Life scientists

Jeffery D. Molkentin

Jeffery D. Molkentin is an American molecular cardiologist who directs molecular cardiovascular biology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and defined the calcineurin-NFAT pathway in cardiac hypertrophy.

Jeffery F. Miller

Jeffery F. Miller is an American microbiologist at UCLA who studies bacterial pathogenesis and discovered diversity-generating retroelements, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Jeffery K. Taubenberger

Jeffery K. Taubenberger is an American virologist and pathologist who led the sequencing of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus genome and served as acting director of NIAID from 2025.

Jeffery L. Barker

Jeffery L. Barker is a cellular neuroscientist at the National Institutes of Health known for single-channel studies of how barbiturates enhance and convulsants block GABA-mediated inhibition.

Jeffery L. Dangl

Jeffery L. Dangl, born 1957, is an American plant geneticist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill known for his work on the plant immune system.

Jeffery S. Cox

Jeffery S. Cox, born 1967, is a microbiologist and professor at UC Berkeley known for work on tuberculosis, including the ESX-1 secretion system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Jeffery W. Kelly

Jeffery W. Kelly, born in 1960, is an American chemical biologist at Scripps Research whose lab discovered tafamidis, the first drug to slow a human amyloid disease.

Jeffrey A. Frelinger

Jeffrey A. Frelinger is an American immunologist at the University of Arizona known for MHC research and as president of the American Association of Immunologists.

Jeffrey A. Whitsett

Jeffrey A. Whitsett is an American physician-scientist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center whose work on surfactant proteins helped make surfactant replacement therapy routine for premature infants.

Jeffrey Benovic

Jeffrey L. Benovic is an American biochemist at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, trained under Robert Lefkowitz, known for discovering GRK2 and β-arrestin's role in receptor endocytosis.

Jeffrey C Magee

Jeffrey C Magee is a cellular and synaptic neuroscientist and HHMI Investigator at Baylor College of Medicine, known for discovering behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus.

Jeffrey C. Barrett

Jeffrey C. Barrett is a statistical geneticist known for the Haploview software, inflammatory bowel disease genetics, and the Deciphering Developmental Disorders study of rare disease.

Jeffrey C. Hall

Jeffrey C. Hall is an American geneticist at Brandeis University who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering circadian clock mechanisms.

Jeffrey C. Murray

Jeffrey C. Murray is an American pediatrician and human geneticist at the University of Iowa known for identifying the first cleft lip and palate genes.

Jeffrey D. Axelrod

Jeffrey D. Axelrod, also known as Jeffrey Axelrod, is a physician-scientist and molecular biologist who has been Professor of Pathology at Stanford since 2013, known for work on planar cell polarity.

Jeffrey D. Esko

Jeffrey D. Esko is an American cell biologist and glycobiologist at UC San Diego, known for heparan sulfate proteoglycan research and the 2020 Cell paper on SARS-CoV-2 entry.

Jeffrey D. Macklis

Jeffrey D. Macklis is a developmental neuroscientist at Harvard University known for work on how neocortical neurons are born and for inducing new neurons in the adult brain.

Jeffrey D. Palmer

Jeffrey D. Palmer is an American molecular biologist and Indiana University professor known for pioneering plant organelle genomics, discovering organelle-to-nucleus gene transfer, and entering the National Academy of Sciences in 2000.

Jeffrey D. Parvin

Jeffrey D. Parvin is a molecular biologist and physician-scientist, Professor of Biomedical Informatics at The Ohio State University, known for his research on BRCA1 and DNA repair.

Jeffrey D. Schall

Jeffrey D. Schall, also known as Jeffrey Schall, is a neurophysiologist who studies how the brain chooses and inhibits eye movements, working at Vanderbilt and York University.

Jeffrey E. Kudlow

Jeffrey E. Kudlow (1947–2009) was a molecular biologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who showed that the sugar modification O-GlcNAc regulates protein function.

Jeffrey E. Pessin

Jeffrey E. Pessin is an American biochemist and metabolism researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine who studies insulin signaling and directs its NIH-funded Diabetes Research Center.

Jeffrey G. Williams

Jeffrey G. Williams (1948–2022) was a British developmental biologist who showed that DIF acts as a morphogen patterning the slime mold Dictyostelium, winning the 2004 Waddington Medal.

Jeffrey I. Cohen

Jeffrey I. Cohen is an American physician-scientist and virologist who has been chief of NIAID's Laboratory of Infectious Diseases since 2010, known for Epstein-Barr virus vaccine candidates and identifying the varicella-zoster virus receptor.

Jeffrey I. Gordon

Jeffrey I. Gordon (born 1947) is an American physician and microbiome scientist who pioneered the study of the human gut microbiome and its role in childhood undernutrition.

Jeffrey J. Fredberg

Jeffrey J. Fredberg is a Harvard professor of bioengineering and physiology, emeritus, known for applying soft-matter physics to cells, especially the jamming and unjamming transition in asthma.

Jeffrey L. Bennetzen

Jeffrey L. Bennetzen is an American plant geneticist at the University of Georgia known for showing that transposable elements make up most of the maize genome.

Jeffrey L. Brodsky

Jeffrey L. Brodsky is an American biochemist at the University of Pittsburgh who helped discover the ERAD pathway for destroying misfolded proteins, linked to more than 70 human diseases.

Jeffrey L. Noebels

Jeffrey L. Noebels is an American neuroscientist and neurologist at Baylor College of Medicine who studies epilepsy genetics, leading the Human Channelopathy Project and discovering mouse mutants of spike-wave epilepsy.