Life scientists

James C. Carrington

James C. Carrington (born 1960) is an American plant scientist at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center who studies RNA silencing and small RNA biology.

James C. Metcalfe

James C. Metcalfe, born 20 July 1939, is a molecular biochemist at Cambridge who held the chair of Mammalian Cell Biochemistry and studied TGF-β in atherosclerosis.

James C. Paulson

James C. Paulson is an American glycobiologist and Professor Emeritus at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for research on sialic acid, Siglecs, and influenza receptor specificity.

James C. Sacchettini, also published as James Sacchettini, is a professor of biochemistry, biophysics, and chemistry at Texas A&M University who designs tuberculosis drugs using X-ray crystallography.

James C. Wang

James C. Wang, born 1936, is a Taiwanese-American biochemist and Harvard professor emeritus who discovered the first DNA topoisomerase, coined the word "topoisomerase", and studied DNA topology for 40 years.

James D. Ebert

James D. Ebert (1921–2001) was an American developmental biologist known for research on heart development and immunity, who directed the Carnegie Institution's Department of Embryology.

James D. Friesen

James D. Friesen, also published as J. D. Friesen, is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto who cloned the relA gene and co-founded the Donnelly Centre.

James D. Jamieson

James D. Jamieson (1934–2018) was a Canadian-born cell biologist who, with his advisor George Palade, established how secretory proteins travel from the ER through the Golgi.

James D. Lechleiter

James D. Lechleiter is a cell biologist at UT Health San Antonio known for his discovery of spiral calcium waves inside cells, and a co-founder of Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals.

James D. McGhee

James D. McGhee is a Canadian biochemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary, known for chromatin-structure research and developmental genetics of C. elegans.

James Darnell

James Darnell, also known as James E. Darnell Jr., is an American molecular biologist and Rockefeller University professor who opened the fields of RNA processing and cytokine signaling.

James Douglas Engel

James Douglas Engel, also known as James Engel, is an American molecular biologist known for his work on globin gene regulation and GATA transcription factors.

James E Fitzgerald

James E Fitzgerald is a theoretical neuroscientist, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Northwestern University, who led a research group at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus from 2017 to 2023.

James E. Bear

James E. Bear is an American cell biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who studies how cells control the actin cytoskeleton to move.

James E. Bradner

James E. Bradner, known as Jay Bradner, is an American physician-scientist and chemical biologist known for JQ1, the first BET bromodomain inhibitor, which he shared freely with other researchers.

James E. Cleaver

James E. Cleaver is an American scientist at UCSF who showed in 1968 that the skin cancer disease xeroderma pigmentosum arises from defective DNA repair.

James E. Dahlberg

James E. Dahlberg is an American RNA biochemist and University of Wisconsin–Madison professor emeritus whose enzyme research led to diagnostic tests, including the Cologuard colon cancer screen.

James E. Ferrell

James E. Ferrell is an American systems biologist and physician-scientist at Stanford School of Medicine, known for work on ultrasensitivity, bistability, and trigger waves in cell-cycle control.

James E. Haber

James E. Haber, born 1943 in Pittsburgh, is an American molecular biologist at Brandeis University who studies DNA repair in yeast and won the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal in 2011.

James E. Rothman

James E. Rothman, born in 1950, is an American cell biologist and Yale professor who won the 2013 Nobel Prize for discovering the machinery of vesicle transport in cells.

James E. Womack

James E. Womack (1941–2023) was an American animal geneticist at Texas A&M University who developed the first comparative map of cattle genes against human and mouse genomes.

James Earl King Hildreth

James Earl King Hildreth, born 1956 in Camden, Arkansas, is an American virologist and immunologist serving since 2015 as the 12th president of Meharry Medical College.

James Eberwine

James H. Eberwine is an American molecular pharmacologist at the University of Pennsylvania whose laboratory developed the nucleic acid amplification methods that enabled single-cell transcriptomics.

James Eric Gouaux Jr.

Eric Gouaux (James Eric Gouaux Jr.) is a structural neuroscientist at Oregon Health & Science University's Vollum Institute known for structures of neurotransmitter receptors and transporters.

James F. Bonner

James Frederick Bonner (1910–1996) was an American molecular and plant biologist at Caltech who showed that chromatin, not naked DNA, carries gene regulation in higher organisms.

James F. Crow

James F. Crow (1916–2012) was an American population geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who co-authored the 1970 textbook with Motoo Kimura and mentored over 50 scientists.

James F. Gusella

James F. Gusella is a Canadian human geneticist, Bullard Professor of Neurogenetics at Harvard Medical School, who mapped the Huntington's disease gene in 1983 and identified its CAG repeat cause in 1993.

James F. Rusling

James F. Rusling is an American analytical and bioanalytical chemist, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Connecticut since 1990, known for biosensors and cancer diagnostics.

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James G. Morin

James G. Morin is a professor emeritus at Cornell University who, with J. Woodland Hastings, named green fluorescent protein in 1971 and proposed the energy-transfer mechanism behind coelenterate bioluminescence.