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Jeffrey L. Wrana

Jeffrey L. Wrana, also known as Jeff Wrana, is a molecular biologist and Senior Investigator at Toronto's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, known for defining TGFβ signaling through Smad proteins.

Jeffrey Lorch

Jeffrey Lorch is a wildlife disease microbiologist at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin, known for identifying the fungi behind white-nose syndrome and snake fungal disease.

Jeffrey Louis Goldberg

Jeffrey Louis Goldberg is an American ophthalmologist and vision scientist who chairs Ophthalmology at Stanford's Byers Eye Institute and studies retinal ganglion cell degeneration in glaucoma.

Jeffrey M. Leiden

Jeffrey M. Leiden is an American physician-scientist in molecular biology, immunology, and gene therapy who cloned key transcription factors and later served as President and CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

Jeffrey M. Rosen

Jeffrey M. Rosen is an American cancer biologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, who leads its Breast Cancer Program and studies mammary gland development and breast cancer.

Jeffrey M. Trent

Jeffrey M. Trent, born in 1952, is an American cancer geneticist known for research on melanoma genomics and as founding scientific director of NHGRI's intramural research division.

Jeffrey Milbrandt

Jeffrey Milbrandt is an American physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine known for discovering neurturin and showing that the enzyme SARM1 drives axon degeneration.

Jeffrey N. Strathern

Jeffrey N. Strathern is a molecular biologist known for working out the mechanism of mating-type switching in budding yeast, at Cold Spring Harbor and the National Cancer Institute.

Jeffrey N. Weiser

Jeffrey N. Weiser is a physician-scientist and C.V. Starr Professor of Microbiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies respiratory bacterial pathogenesis, especially the pneumococcus.

Jeffrey R. Holt

Jeffrey R. Holt is a Harvard Medical School neuroscientist who established TMC1 as the inner ear's mechanotransduction channel and pioneered gene therapies that restored hearing in deaf mice.

Jeffrey Rathmell

Jeffrey C. Rathmell is an American immunologist known for establishing T cell immunometabolism; he became chair of cancer research at the University of Chicago in 2025.

Jeffrey Ravetch

Jeffrey V. Ravetch, born 1951, is an immunologist and professor at The Rockefeller University whose work on antibody Fc receptors shaped engineered antibody drugs for cancer and autoimmunity.

Jeffrey Roberts

Jeffrey Warren Roberts, born 1944, is an American molecular biologist and biochemist, the Robert J. Appel Professor Emeritus at Cornell University known for discovering the Rho transcription termination factor.

Jeffrey S. Chamberlain

Jeffrey S. Chamberlain is an American molecular geneticist at the University of Washington who invented micro-dystrophin, work underlying the first FDA-approved gene therapy for a muscular dystrophy.

Jeffrey S. Diamond

Jeffrey S. Diamond is an American neuroscientist at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Scientific Director since 2023, known for work on glutamate transporters and retinal computation.

Jeffrey S. Kieft

Jeffrey S. Kieft is an RNA structural biologist and virologist known for work on viral IRES RNAs, and Executive Director of the New York Structural Biology Center since 2023.

Jeffrey Skolnick

Jeffrey Skolnick is a computational biologist, Regents' Professor, and director of the Center for the Study of Systems Biology at Georgia Tech, known for the TASSER structure prediction method.

Jeffrey T Morgan

Jeffrey T. Morgan is an American molecular biologist who studies how cells sense their metabolic environment, known for showing that excised intron RNAs regulate growth in yeast.

Jeffrey W. Pollard

Jeffrey W. Pollard (1950–2023) was a British biologist who showed that macrophages help cancers spread, and founded the immuno-oncology company Macomics. He led the MRC Centre for Reproductive Health at the University of Edinburgh.

Jeffries Wyman

Jeffries Wyman (1814–1874) was an American comparative anatomist, physiologist, and anthropologist, first Hersey Professor of Anatomy at Harvard, whose 1847 gorilla memoir with Thomas Savage gave science its first full account of the ape.

Jeffry S. Isaacson

Jeffry S. Isaacson is an American neuroscientist and Emeritus Professor of Neurosciences at UC San Diego who studies how inhibition shapes sensory processing in the olfactory system.

Jen Sheen

Jen Sheen is a plant biologist, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and a Molecular Biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for glucose sensing and MAP kinase immune signaling in Arabidopsis.

Jennifer A. Doudna

Jennifer A. Doudna, born 1964, is an American biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, who developed CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing and shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Jennifer A. Marshall Graves

Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, born 1941, is an Australian geneticist known for work on mammalian sex chromosome evolution and predicting the human Y chromosome's disappearance.

Jennifer A. Pietenpol

Jennifer A. Pietenpol is an American cancer researcher at Vanderbilt University known for work on p53 tumor suppressors and molecular subtyping of triple-negative breast cancer.

Jennifer Barrila

Jennifer Barrila is a microbiologist and Assistant Research Professor at Arizona State University known for studying how spaceflight alters microbial virulence and host-pathogen interactions, and for receiving a PECASE award from NASA.

Jennifer Elizabeth Phillips-Cremins

Jennifer Elizabeth Phillips-Cremins, known as Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins, is an American epigenetics researcher studying 3D genome folding in neurons, and a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

Jennifer Gillette

Jennifer Gillette is an American cell biologist at the University of New Mexico who studies bone marrow stem cells and leukemia, and received a PECASE award.

Jennifer L. Gerton

Jennifer L. Gerton is a geneticist at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri, who studies centromeres and how chromosomes segregate during cell division.

Jennifer L. Gommerman

Jennifer L. Gommerman is a Canadian immunologist at the University of Toronto whose research on IgA-producing gut cells established a gut-to-brain axis suppressing neuroinflammation in multiple sclerosis.