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Jerrold M. Olefsky

Jerrold M. Olefsky is an American endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego since 1983, known for research on insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes.

Jerrold R. Turner

Jerrold R. Turner is an American physician-scientist, Professor of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for research on intestinal tight junctions.

Jerry A. Schneider

Jerry A. Schneider (1937–2021) was an American pediatrician and researcher at UC San Diego who turned the fatal childhood disease cystinosis into a treatable condition through cysteamine therapy.

Jerry A. Shields

Jerry A. Shields (1937–2025) was an American ophthalmologist who founded the Ocular Oncology Service at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia in 1974 and led it for 44 years.

Jerry Avorn

Jerry Avorn is a physician and pharmacoepidemiologist, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and founding chief of the Brigham and Women's Hospital pharmacoepidemiology division, who originated academic detailing.

Jerry D. Gardner

Jerry D. Gardner is a physician-scientist at the National Institutes of Health known for research on gastrointestinal hormone receptors on pancreatic acinar cells and for showing that H2-receptor antagonists control gastric acid hypersecretion in Zollinger-Ellison syndrome.

Jerry Kaplan

Jerry Kaplan is an American hematology researcher and Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the University of Utah, known for yeast-genetics studies of how cells take up and export iron.

Jerry L. Spivak

Jerry L. Spivak is an American hematologist, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins, and former director of its Center for the Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders.

Jerry R. Mendell

Jerry R. Mendell is an American pediatric neurologist and neuromuscular disease researcher at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, who led the pivotal trials behind Zolgensma for spinal muscular atrophy and ELEVIDYS for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Jerry S. Trier

Jerry S. Trier is an American gastroenterologist and Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, known for work establishing small-intestinal biopsy and organ culture as tools for diagnosing celiac disease.

Jerry S. Wolinsky

Jerry S. Wolinsky is an American neurologist and multiple sclerosis researcher at UTHealth Houston who helped revise the McDonald diagnostic criteria and led the ORATORIO ocrelizumab trial.

Jes Olesen

Jes Olesen, born in 1941, is a Danish neurologist at the University of Copenhagen who chaired all three editions of the International Classification of Headache Disorders.

Jesper Lagergren

Jesper Lagergren is a Swedish academic surgeon and epidemiologist who studies esophageal and gastric cancer, holding professorships at Karolinska Institutet and King's College London and a 1999 NEJM study linking reflux to esophageal adenocarcinoma.

Jesse L. Goodman

Jesse L. Goodman is an American infectious disease physician-scientist, former FDA Chief Scientist (2009–2014) who led the H1N1 pandemic response, now a Georgetown professor directing COMPASS.

Jesse Roth

Jesse Roth (1934–2026) was an American endocrinologist whose research on the insulin receptor established that hormones act through specific receptors on cell surfaces, reshaping the study of diabetes.

Jesse Summers

Jesse Summers, born in 1941, is an American virologist who discovered animal hepatitis B-like viruses, including woodchuck hepatitis virus, and showed they replicate DNA by reverse transcription.

Jessica Gill

Jessica Gill is an American nurse scientist known for developing blood biomarkers for traumatic brain injury and PTSD, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.

Jessica L. Mega

Jessica L. Mega is an American cardiologist and clinical researcher at Stanford known for pharmacogenetic studies of antiplatelet drugs and for co-founding Verily, Alphabet's life-sciences company, where she was Chief Medical and Scientific Officer.

Jessica Zucman‐Rossi

Jessica Zucman-Rossi is a French physician-scientist who established the molecular classification of liver tumors used in clinical practice and directs the Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers in Paris.

Jesús Egido

Jesús Egido is a Spanish nephrologist and emeritus professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, known for establishing angiotensin II as a promoter of inflammation and fibrosis in kidney disease.

Jesús Prìeto

Jesús Prieto is a Spanish physician-scientist in hepatology and liver gene therapy who was Professor of Medicine at the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona from 1979 to 2014.

Jewel Plummer Cobb

Jewel Plummer Cobb (1924–2017) was an American cell biologist known for melanoma and pigment-cell research, and president of California State University, Fullerton from 1981 to 1990.

Jia‐Huai Wang

Jia-Huai Wang is a structural biologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, known for crystal structures of immune receptors and early membership of the Beijing Insulin Group.

Jiang He

Jiang He is a physician, epidemiologist, and human geneticist who chairs epidemiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.

Jiang Hsieh

Jiang Hsieh is a medical imaging physicist who developed CT reconstruction and dose-reduction algorithms at GE HealthCare and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Jianjun Chen

Jianjun Chen is a Chinese-born American cancer biologist who is Professor and Chair of Systems Biology at City of Hope in Duarte, California, known for RNA methylation research in leukemia.

Jie He

Jie He (赫捷) is a Chinese thoracic surgeon and oncologist who directs the National Cancer Center of China and was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2025.

Jill Ann Fahrner

Jill Ann Fahrner is an American physician-scientist and medical geneticist at Johns Hopkins University who delineated Beck–Fahrner syndrome, a rare neurodevelopmental disorder caused by TET3 deficiency.

Jill P. Pell

Jill P. Pell is a Scottish epidemiologist and public-health physician who has held the Henry Mechan Professorship of Public Health at the University of Glasgow since 2007.

Jim Mann (nutrition scientist)

Jim Mann is a South Africa-born physician and nutrition scientist, professor at the University of Otago since 1988, whose work on sugar and fiber shaped WHO dietary guidance.