Life scientists

Jeremy Schmutz

Jeremy Schmutz is an American plant genomicist who co-directs the Genome Sequencing Center at HudsonAlpha in Huntsville, Alabama, and leads the Joint Genome Institute's Plant Program.

Jeremy Thorner

Jeremy Thorner is an American biochemist at UC Berkeley known for research on signal transduction in budding yeast, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Jernej Ule

Jernej Ule is a Slovenian RNA biologist who leads the UK Dementia Research Institute center at King's College London and developed the CLIP method for mapping RNA–protein interactions.

Jeroen Raes

Jeroen Raes is a Belgian microbiome researcher, professor at KU Leuven and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Bacteriology at the Rega Institute, known for gut enterotypes.

Jeroen S. Dickschat

Jeroen S. Dickschat (born 1977) is a German bioorganic chemist and professor at the University of Bonn who studies microbial terpene biosynthesis and enzyme mechanisms.

Jerold Chun

Jerold Chun is a molecular neuroscientist, MD and PhD from Stanford, known for lysophospholipid receptor discovery and his somatic gene recombination proposal for Alzheimer's disease.

Jerome A. Zack

Jerome A. Zack is a virologist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA known for research on HIV latency and for developing humanized mouse models of HIV infection.

Jérôme Déjardin

Jérôme Déjardin (born 1975) is a French molecular biologist who heads the Genome Dynamics department at the Institut de Génétique Humaine in Montpellier and developed PICh.

Jerome I. Rotter is an American medical geneticist and genetic epidemiologist known for the genetics of common diseases, especially diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease, in multi-ethnic American populations.

Jerome Kim

Jerome Kim (Korean name Kim Han-sik, 김한식) is an American physician-scientist who has led the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul since 2015, after leading the RV144 HIV vaccine trial in Thailand.

Jerome Vinograd

Jerome Vinograd (1913–1976) was an American biophysical chemist at Caltech, called by The New York Times one of the foremost DNA researchers, known for density gradient ultracentrifugation and closed circular DNA.

Jerry A. Coyne

Jerry A. Coyne, also known as Jerry Coyne, is an American evolutionary geneticist at the University of Chicago known for research on the genetics of speciation.

Jerry B. Lingrel

Jerry B. Lingrel (1935–2020) was an American molecular biologist at the University of Cincinnati whose laboratory identified hemoglobin mRNA and mapped the goat globin gene cluster.

Jerry E. Chipuk

Jerry Edward Chipuk is an American cell biologist known for research on mitochondria, cell death, and cancer, who joined Florida International University as department chair in 2026.

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Jerry H.-C. Wang

Jerry H.-C. Wang, born in China in 1937 and trained in Taiwan and the United States, is a Canada-based biochemist who discovered calmodulin, winning the 1981 Canada Gairdner International Award.

Jerry L. Workman

Jerry L. Workman is an American biochemist at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research who pioneered the study of chromatin in transcription regulation and discovered the SAGA complex.

Jerry M. Adams

Jerry M. Adams, born 1940, is an American-born Australian molecular biologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne whose work established how Myc translocations drive Burkitt lymphoma and how Bcl-2 blocks cell death.

Jerry P. Palmer

Jerry P. Palmer was an American physician and diabetes researcher at the University of Washington, the first to describe insulin autoantibodies in insulin-naive type 1 diabetes patients.

Jerry Pelletier

Jerry Pelletier was a molecular biologist at McGill University, a world leader in protein synthesis whose work showed that translation is a druggable vulnerability of tumor cells.

Jerry R. McGhee

Jerry R. McGhee is an immunologist and professor of microbiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham whose work established how mucosal surfaces mount antibody defenses through secretory IgA.

Jerry Silver

Jerry Silver (died 2025, age 77) was an American neuroscientist at Case Western Reserve University who showed that scar molecules called CSPGs block nerve regrowth after spinal cord injury.

Jerry W. Shay

Jerry W. Shay (born 1945 in Dallas, Texas) is an American cell biologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center known for research on telomeres and telomerase in cancer and aging.

Jerzy E. Rose

Jerzy E. Rose (Jerzy Edwin Rose) was a Polish-born American neuroscientist in auditory neurophysiology who, with Clinton Woolsey, shaped the first view of auditory cortex organization.

Jerzy Edwin Rose

Jerzy Edwin Rose (1909–1992) was a Polish-born American neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.

Jerzy Konorski

Jerzy Konorski (1903–1973) was a Polish neurophysiologist who, with Stefan Miller, discovered instrumental conditioning in 1928, founded the Polish School of Brain Physiology, and headed neurophysiology at the Nencki Institute in Warsaw.

Jerzy Paszkowski

Jerzy Paszkowski, known informally as Jurek Paszkowski, is a plant biologist who studies epigenetic inheritance in plants, a Geneva professor until 2011 and later at Cambridge.

Jesper Pallesen

Jesper Pallesen is a cryo-electron microscopist and structural biologist, trained with Nobel laureate Joachim Frank at Columbia, now an assistant professor at the Wistar Institute working on ribosomes and vaccine design.

Jesper Q. Svejstrup

Jesper Q. Svejstrup is a Danish molecular biologist who studies RNA polymerase II transcription and DNA repair, and is a professor at the University of Copenhagen.

Jesse Bloom

Jesse D. Bloom is an American evolutionary biologist and virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and an HHMI Investigator, known for deep mutational scanning of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza.