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Jimmie C. Holland

Jimmie C. Holland, born Jimmie Coker (1928–2017), was an American psychiatrist who founded psycho-oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering, created the NCCN Distress Thermometer, and led the campaign making distress screening standard cancer care.

Jinghui Zhang

Jinghui Zhang is a cancer genomics researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis who maps pediatric cancer genomes and built tools including ProteinPaint and St. Jude Cloud.

Jinjun Shi

Jinjun Shi is a nanomedicine and drug-delivery scientist and Harvard Medical School professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital, whose laboratory develops nanoparticles and hydrogels carrying RNA drugs to tumors.

Jinming Gao

Jinming Gao is a chemist and biomedical engineer, professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for pH-responsive proton transistor nanoparticles, the PC7A STING nanovaccine, and founding OncoNano Medicine.

Joakim Dillner

Joakim Dillner is a Swedish physician-scientist and professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet who led the Swedescreen HPV screening trial and founded Sweden's National Cervical Screening Registry.

Joan B. Rose

Joan B. Rose is an American water microbiologist at Michigan State University who pioneered Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment and led the scientific response to the 1993 Milwaukee cryptosporidiosis outbreak.

Joan Ballester

Joan Ballester is a Research Professor at ISGlobal in Barcelona who quantified over 181,000 heat-related deaths in Europe in 2022–2024 and built heat-health early warning systems.

Joan Heller Brown

Joan Heller Brown is an American pharmacologist at UC San Diego known for showing that CaMKII drives the transition from cardiac hypertrophy to heart failure.

Joan K. Austin

Joan Kessner Austin is an American epilepsy nursing scientist and Indiana University distinguished professor emerita who studied epilepsy in children, led the American Epilepsy Society in 2005, and joined the National Academy of Medicine in 2000.

Joan L. Luby

Joan L. Luby is a child psychiatrist at Washington University School of Medicine whose research established that depression can be diagnosed in children as young as 3.

Joan M. Teno

Joan M. Teno is an American physician and health services researcher in palliative and end-of-life care, known for the SUPPORT study and the Family Evaluation of Hospice Care survey.

Joan Massagué

Joan Massagué is a Spanish-born cancer biologist known for defining the TGF-β signaling pathway and the molecular basis of cancer metastasis, and director of the Sloan Kettering Institute since 2014.

Joan Reede

Joan Reede is an American physician and Harvard Medical School dean who, since 2001, has built more than 20 programs opening medicine and research careers to underrepresented groups.

Joan Rodés

Joan Rodés was a Spanish hepatologist who founded the Liver Unit of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona in 1968 and led it to prominence in liver research.

Joan Whitten Miller

Joan Whitten Miller is a Canadian-born ophthalmologist and scientist who led Harvard Medical School's ophthalmology department for 22 years and helped establish anti-VEGF therapy for retinal disease.

Joann G. Elmore

Joann G. Elmore is an American physician-scientist and UCLA professor whose research measures how accurately doctors interpret mammograms and tissue biopsies, including landmark false-positive studies.

Joanna C. Jen

Joanna C. Jen is an American neurologist and neurogeneticist who identified the ROBO3 gene and is a professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Joanna Fowler

Joanna Fowler is an American radiochemist who synthesized the PET radiotracer FDG in 1976 and mapped brain enzymes like monoamine oxidase at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Joanna Wysocka

Joanna Wysocka is a Polish-born American developmental biologist and HHMI investigator at Stanford who studies how chromatin regulates gene expression during development, evolution, and disease.

Joanne Kurtzberg

Joanne Kurtzberg is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist at Duke University who pioneered unrelated-donor umbilical cord blood transplantation, performing the world's first such transplant in 1993.

JoAnne L. Flynn

JoAnne L. Flynn is an American tuberculosis immunologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for the macaque tuberculosis model and PET-CT imaging of granulomas.

Joanne R. Lupton

Joanne R. Lupton (1944–2020) was an American nutrition scientist at Texas A&M University whose research on dietary fiber and colon cancer shaped the 2001 definition of dietary fiber.

João A.C. Lima

João A.C. Lima (Joao Lima) is a Brazilian-born cardiologist and professor at Johns Hopkins who led the CORE-64 coronary CT angiography trial and pioneered MRI measurement of infarct size.

Jocelyne Bloch

Jocelyne Bloch is a Swiss neurosurgeon who leads neurosurgery at Lausanne University Hospital and co-directs .NeuroRestore, developing spinal cord implants that let paralyzed people walk.

Jochen Hampe

Jochen Hampe, born 1967 in Dresden, is a German physician-scientist and professor of gastroenterology at TU Dresden, known for the 2001 discovery of NOD2 as a Crohn's disease gene.

Jochen K. Lennerz

Jochen K. Lennerz is a German-trained molecular pathologist who directed Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Integrated Diagnostics, argued for oversight of laboratory-developed tests, and by 2026 worked at Natera.

Jochen Reiser

Jochen Reiser is a German-born physician-scientist and nephrologist who has served as president of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston since 2023, known for identifying suPAR as a circulating factor in kidney disease.

Joe Verghese

Joe Verghese is an American neurologist, chair of neurology at Stony Brook University since 2024, known for gait studies predicting dementia and defining Motoric Cognitive Risk syndrome.

Joe W. Gray

Joe W. Gray is an American physicist and cancer researcher, Professor Emeritus at Oregon Health & Science University, known for developing tools to analyze tumor genomes and heterogeneity.

Joel D. Kopple

Joel D. Kopple, born 1938 in Chicago, is an American nephrologist who led the nephrology division at Harbor-UCLA for 25 years, co-founded World Kidney Day, and established renal nutrition guidelines.