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Jesse Schank

Jesse R. Schank is an American neuropharmacologist at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine who studies how the neurokinin-1 receptor drives alcohol and opioid seeking behavior.

Jessica Belser

Jessica Belser is an American research microbiologist in the CDC's Influenza Division in Atlanta, known for H5N1 avian influenza risk assessment and Ebola virus diagnostics during the West African epidemic.

Jessica E. Treisman

Jessica E. Treisman is a molecular biologist and professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies how cells communicate during development using the fruit fly visual system.

Jessica Tyler

Jessica Tyler is a British-born American molecular biologist and professor at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, known for her work on histone chaperones and chromatin assembly during DNA repair.

Jessica Whited

Jessica Whited is an American regenerative biologist and Harvard associate professor who studies how axolotl salamanders regrow entire limbs, finding that amputation activates stem cells throughout the body.

Jesús Ávila

Jesús Ávila is a Spanish biochemist, born in Madrid in 1945, who has studied the tau protein and Alzheimer's disease for over forty years at the CSIC.

Jesús Gil

Jesús Gil is a Spanish cell biologist who studies cellular senescence in aging and cancer, leading the Senescence Research Group at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences in London.

Jesús González

Jesús (Tito) González is an ion-channel biologist, formerly of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, who developed the fluorescent assay that made high-throughput screening of cystic fibrosis drugs possible.

Ji Luo

Ji Luo is a cancer biologist and Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, who studies how the KRAS oncogene keeps tumor cells alive.

Ji-Joon Song

Ji-Joon Song (송지준) is a South Korean structural biologist and professor at KAIST in Daejeon, known for the first Argonaute crystal structure and full-length Huntingtin characterization.

Ji‐Won Yoon

Ji-Won Yoon is a molecular diabetologist who showed viruses can trigger diabetes in animals and led the Julia McFarlane Diabetes Research Centre at the University of Calgary.

Ji‐Xin Cheng

Ji-Xin Cheng is a Chinese-born biophotonics scientist who developed label-free vibrational microscopy, including mid-infrared photothermal microscopy, and is the inaugural Theodore Moustakas Chair Professor at Boston University.

Jian Feng

Jian Feng Ma (馬建鋒) is a Japan-based plant nutritionist and professor at Okayama University, known for identifying the first silicon transporters in higher plants and breeding low-cadmium rice.

Jian Ma

Jian Ma is a computational biologist, professor, and interim department head at Carnegie Mellon University who develops biologically grounded AI for studying the 3D folding of the genome inside cell nuclei.

Jian Payandeh

Jian Payandeh is a structural biologist known for determining atomic structures of voltage-gated sodium channels, including the pain target Nav1.7 and the sodium leak channel NALCN.

Jian Ping Gong

Jian Ping Gong (龔 剣萍) is a polymer scientist at Hokkaido University known for inventing double-network hydrogels and winning the 2023 APS Polymer Physics Prize.

Jian Yang (molecular biologist, Columbia University)

Jian Yang (杨建) is a molecular biologist known for work on voltage-gated calcium and cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels, long a professor at Columbia University until 2024.

Jian Yang (molecular biologist, The University of Queensland)

Jian Yang (杨剑) is a Chinese statistical geneticist at Westlake University, known for developing GCTA and showing that missing heritability comes from many tiny variant effects.

Jian‐Ren Shen

Jian-Ren Shen (沈建仁), born 1961, is a Japanese-based structural biologist at Okayama University who determined the 1.9 Å crystal structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II and won the Gregori Aminoff Prize.

Jianguo Xia

Jianguo (Jeff) Xia is a bioinformatician at McGill University who has worked in Canada since 2004 and is known as the creator of MetaboAnalyst, a widely used metabolomics web platform.

Jianhua Yu

Jianhua Yu is a cancer immunologist known for natural killer cell and CAR-NK research, formerly founding director of the NK Cell Research Program at City of Hope and a professor at UC Irvine since 2024.

Jianming Li

Jianming Li (李建明) is a Chinese plant biologist who cloned BRI1, the receptor that lets plant cells sense brassinosteroid growth hormones, and its co-receptor BAK1.

Jie Sun

Jie Sun is an immunologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia who studies how the immune system causes and then repairs lung injury after viral infections like influenza and COVID-19.

Jikui Song

Jikui Song is a structural biologist whose laboratory determines the structures of DNA methyltransferases, explaining how DNA methylation patterns are established and maintained in mammals.

Jill Farrant

Jill Farrant is a South African professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of Cape Town who studies resurrection plants that survive extreme drying.

Jill P. Mesirov

Jill P. Mesirov, also published as Jill Mesirov, is an American computational biologist known for Gene Set Enrichment Analysis and the Molecular Signatures Database, used by over a million researchers.

Jill Wegrzyn

Jill Wegrzyn is an American computational plant genomicist at the University of Connecticut who received the 2025 PECASE and builds reference genomes and databases for forest trees.

Jim E. Riviere

Jim E. Riviere is a veterinary pharmacologist who directed research at NC State University and Kansas State University. His work focuses on drug absorption and residue science.

Jim Peacock

Jim Peacock was an Australian plant molecular biologist who led CSIRO's Division of Plant Industry from 1978 to 2003 and served as Australia's Chief Scientist from 2006 to 2008.

Jim R. Hughes

Jim R. Hughes, also published as Jim Hughes, is a molecular biologist who is Professor of Gene Regulation at the University of Oxford, known for developing the Capture-C family of genomics methods.