1,516 articles
James C. Melby
James C. Melby was an American physician-scientist in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism who led Boston University's endocrinology section from 1962 to 1993, known for work on aldosterone and hypertension.
James Collip
James Bertram Collip was a Canadian biochemist who purified insulin in January 1922 to a form safe for human injection, and later isolated parathormone and worked on ACTH.
James D. Thomas
James D. Thomas (J.D. Thomas) is an American cardiologist who directs the Center for Heart Valve Disease at Northwestern, after 22 years at the Cleveland Clinic.
James E. Dalen
James E. Dalen was an American cardiologist whose research reshaped the understanding of pulmonary embolism; he was dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine from 1988 to 2001.
James E. Lock
James E. Lock is a pediatric cardiologist and Harvard professor who led cardiology at Boston Children's Hospital and pioneered transcatheter treatment of congenital heart disease.
James E. Muller
James E. Muller, also known as James Muller, is an American cardiologist who showed heart attacks peak in the morning and co-founded IPPNW, which won the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.
James E. Udelson
James E. Udelson is an American cardiologist who has led the Division of Cardiology at Tufts Medical Center since 2008 and researches cardiac imaging and heart failure.
James G. Jollis
James G. Jollis is an American cardiologist and outcomes researcher, adjunct professor at Duke University, known for showing that hospital volume and admitting specialty affect heart attack survival.
James H. Chesebro
James H. Chesebro is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist known for randomized trials of dipyridamole plus aspirin after coronary-artery bypass surgery and a 1992 review of acute coronary syndromes.
James I. Robertson
James I. Robertson, full name James Ian Summers Robertson, was a Scottish cardiovascular physician at the MRC Blood Pressure Unit, Glasgow, who helped develop the first reliable renin assay.
James J. Nora
James J. Nora, full name James Jackson Nora, was an American physician who proposed the multifactorial inheritance hypothesis of congenital heart disease and did early heart transplantation work.
James Januzzi
James Januzzi, also known as James L. Januzzi, is an American cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for research on cardiac biomarkers and heart failure.
James K. Liao
James K. Liao is an American cardiologist and vascular biologist known for the pleiotropic effects of statins; he became chair of medicine at the University of Arizona in 2023.
James Mackenzie (cardiologist)
Sir James Mackenzie (1853–1925) was a British general practitioner in Burnley who became a founder of modern cardiology, using his ink-writing polygraph to distinguish cardiac irregularities, including atrial fibrillation.
James N. Weiss
James N. Weiss is an American cardiologist and cardiovascular scientist at UCLA known for his 1992 Science paper showing chaos theory can control cardiac arrhythmias.
James O. Davis
James O. Davis was an American physiologist at the University of Missouri who studied renin release and blood pressure control, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1982.
James R. Stone
James R. Stone (born 1967) is an American cardiovascular pathologist, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, who heads cardiovascular pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and studies atherosclerosis and vasculitis.
James S. Forrester (cardiologist)
James S. Forrester, also known as James Forrester (died 2026), was an American cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai and UCLA known for the Forrester hemodynamic subsets and coronary angioscopy.
James Shepherd (cardiovascular biochemist)
James Shepherd, known as J.B. Shepherd, was a Scottish cardiovascular biochemist (1944–2022) at the University of Glasgow who led the WOSCOPS and PROSPER statin trials that shaped cholesterol-lowering treatment.
James T. Stull
James T. Stull is an American muscle physiologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center who earned his PhD from Emory University in 1971 and defined how myosin light chain kinase initiates smooth muscle contraction.
James T. Willerson
James T. Willerson (1939–2020) was an American cardiologist who explained how unstable coronary plaques cause heart attacks, led early stem cell trials for heart failure, and edited Circulation.
James W. Linman
James W. Linman is an American hematologist at Northwestern University and the Veterans Administration Research Hospital in Chicago, known for his 1968 study of chronic idiopathic neutropenia.
Jamy D. Ard
Jamy D. Ard is an American physician-scientist in obesity medicine and clinical nutrition, vice dean at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and co-director of its Weight Management Center.
Jan A. Staessen
Jan A. Staessen is a Belgian hypertension researcher, emeritus professor at the University of Leuven who led the Syst-Eur trial and pioneered home blood pressure measurement.
Jan L. Breslow
Jan L. Breslow is an American physician-scientist at The Rockefeller University whose laboratory cloned apolipoprotein genes and created the first mutant mouse model of atherosclerosis.
Jan Nedergaard
Jan Nedergaard (J. Nedergaard) is a professor emeritus at Stockholm University's Wenner-Gren Institute, known for research on brown adipose tissue, nonshivering thermogenesis, and UCP1, and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Janet C. King
Janet C. King is an American nutrition scientist at UC Davis and Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, known for stable-isotope methods for studying zinc metabolism and for chairing the 2005 U.S. Dietary Guidelines committee.
Jared Rutter
Jared Rutter is an American biochemist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Utah who studies metabolism and identified the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier in 2012.
Jason G. Andrade
Jason G. Andrade is a Canadian cardiac electrophysiologist at Vancouver General Hospital and the University of British Columbia, known for early-ablation trials in atrial fibrillation.
Javed Butler
Javed Butler is an American cardiologist and heart failure clinical trialist at Baylor Scott & White Health, known for leading trials of empagliflozin and semaglutide in heart failure.