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J. van Gijn
Jan van Gijn (1942 to 2025) was a Dutch neurologist and professor at University Medical Center Utrecht, known for research on subarachnoid hemorrhage and stroke prevention.
J. Warren Harthorne
J. Warren Harthorne is an American cardiologist, Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and a longtime Massachusetts General Hospital cardiologist, known for cardiac pacing and coronary angiography.
J. Wayne Streilein
J. Wayne Streilein (1935–2004) was an American immunologist who showed that immune privilege in the eye is actively maintained suppression, and was president of Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston.
J. William Harbour
J. William Harbour is an American ophthalmologist and ocular oncologist who chairs ophthalmology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and developed the standard prognostic test for uveal melanoma.
J. William Langston
J. William Langston is an American neurologist who identified the toxin MPTP as a cause of parkinsonism in 1982 and founded the Parkinson's Institute in Sunnyvale, California.
J.A. Stockman
J.A. Stockman, also known as James A. Stockman, is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist whose New England Journal of Medicine work defined the anemia of prematurity and sickle-cell stroke.
J.F. Pantridge
J.F. Pantridge, known as Frank Pantridge, was a Northern Irish cardiologist who built the first portable defibrillator and started the world's first prehospital cardiac care unit in Belfast in 1966.
J.G. Heathcote
J.G. Heathcote is a British biochemist who researched oral vitamin B12 treatment of pernicious anemia at St Helens Hospital and the University of Salford, publishing from 1958 to 1976.
J.G. Seidman
J.G. Seidman, or Jonathan G. Seidman, is a human molecular geneticist and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School known for identifying genes that cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and congenital heart defects.
J.L. Burton
J.L. Burton, or John Lloyd Burton, was a British dermatologist at the University of Bristol known for research on sebaceous glands and skin lipid biochemistry.
J.M. Walshe
John Michael Walshe (1920–2022) was a British physician-scientist in hepatology at Cambridge and University College Hospital who discovered the three main drug treatments for Wilson's disease.
J.N. Blau
J.N. Blau, Joseph Norman ('Nat') Blau (1928–2010), was a British neurologist and migraine specialist who co-founded the City of London Migraine Clinic and identified migraine's pre-headache prodrome.
J.N. Morris
J.N. Morris, born Jeremiah Noah Morris and known as Jerry Morris, was a British physician and epidemiologist whose 1953 London busmen study first linked physical activity to heart disease.
J.R.A. Mitchell
J.R.A. Mitchell, John Richard Anthony Mitchell (1928–1991), was a British cardiologist and the first clinical professor of the University of Nottingham medical school, known for platelet research.
J.S. Elborn
J. Stuart Elborn, known as Stuart Elborn, is a Northern Irish respiratory physician-scientist known for cystic fibrosis trials and for founding Belfast's Regional Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre.
J.W.M. van der Meer
J.W.M. van der Meer, also known as Jos W.M. van der Meer, is a Dutch physician-immunologist and emeritus professor of medicine at Radboud University Nijmegen, known for the trained-immunity paradigm.
Jaakko Perheentupa
Jaakko Perheentupa is a Finnish pediatrician who co-defined the Finnish disease heritage in 1973 and first described Mulibrey nanism, lysinuric protein intolerance, and cartilage-hair hypoplasia.
Jaakko Tuomilehto
Jaakko Tuomilehto is a Finnish epidemiologist and professor emeritus at the University of Helsinki known for the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study and the FINDRISC risk score.
Jaap Goudsmit
Jaap Goudsmit, born 1951 in Amsterdam, is a Dutch virologist and epidemiologist known for AIDS research in the Amsterdam cohort, broadly neutralizing influenza antibodies, and leadership at Crucell and Harvard.
Jaap Verweij
Jaap Verweij is a Dutch medical oncologist, Emeritus Professor and former Dean at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, known for the EORTC high-dose imatinib trials in GIST and sarcoma drug development.
Jacek Hawiger
Jacek "Jack" Hawiger is a Polish-born American physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center whose research spans vascular biology and inflammation, from 1975 platelet and fibrinogen biochemistry in Nature to peptide drugs blocking inflammatory transcription factors.
Jack A. Yanovski
Jack A. Yanovski, born 1960 in Philadelphia, is an American pediatric endocrinologist and NIH researcher whose trials defined drug treatment limits for childhood obesity and the role of BDNF in body-weight regulation.
Jack Cuzick
Jack Cuzick is a British cancer epidemiologist and statistician at Queen Mary University of London who led the IBIS breast cancer prevention trials and was knighted in 2025.
Jack D. Sobel
Jack D. Sobel, known as Jack Sobel, is a South African–trained American infectious-diseases physician who has led the infectious-diseases division at Wayne State University in Detroit since 1985.
Jack E. White
Jack Edward White (1921–1988) was an American cancer surgeon and Howard University professor who built its NCI-designated cancer center, becoming the first African American to lead one.
Jack Elinson
Jack Elinson, born Israel Jack Elinson, was an American sociomedical scientist and statistician who founded the first sociomedical sciences department in a school of public health at Columbia University.
Jack Fishman
Jack Fishman, born Jacob Fiszman in Kraków, Poland, in 1930, was a Jewish American pharmaceutical chemist who co-developed naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote, and died in 2013.
Jack H. Medalie
Jack H. Medalie (1922–2006) was a South African-born physician and epidemiologist who founded family medicine at Case Western Reserve University and directed the Israeli Ischemic Heart Disease Study from 1963.
Jack H. Mendelson
Jack H. Mendelson (Jack Harold Mendelson, 1929–2007) was an American psychiatrist and endocrinologist who led the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center at McLean Hospital and helped establish alcoholism as a medical disorder.
Jack H. Oppenheimer
Jack H. Oppenheimer (1927–2006) was a German-born American endocrinologist who defined how thyroid hormone acts in cells, set the levothyroxine replacement dose for hypothyroidism, and led the American Thyroid Association in 1986.