Medical and health researchers

Judith M. Bliss

Judith M. Bliss is a British medical statistician, Professor of Clinical Trials at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, directing its Clinical Trials and Statistics Unit.

Judith S. Hochman

Judith S. Hochman is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist at NYU Langone who led the NHLBI-funded SHOCK, OAT, and ISCHEMIA trials, reshaping cardiology guidelines.

Judith Stephenson

Judith Stephenson is a British physician-scientist holding the Margaret Pyke Chair of Sexual & Reproductive Health at UCL, known for research on chlamydia screening and preconception health.

Sep 17, 2026

Judith Wasserheit is an American physician-epidemiologist who led the CDC's STD/HIV prevention division, directed the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, and chaired global health at the University of Washington.

Judson Brewer

Judson Brewer is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist who studies how reward-based learning maintains habits like smoking and anxiety, developing app-based mindfulness treatments and directing research at Brown University's Mindfulness Center.

Sep 17, 2026

Juergen Albrecht Richt

Juergen A. Richt is a German-trained veterinary virologist at Kansas State University who studies zoonotic diseases and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

Juha Kere

Juha Kere, born 1958, is a Finnish physician-scientist in medical molecular genetics, professor at Karolinska Institutet since 2001, known for positional cloning of Finnish disease genes including SLC26A3.

Juha Pekkanen

Juha Pekkanen is a Finnish physician and epidemiologist, professor emeritus at the University of Helsinki, known for finding that farm-like indoor microbiota protects children from asthma.

Juhani Eskola

Juhani Eskola, born 1951, is a Finnish vaccine scientist and physician who led the pioneering Finnish Hib conjugate vaccine trials and served as Director General of THL from 2014 to 2018.

Jukka T. Salonen

Jukka T. Salonen is a Finnish physician-scientist and cardiovascular epidemiologist who designed and led the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study, testing iron, enterolactone, and vitamin C as coronary risk factors.

Juleen Zierath

Juleen Zierath is an American-born Swedish physiologist who studies how exercise, diet, and circadian rhythm shape insulin sensitivity in skeletal muscle, holding professorships at the Karolinska Institutet and Copenhagen.

Jules Froment

Jules Froment (1878–1946) was a French neurologist who spent his career at the Lyon hospitals, known for Froment's sign of ulnar nerve palsy and work with Joseph Babinski on war neurology.

Jules Gonin

Jules Gonin (1870–1935) was a Swiss ophthalmologist in Lausanne who showed that a retinal tear causes detachment and devised ignipuncture, the first effective operation for it, raising cure rates from about 1% to over half.

Jules Héricourt

Jules Héricourt (1850–1938) was a French physician and physiologist who, with Charles Richet, discovered the principle of serotherapy in 1888 and made early observations of anaphylaxis.

Jules Hirsch

Jules Hirsch (1927–2015) was an American physician-scientist at The Rockefeller University who pioneered the study of human metabolism, showing that fat cell number is fixed and that metabolism falls after weight loss, opposing the new weight.

Jules L. Dienstag

Jules L. Dienstag is an American hepatologist, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital since 1976 and Harvard professor, known for lamivudine trials and a widely cited 2008 hepatitis B review.

Jules Tinel

Jules Tinel (1879–1952) was a French neurologist who described the Tinel sign in 1915, tingling felt when an injured nerve is pressed, and first described paroxysmal hypertension in pheochromocytoma.

Julia A. Segre

Julia A. Segre, also published as Julie A. Segre, is an American microbial genomics researcher at NIH who maps the skin microbiome and traces hospital outbreaks of drug-resistant pathogens.

Julia Hippisley‐Cox

Julia Hippisley-Cox is a British clinical epidemiologist at Queen Mary University of London who founded QResearch and led the QRISK and QCOVID risk prediction algorithms.

Julia Wendon

Julia A. Wendon is a British intensive-care physician who established the Liver Intensive Care Unit at King's College Hospital, London, and is known for work on acute liver failure.

Julian Adams

Julian Adams is a drug discoverer trained at McGill University and MIT who led the discovery and development of bortezomib (Velcade), the first FDA-approved proteasome inhibitor, for multiple myeloma.

Julian C. Knight

Julian C. Knight is a physician-scientist and Professor of Genomic Medicine at the University of Oxford, known for mapping genetic variants that shape immune responses.

Julian M. Hopkin

Julian M. Hopkin, born in 1948, is a British physician and researcher in respiratory medicine, known for work on the genetics of asthma and allergy and DNA-based diagnosis of Pneumocystis pneumonia.

Julián Panés

Julián Panés, also published as Julian Panes, is a Spanish gastroenterologist at Hospital Clínic in Barcelona, known for tofacitinib trials in ulcerative colitis and as president of ECCO.

Julian Peto

Julian Peto is a British cancer epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine known for work on asbestos, cervical screening, and breast cancer genetics.

Julian Savulescu

Julian Savulescu is an Australian bioethicist and moral philosopher who has held Oxford's Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics since 2002, known for procreative beneficence and moral bioenhancement.

Julian Tudor Hart

Julian Tudor Hart (1927–2018) was a Welsh general practitioner and researcher who coined the inverse care law in 1971 and ran the first research general practice, in Glyncorrwg, Wales.

Julie A. Schneider

Julie A. Schneider is an American physician-scientist and neuropathologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, known for showing that most dementia in older people arises from mixed brain pathologies.

Julie E. Buring

Julie E. Buring is a chronic-disease epidemiologist, Professor Emerita at Harvard Medical School, known for leading large prevention trials in women, including the Women's Health Study and VITAL.