Life scientists

James Tumlinson

James Homer Tumlinson III (1938–2022) was an American chemical ecologist and entomologist who identified the boll weevil's sex pheromone and won the 2008 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.

James V. Haxby

James V. Haxby is a cognitive neuroscientist and Dartmouth College professor known for face perception research, founding multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI, and developing hyperalignment.

James V. Neel (1915–2000) was an American human geneticist at the University of Michigan who established sickle cell anemia as a recessive Mendelian disease and led the genetic study of the atomic-bomb survivors.

James Van Etten

James Van Etten is an American virologist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln who discovered PBCV-1, the first virus of algae, opening the study of giant algal viruses.

James W. Dennis

James W. Dennis is a Canadian cancer biologist and glycobiologist, Senior Investigator Emeritus at Toronto's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, known for pioneering work on N-glycan branching and metastatic spread.

James W. Fawcett

James W. Fawcett, born in 1950, is a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge known for work on CNS axon regeneration, chondroitinase ABC, and perineuronal nets.

James W. Posakony

James W. Posakony is an American developmental geneticist, emeritus professor at UC San Diego since 1985, known for elucidating the Notch signaling pathway in the fruit fly Drosophila.

James Watson (Nobel laureate)

James Watson was an American molecular biologist who, with Francis Crick, proposed the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, winning the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

James Whelan (plant biologist)

James Whelan, also known as Jim Whelan, is an Australian plant biologist elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2019 while at La Trobe University.

James Whisstock

James C. Whisstock is an Australian structural biologist at Monash University whose laboratory determines the structures of proteins controlling blood coagulation and the immune toxin perforin.

James Wyngaarden

James Wyngaarden (1924–2019) was an American physician-biochemist and authority on purine biosynthesis and gout who served as Duke's chair of medicine and the twelfth NIH director.

Jamey D. Marth

Jamey D. Marth is an American molecular and cellular biologist who studies protein glycosylation and its links to diabetes, sepsis, and autoimmunity, and is a professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys in La Jolla, California.

Jamie Rossjohn

Jamie Rossjohn, born 1969, is a Welsh structural biologist at Monash University in Melbourne known for showing how T cells recognize lipids and vitamin B metabolites.

Jamshed R. Tata

Jamshed R. Tata (1930–2020) was an Indian-born British endocrinologist who showed that thyroid hormones act by regulating gene expression, working at Mill Hill in London.

Jan Born

Jan Born (born 1958 in Celle) is a German neuroscientist who directs the Department of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology at the University of Tübingen.

Jan Bureš

Jan Bureš (1926–2012) was a Czech neuroscientist at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, known for turning cortical spreading depression into a tool for reversible brain lesions.

Jan Carette

Jan E. Carette is a virologist and geneticist who is Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford, known for using haploid and CRISPR screens to find host genes viruses need.

Jan E. Schnitzer

Jan E. Schnitzer is an American physician-scientist in vascular biology who founded and directs PRISM in La Jolla, California, and showed caveolae pump molecules from blood into tissue.

Jan Ellenberg

Jan Ellenberg, born 1967 in Hamburg, is a German cell biologist known for quantitative live-cell imaging of mitosis, and Director of SciLifeLab in Sweden since 2024.

Jan Evangelista Purkyně

Jan Evangelista Purkyně (Purkinje), Czech physiologist (1787–1869), professor at Breslau and Prague; discoverer of Purkinje fibers, Purkinje cells, and the Purkinje phenomenon, founder of early physiology institutes and Czech science journal Živa.

Jan Funke

Jan Funke is a computer scientist who develops machine-learning methods for reconstructing nervous systems, and co-authored the 2024 Nature paper presenting the first wiring diagram of a whole adult brain.

Jan G.M. Klijn

Jan G.M. Klijn, also known as Jan Klijn, is a Dutch breast cancer researcher at the Rotterdam Cancer Institute, known for the MRISC screening study.

Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers

Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers is a Dutch molecular geneticist who studies DNA repair, aging, and cancer, and cloned the first human DNA repair gene, ERCC1, in 1984.

Jan Holmgren

Jan Holmgren is a Swedish microbiologist, immunologist, and vaccinologist at the University of Gothenburg, known for work on cholera toxin and for developing the oral cholera vaccine Dukoral.

Jan Huisken

Jan Huisken, born 1974, is a German physicist turned developmental biologist who co-invented light sheet microscopy (SPIM) in 2004 and heads a lab at the University of Göttingen.

Jan Karlseder

Jan Karlseder is an Austrian-born molecular biologist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, who studies telomeres and aging, and has been the institute's chief science officer since 2024.

Jan Klein

Jan Klein (1936–2023) was a Czech-American immunologist and founder of modern immunogenetics who directed the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen from 1977 to 2004.

Jan Lohmann

Jan U. Lohmann is a German plant developmental biologist who studies how plant stem cells are maintained, and heads the Department of Stem Cell Biology at Heidelberg University.

Jan Löwe

Jan Löwe is a German structural biologist, Director of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge since 2018, known for determining the structures of bacterial cytoskeletal proteins such as FtsZ.