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John C. Avise
John C. Avise, also known as J. C. Avise, is an American evolutionary geneticist, founder of phylogeography, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1991.
John C. Boothroyd
John C. Boothroyd is a parasitologist and emeritus Stanford professor whose work established trans splicing in trypanosomes and the clonal population structure of Toxoplasma gondii.
John C. Cambier
John C. Cambier is an American immunologist at the University of Colorado known for defining B cell receptor signaling and inhibitory checkpoint receptors, and for first cloning STING.
John C. Chambers
John C. Chambers is a genetic epidemiologist, Professor at Imperial College London and President's Chair at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, known for the 2016 BMI methylation study.
John C. Gerhart
John C. Gerhart, born 1936, is an American developmental biologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for work on Xenopus axis formation and deuterostome origins.
John C. Kendrew
John Cowdery Kendrew was a British biochemist and X-ray crystallographer who determined the first three-dimensional structure of a protein, myoglobin, and shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
John C. Liebeskind
John C. Liebeskind (1935–1997) was an American research psychologist at UCLA who pioneered the study of pain relief in the brain and showed that unmanaged pain can suppress the immune system.
John C. Lilly
John C. Lilly (1915–2001), American neurophysiologist who invented the isolation tank in 1954 at NIMH, pioneered dolphin communication research, and wrote Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer.
John C. Rothwell
John C. Rothwell is a British neurophysiologist at the UCL Institute of Neurology known for research on motor control, movement disorders, and transcranial magnetic stimulation.
John C. Schimenti
John C. Schimenti is a molecular geneticist, the James Law Professor of Genetics at Cornell University since 2004, known for identifying mouse genes governing meiosis, recombination, and fertility.
John Call Dalton
John Call Dalton (1825–1889) was an American physiologist and medical educator, the first person in the United States to devote his career entirely to physiology.
John Carbon
John Carbon is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Barbara known for isolating the first centromere of any organism, from budding yeast, in 1980.
John Chant
John Chant is a molecular biologist who studies cell polarity in budding yeast, known for his 1991 Cell paper identifying the BUD1–BUD4 genes for bud-site selection.
John D. Aitchison
John D. Aitchison is a Canadian-trained molecular cell biologist and systems biologist, co-director of the Center for Global Infectious Disease Research at Seattle Children's Research Institute.
John D. Baxter
John D. Baxter (1940–2011) was an American endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco, best known for cloning the first human growth hormone gene and pioneering work on nuclear hormone receptors.
John D. E. Gabrieli
John D. E. Gabrieli, also known as John Gabrieli, is an American cognitive neuroscientist at MIT known for brain-imaging studies of memory, dyslexia, and psychiatric disease.
John D. Helmann
John D. Helmann is an American microbiologist and professor at Cornell University since 1990, known for work on metalloregulation and peroxide sensing in Bacillus subtilis, including the PerR mechanism.
John D. McKinney
John D. McKinney is a microbiologist and professor at EPFL in Lausanne known for showing that the enzyme isocitrate lyase lets tuberculosis bacteria persist in the host.
John D. Pettigrew
John D. Pettigrew, known as Jack Pettigrew, was an Australian physiologist and neuroscientist who first showed that neurons in the striate cortex detect binocular disparity, the basis of depth perception.
John D. Scott
John D. Scott is an American biochemist at the University of Washington known for defining A-kinase anchoring proteins (AKAPs), which organize cell signaling in space and time.
John D. York
John D. York, also published as J.D. York, is a biochemist who studies inositol phosphate signaling and became chair of biochemistry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
John Diffley (molecular biologist)
John F.X. Diffley is a British-American molecular biologist who leads the Chromosome Replication Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, known for discovering the pre-replicative complex.
John Dobrinsky
John R. Dobrinsky is an American animal physiologist and developmental biologist at the USDA's Beltsville research center who pioneered pig embryo cryopreservation, producing the first live pigs from vitrified embryos.
John Doebley
John F. Doebley is an American plant geneticist and emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for identifying teosinte, a weedy Mexican grass, as corn's wild ancestor.
John E. Cronan
John E. Cronan is an American microbiologist and biochemist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017, whose research established how bacteria synthesize and regulate their membrane fatty acids.
John E. Donelson
John E. Donelson is an American molecular parasitologist, professor emeritus of biochemistry at the University of Iowa, known for research on antigenic variation in African trypanosomes.
John E. Dowling
John E. Dowling is an American neuroscientist and vision scientist, emeritus professor at Harvard, known for retinal circuitry research, establishing dopamine as a retinal neuromodulator, and zebrafish genetics.
John E. Hearst
John E. Hearst (1935–2022) was an American chemist at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for psoralen photochemistry probing nucleic acid structure and for co-founding Cerus Corporation.
John E. Mullet
John E. Mullet is a University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University known for chloroplast gene expression, jasmonate signaling in plant defense, and sorghum genomics for bioenergy crops.
John E. Smart
John E. Smart is a molecular biologist trained at Caltech who worked on polyoma tumor antigens and the adenovirus terminal protein at Cold Spring Harbor and Biogen.