist and endocrinologist known for discovering the natriuretic peptide heart hormones and ghrelin, the appetite hormone, and for winning the 2008 Japan Academy Prize.
Kenneth H. Gabbay
Kenneth H. Gabbay is a physician-scientist in diabetes research at Baylor College of Medicine, known for work on glycosylated hemoglobin, the sorbitol pathway, and aldose reductase.
Kurt J. Isselbacher
Kurt J. Isselbacher (1925–2019) was a German-born American physician-scientist who led the Massachusetts General Hospital Gastrointestinal Unit for three decades, identified the enzymatic defect causing galactosemia, and founded the MGH Cancer Center.
László Nagy (Hungarian physician-scientist)
László Nagy (Laszlo Nagy) is a Hungarian physician-scientist known for work on nuclear hormone receptors and macrophage epigenetics, including landmark 1998 Cell papers on PPARγ.
Lawrence Chan
Lawrence Chan, born in Hong Kong in 1942, is a physician-scientist at Baylor College of Medicine known for a 2003 gene therapy that reversed diabetes in mice.
Leonard Jarett
Leonard Jarett was an American pathologist who researched insulin action and chaired pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania from 1980 to 1998.
Leonard P. Freedman
Leonard P. Freedman is a molecular biologist known for research on nuclear hormone receptors, chief science officer of the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research since 2018.
Louis M. Luttrell
Louis M. Luttrell is an American physician-scientist and endocrinologist at the Medical University of South Carolina whose work showed β-arrestins organize their own GPCR signaling pathways.
Malcolm G. Parker
Malcolm G. Parker is a molecular endocrinologist and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, known for discovering RIP140, a coregulator controlling fat accumulation and ovulation.
Marc Montminy
Marc R. Montminy is an American biochemist and physiologist at the Salk Institute who discovered CREB, a phosphorylation-activated transcription factor, informing diabetes and obesity research.
Maria New
Maria New (1928–2024) was an American pediatric endocrinologist who delineated congenital adrenal hyperplasia, discovered steroid disorders, and developed newborn screening for CAH used in all 50 states.
Martin G. Myers
Martin G. Myers is an American physician-scientist at the University of Michigan who studies how the brain controls metabolism, including leptin's regulation of body weight and blood glucose.
Martin L. Privalsky
Martin L. Privalsky (1953–2020) was an American molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis, known for his studies of the v-erbA oncogene and nuclear hormone receptors.
Martin Matzuk
Martin M. Matzuk is an American reproductive biologist and clinical pathologist at Baylor College of Medicine, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.
Martin Picard
Martin Picard is a Canadian-American biologist and Professor of Behavioral Medicine at Columbia University, known for mitochondrial psychobiology and for leading a 2025 Nature study mapping mitochondria across the human brain.
Martin Rodbell
Martin Rodbell (1925–1998) was an American biochemist at the National Institutes of Health who discovered G-proteins, the cell's signal-transducing proteins, and shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Martina U. Muckenthaler
Martina U. Muckenthaler is a German molecular biologist and Professor of Molecular Medicine at Heidelberg University since 2004, known for research on iron metabolism and iron overload diseases.
Mary L. Efron
Mary L. Efron (1926–1967) was an American physician at Harvard Medical School who described the inherited amino acid disorders hyperprolinemia and hydroxyprolinemia and developed a filter-paper screening test for amino acid metabolism disorders.
Masayasu Kojima
Masayasu Kojima (児島 将康) is a Japanese researcher best known as first author of the 1999 Nature paper reporting the discovery of ghrelin, the growth hormone secretagogue receptor's natural ligand.