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John Howard Mueller
John Howard Mueller (1891–1954) was an American microbiologist and Harvard professor who isolated methionine in 1923 and developed Mueller-Hinton agar, the standard for antibiotic testing.
John I. Gallin
John I. Gallin (1943–2024) was an American immunologist who spent 50 years at NIH studying phagocyte immune deficiencies and served as the Clinical Center's longest-serving director, 1994 to 2017.
John J. Holland
John J. Holland was an American virologist at UC San Diego known for founding the experimental study of RNA virus evolution and the virus quasispecies concept.
John J. Lemasters
John J. Lemasters is an American cell biologist and mitochondrial physiologist at the Medical University of South Carolina, known for work on the mitochondrial permeability transition.
John J. Marchalonis
John J. Marchalonis (1940–2007) was an immunologist who spent his last twenty years at the University of Arizona, pioneering research on immune-system evolution and autoimmunity.
John J. Mekalanos
John J. Mekalanos is an American microbiologist, Adele Lehman Professor at Harvard Medical School since 1981, known for the ToxR regulon and discovering the type VI secretion system.
John J. Monaco
John J. Monaco is an American immunologist at the University of Cincinnati known for identifying the MHC-linked genes and proteasome subunits that generate peptides for class I antigen presentation.
John J. Rossi
John J. Rossi is an American molecular biologist at City of Hope in Duarte, California, a leader in RNA interference and nucleic-acid therapeutics for AIDS and cancer.
John J. Wasmuth
John J. Wasmuth was an American molecular geneticist and professor at UC Irvine who identified the FGFR3 gene causing achondroplasia and helped find the Huntington's disease gene.
John Joseph O’Shea Jr.
John Joseph O'Shea Jr. is an American NIH physician-scientist known for defining the JAK-STAT signaling pathway in immune cells, work that underpinned JAK inhibitor drugs.
John Jumper (computational biologist)
John Jumper, born 1985 in Little Rock, Arkansas, is an American computational biologist at Google DeepMind who led AlphaFold and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
John K. Rose
John K. Rose is an American virologist and Professor Emeritus at Yale School of Medicine. His lab developed a 1994 system for RNA viruses and the vector for Ervebo.
John Kappler
John W. Kappler is an American immunologist at National Jewish Health in Denver known for identifying the T cell receptor, earning the 2015 Wolf Prize in Medicine.
John Kendrick-Jones
John Kendrick-Jones is a molecular biophysicist who identified myosin regulatory light chains and how their phosphorylation controls filament assembly, working at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge since 1970.
John Krebs, Baron Krebs
John Krebs, Baron Krebs, is a British zoologist and crossbench life peer, the first Chairman of the UK Food Standards Agency from 2000 to 2005.
John Kuriyan
John Kuriyan is an American structural biologist, dean of basic sciences at Vanderbilt University since 2023, known for structures of cell signaling and DNA replication proteins.
John L. Bowman
John L. Bowman is an Australian-based plant developmental geneticist and professor at Monash University in Melbourne, known for the ABC model of floral development and the first liverwort genome sequence.
John L. Markley
John L. Markley is an American biochemist and NMR spectroscopist, Steenbock Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who founded the National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison and BioMagResBank.
John L. Spudich
John L. Spudich is an American biophysicist, Professor and Director of the Center for Membrane Biology at UTHealth Houston, whose laboratory's work on channelrhodopsins and anion channelrhodopsins underlies optogenetics.
John L. Woolford
John L. Woolford Jr. is an American molecular biologist and professor at Carnegie Mellon University who has studied how eukaryotic ribosomes assemble in yeast since 1979.
John L.R. Rubenstein
John L.R. Rubenstein is a developmental neuroscientist and psychiatrist at UCSF, a National Academy of Sciences member and 2026 Gruber Neuroscience Prize winner for forebrain development research.
John Lawrence LeConte
John Lawrence LeConte (1825–1883) was an American physician and entomologist, the leading nineteenth-century authority on North American beetles, who described or named some 3,800 species and coauthored the 1883 Classification of the Coleoptera of North America.
John Lisman
John E. Lisman (1944–2017) was an American neuroscientist at Brandeis University known for proposing that CaMKII acts as a bistable molecular switch storing long-term memories.
John M. Buchanan
John M. Buchanan, known as Jack Buchanan, was an American biochemist who worked out how cells build purine nucleotides, work underlying anticancer chemotherapy drugs, and led MIT's biochemistry division from 1953 to 1967.
John M. Carethers
John M. Carethers is an American gastroenterologist and physician-scientist who became UC San Diego's vice chancellor for Health Sciences in 2023, known for research on DNA mismatch repair in colorectal cancer.
John M. Coffin
John M. Coffin is an American retrovirologist and Distinguished Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for his work on HIV persistence during antiretroviral therapy.
John M. Denu
John M. Denu is an American biochemist and professor of biomolecular chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for research on sirtuins, protein acetylation, and metabolism.
John M. Scott
John M. Scott, also known as J. M. Scott, was an Irish biochemist and professor of experimental nutrition at Trinity College Dublin whose research shaped folic acid fortification policy.
John M. Sedivy
John M. Sedivy is a molecular biologist at Brown University who directs its Center on the Biology of Aging and studies senescence, c-Myc, and retrotransposons in aging.
John Macleod
John James Rickard Macleod was a Scottish physiologist who directed the Toronto research that discovered insulin in 1921, sharing the 1923 Nobel Prize with Frederick Banting.