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Joakim Lundeberg

Joakim Lundeberg is a professor of molecular biotechnology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, known for co-developing spatial transcriptomics, named Method of the Year 2020 by Nature Methods.

Joan A. Steitz

Joan A. Steitz is an American biochemist, Sterling Professor at Yale University, whose laboratory discovered that snRNPs carry out pre-mRNA splicing, removing noncoding segments from messenger RNA precursors.

Joan Brugge

Joan S. Brugge is an American cancer cell biologist at Harvard Medical School known for isolating the Src protein and for work on entosis and breast tissue models.

Joan C. Marini

Joan C. Marini is a medical geneticist who leads the bone and extracellular matrix section at NIH's NICHD, known for discovering recessive osteogenesis imperfecta genes.

Joan Folkes

Joan P. Folkes, born 1927, is a biochemist who worked on bacterial protein synthesis and antibiotic action at Cambridge, nominated once for the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Joan Goverman

Joan Goverman is an American immunologist and professor emeritus at the University of Washington known for T cell receptor transgenic mouse models of multiple sclerosis.

Joan M. O’Brien

Joan M. O'Brien is an American ophthalmologist and geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies the genetics of eye disease, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2013.

Joan Ruderman

Joan Ruderman is an American cell and developmental biologist known for her work on cell-division control in clam and frog embryos and, later, for research on hormone-disrupting pollutants.

Joan S. Valentine

Joan Selverstone Valentine (born 1945) is an American bioinorganic chemist at UCLA known for her work on superoxide dismutase enzymes and how SOD1 mutations cause inherited ALS.

Joan Seoane

Joan Seoane is a Spanish cancer biologist and ICREA Research Professor who leads research on TGF-β signaling, glioblastoma, and brain metastasis at the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology in Barcelona.

Joan W. Bennett

Joan W. Bennett is an American mycologist known for research on aflatoxin genetics in Aspergillus and fungal volatile organic compounds, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.

Joan W. Conaway

Joan W. Conaway, also known as Joan Weliky Conaway, is an American biochemist who studies RNA polymerase II transcription and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Joana Caetano-Lopes

Joana Caetano-Lopes is a Portuguese-trained biomedical scientist known for research on how chronic inflammation weakens bone in rheumatoid arthritis, now in drug discovery at Blueprint Medicines.

Joanne Chory

Joanne Chory (1955–2024) was an American plant biologist and geneticist at the Salk Institute who pioneered molecular genetics of light and hormone signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Joanne Kahlenberg

Joanne Michelle Kahlenberg is a physician-scientist and professor at the University of Michigan Medical School known for studies of cutaneous lupus, psoriasis, and keratinocytes as immune cells called cytokinocytes.

João H. Morais‐Cabral

João H. Morais-Cabral is a Portuguese structural biochemist at i3S in Porto known for crystal structures of the hERG potassium channel and bacterial KtrAB transporter.

Joaquím Roca

Joaquím Roca, also known as Joaquim Roca, is a Spanish molecular biologist at CSIC known for establishing the two-gate mechanism of type II DNA topoisomerases.

Joaquı́n Castilla

Joaquín Castilla (Joaquín Castilla Castrillón) is a Spanish molecular biologist who studies prion diseases, heading the Prion Research Lab at CIC bioGUNE in Derio, Spain, since 2009.

Joaquı́n Dopazo

Joaquín Dopazo is a Spanish computational biologist and biomedical data scientist, born in 1961, known for the FatiGO tool and Babelomics suite of genomic analysis resources.

Joaquı́n M. Espinosa

Joaquín M. Espinosa is an Argentine-American molecular biologist, Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Colorado and Executive Director of the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome.

Joaquı́n Mateo

Joaquín Mateo is a Spanish medical oncologist and prostate cancer researcher who leads the Prostate Cancer Research Group at the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology in Barcelona.

Job Dekker

Job Dekker is a Dutch-born molecular biologist and geneticist at UMass Chan Medical School known for developing chromosome conformation capture, which opened the 3D genome to measurement.

Jochen Guck

Jochen Guck (1973–2025) was a German biophysicist known for the optical stretcher and real-time deformability cytometry, and director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light.

Jochen Rink

Jochen C. Rink, born 1976, is a developmental biologist directing the Department of Tissue Dynamics and Regeneration at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen.

Jochen Zimmer

Jochen Zimmer is a structural biologist and HHMI Investigator at the University of Virginia who determines the structures of membrane machines that build and transport sugar polymers like cellulose.

Jodi Nunnari

Jodi Nunnari is an American cell biologist known for her work on mitochondrial fission and fusion, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Jody Rosenblatt

Jody Rosenblatt is a cell biologist known for discovering epithelial cell extrusion, the squeezing of dying cells out of a layer without gaps, and is a professor at King's College London.

Joe Leigh Simpson

Joe Leigh Simpson is an American reproductive geneticist at Florida International University, a member of the National Academy of Medicine and Sciences, and former president of several reproductive medicine societies.

Joe Lutkenhaus

Joe Lutkenhaus is an American bacterial geneticist at the University of Kansas Medical Center who identified FtsZ as the central protein of bacterial cell division.

Joe M. McCord

Joe M. McCord is an American biochemist who co-discovered the antioxidant enzyme superoxide dismutase in 1969 as a graduate student with Irwin Fridovich at Duke University.