Life scientists

James M. Shine

James M. Shine, also published as Mac Shine, is an Australian systems neuroscientist and medically trained professor at the University of Sydney who studies neuromodulation and large-scale brain dynamics.

James M. Sprague

James M. Sprague, also known as James Mather Sprague, was an American systems neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1984.

James M. Tiedje

James M. Tiedje is an American microbial ecologist and Michigan State University professor known for denitrification research, biodegradation of chlorinated pollutants, and the Ribosomal Database Project.

James M. Turner (geneticist)

James M. Turner is a geneticist who leads the Sex Chromosome Biology Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, studying X and Y chromosome silencing and infertility.

James M. Wells

James M. Wells is an American developmental biologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center known for directing human pluripotent stem cells to form intestinal tissue and other gastrointestinal organs.

James Madara

James L. Madara is an American pathologist and epithelial cell biologist who served as chief executive officer of the American Medical Association from 2011 to 2025.

James McCluskey

James McCluskey is an Australian immunologist and physician-scientist at the University of Melbourne known for work on HLA immunity and MR1 presentation to MAIT cells.

James O McNamara

James O McNamara, also known as J O McNamara, is a Duke University neurologist and neuroscientist who studies how a normal brain becomes epileptic, a process called epileptogenesis.

James Olzmann

James Olzmann is a cell biologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for work on lipid droplets, lipotoxicity, and ferroptosis, and a 2017 PECASE recipient.

James P. Di Santo

James P. Di Santo is an immunologist who heads the Innate Immunity Unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, known for research on innate lymphoid cells and humanized mouse models.

James P. Noonan

James P. Noonan is a geneticist at Yale University who studies how gene regulation changed during human evolution, known for work on human accelerated regions and Neanderthal genomics.

James P. Quigley

James P. Quigley is a cancer biologist and professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for chick-embryo models of metastasis and research on tumor cell intravasation.

James P. Tam

James P. Tam is a peptide chemist and Lee Wee Nam Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, known for inventing peptide dendrimers as synthetic vaccines.

James P. Whitlock

James P. Whitlock (1942–2023) was a physician and Stanford professor of molecular pharmacology known for showing how dioxin, the toxic contaminant in Agent Orange, acts on cells.

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James Papez

James Wenceslas Papez (1883–1958) was an American neuroanatomist at Cornell University who proposed in 1937 that a loop of brain structures, the Papez circuit, forms the anatomic basis of emotion.

James Peter Hill

James Peter Hill (1873–1954) was a British embryologist at University College London who became the leading authority on the early development of marsupial and monotreme mammals.

James Poulet

James F.A. Poulet is a British systems neuroscientist who leads a research group at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, studying how internal brain states shape sensory perception.

James Priess

James Priess is an American developmental biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle known for his genetic analysis of embryogenesis in the roundworm C. elegans.

James R. Broach

James R. Broach is an American molecular biologist who defined how the yeast 2μm plasmid replicates and maintains high copy number, and now leads biochemistry at Penn State.

James R. Feramisco

James R. Feramisco is a molecular biologist known for microinjecting purified ras oncogene proteins into living cells, working at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and later UCSD.

James R. Lupski

James R. Lupski (born 1957) is an American medical geneticist and professor at Baylor College of Medicine who defined genomic disorders through his research on Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

James R. Williamson

James R. Williamson is a biochemist and structural biologist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for his work on RNA structure, RNA-protein interactions, and ribosome assembly.

James R. Woodgett

James R. Woodgett is a Canadian molecular biologist known for isolating the GSK-3, Akt, and JNK kinase genes and leading the Terry Fox Research Institute.

James S. Nowick

James S. Nowick is a chemist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine, known for chemical models of amyloid oligomers in Alzheimer's disease and teixobactin-based antibiotic design.

James S. Trimmer

James S. Trimmer, known as Jim Trimmer, is an American molecular neurobiologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis who studies how neurons regulate voltage-sensitive ion channels.

James Shorter

James Shorter is a molecular biologist and Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania whose laboratory studies protein misfolding and phase transitions in ALS and frontotemporal dementia.

James T. Kadonaga

James T. Kadonaga is an American biochemist at the University of California San Diego known for purifying transcription factor Sp1 and discovering chromatin assembly factors ACF and ASF1.

James T. Stivers

James T. Stivers is an American biochemist and Professor of Pharmacology at Johns Hopkins, known for research on uracil in DNA and DNA repair enzymes.

James Travis

James Travis (1935–2020) was a Canadian-born American biochemist at the University of Georgia who co-introduced the term serpin and showed how alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency and smoking cause emphysema.