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Jozef Schell

Jozef Schell, known as Jeff Schell (1935–2003), was a Belgian microbiologist and plant molecular biologist who turned Agrobacterium into the standard method for making genetically engineered plants.

Jozsef Csicsvari

Jozsef Csicsvari is an Austrian-based systems neuroscientist, professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria since 2011, known for research on hippocampal spatial memory.

Ju-Seog Lee

Ju-Seog Lee (이주석) is a South Korean cancer genomics researcher and Professor of Systems Biology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for molecular subtyping of hepatocellular carcinoma.

Juan Antonio Vizcaíno

Juan Antonio Vizcaíno is a Spanish proteomics and metabolomics bioinformatician at EMBL-EBI, known for the PRIDE database, the MetaboLights resource, and coordinating the ProteomeXchange consortium since 2011.

Juan C. Alonso

Juan C. Alonso, also published as Juan Carlos Alonso, is a molecular biologist leading the Genetic Stability laboratory at the CNB-CSIC in Madrid, studying DNA repair in Bacillus subtilis.

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte

Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, born 1960 in Hellín, Spain, is a Spanish stem cell researcher at Altos Labs, known for partial reprogramming that reverses aging hallmarks in mice.

Juan Carlos Saéz

Juan Carlos Sáez Carreño is a Chilean physiologist and neuroscientist known for research on connexin and pannexin channels, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Juan Carlos Zúñiga‐Pflücker

Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker is a Canadian immunologist and professor at the University of Toronto whose OP9-DL1 co-culture system generates T cells from stem cells in over 1,000 laboratories.

Juan I. Fuxman Bass

Juan I. Fuxman Bass, also known as Juan Ignacio Fuxman Bass, is an Argentine computational biologist at Boston University who maps human transcription factor networks.

Juan Ignacio Sanguinetti-Scheck

Juan Ignacio Sanguinetti-Scheck is a Uruguayan systems neuroscientist and quantitative ethologist, an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania who co-authored the 2019 Science study on rats playing hide-and-seek.

Juan J. Lafaille

Juan J. Lafaille is an immunologist and professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine known for research on γδ T cells and regulatory T cells.

Juan Luis Arsuaga

Juan Luis Arsuaga is a Spanish palaeoanthropologist, born in Madrid in 1954, whose team at the Atapuerca caves defined Homo antecessor and excavated the Sima de los Huesos.

Juan Modolell

Juan Modolell (1937–2023) was a Spanish molecular biologist and developmental geneticist who spent his career at CSIC in Madrid, characterizing the Drosophila proneural genes and the iroquois complex.

Juan R. Cubillos‐Ruiz

Juan R. Cubillos-Ruiz is a Colombian-born immunologist at Weill Cornell Medicine known for showing how tumors disable dendritic cells via ER stress, work that spawned Quentis Therapeutics.

Juan Rivera (immunologist)

Juan Rivera is an immunologist who is deputy scientific director at NIAMS and led its Laboratory of Molecular Immunogenetics, known for work on IgE receptor signaling.

Juan S. Bonifacino

Juan S. Bonifacino is an Argentine-born cell biologist who heads intracellular protein trafficking research at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, and is known for discovering the AP-3, AP-4, and GGA adaptors.

Juan Valcárcel

Juan Valcárcel is a Spanish molecular biologist known for work on the splicing factors Sex-lethal and U2AF and for the 2024 functional map of the human spliceosome.

Juda Hirsch Quastel

Juda Hirsch Quastel (1899–1987) was a British-born Canadian biochemist who did foundational work in soil biochemistry and neurochemistry, and first demonstrated competitive enzyme inhibition in 1925.

Judah Folkman

Judah Folkman was an American surgeon and physician-scientist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard who founded anti-angiogenesis, the idea that tumors depend on growing new blood vessels.

Judith Campisi

Judith Campisi (1948–2024) was an American cell biologist who made cellular senescence central to aging research, coined the term "senolytics", and was a scientific founder of Unity Biotechnology.

Judith Eisen

Judith S. Eisen is an American developmental neurobiologist at the University of Oregon who established the zebrafish as a model organism for studying vertebrate neural development.

Judith Frydman

Judith Frydman is a Stanford professor of biology and genetics who studies protein folding, known for discovering the TRiC chaperonin and establishing cotranslational folding; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Judith Kimble

Judith Kimble is an American developmental geneticist who studies germline stem cells in C. elegans at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she taught from 1983 to 2025.

Judith M. White

Judith M. White is an American virologist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine known for her work on viral membrane fusion, ADAM proteins, and sperm–egg fusion.

Judith P. Klinman

Judith P. Klinman, born Judith Pollock in 1941, is an American biochemist at UC Berkeley, the first woman on its chemistry faculty, known for demonstrating hydrogen tunneling in enzyme reactions.

Judy E. Garber

Judy E. Garber (Judy Ellen Garber) is an American physician-scientist in clinical cancer genetics, chief of cancer genetics and prevention at Dana-Farber and a Harvard Medical School professor.

Judy H. Cho

Judy H. Cho is an American physician-scientist in inflammatory bowel disease genetics, Dean of Translational Genetics at Mount Sinai and senior investigator on the NOD2–Crohn's disease gene discovery.

Judy Hirst

Judy Hirst is a British biological chemist, Professor at Cambridge and Director of the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, known for solving mitochondrial complex I's structure.

Judy Lieberman

Judy Lieberman is an American immunologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for her work on killer lymphocytes, pyroptosis, and RNA interference as drugs.

Jue Chen

Jue Chen is a Chinese-born American structural biologist and biochemist at The Rockefeller University known for determining the atomic structures of CFTR, the chloride channel mutated in cystic fibrosis, and of ABC transporters.