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Jean Bousquet
Jean Bousquet, born 1946, is a French physician-scientist in allergy and respiratory medicine, honorary professor of pulmonary medicine at Montpellier University, founder of the ARIA guidelines and former chairman of GINA.
Jean Chastre
Jean Chastre is a French intensivist and physician-scientist in critical care medicine at Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris, known for research on ventilator-associated pneumonia, including a 2003 JAMA trial comparing 8 and 15 days of antibiotics.
Jean D. Ross
Jean D. Ross was a researcher in pediatrics and hematology at Tufts Children's Hospital and Tufts University, known for work on infant iron-deficiency anemia and newborn methemoglobinemia.
Jean D. Wilson (scientist)
Jean D. Wilson was an American endocrinologist at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas who discovered that testosterone is converted into the more potent androgen dihydrotestosterone.
Jean Dausset
Jean Dausset (1916–2009) was a French immunologist who discovered the HLA system, the cell-surface proteins governing transplant acceptance, and shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Jean Demoor
Jean Demoor (1867–1941) was a Belgian physician and physiologist, professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, known for work on chemical mediators of nerve conduction.
Jean E. Johnson
Jean E. Johnson, full name Jean Elaine Irwin Johnson (1925–2022), was an American nurse scientist at the University of Rochester known for self-regulation theory in patient education.
Jean E. Schaffer
Jean E. Schaffer is an American physician-scientist at Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School known for discovering the first fatty acid transport protein and establishing lipotoxicity in diabetic heart disease.
Jean Ginsburg
Jean Ginsburg (1926–2004) was a British endocrinologist at the Royal Free Hospital in London who set up one of Britain's first menopause clinics and published over 250 papers.
Jean Hyacinthe Vincent
Jean Hyacinthe Vincent (1862–1950) was a French army physician and bacteriologist who identified the organisms behind Vincent's angina and directed the antityphoid vaccination that nearly eliminated typhoid from French armies in World War I.
Jean Klášterský
Jean Klášterský (Jean Klastersky), born 1940 in Prague, is a Belgian medical oncologist who led the Institut Jules Bordet in Brussels and created the MASCC risk index.
Jean L. Rouleau
Jean L. Rouleau is a Canadian cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute known for leading the STICH heart-surgery trial and entering the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2023.
Jean Laigret
Jean Laigret (1893–1966) was a French physician at the Pasteur Institute who developed the Dakar vaccine, the first used against yellow fever in mass campaigns.
Jean Lhermitte
Jean Lhermitte, full name Jacques Jean Lhermitte (1877–1959), was a French neurologist and neuropsychiatrist, son of the painter Léon Augustin Lhermitte, known for Lhermitte's sign and Lhermitte-Duclos disease.
Jean Lindenmann
Jean Lindenmann (1924–2015) was a Swiss virologist who co-discovered and named interferon with Alick Isaacs in London in 1957, then studied the Mx gene at Zurich.
Jean Marie Charles Abadie
Jean Marie Charles Abadie (1842–1932) was a French ophthalmologist born in Saint-Gaudens, trained in Paris, Vienna, and Berlin, known for Abadie's sign, a lid sign of Graves' disease.
Jean Mayer
Jean Mayer (1920-1993) was a French-born American nutrition scientist, Harvard professor, and originator of the glucostatic theory of appetite regulation who led Tufts University as its tenth president.
Jean Orr-Ewing
Jean Orr-Ewing (1897–1944) was a co-worker in Howard Florey's penicillin team at Oxford's Dunn School of Pathology, named in the Nobel Committee's 1945 presentation speech yet left with almost no individual record.
Jean Paul Thiery
Jean Paul Thiery is a French cell and cancer biologist whose work on epithelial-mesenchymal transition established it as a central mechanism of carcinoma progression and metastasis.
Jean Pierre Soulier
Jean Pierre Soulier (1915–2003) was a French physician and hematologist who directed the Centre national de transfusion sanguine from 1954 to 1984 and helped identify the two forms of hemophilia.
Jean Rosa
Jean Rosa (1927–2025) was a French physician-scientist in hematology and red-cell biochemistry who identified hemoglobin variants, pioneered prenatal diagnosis of sickle cell disease in France, and led an INSERM research unit at the Hôpital Henri Mondor.
Jean W. Pape
Jean W. Pape, also known as Jean William or Bill Pape, is a Haitian-born physician-scientist who founded GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince in 1982, helping cut Haiti's HIV prevalence.
Jean-Claude Chermann
Jean-Claude Chermann is a French retrovirologist who co-discovered HIV at the Institut Pasteur in 1983, yet was the only co-discoverer excluded from the 2008 Nobel Prize.
Jean-François Borel
Jean-François Borel (1933–2025) was a Belgian-born Swiss pharmacologist and immunologist at Sandoz in Basel who identified cyclosporin A's immunosuppressive action, the first drug to control organ-transplant rejection.
Jean-François Calot
Jean-François Calot (1861–1944) was a French surgeon whose 1890 thesis gave his name to Calot's triangle, a key landmark in cholecystectomy, and who founded the Institut orthopédique de Berck-sur-Mer.
Jean-François Heymans
Jean-François Heymans (Jan Frans Heymans; 1859–1932) was a Belgian pharmacologist who held Belgium's first chair of experimental pharmacology at Ghent University and co-founded a pharmacology journal.
Jean-Henri-Adolphe d'Espine
Jean-Henri-Adolphe d'Espine (1846–1930) was a Swiss pediatrician from Geneva, professor of internal pathology, rector of the University of Geneva, and vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, known for d'Espine's sign.
Jean-Laurent Casanova
Jean-Laurent Casanova, born in Paris in 1963, is a French immunologist at Rockefeller University who showed that single-gene defects can make healthy children vulnerable to specific infections.
Jean-Martin Charcot
Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893), French neurologist, founder of modern neurology with Duchenne; Salpêtrière school, first neurology chair (1882), multiple sclerosis, ALS, Charcot-Marie-Tooth, contested hysteria and hypnosis work.
Jean‐Charles Soria
Jean-Charles Soria is a French medical oncologist known for early-phase cancer drug development and for leading the FLAURA trials of osimertinib in EGFR-mutated non-small-cell lung cancer.