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John MacMicking
John D. MacMicking is a Yale immunologist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator known for work on cell-autonomous immunity, including interferon-inducible guanylate-binding proteins that defend cells against pathogens.
John Marioni
John C. Marioni is a computational biologist known for statistical methods for single-cell RNA-sequencing data, including normalization and batch correction, who led EMBL-EBI research before joining Genentech in 2022.
John Maynard Smith
John Maynard Smith (1920–2004) was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist who introduced game theory into evolutionary biology, coined the evolutionarily stable strategy, and won the 2001 Kyoto Prize.
John Merle Coulter
John Merle Coulter (1851–1928) was an American botanist, born in China to missionaries, who founded the Botanical Gazette and led the University of Chicago's botany department from 1896 to 1925.
John Moult
John Moult is a computational biologist who co-founded the CASP experiments in 1994, the blind tests credited by the 2024 Nobel Committee behind the AlphaFold prize.
John N. Vournakis
John N. Vournakis (1939–2018) was an American physical biochemist who studied messenger RNA at MIT, Harvard, and Syracuse, helped clone the first mammalian gene, and co-founded biotech companies.
John N. Weinstein
John N. Weinstein is a physician-scientist in cancer systems biology who spent over 30 years at the National Cancer Institute before joining MD Anderson in 2008.
John Nathaniel Couch
John Nathaniel Couch (1896–1986) was an American mycologist and professor of botany at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for his monograph on Septobasidium and his discovery of Actinoplanes.
John Newport Langley
John Newport Langley (1852–1925) was a British physiologist at Cambridge who mapped the autonomic nervous system, coined "autonomic" and "parasympathetic", and proposed the receptive substance concept.
John Ngai
John Ngai is an American neuroscientist who studies the olfactory system and has directed the NIH BRAIN Initiative since 2020, after 27 years on the UC Berkeley faculty.
John Niederhauser
John Niederhauser was an American plant pathologist known as "Mr. Potato" who bred late blight resistance into potato varieties and won the 1990 World Food Prize.
John O. Almquist
John O. Almquist (1921–2015) was an American dairy physiologist at Penn State who pioneered milk extenders and frozen bull semen, making cattle artificial insemination practical, and shared the 1981 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.
John O’Keefe
John O'Keefe, born 1939, is a British-American neuroscientist at University College London who discovered hippocampal place cells and won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
John P. Adelman
John P. Adelman is a neuroscientist at the Vollum Institute in Portland, Oregon, who cloned the SK potassium channel family and showed calmodulin gates them.
John P. Atkinson
John P. Atkinson is an American rheumatologist and immunologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known internationally for research on the complement system.
John P. Merlie
John P. Merlie, born John Paul Merlie (1945–1995), was an American molecular biologist at Washington University in St. Louis who worked out how the muscle acetylcholine receptor is synthesized and assembled.
John P. Moore
John P. Moore is a virologist who has been Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College since 2000, known for HIV-1 entry inhibitors and the SOSIP.664 vaccine trimer.
John P. O’Doherty
John P. O'Doherty is a cognitive neuroscientist who studies the neural basis of reward-related learning and decision making, and is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Decision Neuroscience at Caltech.
John Pappenheimer
John Pappenheimer (1915–2007) was an American physiologist at Harvard whose work defined the pore theory of capillary permeability and the role of cerebrospinal fluid in controlling breathing.
John Paul (cell biologist)
John Paul (1922–1994) was a Scottish cell biologist and cancer researcher, founding director of the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow and a pioneer of tissue and cell culture.
John Preer Jr.
John Preer Jr., also known as John Randolph Preer Jr., was an American geneticist at Indiana University who studied Paramecium for seven decades and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.
John Quackenbush
John Quackenbush is an American computational biologist, chair of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.
John R. B. Perry
John R. B. Perry is a human geneticist and MRC Investigator at the University of Cambridge known for landmark studies of puberty timing, menopause, and testosterone's sex-specific disease effects.
John R. Brobeck
John R. Brobeck (1914–2009) was an American physiologist who demonstrated that the hypothalamus controls food intake and chaired physiology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1952 to 1970.
John R. Carlson
John R. Carlson is an American molecular neuroscientist and Eugene Higgins Professor at Yale, known for discovering the first insect odor and taste receptors and mapping how they encode smell.
John R. David
John R. David is an American physician and immunologist, emeritus professor of tropical public health at Harvard, known for cytokine research on leishmaniasis and recombinant migration inhibitory factor.
John R. Glenney
John R. Glenney, Jr. (J. R. Glenney) is a cell biologist who established fodrin as the general spectrin-like protein of non-erythroid cells and worked at the Salk Institute.
John R. Huguenard
John R. Huguenard is a Professor of Neurology at Stanford University who studies thalamocortical synchrony and epilepsy, known for a 1999 Science paper showing thalamic inhibition restrains network synchrony.
John R. Lukens
John R. Lukens, also known as John Lukens, is a neuroscientist and professor at the University of Virginia who studies how microglia drive neurodegenerative disease.
John R. Mascola
John R. Mascola, also known as John Mascola, is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who directed NIAID's Vaccine Research Center from 2013 to 2022 and is known for broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies such as VRC01.