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Jose Alonso

José M. Alonso is a plant developmental geneticist at North Carolina State University who built a genome-wide Arabidopsis mutant collection and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2026.

José Antonio Enríquez

José Antonio Enríquez, born 1963 in Santiago de Compostela, is a Spanish molecular biologist who leads the GENOXPHOS laboratory at the CNIC in Madrid, studying mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and was elected to EMBO in 2021.

José López‐Barneo

José López-Barneo, born 1952, is a Spanish physiologist and neuroscientist at the Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla known for work on oxygen sensing and neurodegeneration.

José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta

José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta (1966–2020) was a Chilean-born Spanish developmental biologist at the CABD in Seville, known for discovering the Drosophila iroquois-complex genes araucan and caupolican.

Jose M. Polo

José M. Polo is an Argentine-born biochemist and stem cell biologist, a professor at Monash University and director of the Adelaide Centre for Epigenetics, known for work on cellular reprogramming.

Jose M. Ribeiro

José M.C. Ribeiro is a Brazilian-American vector biologist at NIAID who defined the sialome concept and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

José R. Dinneny

José R. Dinneny is a plant biologist and Professor of Biology at Stanford University since 2018, known for research on how roots respond to drought and salinity.

José R. Penadés

José R. Penadés is a Spanish microbiologist at Imperial College London who studies gene transfer between bacteria, known for discovering lateral transduction and characterizing phage-inducible chromosomal islands in pathogens.

José Silva

José Silva, in full José Carlos Rebelo da Silva, is a Portuguese stem cell biologist known for identifying Nanog as a gateway to the pluripotent ground state.

Josef Anrather

Josef Anrather is an Austrian-trained neuroimmunologist, Professor of Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine's Brain and Mind Research Institute, known for research on inflammation after ischemic stroke.

Josef Jiricny

Josef Jiricny is a Czech-born molecular biologist known for his work on DNA mismatch repair, professor at the University of Zurich from 1996 to 2016.

Josef P. Rauschecker

Josef P. Rauschecker is a cognitive neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience at Georgetown University since 1995, known for the dual-stream "what" and "where" model of auditory processing.

Josef Parvizi

Josef Parvizi is a Norwegian-trained neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist at Stanford University who studies the human brain by recording from and stimulating it directly in neurosurgical patients.

Josef Říman

Josef Říman (1925–2019) was a Czech biochemist, molecular biologist, and geneticist, co-discoverer of reverse transcriptase and president of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences until 1989.

Josep Dalmau

Josep Dalmau, born 1953, is a Spanish neurologist and neuroimmunology researcher at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and the University of Pennsylvania who discovered anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis and described most known autoimmune encephalitides.

Josep Rizo

Josep Rizo, officially Jose Rizo-Rey, is a Spanish-born structural biologist and biophysicist, born in Barcelona in 1959, who is a professor at UT Southwestern in Dallas known for research on the protein machinery of neurotransmitter release.

Joseph A. Baur

Joseph A. Baur is a physiologist and Professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania who studies the molecular mechanisms of aging, NAD metabolism, and mTOR signaling.

Joseph A. Beavo

Joseph A. Beavo Jr. is an American pharmacologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, known for defining the superfamily of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases, enzymes that degrade cAMP and cGMP.

Joseph A. Gogos

Joseph A. Gogos is a physician-scientist and professor at Columbia University who studies the molecular genetics and neural circuit mechanisms of schizophrenia and 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, a chromosomal microdeletion carrying high risk of the disorder.

Joseph A. Piccirilli

Joseph A. Piccirilli (born 1960) is an American chemical biologist at the University of Chicago known for showing that RNA enzymes use metal ions in catalysis.

Joseph A. Zasadzinski

Joseph A. Zasadzinski is an American chemical engineer at the University of Minnesota, known for lung surfactant biophysics and the vesosome, a nested-liposome drug delivery vehicle.

Joseph Altman

Joseph Altman (1925–2016) was an American biologist at MIT who showed in the early 1960s that new neurons form in adult mammalian brains, overturning decades of dogma.

Joseph Avruch

Joseph Avruch is a physician-biochemist who has led the Diabetes Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital since 1979 and studies how hormones and oncogenes signal to the nucleus.

Joseph B. Warshaw

Joseph B. Warshaw (1936–2003) was an American pediatrician known for research on fetal growth and neonatal care, and dean of the University of Vermont College of Medicine.

Joseph Banks

Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820), British naturalist and botanist, lead naturalist on Cook's Endeavour voyage 1768–1771, 41-year President of the Royal Society, Kew advisor, and champion of Botany Bay colonization.

Joseph Bodine

Joseph Bodine was an American zoologist who spent his career studying diapause in grasshopper embryos and headed zoology at the State University of Iowa from 1929 until 1954.

Joseph Bondy-Denomy

Joseph Bondy-Denomy is a microbiologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco who studies how bacteria and bacteriophages fight, and who discovered anti-CRISPR proteins, off-switches for CRISPR gene editing.

Joseph C. Sun

Joseph C. Sun is an immunologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York whose 2009 Nature paper showed that natural killer cells can mount adaptive immune memory.

Joseph C. Wu

Joseph C. Wu, also known as Joseph Wu, is an American cardiologist who directs the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and was the American Heart Association's 87th president from 2023 to 2024.

Joseph Cubells

Joseph F. Cubells is an American psychiatrist and human geneticist at Emory University known for research on how copy-number-variant genomic disorders predispose carriers to autism and schizophrenia.