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Javid J. Moslehi

Javid J. Moslehi, born 1975 in Tehran, is an American cardiologist and myocyte biologist who is the William Grossman Distinguished Professor at UCSF and identified immunotherapy-associated fulminant myocarditis.

Jay D. Horton

Jay D. Horton is an American physician-scientist at UT Southwestern Medical Center who studies lipid metabolism, known for work on the SCAP/SREBP pathway and PCSK9.

Jay L. Zweíer

Jay L. Zweier is an American physician-scientist, an MD from the University of Maryland and professor at The Ohio State University, known for measuring free radicals and nitric oxide in ischemic hearts using EPR spectroscopy.

Jay N. Cohn

Jay N. Cohn is an American cardiologist at the University of Minnesota who pioneered heart failure as a subspecialty, led the V-HeFT trials, and won the ACC's 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Jay S. Skyler

Jay S. Skyler, also known as Jay Skyler, is an American endocrinologist and diabetes researcher at the University of Miami, chairman of DPT-1 and TrialNet from 1993 to 2015.

Jay W. Mason

Jay W. Mason is an American cardiologist specializing in arrhythmias and electrocardiography, known for the 1987 NEJM review "Amiodarone" and the 1993 ESVEM drug-testing trials.

Jayne A. Franklyn

Jayne A. Franklyn, known as Jayne Franklyn, is a British endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Birmingham whose cohort studies of radioiodine treatment for overactive thyroid shaped national and international guidance.

Jean D. Wilson (scientist)

Jean D. Wilson was an American endocrinologist at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas who discovered that testosterone is converted into the more potent androgen dihydrotestosterone.

Jean E. Schaffer

Jean E. Schaffer is an American physician-scientist at Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School known for discovering the first fatty acid transport protein and establishing lipotoxicity in diabetic heart disease.

Jean Ginsburg

Jean Ginsburg (1926–2004) was a British endocrinologist at the Royal Free Hospital in London who set up one of Britain's first menopause clinics and published over 250 papers.

Jean L. Rouleau

Jean L. Rouleau is a Canadian cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute known for leading the STICH heart-surgery trial and entering the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2023.

Jean Mayer

Jean Mayer (1920-1993) was a French-born American nutrition scientist, Harvard professor, and originator of the glucostatic theory of appetite regulation who led Tufts University as its tenth president.

Jean‐Claude Tardif

Jean-Claude Tardif is a Canadian cardiologist and professor at the Université de Montréal who directs the Montreal Heart Institute Research Centre and led the COLCOT colchicine trial.

Jean‐Pierre Després

Jean-Pierre Després is a Canadian kinesiologist and exercise physiologist at Université Laval whose research on visceral obesity and insulin resistance made waist measurement routine medical practice worldwide.

Jeffrey A. Towbin

Jeffrey A. Towbin is an American pediatric cardiologist known for gene discovery in the cardiomyopathies and the "final common pathway" hypothesis of heart muscle disease.

Jeffrey Borer

Jeffrey S. Borer (1945–2026) was an American cardiologist who developed stress radionuclide cineangiography, the first noninvasive technique for assessing cardiac function during exercise, and studied valve replacement timing in aortic regurgitation.

Jeffrey E. Olgin

Jeffrey E. Olgin is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist, chief of the UCSF Division of Cardiology since 2009 and a leading atrial fibrillation researcher.

Jeffrey L. Anderson

Jeffrey L. Anderson is an American cardiologist and researcher at Intermountain Medical Center and the University of Utah, known for early streptokinase and flecainide trials and national heart guidelines.

Jeffrey M. Isner

Jeffrey M. Isner (1947–2001) was an American cardiologist who pioneered cardiovascular gene therapy and therapeutic angiogenesis at Tufts University and St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston, reporting the first human arterial gene transfer in 1994.

Jeffrey Michael Friedman

Jeffrey M. Friedman is an American molecular geneticist at Rockefeller University who discovered the hormone leptin in 1994, showing that fat cells signal the brain to regulate body weight.

Jeffrey Robbins

Jeffrey Robbins (1950–2022) was an American cardiac molecular biologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, known as the "father of cardiac transgenesis" for pioneering tissue-specific promoters and gene-targeting approaches for the heart.

Jeffrey S. Flier

Jeffrey S. Flier is an American endocrinologist known for research on insulin resistance and obesity, and Dean of Harvard Medical School from 2007 to 2016.

Jeffrey W. Moses

Jeffrey W. Moses is an American interventional cardiologist, Professor of Cardiology at Columbia University, who led the SIRIUS drug-eluting stent trial and served on the PARTNER transcatheter aortic valve trials.

Jeffrey W. Olin

Jeffrey W. Olin is an American vascular medicine physician, Professor of Cardiology at Mount Sinai, known for fibromuscular dysplasia research and past president of the Society for Vascular Medicine.

Jens C. Brüning

Jens C. Brüning, also known as Jens Brüning, is a German physician-scientist born in Cologne in 1966 who studies how the brain controls energy and glucose metabolism, and directs the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research.

Jens Juul Holst

Jens Juul Holst is a Danish medical physiologist at the University of Copenhagen whose research on the gut hormone GLP-1 led to diabetes and obesity drugs.

Jeremy N. Ruskin

Jeremy N. Ruskin is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist who founded the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1978 and teaches at Harvard Medical School.

Jeroen J. Bax

Jeroen J. Bax is a Dutch cardiologist at Leiden University Medical Center known for cardiac imaging research and as President of the European Society of Cardiology from 2016 to 2018.

Jerome M. Hershman

Jerome M. Hershman (1932–2022) was an American endocrinologist and thyroid researcher, Distinguished Professor of Medicine Emeritus at UCLA, past president of the American Thyroid Association, and founding editor of its journal Thyroid.

Jerome W. Conn

Jerome W. Conn (1907–1994) was an American endocrinologist at the University of Michigan who defined primary aldosteronism, the adrenal hormone disorder known as Conn's syndrome, in 1954, and studied hypertension and diabetes.