Medical and health researchers

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 Neuberger

James Max Neuberger, born 1949, is a British hepatologist and transplant physician at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, who led NHS Blood and Transplant and chairs SaBTO.

Jamés O. Armitage

James O. Armitage is a hematology-oncology physician and Joe Shapiro Professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center who founded its blood and bone marrow transplant program in 1982.

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 O. Kahn

James O. Kahn is an American HIV clinical researcher, now emeritus faculty at Stanford, who led the largest 1990s HIV randomized trial and fought to publish its negative findings.

James P. Allison, American immunologist born in Alice, Texas, discovered CTLA-4 is a T-cell brake; blocking it produced ipilimumab, the first checkpoint inhibitor, and the 2018 Nobel Prize shared with Tasuku Honjo.

James P. Kushner

James P. Kushner is an American physician-scientist in hematology at the University of Utah, an internationally recognized authority on hereditary hemochromatosis and the porphyrias who retired in 2011.

James Q. Miller

James Quinter Miller (1926–2005) was an American neurologist at the University of Virginia whose 1963 description of lissencephaly in two siblings gave his name to Miller–Dieker syndrome, and who won record teaching awards.

James R. Downing

James R. Downing is a physician-scientist in pediatric cancer genomics who spent his career at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, serving as president and CEO from 2014, and co-founded the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project.

James R. Heath

James R. Heath is an American chemist who co-discovered C60 fullerenes in 1985 and has led the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle since 2018.

James R. O’Dell

James R. O'Dell is an American rheumatologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha whose trials established combination drug therapy for rheumatoid arthritis.

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 R. Tillotson

James R. Tillotson was an American physician-investigator in pulmonary and infectious-disease medicine who published influential pneumonia studies from Wayne State University and later Harvard Medical School and Boston City Hospital.

James Ramsay Hunt

James Ramsay Hunt was an American neurologist and Columbia University professor who described Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 2, herpes zoster oticus with facial paralysis, and died in 1937.

James Read Chadwick

James Read Chadwick (1844–1905) was an American gynecologist in Boston who founded the American Gynecological Society in 1876 and established the Boston Medical Library in 1875.

James Reilly (French pathologist)

James Reilly (1887–1974) was a French physician and experimental pathologist known for the "irritation syndrome," who worked at the Pasteur Institute and Hôpital Claude-Bernard in Paris and was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.

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 S. Goodwin

James S. Goodwin is an American geriatrician and health services researcher, a University of Texas Medical Branch professor since 1992 who founded its Sealy Center on Aging in 1995.

James S. Marks

James S. Marks is an American physician and epidemiologist who directed the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and later led the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's grantmaking.

James S. Wainscoat

James S. Wainscoat, also recorded as J.S. Wainscoat, is a consultant haematologist and Oxford professor known for DNA-based prenatal diagnosis of β-thalassaemia and fetal RhD genotyping.

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 Till

James Edgar Till (1931–2025) was a Canadian biophysicist who, with Ernest McCulloch at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, discovered stem cells in 1961 through the spleen colony assay.

James V. Donadío

James V. Donadio, also known as James V. Donadio Jr., was an American nephrologist at the Mayo Clinic known for controlled trials of fish oil in IgA nephropathy.

James V. Lavery

James V. Lavery is a bioethicist and global health researcher who holds the inaugural Conrad N. Hilton Chair in Global Health Ethics at Emory University, appointed in 2016.

James Versalovic

James Versalovic is an American physician-scientist in medical microbiology and pathology, known for human gut microbiome and probiotic research, who leads pathology at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.

James W. Curran

James W. Curran is an American physician-epidemiologist who coordinated the CDC task force that investigated the first reported AIDS cases in 1981, then led the federal HIV/AIDS program for 15 years.

James W. Kazura

James W. Kazura is an American physician-scientist at Case Western Reserve University whose field studies in Papua New Guinea and Kenya advanced malaria and lymphatic filariasis research.