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Jeffrey S. Robinson

Jeffrey S. Robinson, born in Northern Ireland in 1941, was an Australian perinatal researcher and professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Adelaide.

Jeffrey S. Weber

Jeffrey S. Weber, also known as Jeffrey Weber, was an American medical oncologist and melanoma immunotherapy researcher who served as Deputy Director of NYU Langone's Perlmutter Cancer Center.

Jeffrey Schlom

Jeffrey Schlom is an American cancer immunologist who led the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology for about 30 years and developed the PANVAC and PROSTVAC vaccines.

Jeffrey Settleman

Jeffrey Settleman is an American cancer biologist who serves as Chief Scientific Officer for Oncology R&D at Pfizer, after 18 years as a Harvard Medical School professor.

Jeffrey Shaman

Jeffrey Shaman is an epidemiologist and environmental scientist at Columbia University known for forecasting influenza outbreaks and estimating that most early COVID-19 infections in China were undocumented.

Jeffrey Sklar

Jeffrey L. Sklar is a pathologist and physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine whose laboratory identified genes central to the molecular diagnosis of cancer, including BCL2 and NOTCH1.

Jeffrey Struewing

Jeffrey P. Struewing is an American physician-scientist in cancer genetics whose 1997 NEJM study re-estimated BRCA1 and BRCA2 cancer risks in Ashkenazi Jews, earning a 1998 PECASE.

Jeffrey Tyner

Jeffrey Tyner is an American hematology and oncology researcher at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, known for the Beat AML drug-profiling program in acute myeloid leukemia.

Jeffrey V. Lazarus

Jeffrey V. Lazarus is an American epidemiologist who heads the Public Health Liver Group at ISGlobal in Barcelona, known for COVID-19 vaccine surveys and liver disease policy.

Jeffrey W. Moses

Jeffrey W. Moses is an American interventional cardiologist, Professor of Cardiology at Columbia University, who led the SIRIUS drug-eluting stent trial and served on the PARTNER transcatheter aortic valve trials.

Jeffrey W. Olin

Jeffrey W. Olin is an American vascular medicine physician, Professor of Cardiology at Mount Sinai, known for fibromuscular dysplasia research and past president of the Society for Vascular Medicine.

Jeffrey W. Smith

Jeffrey W. Smith is an American cell biologist known for integrin ligand binding research and for discovering that orlistat inhibits fatty acid synthase and slows tumor growth.

Jenna Lester

Jenna Lester is an American dermatologist and Associate Professor at UCSF, founding Director of its Skin of Color Program, known for research showing darker skin is missing from medical images.

Jennie Kline

Jennie Kline is an American epidemiologist and adjunct professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health known for research on trisomy, ovarian aging, and spontaneous abortion.

Jennifer A. Woyach

Jennifer A. Woyach is an American hematologist-oncologist and professor at Ohio State University whose chronic lymphocytic leukemia research identified ibrutinib resistance mechanisms and led major frontline clinical trials.

Jennifer Bryce

Jennifer Bryce is an international-health researcher and Senior Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, known for The Lancet's 2003 child survival and 2008 undernutrition series.

Jennifer E. DeVoe

Jennifer E. DeVoe is an American family physician and health services researcher at Oregon Health & Science University, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2014.

Jennifer K. Sun

Jennifer K. Sun is an American vitreoretinal surgeon and Harvard Medical School professor who leads nationwide trials of anti-VEGF drug treatment for diabetic retinopathy at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston.

Jennifer Keiser

Jennifer Keiser is a Swiss TPH researcher in Basel who leads the Helminth Drug Development unit and became a Full Professor at the University of Basel in 2025.

Jennifer Lorvick

Jennifer Lorvick is an American epidemiologist and senior public health scientist at RTI International, known for research on HIV, hepatitis C, and overdose among people who inject drugs.

Jennifer M. Puck

Jennifer M. Puck is an American pediatric immunologist and medical geneticist, Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF, known for developing the newborn screening test for SCID.

Jennifer Nuzzo

Jennifer B. Nuzzo is an American epidemiologist, Professor at Brown University's School of Public Health, and Director of its Pandemic Center, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

Jennifer R. Brown

Jennifer R. Brown is an American physician-scientist who directs the CLL Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and led the ALPINE and AMPLIFY trials that shaped targeted CLL treatment.

Jennifer R. Grandis

Jennifer R. Grandis is an American otolaryngologist and head and neck cancer researcher at UCSF, known for her work on EGFR and STAT3 signaling in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Jennifer Rabke Verani

Jennifer Rabke Verani is an American pediatrician and medical epidemiologist at the CDC's Respiratory Diseases Branch in Atlanta, known for pneumococcal vaccine effectiveness studies in Kenya and other countries.

Jennifer S. Temel

Jennifer S. Temel is an American oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital known for her 2010 trial showing early palliative care improved survival in lung cancer.

Jennifer Wargo

Jennifer A. Wargo is an American surgeon and cancer immunotherapy researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for showing that the gut microbiome influences immunotherapy response.

Jenny Heathcote

Jenny Heathcote is a British-born Canadian hepatologist known for her 1970s studies of hepatitis B transmission and for autoimmune liver disease research at the University of Toronto.

Jens Bukh

Jens Bukh (born 1960) is a Danish virologist who first published that hepatitis C virus has six major genotypes and directs the Copenhagen Hepatitis C Program.

Jens C. Brüning

Jens C. Brüning, also known as Jens Brüning, is a German physician-scientist born in Cologne in 1966 who studies how the brain controls energy and glucose metabolism, and directs the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research.