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Jason R. Andrews

Jason R. Andrews is an American infectious-disease physician and Stanford professor whose research quantifies prisons as drivers of tuberculosis epidemics in Latin America and models cholera in Haiti.

Jason R. Rohr

Jason R. Rohr is an American disease ecologist at the University of Notre Dame known for research on how pollution and climate change drive infectious disease.

Jason R. Westin

Jason R. Westin, also known as Jason Westin, is an American oncologist and lymphoma researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for leading the ZUMA-7 CAR T-cell therapy trial.

Jason Vassy

Jason Vassy is an American general internist and genomic-medicine researcher at VA Boston, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, and a PECASE recipient.

Jaume Ferran i Clua

Jaume Ferran i Clua, also written Jaime Ferrán, was a Spanish microbiologist who in 1885 gave the first cholera vaccine to humans during the Valencia epidemic.

Javed Butler

Javed Butler is an American cardiologist and heart failure clinical trialist at Baylor Scott & White Health, known for leading trials of empagliflozin and semaglutide in heart failure.

Javid J. Moslehi

Javid J. Moslehi, born 1975 in Tehran, is an American cardiologist and myocyte biologist who is the William Grossman Distinguished Professor at UCSF and identified immunotherapy-associated fulminant myocarditis.

Javier Cortés

Javier Cortés is a Spanish breast medical oncologist who led the phase 3 trials CLEOPATRA, KEYNOTE-355, DESTINY-Breast03, and ASCENT, and directs the International Breast Cancer Center in Barcelona.

Jay A. Fishman

Jay A. Fishman is an American physician-scientist in transplant infectious disease at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for defining infection risks of transplanting pig organs into humans.

Jay A. Nadel

Jay A. Nadel is an American physician-scientist in pulmonary medicine and Professor Emeritus at UCSF, where he founded the Division of Pulmonary Diseases and co-edited its respiratory textbook.

Jay Bradner

James "Jay" E. Bradner is an American physician-scientist who created the chemical probe JQ1, shared it freely to spur open-source drug discovery, and joined Amgen in 2023.

Jay C. Unkeless

Jay C. Unkeless is an immunologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai known for research on Fcγ receptors, the cell-surface receptors for IgG.

Jay D. Horton

Jay D. Horton is an American physician-scientist at UT Southwestern Medical Center who studies lipid metabolism, known for work on the SCAP/SREBP pathway and PCSK9.

Jay D. Iams

Jay D. Iams is an American obstetrician and professor at Ohio State University whose 1996 study established that a short cervix on mid-pregnancy ultrasound predicts spontaneous preterm delivery.

Jay H. Hoofnagle

Jay H. Hoofnagle is an American hepatologist who directed NIH's Liver Disease Research Branch and established interferon as the first treatment for chronic viral hepatitis.

Jay K. Kolls

Jay K. Kolls is an American physician-scientist in pulmonary immunology who directs the Center for Translational Research in Infection and Inflammation at Tulane University School of Medicine.

Jay L. Degen

Jay L. Degen is a hematologist and mouse geneticist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and the University of Cincinnati, known for using gene-targeted mice to define what blood-clotting and clot-dissolving proteins do.

Jay L. Hess

Jay L. Hess is an American physician-scientist and hematopathologist known for research on MLL and HOX genes in leukemia, and dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine from 2013.

Jay L. Zweíer

Jay L. Zweier is an American physician-scientist, an MD from the University of Maryland and professor at The Ohio State University, known for measuring free radicals and nitric oxide in ischemic hearts using EPR spectroscopy.

Jay N. Cohn

Jay N. Cohn is an American cardiologist at the University of Minnesota who pioneered heart failure as a subspecialty, led the V-HeFT trials, and won the ACC's 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Jay P. Sanford

Jay P. Sanford (1928–1996) was an American infectious-disease physician who created The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy and served as founding dean of the Uniformed Services University.

Jay S. Skyler

Jay S. Skyler, also known as Jay Skyler, is an American endocrinologist and diabetes researcher at the University of Miami, chairman of DPT-1 and TrialNet from 1993 to 2015.

Jay W. Mason

Jay W. Mason is an American cardiologist specializing in arrhythmias and electrocardiography, known for the 1987 NEJM review "Amiodarone" and the 1993 ESVEM drug-testing trials.

Jayachandran N. Kizhakkedathu

Jayachandran N. Kizhakkedathu, also published as Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu, is a polymer chemist and biomaterials researcher at the University of British Columbia who designs blood-compatible surfaces and synthetic anticoagulants.

Jayanta Debnath

Jayanta Debnath is an American cancer biologist and pathologist who chairs pathology at UCSF, where his laboratory studies autophagy as a survival mechanism in cancer.

Jayaraj Rajagopal

Jayaraj Rajagopal is a Harvard Medical School professor and Massachusetts General Hospital researcher in lung stem cell biology who discovered pulmonary ionocytes and airway hillocks.

Jayne A. Franklyn

Jayne A. Franklyn, known as Jayne Franklyn, is a British endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Birmingham whose cohort studies of radioiodine treatment for overactive thyroid shaped national and international guidance.

Jean Abadie

Jean Abadie (1873–1946) was a French neuropsychiatrist, professor of nervous and mental diseases at Bordeaux, remembered for Abadie's sign of tabes dorsalis, the painless pressure on the Achilles tendon.

Jean Bernard (physician)

Jean Bernard (1907–2006) was a French physician and hematologist who helped establish that some acute leukemias could be cured, built French hematology at Saint-Louis Hospital, and led France's bioethics committee.

Jean Bourhis

Jean Bourhis is a French radiation oncologist, professor and chair of radiation oncology at Lausanne University Hospital since 2012, known for the MACH-NC and MARCH meta-analyses.