Medical and health researchers

Joseph J. Volpe

Joseph J. Volpe is an American child neurologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, considered the founder of neonatal neurology and author of the landmark textbook Neurology of the Newborn.

Joseph Jankovic

Joseph Jankovic is an American neurologist, Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, who pioneered botulinum toxin therapy and tetrabenazine approval for movement disorders.

Joseph Janvier Woodward

Joseph Janvier Woodward (1833–1884) was a United States Army physician and brevet lieutenant colonel who pioneered photomicrography and helped compile the Civil War's medical record.

Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula

Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula is a Native Hawaiian clinical health psychologist who chairs Native Hawaiian Health at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and studies cardiometabolic disease disparities.

Joseph L. Dieleman

Joseph L. Dieleman is an American health economist and professor at IHME, University of Washington, who leads research tracking global health spending and development assistance for health.

Joseph L. Goldstein

Joseph L. Goldstein, born 1940, is an American molecular geneticist who co-discovered the LDL receptor and receptor-mediated endocytosis, winning the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Joseph L. Witztum

Joseph L. Witztum (1943–2026) was an American physician-scientist, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego from 1979, known for the oxidation hypothesis of atherosclerosis and the 2020 Anitschkow Prize.

Joseph Larner

Joseph Larner (1921–2014) was an American biochemical pharmacologist who chaired pharmacology at the University of Virginia from 1969 to 1990 and founded its Diabetes Center for Research in 1974.

Joseph Lister

Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827–1912), was a British surgeon who founded antiseptic surgery by using carbolic acid to destroy wound microbes, cutting amputation deaths and earning the name father of modern surgery.

Joseph Loscalzo

Joseph Loscalzo is an American cardiologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, credited with founding the field of network medicine and known for nitric oxide and redox biology research.

Joseph M. Connors

Joseph M. Connors is a Canadian medical oncologist who spent his career at BC Cancer in Vancouver, leading the ECHELON-1 trial that changed first-line treatment of advanced Hodgkin lymphoma.

Joseph M. Metzger

Joseph M. Metzger is an American cardiac muscle physiologist who has headed Integrative Biology and Physiology at the University of Minnesota Medical School since 2008.

Joseph Misdraji

Joseph Misdraji is an American pathologist specializing in gastrointestinal and liver pathology, known for his classification of appendiceal mucinous neoplasms and pseudomyxoma peritonei, who directed Massachusetts General Hospital's GI Pathology Unit.

Joseph P. Broderick

Joseph P. Broderick is an American vascular neurologist and stroke researcher at the University of Cincinnati, known for stroke epidemiology and major acute stroke treatment trials.

Joseph P. Miletich

Joseph P. Miletich is a physician-scientist in hematology and thrombosis, known for protein C deficiency research, who was a professor at Washington University and later a research executive at Amgen and Merck.

Joseph P. Neglia

Joseph P. Neglia, also published as Joseph Neglia, is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist at the University of Minnesota known for defining second-cancer risk in childhood cancer survivors.

Joseph P. Ornato

Joseph P. Ornato is an American emergency physician and resuscitation scientist, professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, who chaired the NIH Public Access Defibrillation trial and co-chaired the $50 million Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium.

Joseph P. Vacanti

Joseph P. Vacanti is an American pediatric transplant surgeon and tissue engineering researcher who, with Robert Langer of MIT, defined the field of tissue engineering and created the earmouse.

Joseph R. Bertino

Joseph R. Bertino was an American physician-scientist in cancer pharmacology whose research on methotrexate resistance led to leukemia and lymphoma treatments; he served as president of ASCO and the AACR.

Joseph R. Bloomer

Joseph R. Bloomer was an American hepatologist and physician-scientist who defined the enzymatic defects underlying the porphyrias and directed the UAB Liver Center from 1995 to 2016.

Joseph Rutenfranz

Joseph Rutenfranz (1928–1989) was a German occupational physiologist and physician, professor at the University of Dortmund, whose 1977 shift-work review and Rutenfranz rules for shift-system design are still cited.

Joseph S. Pagano

Joseph S. Pagano is an American physician-scientist and tumor virologist at UNC-Chapel Hill, where since 1965 he has studied Epstein-Barr virus and cancer and founded the Lineberger Cancer Center.

Joseph S. Ross

Joseph S. Ross is an American physician and health services researcher at Yale School of Medicine who studies how medicines are regulated and how hospital care quality is measured.

Joseph S. Takahashi

Joseph S. Takahashi is an American chronobiologist who identified the first mammalian circadian clock gene, Clock, and has chaired neuroscience at UT Southwestern Medical Center since 2009.

Joseph T. Bass

Joseph T. Bass is an American physician-scientist at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine who studies how circadian clocks regulate metabolism, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2025.

Joseph T. Ferrucci

Joseph T. Ferrucci is an American abdominal radiologist who headed abdominal radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and received the American Roentgen Ray Society's Gold Medal in 2000.

Joseph von Mering

Joseph von Mering (Josef Freiherr von Mering) was a German pharmacologist who showed in 1889 that removing the pancreas causes diabetes and developed Veronal, the first barbiturate.

Joseph W. St. Geme

Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. (1931–1986) was an American physician-scientist in pediatric infectious disease who showed mumps virus crosses the human placenta, leaving children with cellular immunity.

JosephF. Fraumeni

Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr. (1933–2026) was an American cancer epidemiologist who co-discovered Li-Fraumeni syndrome and founded the National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics.