Life and health scientists

J. David Spence

J. David Spence was a Canadian neurologist and clinical pharmacologist who founded the Stroke Prevention & Atherosclerosis Research Centre at Robarts and pioneered carotid plaque measurement; he died in 2025.

J. David Sweatt

J. David Sweatt, also known as David Sweatt, is an American neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University known for showing that DNA methylation is a necessary part of memory formation.

J. Donald Capra

J. Donald Capra (1937–2015) was an American immunologist who unified key concepts of antibody biology and led the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation from 1997 to 2006.

J. Douglas Bremner

J. Douglas Bremner, also known as Douglas Bremner, is an American psychiatrist at Emory University known for MRI studies showing smaller hippocampal volume in PTSD and depression.

J. Edwin Blalock

J. Edwin Blalock is an American molecular biologist and immunologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, known for showing that leukocytes produce hormones and for work on chronic lung disease.

J. Edwin Seegmiller

J. Edwin Seegmiller (1920–2006) was an American biochemical geneticist and rheumatologist who identified the enzyme deficiency underlying Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and established the metabolic basis of gout.

J. Englebert Dunphy

J. Englebert Dunphy (1908–1981) was an American surgeon and wound-healing researcher who chaired surgery at the University of Oregon and then UCSF, best known for establishing the modern biology of wound repair.

J. Evan Sadler

J. Evan Sadler (1951–2018) was an American hematologist who directed hematology at Washington University in St. Louis and was known for research on von Willebrand factor and ADAMTS13.

J. George Harrar

J. George Harrar (1906–1982) was an American plant pathologist who directed the Rockefeller Foundation's Mexican Agricultural Program, hired Norman Borlaug, and served as Foundation president from 1961 to 1972.

J. Gordon Scannell

J. Gordon Scannell (John Gordon Scannell, 1914–2002) was an American cardiothoracic surgeon who built the cardiac surgery service at Massachusetts General Hospital and led the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.

J. Gregor Sutcliffe

J. Gregor Sutcliffe is a molecular biologist and professor at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, known for discovering the hypocretin neuropeptides and pioneering open-system gene discovery in the brain.

J. H. Pate Skene

J. H. Pate Skene (Jesse Haynes Pate Skene) is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist who identified GAP-43, a growth-cone protein, and now studies decision-making and scientific evidence in the courts.

J. Hartwell Harrison

J. Hartwell Harrison was an American urological surgeon and Harvard professor who removed the donor kidney in the first successful human organ transplant in 1954.

J. Herbert Taylor

James Herbert Taylor (1916–1998) was a biologist at Florida State University whose 1957 tritiated-thymidine experiment gave the first proof of semiconservative DNA replication, leading to his 1977 election to the National Academy of Sciences.

J. J. Brown (physician)

Justin Brown, born Jehoiada John Brown and published as J. J. Brown, was a Welsh physician and clinical scientist (1926 to 2009) known for research on renin and hypertension.

J. J. van Rood

J. J. van Rood, born Johannes Joseph van Rood (1926–2017), was a Dutch immunologist at Leiden University who co-discovered the HLA system and founded Eurotransplant.

J. Jaime Miranda

J. Jaime Miranda, also known as Jaime Miranda, is a Peruvian epidemiologist and Professor and Head of School at the University of Sydney's School of Public Health.

J. John Mann

J. John Mann is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Columbia University who studies the brain chemistry of depression and suicide and co-developed the Columbia–Suicide Severity Rating Scale.

J. José Bonner

J. José Bonner is an American molecular biologist who studied the heat-shock response of the fruit fly and is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Indiana University.

J. Keith Joung

J. Keith Joung, also published as Jae Keith Joung, is a pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard professor known for zinc-finger nucleases, high-fidelity Cas9 variants, and co-founding Editas Medicine.

J. Kevin Foskett

J. Kevin Foskett is an American physiologist, Isaac Ott Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for calcium signaling research and identifying the taste channel CALHM1.

J. L. Oncley

J. Lawrence Oncley (1910–2004) was an American biochemist and biophysicist at the University of Michigan who pioneered dielectric dispersion and ultracentrifugation to measure protein size and shape in solution.

J. Lawrence Naiman

J. Lawrence Naiman, known as Laurie Naiman, was a pediatric hematologist and Stanford clinical professor who studied red-cell enzyme defects and co-authored Hematologic Problems of the Newborn.

J. Lyle Bootman

J. Lyle Bootman is an American pharmacist and longtime dean of the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy who pioneered pharmacoeconomics and estimated drug-related problems cost $76.6 billion yearly.

J. M. Daly

Joseph Michael Daly (1922–1993) was an American plant physiologist who studied wheat and bean rusts at the University of Nebraska and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1984.

J. Magarian Blander

Julie Magarian Blander is an Armenian American immunologist who studies how the innate immune system detects microbes and cell death, holding an endowed professorship at Weill Cornell Medicine since 2016.

J. Marie Hardwick

J. Marie Hardwick is a molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins University who studies programmed cell death and the BCL-2 protein family, and helped show that viruses trigger apoptosis.

J. Martin Bollinger

J. Martin Bollinger Jr. is an American enzymologist and chemical biologist at Penn State since 1995, known for trapping short-lived metal–oxygen and radical intermediates in metalloenzymes.

J. Michael Bishop

J. Michael Bishop (John Michael Bishop, 1936–2026) was an American virologist at the University of California, San Francisco who co-discovered proto-oncogenes, earning the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.