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İvet Bahar

İvet Bahar is a Turkish-born computational biologist known for the elastic network models used to predict protein motions and the ProDy software; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Ivica Letunić

Ivica Letunić, also written Ivica Letunic, is a computational biologist in Heidelberg, Germany, creator of the iTOL tree display tool and founder of biobyte solutions GmbH.

Ivo A. Olivotto

Ivo A. Olivotto is a Canadian physician and breast cancer researcher who led the Breast Cancer Outcomes Unit at the British Columbia Cancer Agency and led BC's screening mammography program.

Iwijn De Vlaminck

Iwijn De Vlaminck is a Belgian-trained biomedical engineer and Cornell professor whose cell-free DNA blood tests diagnose organ transplant rejection and infection, and who created HiPR-FISH.

J Paul Taylor

J Paul Taylor is an American physician-scientist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, known for connecting stress granules, phase separation, and RNA metabolism to ALS and frontotemporal dementia.

J. Alan Diehl

J. Alan Diehl is an American cancer biologist known for work on cyclin D1 and CDK4/6 kinases in cancer; he chairs biochemistry at Case Western Reserve University since 2019.

J. Allan Hobson

J. Allan Hobson, full name John Allan Hobson (1933–2021), was an American psychiatrist and sleep researcher at Harvard who argued dreams are products of brain physiology.

J. Anthony Movshon

J. Anthony Movshon, also published as J. A. Movshon, is an American and British neuroscientist at New York University known for research on visual motion processing in area MT.

J. B. S. Haldane

J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964), British-Indian geneticist and physiologist, co-founder of population genetics with Fisher and Wright, author of The Causes of Evolution (1932), UCL Professor of Biometry, later Research Professor at the Indian Statistical Institute.

J. Barklie Clements

J. Barklie Clements (John Barklie Clements, 1946–2005) was a Northern Irish virologist at the University of Glasgow known for his work on herpes simplex virus transcription.

J. Carl Pallais

J. Carl Pallais, also known as Juan Carl Pallais, is an American endocrinologist who co-directs the Center for Endocrine Genetics at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

J. Clark Lagarias

J. Clark Lagarias is an American biochemist at UC Davis known for research on phytochrome light sensors, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.

J. Claude Bennett

J. Claude Bennett (1933–2024) was an American immunologist and rheumatologist who helped explain antibody diversity and built the University of Alabama at Birmingham into a major research institution as its fourth president.

J. David Lambeth

J. David Lambeth is a physician-scientist and Emory University professor credited as discoverer of the Nox enzymes, showing cells deliberately produce reactive oxygen for signaling.

J. David Sweatt

J. David Sweatt, also known as David Sweatt, is an American neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University known for showing that DNA methylation is a necessary part of memory formation.

J. Edwin Seegmiller

J. Edwin Seegmiller (1920–2006) was an American biochemical geneticist and rheumatologist who identified the enzyme deficiency underlying Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and established the metabolic basis of gout.

J. George Harrar

J. George Harrar (1906–1982) was an American plant pathologist who directed the Rockefeller Foundation's Mexican Agricultural Program, hired Norman Borlaug, and served as Foundation president from 1961 to 1972.

J. Gregor Sutcliffe

J. Gregor Sutcliffe is a molecular biologist and professor at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, known for discovering the hypocretin neuropeptides and pioneering open-system gene discovery in the brain.

J. H. Pate Skene

J. H. Pate Skene (Jesse Haynes Pate Skene) is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist who identified GAP-43, a growth-cone protein, and now studies decision-making and scientific evidence in the courts.

J. Herbert Taylor

James Herbert Taylor (1916–1998) was a biologist at Florida State University whose 1957 tritiated-thymidine experiment gave the first proof of semiconservative DNA replication, leading to his 1977 election to the National Academy of Sciences.

J. José Bonner

J. José Bonner is an American molecular biologist who studied the heat-shock response of the fruit fly and is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Indiana University.

J. Keith Joung

J. Keith Joung, also published as Jae Keith Joung, is a pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard professor known for zinc-finger nucleases, high-fidelity Cas9 variants, and co-founding Editas Medicine.

J. Kevin Foskett

J. Kevin Foskett is an American physiologist, Isaac Ott Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for calcium signaling research and identifying the taste channel CALHM1.

J. L. Oncley

J. Lawrence Oncley (1910–2004) was an American biochemist and biophysicist at the University of Michigan who pioneered dielectric dispersion and ultracentrifugation to measure protein size and shape in solution.

J. M. Daly

Joseph Michael Daly (1922–1993) was an American plant physiologist who studied wheat and bean rusts at the University of Nebraska and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1984.

J. Magarian Blander

Julie Magarian Blander is an Armenian American immunologist who studies how the innate immune system detects microbes and cell death, holding an endowed professorship at Weill Cornell Medicine since 2016.

J. Marie Hardwick

J. Marie Hardwick is a molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins University who studies programmed cell death and the BCL-2 protein family, and helped show that viruses trigger apoptosis.

J. Martin Bollinger

J. Martin Bollinger Jr. is an American enzymologist and chemical biologist at Penn State since 1995, known for trapping short-lived metal–oxygen and radical intermediates in metalloenzymes.

J. Michael Bishop

J. Michael Bishop (John Michael Bishop, 1936–2026) was an American virologist at the University of California, San Francisco who co-discovered proto-oncogenes, earning the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

J. Nicholas Betley

J. Nicholas Betley is a neuroscientist and associate professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how hunger and thirst reshape behavior and pain through AgRP neurons.