Life scientists

Joseph S. Fruton

Joseph S. Fruton (1912–2007) was a Polish-born American biochemist and historian of biochemistry, a Yale professor who studied proteolytic enzymes and coauthored the landmark textbook General Biochemistry (1953).

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Joseph S. Nelson

Joseph S. Nelson, born Joseph Schieser Nelson (1937–2011), was a Canadian ichthyologist and University of Alberta zoology professor, author of four editions of Fishes of the World.

Joseph Sambrook

Joseph Sambrook (1939–2019) was a British-born molecular biologist best known for DNA tumor virus research and as senior author of Molecular Cloning, the standard lab manual.

Joseph Schacherer

Joseph Schacherer is a geneticist and professor of genetics and genomics at the Université de Strasbourg, known for large-scale surveys of baker's yeast genome diversity in Nature.

Joseph Schlessinger

Joseph Schlessinger is a biochemist and pharmacologist at Yale School of Medicine who established how receptor tyrosine kinases activate, and founded biotech companies that discovered sunitinib and vemurafenib.

Joseph Sodroski

Joseph G. Sodroski is a virologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School known for identifying the HIV coreceptor CCR5 and the restriction factor TRIM5α.

Joseph T. Coyle

Joseph T. Coyle is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School known for his Huntington's disease animal model and glutamate research in schizophrenia.

Joseph V. Bonventre

Joseph V. Bonventre is an American nephrologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital whose research defined acute kidney injury, its biomarkers, and repair.

Joseph W. St. Geme III

Joseph W. St. Geme III is an American pediatric infectious diseases physician-scientist, Physician-in-Chief of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a National Academy of Medicine member.

Joshua A. Gordon

Joshua A. Gordon is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist who directed the National Institute of Mental Health from 2016 to 2024, then became chair of psychiatry at Columbia University.

Joshua Akey

Joshua Akey is an American population and evolutionary geneticist at Princeton University whose IBDmix method found Neanderthal ancestry in African populations and showed human-Neanderthal gene flow was recurrent.

Joshua Alwood

Joshua S. Alwood is an American space biologist at NASA's Ames Research Center who studies bone loss from microgravity and radiation and develops countermeasures for astronauts.

Joshua B. Plotkin

Joshua B. Plotkin is a population and evolutionary biologist who holds the Annenberg Professorship at the University of Pennsylvania, using mathematics to study evolution, cooperation, and codon usage.

Joshua Brickman

Joshua Brickman is a developmental and stem cell biologist at the University of Copenhagen who studies how transcription factors control cell fate in early embryos.

Joshua Coon

Joshua J. Coon is an American chemist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for co-inventing electron transfer dissociation, a mass spectrometry method for protein sequencing, in 2004.

Joshua D. Milner

Joshua D. Milner is an American allergist-immunologist known for discovering genetic diseases that cause allergy, including PLAID and PGM3 deficiency, and has led allergy and immunology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center since 2019.

Joshua L Lillvis

Joshua L Lillvis is an American neuroscientist who studies how neural circuits evolve to generate different behaviors, using the courtship song of fruit flies as his main model.

Joshua Lederberg

Joshua Lederberg was an American geneticist who discovered that bacteria mate and exchange genes, winning half of the 1958 Nobel Prize at 33 and later leading Rockefeller University.

Joshua M. Kaplan

Joshua M. Kaplan is an American neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital who studies behavior and synaptic signaling in the roundworm C. elegans.

Joshua M. Stuart

Joshua M. Stuart, also published as Josh Stuart, is a computational biologist and professor at UC Santa Cruz known for leading the TCGA pan-cancer analysis of 12 cancer types.

Joshua Mendell

Joshua T. Mendell is an American physician-scientist in RNA biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, known for work on microRNAs in cancer.

Joshua P. Johansen

Joshua P. Johansen, also published as Joshua Johansen, is a neuroscientist who leads a learning and memory laboratory at Japan's RIKEN Center for Brain Science.

Joshua R. Sanes

Joshua R. Sanes, also known as Joshua Sanes, is an American neuroscientist, emeritus professor at Harvard, known for work on synapse formation, retinal circuits, and Brainbow.

Oct 10, 2026

Joshua S. Weinger

Joshua S. Weinger is a biochemist who, in Scott Strobel's Yale laboratory, led the 2004 study showing the tRNA 2'-hydroxyl group is essential to ribosomal catalysis.

Joshua T Dudman

Joshua Tate Dudman is an American neuroscientist and Senior Group Leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, studying how basal ganglia and dopamine circuits let animals learn skillful behaviors.

Joshua T. Trachtenberg

Joshua T. Trachtenberg is a neuroscientist and Professor of Neurobiology at UCLA known for long-term in vivo imaging of synaptic plasticity in the adult cortex and work on critical-period plasticity in visual cortex.

Joshua Zimmerberg

Joshua Zimmerberg is a membrane biophysicist and physician-scientist who serves as Chief of the Section on Integrative Biophysics at NIH, known for discovering the fusion pore and winning the 2021 Katz Award.

Jouni Uitto

Jouni Uitto (1943–2022) was a Finnish-born dermatologist and cutaneous biologist, called the father of EB research, who chaired dermatology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia from 1986.

Jozef Gecz

Jozef Gecz, born 1962, is a human molecular geneticist and Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Adelaide whose team has discovered more than 350 disease genes.