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Joe Pogliano

Joe Pogliano is an American molecular biologist and professor at UC San Diego, known for discovering the phage nucleus and developing Bacterial Cytological Profiling for antibiotics.

Joe Sambrook

Joe Sambrook (1939–2019) was a British-born Australian molecular biologist who mapped DNA tumor virus integration at Cold Spring Harbor, co-authored the manual Molecular Cloning, and led cancer research in Melbourne.

Joeanna Arthur

Joeanna Arthur is an American cognitive neuroscientist who applies vision science to geospatial intelligence, won a 2012 PECASE at NGA, and joined DARPA's Biological Technologies Office in 2022.

Joel A. Huberman

Joel A. Huberman is an American molecular biologist known for work on eukaryotic DNA replication, who led a laboratory at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York.

Joel Asaph Allen

Joel Asaph Allen (1838–1921) was an American zoologist who formulated Allen's rule, that warm-blooded animals in colder climates have shorter extremities, and curated birds and mammals at the American Museum of Natural History.

Joel D. Richter

Joel D. Richter is an American molecular biologist and professor at UMass Chan Medical School, known for work on mRNA translational control by cytoplasmic polyadenylation and the CPEB protein.

Joel G. Belasco

Joel G. Belasco is a molecular biologist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies how messenger RNA degradation controls gene expression in bacteria and mammalian cells.

Joel Gelernter

Joel Gelernter is an American psychiatrist and human geneticist at Yale University School of Medicine, known for large multi-ancestry genome-wide studies of problematic alcohol use and cannabis use disorder.

Joel Gottesfeld

Joel M. Gottesfeld is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, known for chromatin research and HDAC inhibitors for Friedreich's ataxia.

Joel Griffitts

Joel Griffitts is an American microbiologist at Brigham Young University who studies bacterial genes that decide whether a strain benefits plants or acts like a pathogen.

Joel L. Rosenbaum

Joel L. Rosenbaum is an American cell biologist and Yale professor emeritus whose laboratory discovered intraflagellar transport, opening the study of ciliary diseases called ciliopathies.

Joel L. Sussman

Joel L. Sussman is a structural biologist and Professor Emeritus at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for determining the first 3D structure of acetylcholinesterase and co-developing Proteopedia.

Joel N. Hirschhorn

Joel N. Hirschhorn is an American human geneticist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School who chairs the GIANT consortium studying the genes behind human height and obesity.

Joel Voss

Joel Voss is an American cognitive neuroscientist known for network-targeted noninvasive brain stimulation of the hippocampal memory system and lesion-based mapping of depression circuits, now at the University of Chicago.

Joerg Bewersdorf

Joerg Bewersdorf (Jörg Bewersdorf) is a German-born physicist and Yale professor who develops super-resolution light microscopy, including DNA-PAINT and expansion microscopy, for biomedical research.

Johan Åqvist

Johan Åqvist is a Swedish professor of theoretical chemistry at Uppsala University, known for empirical valence bond simulations of enzyme reactions and studies of ion channels.

Johan Ericson

Johan Ericson is a Swedish developmental neuroscientist, Professor of Developmental Biology at Karolinska Institutet since 2006, known for neural patterning research and stem cell therapies for Parkinson's disease.

Johan Hofkens

Johan Hofkens is a Belgian chemist and full professor at KU Leuven known for single-molecule fluorescence microscopy, including a 2006 Nature study mapping catalytic activity across a crystal by counting individual turnover events.

Johan Paulsson

Johan Paulsson is a Swedish mathematician and systems biologist at Harvard Medical School, a professor there since 2005 who studies how random molecular fluctuations dictate life in single cells.

Johann Deisenhofer

Johann Deisenhofer, born in 1943, is a German American biochemist who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the first atom-by-atom structure of a membrane protein.

Johanna Ivaska

Johanna Ivaska, born 1972, is a Finnish cancer cell biologist and Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at the University of Turku, known for her work on integrins in cancer.

Johannes Büchner

Johannes Buchner (born 1960) is a German biochemist who heads the Chair of Biotechnology at the Technical University of Munich and is known for his work on molecular chaperones.

Johannes C. Walter

Johannes C. Walter, also known as Johannes Walter, is an American biochemist and HHMI investigator at Harvard Medical School who studies how vertebrate cells replicate and repair DNA.

Johannes Fibiger

Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger was a Danish physician and pathologist at Copenhagen University who won the 1926 Nobel Prize for a cancer-worm discovery later shown wrong.

Johannes Gräff

Johannes Gräff is a Swiss neuroscientist who heads the Laboratory of Neuroepigenetics at EPFL in Lausanne, studying how epigenetic mechanisms govern learning, memory, and memory loss.

Johannes Krause

Johannes Krause, born 1980, is a German archaeogeneticist who directs the Department of Archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, and won the 2026 Leibniz Prize.

Johannes L. Bos

Johannes L. Bos, known as Hans Bos, is a Dutch molecular cancer researcher, professor at UMC Utrecht from 1991, known for showing Ras mutations are frequent in human tumors and for discovering Epac.

Johannes Schmidt (Danish biologist)

Johannes Schmidt, in full Ernst Johannes Schmidt (1877–1933), was a Danish marine biologist who traced eel larvae across the Atlantic to the Sargasso Sea breeding ground.

Johannes Söding

Johannes Söding is a computational biologist who leads a Max Planck group in Göttingen and created the widely used protein bioinformatics tools HHpred, MMseqs2, and Foldseek.

Johannes von Kries

Johannes von Kries (1853–1928) was a German physiological psychologist who held the Freiburg physiology chair from 1880 and is known for the duplicity theory of vision and the Spielraum theory of probability.