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Jonathan Widom

Jonathan Widom (1955–2011) was an American biochemist at Northwestern University who studied how DNA is packaged into chromosomes, best known for the 2006 genomic code for nucleosome positioning.

Jonathon Pines

Jonathon Pines, also known as Jon Pines, is a British cell biologist who studies mitosis and holds the Chris Marshall Chair at the Institute of Cancer Research.

Jong-Cheol Rah

Jong-Cheol Rah is a South Korean neuroscientist at the Korea Brain Research Institute in Daegu, known for his 2008 study of syntaxin-1 and synaptic vesicle fusion.

Jonghwan Kim

Jonghwan Kim is a molecular biologist who studies transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of stem cells, and has been Professor of Molecular Biosciences at the University of Texas at Austin since 2023.

Joni D. Wallis

Joni D. Wallis is a neuroscientist and professor at UC Berkeley who directs the Wallis Lab, known for work on decision-making, reward, and abstract rule encoding in the prefrontal cortex.

Joonyeol Lee

Joonyeol Lee is a South Korean neuroscientist who studies how the brain combines prior expectations with noisy sensory data to guide movement, using smooth pursuit eye movements.

Joost Gribnau

Joost Gribnau is a Dutch epigeneticist studying X chromosome inactivation, and is Professor of Epigenetics at Erasmus MC and a department head at Leiden University Medical Center.

Joost J. Oppenheim

Joost J. Oppenheim (1934–2022) was a Dutch-born American immunologist known as "the Father of Cytokines" who spent six decades at the NIH, discovering interleukin-8 and MCP-1.

Jop Kind

Jop Kind is a Dutch molecular biologist who leads a group at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, studying chromatin and gene regulation in single cells.

Joram Piatigorsky

Joram Piatigorsky is an American molecular biologist and eye researcher who founded and led the National Eye Institute's Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology from 1981 to 2009.

Jordan Grafman

Jordan Grafman is an American cognitive neuroscientist who has led the Vietnam Head Injury Study since 1990 and studies the brain bases of belief, including religious belief.

Jordan Raff

Jordan W. Raff is a British cell biologist at Oxford who studies centrioles and centrosomes in fruit flies and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2022.

Jordan W. Smoller

Jordan W. Smoller is a psychiatrist, epidemiologist, and geneticist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who studies genetic risk for psychiatric disorders, including depression and schizophrenia.

Jordi Casanova

Jordi Casanova is a Spanish developmental biologist, a CSIC Research Professor in Barcelona, known for defining the functional structure of Drosophila Hox genes in the 1980s.

Jörg Enderlein

Jörg Enderlein, also published as Joerg Enderlein, is a biophysicist and professor at the University of Göttingen since 2008, known for metal-induced energy transfer (MIET) microscopy.

Jörg Hamm

Jörg Hamm is a molecular biologist who studies snRNPs and RNA export, known for a 1990 Cell paper from EMBL Heidelberg showing the RNA cap signals nuclear export.

Jörg J. Goronzy

Jörg J. Goronzy is a German-trained physician-scientist in immunology and rheumatology, a Stanford professor emeritus and Mayo Clinic professor known for research on T cell aging.

Jörg Vogel

Jörg Vogel is a German molecular biologist and infection biologist, founding director of the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research in Würzburg and a pioneer of dual RNA-seq.

Jorge Dubcovsky

Jorge Dubcovsky is an Argentine wheat geneticist, a Distinguished Professor at UC Davis and HHMI Investigator, known for cloning wheat flowering, rust resistance, and grain protein genes.

Jorge Galán

Jorge E. Galán is an Argentine-trained microbiologist at Yale School of Medicine, a professor there since 1998, known for discovering the Salmonella needle complex and typhoid toxin.

Jorge J. Casal

Jorge José Casal is an Argentine plant biologist at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Instituto Leloir, known for showing that phytochrome B senses temperature in plants.

Jorge J. Yunis

Jorge J. Yunis is a physician and geneticist, professor at the University of Minnesota, who developed high-resolution chromosome banding and tied chromosomal defects to leukemia prognosis.

Jorge L. Ruas

Jorge L. Ruas is a Portuguese molecular and exercise physiologist, professor at the University of Michigan Medical School, known for work on PGC-1α proteins in skeletal muscle.

Jorge Moscat

Jorge Moscat is a Spanish-American cancer biologist known for defining the signaling roles of p62/SQSTM1 and atypical PKC isoforms; since 2020 he has been a professor at Weill Cornell Medical College.

Jorge S. Reis‐Filho

Jorge S. Reis-Filho is a cancer researcher known for the molecular classification of breast cancer and intratumor heterogeneity, now Chief of AI for Science Innovation at AstraZeneca.

Jørgen Kjems

Jørgen Kjems is a Danish molecular biologist and professor at Aarhus University known for discovering archaeal RNA splicing and showing that circular RNAs act as microRNA sponges.

Jörn Piel

Jörn Piel, born 1967, is a German chemist and microbiologist, professor of Microbial Interactions at ETH Zurich since 2013, studying bacterial natural products from sponge symbionts for drug discovery.

Jörn Walter

Jörn Walter is a German molecular biologist and Senior Professor for Genetics and Epigenetics at Saarland University, known for work on DNA methylation and epigenetic reprogramming in development.

Jos Jonkers

Jos Jonkers is a molecular biologist and cancer geneticist who heads Molecular Pathology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, known for mouse models of BRCA1/2-associated breast cancer and a 2023 living biobank of DCIS xenografts.

José A. Campos‐Ortega

José A. Campos-Ortega (1940–2004) was a Spanish developmental biologist who spent most of his career in Germany, linking proneural and neurogenic genes to neural development in the fruit fly.