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John R. Preer
John R. Preer was an American geneticist at Indiana University who studied non-Mendelian inheritance in Paramecium and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.
John R. Roth
John R. Roth is an American bacterial geneticist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, known for decades of Salmonella typhimurium genetics and a central role in the adaptive mutation debate.
John R. Stanley
John R. Stanley is an American physician-scientist and Emeritus Professor of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for molecularly cloning the pemphigus and pemphigoid autoantigens.
John Raper
John Raper (1911–1974) was an American mycologist and geneticist, professor of botany at Harvard from 1954, recognized as the foremost investigator of sexuality in fungi.
John Raymond Murlin
John Raymond Murlin (1874–1960) was an American physiologist and nutritionist, Professor of Physiology at the University of Rochester, who co-discovered glucagon in 1923 and founded the American Institute of Nutrition.
John Rinn
John Rinn, also known as John L. Rinn, is an American RNA biologist who studies long noncoding RNAs and holds a professorship at the University of Colorado Boulder.
John Roder
John C. Roder (1950–2018) was a Canadian immunologist turned neurobiologist, a Senior Scientist at Toronto's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and University of Toronto professor, known for mouse models of schizophrenia and memory.
John Ryals
John A. Ryals is an American molecular biologist who established salicylic acid's role in plant systemic acquired resistance at Ciba-Geigy, then founded Paradigm Genetics and co-founded Metabolon.
John S. Condeelis
John S. Condeelis is a cell biologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine known for intravital imaging of cancer metastasis and the TMEM doorway concept.
John S. Mattick
John S. Mattick is an Australian molecular biologist at UNSW Sydney who argues that most non-coding DNA, long dismissed as junk, is a regulatory architecture transacted through RNA.
John S. O’Neill
John S. O’Neill is a circadian biologist who leads a group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for showing that circadian clocks keep time without gene transcription.
John S. Parkinson
John S. Parkinson is an American geneticist at the University of Utah known for mapping the genes and molecular mechanism of bacterial chemotaxis in E. coli.
John Schiefelbein
John W. Schiefelbein is a professor at the University of Michigan who studies Arabidopsis root epidermis patterning, identified the WEREWOLF transcription factor, and pioneered plant single-cell RNA sequencing.
John Scott Haldane
John Scott Haldane (1860–1936) was a British physiologist at Oxford whose work on respiration, carbon monoxide poisoning, and staged decompression reshaped diving practice, mine safety, and respiratory physiology.
John Silke
John Silke is a cell death researcher leading a laboratory at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, whose work took IAP-antagonist cancer drugs into trials.
John Smythies
John Smythies, also known as J. R. Smythies, was a British psychiatrist and neuroscientist who co-proposed the transmethylation hypothesis of schizophrenia in 1952 and did early psychedelic research.
John Spangler Nicholas
John Spangler Nicholas (1895–1963) was an American experimental embryologist and zoologist at Yale who showed mammalian development is more flexible than assumed and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
John Stanley Gardiner
John Stanley Gardiner (1872–1946) was a British zoologist who led three Indian Ocean coral reef expeditions and held the Cambridge Chair of Zoology from 1909 to 1937.
John Stephenson (virologist)
John R. Stephenson is a virologist known for his 1970s work at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, on murine leukemia virus and endogenous type-C RNA viruses.
John T. Cacioppo
John T. Cacioppo (1951–2018) was an American psychologist at the University of Chicago who founded social neuroscience and transformed the scientific study of loneliness, also developing the elaboration likelihood model.
John T. Curnutte
John T. Curnutte is an American immunologist and physician-scientist who showed that chronic granulomatous disease stems from defects in NADPH oxidase, the superoxide-producing enzyme of white blood cells.
John T. Harty
John T. Harty is an American immunologist holding the Pathology Endowed Chair at the University of Iowa, known for research on CD8+ T cell memory and malaria immunity.
John Thomas Patterson (geneticist)
John Thomas Patterson (1878–1960) was an American geneticist and embryologist who taught at the University of Texas from 1908 to 1955 and wrote Evolution in the Genus Drosophila (1952).
John Torrey
John Torrey (1796–1873) was an American botanist, chemist, and physician who taught chemistry at Princeton and coauthored the unfinished Flora of North America with Asa Gray.
John Trowsdale
John Trowsdale (born 1949) is a British immunologist and Emeritus Professor of Immunology at the University of Cambridge, known for cloning HLA genes and mapping the human MHC.
John Tyler Bonner
John Tyler Bonner (1920–2019) was an American developmental biologist at Princeton University who pioneered the study of cellular slime molds and discovered their chemical attractant, acrasin.
John V. Moran
John V. Moran is the Gilbert S. Omenn Collegiate Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan, known for developing the cultured-cell assay for LINE-1 retrotransposons.
John van der Oost
John van der Oost, born 1958, is a Dutch microbiologist who led bacterial genetics research at Wageningen University and is regarded as one of the founders of the CRISPR-Cas technique.
John W. Daly
John W. Daly (1933–2008) was an American biochemist at the National Institutes of Health who spent nearly fifty years studying poison frog alkaloids, including the painkiller lead epibatidine.
John W. Gnann
John W. Gnann is an American infectious-diseases physician and clinical virology researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina, known for reviews of herpesvirus infections.