Life scientists

Janos Κ. Lanyi

Janos K. Lanyi is a biochemist and biophysicist, Professor Emeritus of Physiology and Biophysics at UC Irvine, known for determining how bacteriorhodopsin pumps protons and halorhodopsin pumps chloride using light.

Janusz Bujnicki

Janusz Bujnicki is a Polish bioinformatician and structural biologist who heads a laboratory at IIMCB in Warsaw and created the MODOMICS database of RNA modifications.

Jaqueline Barton

Jaqueline Barton, born 1952, is an American chemist at Caltech known for establishing that DNA mediates long-range charge transport; her honors include the National Medal of Science and the Priestley Medal.

Jared E. Toettcher

Jared E. Toettcher is a molecular biologist and Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University who studies cell signaling and engineers light-sensitive proteins to control pathways with optogenetics.

Jared J. Grantham

Jared J. Grantham, also known as Jared Grantham, was an American nephrologist at the University of Kansas who established how cysts grow in polycystic kidney disease and co-founded the PKD Foundation.

Jari Björne

Jari Björne (Jari Bjorne) is a Finnish computer scientist and docent of biomedical data science at the University of Turku, known for the Turku Event Extraction System (TEES).

Jaroslaw P. Maciejewski

Jaroslaw P. Maciejewski is an American hematologist-oncologist who chairs Translational Hematology and Oncology Research at Cleveland Clinic's Taussig Cancer Institute, known for bone marrow failure research.

Jasmine Quynh Le

Jasmine Quynh Le is a neurobiologist studying circadian rhythms, sleep, and visual processing in fruit flies, known for single-cell and CRISPR methods for tiny neuron populations.

Jason Cyster

Jason G. Cyster is an American immunologist, professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and HHMI investigator known for work on lymphocyte trafficking and germinal center biology.

Jason D Wittenbach

Jason D Wittenbach is an American computational neuroscientist known for work on recurrent circuits in the cerebral cortex and computational tools for whole-brain functional imaging.

Jason D. Buenrostro

Jason D. Buenrostro is an American molecular biologist at Harvard and the Broad Institute who created ATAC-seq, the standard method for mapping open chromatin, and won a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship.

Jason E. Gestwicki

Jason E. Gestwicki is a chemical biologist and professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at UCSF who studies molecular chaperones such as Hsp70 and Hsp90 in neurodegeneration and cancer.

Jason Lieb

Jason D. Lieb is a chromatin biologist who co-developed FAIRE, mapped genome-wide protein–DNA binding, and worked on the ENCODE project before resigning from Chicago in 2016.

Jason M. Haugh

Jason M. Haugh is a quantitative cell biologist, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University, and a 2002 recipient of the PECASE award.

Jason Micklefield

Jason Micklefield is a chemical biologist who discovered and engineered enzymes for antibiotic biosynthesis and amide synthesis, and became Professor at Imperial College London in 2024.

Jason Moffat

Jason Moffat is a Canadian molecular geneticist, Program Head of Genetics and Genome Biology at SickKids in Toronto, known for genome-scale CRISPR screens that identified 1,580 human core fitness genes.

Jason N. D. Kerr

Jason N. D. Kerr is a New Zealand-born neuroscientist who studies how mammals use vision to make decisions and builds head-mounted microscopes for freely moving rodents.

Jason R. Swedlow

Jason R. Swedlow is an American-born biophysicist and cell biologist at the University of Dundee who studies mitotic chromosome dynamics and co-founded the Open Microscopy Environment.

Jason W. Locasale

Jason W. Locasale is an American cancer metabolism researcher known for work on the Warburg effect, serine metabolism, and dietary methionine restriction as a cancer therapy.

Jasper Rine

Jasper Rine is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley known for discovering the four Sir genes of budding yeast and founding the Dog Genome Project.

Javier F. Cáceres

Javier F. Cáceres is an Argentine molecular biologist, Professor of RNA and Gene Expression at the University of Edinburgh, known for work on alternative splicing and microRNA biogenesis.

Javier Valdes Aleman

Javier Valdés-Aleman is a Drosophila neuroscientist and connectomics researcher, a postdoctoral associate at UCLA who worked on the 2023 mapping of an insect brain's complete connectome.

Jay A. Berzofsky

Jay A. Berzofsky is an American immunologist who led the National Cancer Institute's Vaccine Branch from 2003 to 2024, known for HIV and cancer vaccine research.

Jay A. Gottfried

Jay A. Gottfried, also known as Jay Gottfried, is a physician-scientist studying human olfaction, and a professor of Neurology and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania since 2017.

Jay A. Levy

Jay A. Levy, born 1938, is an American virologist and UCSF professor emeritus who isolated the AIDS virus in 1983 and described the CD8+ cell antiviral response to HIV.

Jay D. Gralla

Jay D. Gralla is an American DNA biochemist and Professor Emeritus at UCLA, known for basic studies of the biochemical steps of transcription initiation in bacteria, yeast, and humans.

Jay D. Keasling

Jay D. Keasling, also known as Jay Keasling, is an American synthetic biologist at UC Berkeley known for engineering yeast to make the antimalarial drug artemisinin and for biofuels.

Jay Dunlap

Jay C. Dunlap is a chronobiologist and geneticist at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2009, known for analyzing the Neurospora crassa circadian clock.

Jay H. Chung

Jay H. Chung is an American endocrinologist and senior investigator at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, known for his 2012 resveratrol mechanism finding.