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John H. Edwards
John H. Edwards, or John Hilton Edwards, was a British physician and geneticist who identified trisomy 18, now called Edwards syndrome, in 1960 and built clinical genetics at Birmingham.
John H. Kersey
John H. Kersey (1938–2013) was an American physician-scientist in pediatric hematology-oncology at the University of Minnesota; in 1975 he led the world's first successful bone marrow transplant for lymphoma.
John H. Krystal
John H. Krystal is an American psychiatrist-scientist who chairs the Yale Department of Psychiatry and is best known for leading the discovery of ketamine's rapid antidepressant effects.
John H. Lawrence
John H. Lawrence (John Hundale Lawrence, 1904–1991) was an American physician at Berkeley, hailed as the Father of Nuclear Medicine, who first treated a patient with a cyclotron-produced isotope in 1936.
John H. Stone
John H. Stone is an American rheumatologist, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, who led major trials in vasculitis and IgG4-related disease at Massachusetts General Hospital.
John H. Vaughan
John H. Vaughan was an American immunologist and rheumatologist who established the role of rheumatoid factor, autoantibodies, and complement in rheumatoid arthritis, and served as President of the American Rheumatism Association.
John Hedley‐Whyte
John Hedley-Whyte (1933–2026) was a British-born anesthesiologist who built the academic discipline of anesthesia and respiratory intensive care at Harvard and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.
John Heysham Gibbon
John Heysham Gibbon was an American surgeon at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia who invented the heart-lung machine and performed the first successful open-heart operation in 1953.
John Homans
John Homans (1877–1954) was a Boston surgeon at Harvard and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a founder of vascular surgery and the eponym of Homans' sign.
John Hughlings Jackson
John Hughlings Jackson (1835–1911) was an English neurologist known as the father of English neurology, who defined epilepsy as a local discharge of gray matter.
John Ioannidis (Ιωάννης Π. Α. Ιωαννίδης)
John Ioannidis (Ιωάννης Π. Α. Ιωαννίδης), born 1965, Greek-American Stanford physician-scientist and meta-researcher, author of the 2005 essay "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" and co-director of METRICS.
John J. Burns
John J. Burns (1920–2007) was an American pharmacologist known for pioneering work on vitamin C biosynthesis and metabolism, later a research executive at Burroughs Wellcome and Hoffmann-La Roche.
John J. Calabro
John J. Calabro was an American physician and rheumatologist whose research on juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and arthritis and cancer spanned the 1960s into the 1980s.
John J. Cebra
John J. Cebra (1934-2005) was an American immunologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for showing that Peyer's patches are the source of the gut's IgA-producing plasma cells.
John J. Gallagher
John J. Gallagher (John Joseph Gallagher, 1943–2020) was an American cardiac electrophysiologist who pioneered surgical and catheter ablation, led Duke's electrophysiology program, and shaped the classification of preexcitation syndromes.
John J. McNeil
John J. McNeil is an Australian clinical pharmacologist and epidemiologist at Monash University, best known as co-principal investigator of the ASPREE trial of aspirin in older adults.
John J. Voorhees
John J. Voorhees, also known as J.J. Voorhees, is an American dermatologist and University of Michigan professor whose research established psoriasis as an immune-mediated disease and explained how ultraviolet light ages skin.
John J. Wild
John J. Wild (1914–2009) was a Cambridge-trained surgeon and founder of medical ultrasound imaging who, with engineer John M. Reid, built the first instruments producing diagnostic images of the breast.
John J.P. Kastelein
John J.P. Kastelein, also known as J.J.P. Kastelein, is a Dutch vascular medicine specialist and lipidologist, Emeritus Professor at Amsterdam UMC, known for familial hypercholesterolemia research.
John J.V. McMurray
John J.V. McMurray, known as John McMurray, is a British cardiologist and Professor of Medical Cardiology at the University of Glasgow, known for the PARADIGM-HF and DAPA-HF heart failure trials.
John Jacob Abel
John Jacob Abel (1857–1938) was an American pharmacologist and the first professor of pharmacology at Johns Hopkins Medical School, known for isolating epinephrine, crystalline insulin, and the artificial kidney.
John Joseph Bittner
John Joseph Bittner (1904–1961) was an American geneticist who discovered the "milk factor", an agent in mother's milk transmitting mammary cancer in mice, later called mouse mammary tumor virus.
John Kaldor
John Kaldor is an Australian infectious-diseases epidemiologist and Scientia Professor at UNSW Sydney's Kirby Institute who helped establish national HIV surveillance and now leads work on neglected tropical diseases.
John Kerr (pathologist)
John Kerr, full name John Foxton Ross Kerr, was an Australian pathologist who discovered apoptosis, named it in 1972, and spent his career at the University of Queensland.
John L. Cameron
John L. Cameron, full name John Lemuel Cameron, is an American surgeon at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore who performed more than 2,000 Whipple operations and served as chairman of surgery from 1984 to 2003.
John L. Cleveland
John L. Cleveland is an American cancer biologist and Center Director of Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, known for research on the MYC oncogene and Myc-driven lymphoma.
John L. Decker
John Laws Decker was an American rheumatologist who led NIH's arthritis research program for eighteen years, directed the NIH Clinical Center from 1983 to 1990, and established cyclophosphamide as standard therapy for lupus nephritis.
John L. Hopper
John L. Hopper (1950–2024) was an Australian genetic epidemiologist and statistician at the University of Melbourne who led the Australian Twin Registry from 1990 to 2024.
John L. Sapp
John L. Sapp is a Canadian cardiac electrophysiologist and professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax who led the VANISH and VANISH2 trials establishing catheter ablation for ventricular tachycardia.
John L. Sever
John L. Sever (J. L. Sever) was an American virologist and epidemiologist who led NIH's Infectious Diseases Branch and set Rotary on its polio eradication campaign in 1979.