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Jane E. Freedman

Jane E. Freedman is an American physician-scientist whose research centers on platelets, thrombosis, and immunity in cardiovascular disease; she chairs Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Medicine.

Jane E. Harding

Jane E. Harding is a New Zealand neonatologist, Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland's Liggins Institute and President of Royal Society Te Apārangi from 2024.

Jane E. Koehler

Jane E. Koehler, born 1953, is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus at UCSF known for isolating the bacteria that cause bacillary angiomatosis, an AIDS-associated disease.

Jane E. Norman

Jane E. Norman is a British maternal and fetal health researcher who has been President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham since January 2025, after leading preterm birth research at Edinburgh.

Jane Gitschier

Jane Gitschier is an American human geneticist who spent her career at UCSF, was an HHMI investigator from 1985 to 2006, and studied hemophilia and Menkes disease.

Janean Holden

Janean Holden is an American nurse scientist at the University of Michigan who studies how the brain modulates pain and, in 1999, became the first nurse scientist to receive a Presidential Early Career Award.

Janelle S. Ayres

Janelle S. Ayres is an American molecular and systems physiologist at the Salk Institute who established disease tolerance, surviving infections by limiting damage rather than killing pathogens.

Janet C. King

Janet C. King is an American nutrition scientist at UC Davis and Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, known for stable-isotope methods for studying zinc metabolism and for chairing the 2005 U.S. Dietary Guidelines committee.

Janet D. Rowley

Janet D. Rowley (1925–2013) was an American hematologist at the University of Chicago who founded cancer cytogenetics, showing in 1973 that the Philadelphia chromosome is a translocation.

Janet E. Stout

Janet E. Stout is an American infectious disease microbiologist known for establishing hospital potable water systems, not cooling towers, as the reservoir for Legionnaires' disease.

Janet Hemingway

Janet Hemingway is a British entomologist and geneticist known for her research on insecticide resistance in mosquitoes, and Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine from 2001.

Janet Pierrehumbert

Janet Pierrehumbert is an experimental and computational linguist, Professor of Language Modelling at Oxford since 2015, known for her influential 1980 model of English intonation and the ToBI prosody standard.

Janet R. Daling

Janet R. Daling (1934–2022) was an American cancer epidemiologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, known for landmark studies linking HPV to anal cancer and IUD use to infertility.

Janet Treasure

Janet Treasure is a British psychiatrist and professor at King's College London known for research on eating disorders and for developing MANTRA, a NICE-recommended therapy for anorexia nervosa.

Janet W. McArthur

Janet W. McArthur was an American reproductive endocrinologist who developed a bioassay for luteinizing hormone and in 1972 became the first woman at MGH with a Harvard full professorship.

Jang‐Soo Chun

Jang-Soo Chun (전장수) is a South Korean biomedical scientist and professor at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, known for research on the molecular mechanisms of cartilage destruction in osteoarthritis.

Janice Y. Chou

Janice Y. Chou, also known as Janice Yang Chou, is an American biochemist at NIH who established the genetic basis of glycogen storage disease type I.

Janine Jagger

Janine Jagger is an American epidemiologist at the University of Virginia whose research on needlestick injuries reoriented health care worker safety toward safer device design.

Janis L. Abkowitz

Janis L. Abkowitz is an American hematologist at the University of Washington known for research on marrow-failure syndromes and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2013.

Jaques-Louis Reverdin

Jaques-Louis Reverdin (1842–1929) was a Swiss surgeon from Geneva who in 1869 performed the first successful pinch skin graft, earning the name Father of Skin Grafting.

Jared M. Baeten

Jared M. Baeten (born 1973) is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at the University of Washington whose Partners PrEP trial proved antiretroviral pills prevent HIV acquisition in heterosexual men and women.

Jared Potter Kirtland

Jared Potter Kirtland (1793–1877) was an American physician, naturalist, and horticulturist in northeastern Ohio who co-founded Cleveland Medical College and the Cleveland Academy of Natural Sciences, and is remembered for Kirtland's warbler.

Jared Rutter

Jared Rutter is an American biochemist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Utah who studies metabolism and identified the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier in 2012.

Jari Tiihonen

Jari Tiihonen (born 1960) is a Finnish psychiatrist and physician-scientist, professor at Karolinska Institutet and the University of Eastern Finland, known for the 2009 FIN11 register study of antipsychotics in schizophrenia.

Jasmohan S. Bajaj

Jasmohan S. Bajaj is an American hepatologist, a professor of medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Richmond VA Medical Center, who studies the gut-liver-brain axis in cirrhosis.

Jason D. Morrow

Jason D. Morrow, also known as Jason Morrow, was an American physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University who co-discovered the isoprostanes, biomarkers of oxidative stress, in 1990.

Jason G. Andrade

Jason G. Andrade is a Canadian cardiac electrophysiologist at Vancouver General Hospital and the University of British Columbia, known for early-ablation trials in atrial fibrillation.

Jason Gotlib

Jason R. Gotlib is an American hematologist-oncologist and Stanford professor of medicine whose clinical trials led to FDA approval of midostaurin and avapritinib for advanced systemic mastocytosis.

Jason M. Baron

Jason M. Baron is a clinical pathologist and informaticist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who applies machine learning to laboratory diagnosis, including ferritin prediction and reflex testing.

Jason McLellan

Jason S. McLellan is an American structural biologist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin whose prefusion-stabilized spike protein design is used in COVID-19 and RSV vaccines.