Life scientists

Joseph D. Buxbaum

Joseph D. Buxbaum is a molecular neuroscientist and geneticist who directs the Seaver Autism Center at Mount Sinai and studies the genetic basis of autism and schizophrenia.

Oct 10, 2026

Joseph D. Etlinger

Joseph D. Etlinger is a cell biologist who, with Alfred Goldberg at Harvard in 1977, established the ATP-dependent reticulocyte lysate system that led to the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway.

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) was an English botanist and explorer who directed Kew Gardens from 1865 to 1885, co-authored Genera Plantarum, and was the first confidant of Darwin's theory of evolution.

Joseph Dancis

Joseph Dancis was an American pediatrician and biochemist at New York University known for defining maple syrup urine disease and for studies of familial dysautonomia.

Joseph E. LeDoux

Joseph E. LeDoux, also known as Joseph LeDoux, is an American neuroscientist known for research on the brain mechanisms of fear and emotion, especially the role of the amygdala.

Joseph E. Varner

Joseph E. Varner (1921–1995) was an American plant biochemist known for showing that gibberellin controls α-amylase gene expression in barley, and for cloning extensin cDNA.

Joseph Edward Smadel

Joseph Edward Smadel (1907–1963) was an American physician and virologist who led the 1948 chloramphenicol trials for scrub typhus and typhoid fever, winning the 1962 Lasker Award.

Joseph Erlanger

Joseph Erlanger was an American physiologist who shared the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Herbert S. Gasser for discoveries on single nerve fibers.

Joseph G. Culotti

Joseph G. Culotti is a neuroscientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto who discovered the axon guidance cue UNC-6/netrin and its receptors in C. elegans.

Joseph G. Gall

Joseph G. Gall (1928–2024) was an American cell biologist who invented in situ hybridization, determined the first telomeric DNA sequence, and characterized Cajal bodies, earning the 2006 Lasker Award.

Joseph G. Gleeson

Joseph G. Gleeson is an American physician-scientist in neurogenetics, the Rady Professor of Neuroscience at UC San Diego whose research has identified over 100 genetic causes of pediatric brain disease.

Joseph H. Nadeau

Joseph H. Nadeau is a geneticist known for mouse genetics, comparative genomics, and complex traits, best known for the first chromosome substitution strain panel in mammals.

Joseph H. Phillips

Joseph H. Phillips is an immunologist known for work on natural killer cell receptors at Becton Dickinson and the DNAX Research Institute in Palo Alto.

Joseph Heitman

Joseph Heitman is an American geneticist at Duke University known for identifying FKBP12 and TOR as the targets of rapamycin, leading to the discovery of mTOR.

Oct 10, 2026

Joseph Hutchinson

Joseph Burtt Hutchinson (1902–1988) was a British geneticist who established the classification of the world's cultivated cottons and later held the Drapers Professorship of Agriculture at Cambridge.

Joseph J. Kieber

Joseph J. Kieber is an American plant molecular biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill known for defining the ethylene and cytokinin signaling pathways.

Oct 10, 2026

Joseph J. Pfiffner

Joseph J. Pfiffner (1903–1975) was an American biochemist who, with Wilbur Swingle at Princeton, developed the first practical cortin extract, used to treat Addison's disease.

Joseph Jez

Joseph M. Jez is an American enzymologist and chemical biologist who studies plant hormone signaling, and is Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Joseph Kraut

Joseph Kraut (1926–2012) was an American protein crystallographer at UC San Diego known for determining the structures of chymotrypsinogen and subtilisin and analyzing serine protease catalysis.

Joseph L. DeRisi

Joseph L. DeRisi is an American molecular biologist and virologist who co-developed the Virochip, identified the SARS coronavirus in 2003, and studies malaria at UCSF.

Joseph L. Melnick

Joseph L. Melnick (1914–2001) was an American virologist and epidemiologist at Baylor College of Medicine, best known for polio research and stabilizing oral polio vaccine.

Joseph M. Davie

Joseph M. Davie is an American immunologist known for his 1973 work with William E. Paul on how antibody responses mature, and for leading research at Biogen.

Joseph M. McCune

Joseph M. McCune is an American immunologist and virologist at UCSF known for landmark Cell papers on HIV disease and for developing the SCID-hu mouse model.

Joseph Michael Daly

Joseph Michael Daly (1922–1993) was an American plant physiologist at the University of Nebraska known for research on wheat rust and the 1970 southern corn leaf blight toxin.

Joseph Mougous

Joseph D. Mougous is a microbiologist best known for discovering that the type VI secretion system delivers toxins between bacteria, and is an HHMI Investigator.

Joseph P. Noel

Joseph P. Noel is a structural and chemical biologist, a Salk Institute professor from 1994 to 2026 and HHMI investigator who studies how plants make specialized compounds.

Joseph Puglisi

Joseph Puglisi, known as Jody Puglisi, is an American structural biologist at Stanford who studies the ribosome and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.

Joseph R. Ecker

Joseph R. Ecker is a plant biologist and epigenomicist who directs the Genomic Analysis Laboratory at the Salk Institute and pioneered single-base-resolution DNA methylation mapping.

Joseph R. Lakowicz

Joseph R. Lakowicz, born 1948, is an American fluorescence spectroscopist, professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and author of the standard textbook Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy.