edgepedia

Medical and health researchers

8,517 articles

John Suttie

John Suttie, also known as John W. Suttie, was an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who worked out how vitamin K enables blood coagulation.

John T. Fallon

John T. Fallon is an American cardiovascular pathologist, trained at Albany Medical College and Harvard, known for the 1987 myocarditis classification behind the Dallas criteria and for endomyocardial biopsy consensus standards.

John T. Lis

John T. Lis is an American molecular biologist at Cornell University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015, known for discovering that RNA polymerase II pauses near gene promoters.

John T. O’Brien

John T. O'Brien is a British psychiatrist and dementia researcher, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, known for work on Lewy body dementia.

John T. Potts

John T. Potts Jr., born 1932, is an American endocrinologist who established the modern understanding of parathyroid hormone and calcium metabolism at NIH and Massachusetts General Hospital.

John T. Schiller

John T. Schiller is an American virologist at the National Cancer Institute who, with Douglas Lowy, developed the virus-like particle technology behind the HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix.

John T. Shepherd

John T. Shepherd (1919–2011) was a Northern Ireland-born cardiovascular physiologist at the Mayo Clinic and president of the American Heart Association from 1975 to 1976.

John T. Wei

John T. Wei is an American urologist and outcomes researcher at the University of Michigan, known for the EPIC quality-of-life instrument and the OPUS midurethral sling trial.

John Templeton Bowen

John Templeton Bowen (1857–1940) was an American dermatologist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the first Edward Wigglesworth Professor of Dermatology, who described Bowen's disease in 1912.

John V. Fahy

John V. Fahy (J.V. Fahy) is a physician-scientist at the University of California, San Francisco known for research on airway mucus and mucus plugs in asthma.

John V. Frangioni

John V. Frangioni is an American physician-scientist in radiology who invented the FLARE near-infrared surgical imaging systems and left Harvard in 2014 to found Curadel.

John V. Heymach

John V. Heymach is an American physician-scientist who chairs Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he led the AEGEAN durvalumab trial and the zongertinib trials.

John V. Weil

John V. Weil is an American respiratory physiologist and cardiologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, known for research on ventilatory response to hypoxia.

John Vissing

John Vissing is a Danish neurologist and professor at the University of Copenhagen who directs the Copenhagen Neuromuscular Center at Rigshospitalet and studies hereditary muscle disease.

John W. Adamson

John W. Adamson is an American hematologist and UC San Diego professor whose research on erythropoietin led to the first FDA-approved treatment for kidney-disease anemia in 1989.

John W. Eaton

John W. Eaton is an American biomedical researcher in hematology known for work on oxidant stress in red blood cells, including findings on sickle cell disease and malaria resistance.

John W. Eikelboom

John W. Eikelboom is an Australian-trained hematologist and thrombosis researcher who is Professor of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and led the COMPASS trial.

John W. Erdman Jr.

John W. Erdman Jr. is an American nutrition scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for research on soy protein, carotenoids, and Dietary Reference Intakes.

John W. Farquhar

John W. "Jack" Farquhar (1927–2018) was a Canadian-born American physician and Stanford professor, a National Academy of Medicine member who pioneered communitywide cardiovascular prevention research.

John W. Funder

John W. Funder, born 1940 in Adelaide, is an Australian physician-scientist known for research on aldosterone and mineralocorticoid receptors in hypertension and heart failure, and chaired the 2008 Endocrine Society primary aldosteronism guidelines.

John W. Griffin

John W. "Jack" Griffin (1942–2011) was an American neurologist and peripheral nerve researcher at Johns Hopkins, where he headed neurology, founded the Brain Science Institute, and helped prove plasmapheresis treats Guillain-Barré syndrome.

John W. Kirklin

John W. Kirklin (1917–2004) was an American cardiac surgeon who led the first successful series of open-heart operations using a heart-lung machine, at the Mayo Clinic in 1955.

John W. McEvoy

John W. McEvoy, known as Bill McEvoy, is an Irish preventive cardiologist who is Established Professor of Preventive Cardiology at the University of Galway and chaired the 2024 ESC hypertension guidelines.

John W. Strieder

John W. Strieder (1901–1993) was an American thoracic surgeon in Boston, the first there to limit his practice to thoracic surgery and the 52nd president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.

John W. Weisel

John W. Weisel is a biophysicist and professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for his 1985 fibrinogen model and work on clot mechanics.

John Wahren

John Wahren, born 1937 in Uppsala, is a Swedish clinical physiologist and professor emeritus at Karolinska Institutet, known for exercise fuel metabolism research and later C-peptide replacement therapy in diabetes.

John Waterlow

John Waterlow (1916–2010) was a British physiologist and nutrition scientist who classified childhood malnutrition, founded Jamaica's Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1982.

John Whyte (physiatrist)

John Whyte is an American physiatrist and experimental psychologist known for research on traumatic brain injury rehabilitation and disorders of consciousness, and founding director of the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute.

John Wilding

John P.H. Wilding is a British physician-scientist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Liverpool, known for leading large trials of GLP-1 obesity drugs, including semaglutide STEP 1.

John Yudkin

John Yudkin (1943–2025) was a British physician-scientist in diabetes and metabolism, Emeritus Professor at University College London, who worked on insulin resistance and global insulin access.