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Jerrold M. Olefsky
Jerrold M. Olefsky is an American endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego since 1983, known for research on insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes.
Jesse Roth
Jesse Roth (1934–2026) was an American endocrinologist whose research on the insulin receptor established that hormones act through specific receptors on cell surfaces, reshaping the study of diabetes.
Jessica L. Mega
Jessica L. Mega is an American cardiologist and clinical researcher at Stanford known for pharmacogenetic studies of antiplatelet drugs and for co-founding Verily, Alphabet's life-sciences company, where she was Chief Medical and Scientific Officer.
Jim Mann (nutrition scientist)
Jim Mann is a South Africa-born physician and nutrition scientist, professor at the University of Otago since 1988, whose work on sugar and fiber shaped WHO dietary guidance.
Joan Heller Brown
Joan Heller Brown is an American pharmacologist at UC San Diego known for showing that CaMKII drives the transition from cardiac hypertrophy to heart failure.
Joanne R. Lupton
Joanne R. Lupton (1944–2020) was an American nutrition scientist at Texas A&M University whose research on dietary fiber and colon cancer shaped the 2001 definition of dietary fiber.
João A.C. Lima
João A.C. Lima (Joao Lima) is a Brazilian-born cardiologist and professor at Johns Hopkins who led the CORE-64 coronary CT angiography trial and pioneered MRI measurement of infarct size.
Joel Elmquist
Joel Elmquist is an American neuroscientist at UT Southwestern Medical Center who studies how the hypothalamus controls energy balance and glucose homeostasis, known for mouse-genetics work on leptin and melanocortin pathways.
Joel F. Habener
Joel F. Habener (1937–2025) was an American endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School whose discovery of GLP-1 led to drugs for diabetes and obesity.
Joel S. Finkelstein
Joel S. Finkelstein (1954–2026) was an American endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who showed that estrogen, not only testosterone, drives many symptoms of low testosterone in men.
Johan Auwerx
Johan Auwerx, born 1958, is a Belgian biologist and professor at EPFL in Switzerland, holding the Nestlé Chair in Energy Metabolism and studying mitochondria, NAD+, sirtuins, and longevity.
Johan G. Eriksson
Johan G. Eriksson, also known as Johan Eriksson, is a Finnish physician and epidemiologist, born in 1958, who studies how early growth shapes later heart disease and diabetes risk.
Johann Bauersachs
Johann Bauersachs is a German cardiologist and director of cardiology at Hannover Medical School since 2010, known for microRNAs in heart failure and the DIGIT-HF trial.
Johannes D. Veldhuis
Johannes D. Veldhuis, also known as J. D. Veldhuis, is an endocrinologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for deconvolution methods that measure pulsatile hormone secretion and its decline with aging.
Johannes Herrmann
Johannes M. Herrmann is a German cell biologist, professor at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau since 2006, known for the mitochondrial disulfide relay and ER-SURF pathways; he joined the Leopoldina in 2020.
John A. Bevan
John A. Bevan (1930–2007) was a British-born vascular pharmacologist known for work on vascular tone, adrenergic mechanisms, and the cerebral circulation, and as a pioneer of vascular pharmacology.
John A. Bittl
John A. Bittl is an American interventional cardiologist trained at Johns Hopkins and Harvard, known for the 1995 Hirulog Angioplasty Study comparing bivalirudin with heparin.
John A. Kastor
John A. Kastor is an American cardiologist who helped establish clinical cardiac electrophysiology at the University of Pennsylvania and chaired medicine at the University of Maryland from 1984.
John A. Luetscher
John A. Luetscher (1913–2005) was an American endocrinologist at Stanford University who spent over 40 years there, isolated aldosterone, and identified plasma prorenin as a marker of diabetic microvascular disease.
John A. Spertus
John A. Spertus is an American cardiologist and outcomes researcher at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, known for developing the Seattle Angina Questionnaire and Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire.
John B. Buse
John B. Buse is an American endocrinologist at the UNC School of Medicine who chaired the LEADER trial, which showed liraglutide reduced cardiovascular events in type 2 diabetes.
John B. Dixon
John B. Dixon is an Australian physician-researcher in obesity and bariatric medicine who headed clinical obesity research at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne from 2008 to 2020.
John C. Burnett
John C. Burnett is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, director of its Cardiorenal Research Laboratory, known for establishing natriuretic peptides as heart-failure biomarkers.
John C. Pickup
John C. Pickup is a British physician-scientist, Emeritus Professor of Diabetes and Metabolism at King's College London, known for introducing insulin pump therapy in the late 1970s.
John Chalmers (neuroscientist)
John Chalmers, born 1937, is an Australian medical researcher at the George Institute known for work on the brain's control of blood pressure and the INTERACT and ENCHANTED stroke trials.
John D. Bagdade
John D. Bagdade is an American endocrinologist at the University of Washington known for New England Journal of Medicine papers on lipid metabolism in diabetes and uremia.
John D. Crawford
John D. Crawford (1920–2005) was an American pediatric endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who led its pediatric endocrine program for decades and was among the first to treat children with human growth hormone.
John D. Keith
John D. Keith (1908–1989) was a Canadian pediatric cardiologist at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children whose studies of congenital heart disease won the Gairdner International Award.
John D. Parker
John D. Parker is a Canadian cardiologist and cardiovascular clinical pharmacologist, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of Toronto, known for research on nitrate therapy and nitrate tolerance.
John Danesh
John Danesh is a physician and epidemiologist who has been Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at the University of Cambridge since 2001, working on the causes and prediction of cardiovascular disease.