Researchers in cardiovascular, metabolic, and endocrine research

John Yudkin

John Yudkin (1943–2025) was a British physician-scientist in diabetes and metabolism, Emeritus Professor at University College London, who worked on insulin resistance and global insulin access.

Jonathan E. Shaw

Jonathan E. Shaw is an Australian endocrinologist and diabetes epidemiologist, Deputy Director of the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne and professor at Monash University.

Jonathan G. Seidman, also published as J.G. Seidman, is a Harvard Medical School geneticist who identified genes causing inherited heart disease and the first genetic causes of congenital heart malformations.

Jonathan M. Kalman

Jonathan M. Kalman is an Australian cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Melbourne who performed Australia's first curative atrial fibrillation ablation in 1997.

Jonathan P. Piccini

Jonathan P. Piccini is an American cardiac electrophysiologist at Duke University Hospital and its Clinical Research Institute, known for major atrial fibrillation trials and registries.

Jonathan R. Seckl

Jonathan R. Seckl, also known as Jonathan Seckl, is a British endocrinologist at the University of Edinburgh known for the fetal programming hypothesis linking fetal glucocorticoids to adult hypertension and diabetes.

Jordi Soler‐Soler

Jordi Soler-Soler is a Spanish cardiologist who founded and led the Cardiology Service of Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona for three decades, retiring in 2006.

Jorge Ferrer

Jorge Ferrer is a Spanish physician-scientist and geneticist known for discovering regulatory non-coding RNAs in pancreatic islets; he leads research at the CRG in Barcelona and Imperial College London.

Jorge Plutzky

Jorge Plutzky is an American preventive cardiologist, Director of Preventive Cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a Harvard associate professor, known for research linking diabetes and lipids to atherosclerosis.

Jose C. Florez

Jose C. Florez is a physician-scientist in type 2 diabetes genetics who serves as physician-in-chief at Massachusetts General Hospital, Jackson Professor at Harvard Medical School, and Broad Institute member.

José Jalife

José Jalife (José Jalife Sacal) is a Mexican-born physician-scientist in cardiac electrophysiology who studies rotors in atrial and ventricular fibrillation at CNIC Madrid and the University of Michigan.

José M. Ordovás

José M. Ordovás is a Spanish-born nutrition geneticist at Tufts University, born in 1956, whose research on how genes shape responses to diet helped found nutrigenomics.

José Manuel Fernández‐Real

José Manuel Fernández-Real is a Spanish physician-scientist in endocrinology and nutrition, a professor at the University of Girona known for linking gut microbiota, obesity, and brain function.

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José Manuel Rivero Carvallo

José Manuel Rivero Carvallo (1905–1993) was a Mexican cardiologist who described the Carvallo sign in 1946, a bedside test for tricuspid regurgitation, and was a founding member of Mexico's National Institute of Cardiology.

Josep Brugada

Josep Brugada is a Spanish cardiologist and electrophysiologist who co-described Brugada syndrome, an inherited cause of sudden death, and built the arrhythmia unit at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.

Joseph A. Hill

Joseph A. Hill is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for work on cardiac remodeling, fibrosis, and autophagy.

Joseph A. Vita

Joseph A. Vita (1956–2014) was an American cardiologist and vascular biology researcher at Boston University who showed endothelial dysfunction predicts cardiovascular events, and was the inaugural editor-in-chief of JAHA.

Joseph Bryan

Joseph Bryan is a cell biologist known for cloning the sulfonylurea receptor SUR1 and showing in 1995 that the beta-cell KATP channel has two subunits, Kir6.2 and SUR.

Joseph Charles Aub

Joseph Charles Aub (1890–1973) was an American physician and endocrinologist at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital whose lead poisoning and calcium metabolism studies laid foundations for cancer research.

Joseph E. Rall

Joseph E. Rall (1920–2008) was an American physician and thyroid physiologist at the NIH who founded its Clinical Endocrinology Branch and advanced the free thyroid hormone hypothesis.

Oct 10, 2026

Joseph E. Ravenell

Joseph E. Ravenell is an American physician-investigator at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies hypertension and cancer screening in Black men, best known for barbershop-based blood pressure trials.

Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula

Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula is a Native Hawaiian clinical health psychologist who chairs Native Hawaiian Health at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and studies cardiometabolic disease disparities.

Joseph L. Goldstein

Joseph L. Goldstein, born 1940, is an American molecular geneticist who co-discovered the LDL receptor and receptor-mediated endocytosis, winning the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Joseph L. Witztum

Joseph L. Witztum (1943–2026) was an American physician-scientist, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego from 1979, known for the oxidation hypothesis of atherosclerosis and the 2020 Anitschkow Prize.

Joseph Larner

Joseph Larner (1921–2014) was an American biochemical pharmacologist who chaired pharmacology at the University of Virginia from 1969 to 1990 and founded its Diabetes Center for Research in 1974.

Joseph Loscalzo

Joseph Loscalzo is an American cardiologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, credited with founding the field of network medicine and known for nitric oxide and redox biology research.

Joseph M. Metzger

Joseph M. Metzger is an American cardiac muscle physiologist who has headed Integrative Biology and Physiology at the University of Minnesota Medical School since 2008.

Joseph T. Bass

Joseph T. Bass is an American physician-scientist at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine who studies how circadian clocks regulate metabolism, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2025.

Joshua Hare

Joshua M. Hare is an American cardiologist and stem cell therapy researcher at the University of Miami, known for trials of mesenchymal stem cells in heart disease and Alzheimer's.