Medical and health researchers

Josep M. Llovet

Josep M. Llovet, also cited as J.M. Llovet, is a Spanish hepatologist who leads liver cancer programs in Barcelona and at Mount Sinai in New York.

Josep Tabernero is a Spanish medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers, who heads medical oncology at Vall d'Hebron University Hospital and directs the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology in Barcelona.

Joseph A. Bellanti

Joseph A. Bellanti is an American immunologist, professor emeritus of pediatrics and microbiology-immunology at Georgetown University, known for work on mucosal antibody responses and primary immunodeficiencies.

Joseph A. Hill

Joseph A. Hill is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for work on cardiac remodeling, fibrosis, and autophagy.

Joseph A. Kovacs

Joseph A. Kovacs is an American physician-scientist at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, known for work on Pneumocystis pneumonia and HIV immune-based therapy.

Joseph A. Sparano

Joseph A. Sparano is an American medical oncologist who has led hematology and medical oncology at Mount Sinai since 2021 and led the TAILORx breast cancer trial.

Joseph A. Vita

Joseph A. Vita (1956–2014) was an American cardiologist and vascular biology researcher at Boston University who showed endothelial dysfunction predicts cardiovascular events, and was the inaugural editor-in-chief of JAHA.

Joseph B. Bolen

Joseph B. Bolen is an American immunologist known for defining how src-family tyrosine kinases initiate signaling in lymphocytes, then leading oncology research at Millennium and Moderna.

Joseph B. Kirsner

Joseph B. Kirsner (1909–2012) was an American gastroenterologist at the University of Chicago who pioneered the modern study of inflammatory bowel disease and helped found gastroenterology's national societies.

Joseph B. McCormick

Joseph B. McCormick, born 1942, is an American infectious disease epidemiologist who led the Lassa fever research that produced the first successful drug treatment of a viral hemorrhagic fever.

Joseph Babinski

Joseph Babinski (1857–1932) was a French neurologist of Polish descent, the favorite pupil of Jean-Martin Charcot, who described the Babinski sign in 1896 and coined terms like anosognosia.

Joseph Barcroft

Sir Joseph Barcroft (1872–1947) was a British physiologist at Cambridge, a world leader in respiratory physiology, known for his studies of blood oxygenation, high-altitude acclimatization, and founding fetal physiology.

Joseph Berkson

Joseph Berkson (1899–1982) was an American physician and biostatistician who headed biometry at the Mayo Clinic from 1932 to 1964, introduced logistic bio-assay, and named Berkson's bias.

Joseph Biederman

Joseph Biederman (1947–2023) was an Argentine-trained American psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who built the field of pediatric psychopharmacology, treating psychiatric disorders in children.

Joseph Bryan

Joseph Bryan is a cell biologist known for cloning the sulfonylurea receptor SUR1 and showing in 1995 that the beta-cell KATP channel has two subunits, Kir6.2 and SUR.

Joseph Capgras

Joseph Capgras (1873–1950) was a French psychiatrist who described the illusion of doubles, now called Capgras syndrome, in 1923 with his intern Jean Reboul-Lachaux, and led a sought-after ward at Sainte-Anne hospital in Paris.

Joseph Charles Aub

Joseph Charles Aub (1890–1973) was an American physician and endocrinologist at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital whose lead poisoning and calcium metabolism studies laid foundations for cancer research.

Joseph D. Schulman

Joseph D. Schulman is an American physician and medical geneticist known for research on sulfur metabolism disorders and for founding the Genetics & IVF Institute in 1984.

Sep 17, 2026

Joseph E. Murray

Joseph E. Murray (1919–2012) was an American surgeon who performed the first successful kidney transplant in 1954 and shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Joseph E. Parrillo

Joseph E. Parrillo is an American cardiologist and critical care researcher who showed septic shock involves reversible heart-muscle depression, and directs research at Hackensack University Medical Center's Heart and Vascular Hospital.

Joseph E. Rall

Joseph E. Rall (1920–2008) was an American physician and thyroid physiologist at the NIH who founded its Clinical Endocrinology Branch and advanced the free thyroid hormone hypothesis.

Joseph E. Ravenell

Joseph E. Ravenell is an American physician-investigator at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies hypertension and cancer screening in Black men, best known for barbershop-based blood pressure trials.

Joseph Everett Dutton

Joseph Everett Dutton (1874–1905) was a British parasitologist who identified the first trypanosome found in human blood and died of relapsing fever in the Congo.

Joseph F. Fraumeni

Joseph F. Fraumeni was an American cancer epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute who co-discovered Li-Fraumeni syndrome and founded its Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics.

Joseph Gilbert Hamilton

Joseph Gilbert Hamilton (1907–1957) was an American medical physicist at UC Berkeley who pioneered radioisotope cancer therapy and organized the secret human plutonium injection experiments of 1945–1947.

Joseph Goldberger

Joseph Goldberger (1874–1929) was a Slovak-born American epidemiologist with the US Public Health Service who demonstrated between 1914 and 1923 that pellagra was caused by dietary deficiency, not infection.

Joseph H. Antin

Joseph H. Antin is an American hematologist-oncologist who led the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's stem-cell transplant program from 1997 to 2018, known for work on graft-versus-host disease.

Joseph H. Burchenal

Joseph H. Burchenal (Joseph Holland Burchenal, 1912–2006) was an American oncologist who helped found modern cancer chemotherapy, bringing 6-mercaptopurine to the first long-term remissions of childhood leukemia.

Joseph J. Eron

Joseph J. Eron is an American infectious disease physician-scientist at UNC Chapel Hill whose 1995 trial helped establish combination HIV therapy, and who now chairs the ACTG trials network.