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Jan Münch
Jan Münch is a German virologist, professor of molecular virology at Ulm University Medical Center, known for discovering in 2007 that semen amyloid fibrils enhance HIV infection.
Jan Skotheim
Jan M. Skotheim is a systems biologist and Professor of Biology at Stanford University known for identifying the inhibitor dilution mechanism by which cell growth controls division.
Jan Smeitink
Jan Smeitink, born 1956 in Arnhem, is a Dutch pediatrician and professor of mitochondrial medicine who headed Radboud's metabolic diseases department from 1996 to 2020 and founded Khondrion.
Jan Vijg
Jan Vijg is a Dutch-born geneticist known for work on somatic mutation, genome instability, and aging, and chair of the genetics department at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Jan Zeevaart
Jan Zeevaart, full name Jan Adriaan Dingenis Zeevaart, was a Dutch-American plant biologist at Michigan State University known for florigen grafting experiments and abscisic acid biosynthesis.
Jan-Ακε Gustafsson
Jan-Åke Gustafsson (1943–2026) was a Swedish molecular biologist who discovered estrogen receptor beta and led nuclear receptor research at Karolinska Institutet and the University of Houston.
Jan‐Michael Peters
Jan-Michael Peters is a German cell biologist, born in 1962, who studies the cohesin complex and leads the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.
Jan‐Willem Veening
Jan-Willem Veening is a Dutch microbiologist and full professor at the University of Lausanne since 2016, known for single-cell studies of pneumococcal cell division and the CcrZ cell-cycle regulator.
Janaki Ammal
Janaki Ammal (Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal, 1897–1984), Indian botanist and cytogeneticist; first Indian woman PhD in botany (Michigan, 1931); bred sweeter sugarcane at Coimbatore, co-authored the 1945 Chromosome Atlas, led the Botanical Survey of India, and helped save Kerala's Silent Valley.
Janardan K. Reddy
Janardan K. Reddy, also known as J. K. Reddy, is a pathologist at Northwestern University who identified peroxisome proliferators as chemical carcinogens and hypothesized the PPAR receptors.
Jane Dodd
Jane Dodd is a neuroscientist at Columbia University known for research on how the embryonic spinal cord is patterned and how growing axons find their paths.
Jane E. Parker
Jane E. Parker is a British plant scientist who studies plant innate immunity and leads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne.
Jane E. Salmon
Jane E. Salmon is an American rheumatologist and physician-scientist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York whose research established how complement-driven inflammation causes pregnancy complications in lupus and antiphospholipid syndrome.
Jane K. Setlow
Jane K. Setlow was a geneticist who, with her husband Richard at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, showed in 1962 that UV-induced thymine dimers cause DNA damage.
Jane Langdale
Jane A. Langdale is Professor of Plant Development at the University of Oxford, known for research on leaf evolution and for coordinating the C4 Rice Project.
Jane Mellor
Jane Mellor is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford who studies chromatin remodeling and gene regulation, known for 1985 Nature papers establishing yeast Ty as retrovirus-like.
Jane Shelby Richardson
Jane Shelby Richardson is an American protein structural biologist at Duke University, born in 1941, known for inventing ribbon diagrams, naming protein folds, and the MolProbity service.
Jane Visvader
Jane E. Visvader is an Australian molecular biologist at WEHI, Melbourne, known for identifying the breast stem cell and defining the cells from which breast cancers arise.
Janet Heasman
Janet Heasman is a British-born developmental biologist who defined how maternal gene products pattern the early Xenopus embryo and pioneered morpholino antisense gene knockdown in vertebrates.
Janet Iwasa
Janet Iwasa is an American cell biologist turned molecular animator who leads the Animation Lab at the University of Utah, creating visualizations of HIV, SARS-CoV-2, and other molecular processes.
Janet Kelso
Janet Kelso is a South African bioinformatician who leads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, co-authoring the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes.
Janet L. Smith
Janet L. Smith is an American structural biologist at the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute who uses X-ray crystallography to determine structures of viral proteins and biosynthetic enzymes.
Janet M. Thornton
Janet M. Thornton is a British structural bioinformaticist who developed PROCHECK and the CATH protein classification and led EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute from 2001 to 2015.
Janet Rossant
Janet Rossant is a Canadian developmental biologist at SickKids in Toronto who discovered the trophoblast stem cell, defined early embryo cell fate, and led the Gairdner Foundation for ten years.
Janet Werker
Janet Werker is a Canadian developmental psychologist at the University of British Columbia who studies how infants perceive speech and how that perception is tuned to the native language during the first year of life.
Janez Plavec
Janez Plavec is a Slovenian structural biologist who heads the Slovenian NMR Centre at the National Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana and identified four-stranded DNA structures named AGCGA-quadruplexes in 2017.
Janina Ferbinteanu
Janina Ferbinteanu is a behavioral neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine, known for showing that hippocampal neurons encode past, current, and future locations during memory-guided navigation.
Janine T. Erler
Janine Terra Erler is a professor at the University of Copenhagen's Biotech Research and Innovation Centre known for identifying lysyl oxidase as a driver of cancer metastasis.
Jannie Borst
Jannie Borst, born 1957, is a Dutch immunologist known for work on the T-cell receptor complex and costimulatory signals relevant to cancer immunotherapy, leading immunology divisions at the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Leiden University.
János Szentágothai
János Szentágothai, born János Schimert (1912–1994), was a Hungarian neuroanatomist who co-created the classic 1967 cerebellar model and proposed the modular architectonics of the cerebral cortex.