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J. Michael McWilliams
J. Michael McWilliams, also known as John Michael McWilliams, is an American internist and health policy researcher who is a professor at Harvard Medical School studying Medicare.
J. Nicholas Betley
J. Nicholas Betley is a neuroscientist and associate professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how hunger and thirst reshape behavior and pain through AgRP neurons.
J. O'H. Tobin
J. O'H. Tobin, also known as John O'Hara Tobin, was a British virologist who isolated respiratory syncytial virus in 1963 and traced Legionnaires' disease to shower water.
J. Randall Curtis
J. Randall Curtis, known as Randy Curtis, was an American pulmonary and critical care physician at the University of Washington who improved end-of-life care in ICUs.
J. Richard Baringer
J. Richard Baringer was an American neurologist who showed herpes simplex virus persists in human sensory ganglia, and chaired neurology at the University of Utah.
J. Richard McIntosh
J. Richard McIntosh is an American cell biologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for showing that microtubule disassembly powers chromosome movement.
J. Robin Warren
J. Robin Warren (1937–2024) was an Australian pathologist who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize with Barry Marshall for discovering Helicobacter pylori and its role in ulcers.
J. Roger Bray
J. Roger Bray, also known as John Roger Bray, was an American-born ecologist who spent his career in the United States and New Zealand and introduced the widely used Bray–Curtis dissimilarity in 1957.
J. Roswell Gallagher
J. Roswell Gallagher is the American pediatrician called the father of adolescent medicine, who led the first US adolescent clinic at Boston Children's Hospital from 1952 to 1967.
J. Sanford Schwartz
J. Sanford Schwartz, known as Sandy Schwartz, was an American physician and health services researcher who held a chaired professorship at the University of Pennsylvania.
J. Silvio Gutkind
J. Silvio Gutkind is a cancer-signaling biologist who chairs Pharmacology at UC San Diego and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.
J. Swanson Beck
J. Swanson Beck, full name John Swanson Beck (1928–2007), was a Scottish immunopathologist who pioneered antinuclear antibody testing and was Professor of Pathology at Dundee from 1971 to 1993.
J. Sydney Stillman
J. Sydney Stillman, full name James Sydney Stillman (1908–1998), was an American rheumatologist at Harvard Medical School who built the first US multidisciplinary center for juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
J. Thomas Bigger
J. Thomas Bigger (1935–2017) was an American cardiologist at Columbia University who led the CAST trial and defined how doctors predict sudden death after myocardial infarction.
J. Thomas Grayston
J. Thomas Grayston (1924–2024) was an American epidemiologist at the University of Washington, founding dean of its School of Public Health, known for characterizing Chlamydia pneumoniae.
J. Ties Boerma
J. Ties Boerma is a Dutch-born public health researcher who directed WHO health statistics for 14 years and holds a Canada Research Chair at the University of Manitoba.
J. Troy Littleton
J. Troy Littleton, born 1967, is an American neuroscientist, the Menicon Professor at MIT, whose fruit fly work established synaptotagmin 1 as the calcium sensor triggering fast neurotransmitter release.
J. van Gijn
Jan van Gijn (1942 to 2025) was a Dutch neurologist and professor at University Medical Center Utrecht, known for research on subarachnoid hemorrhage and stroke prevention.
J. Victor Small
J. Victor Small, who publishes as J. V. Small, is a cell biologist known for research on the cytoskeleton, smooth muscle, and cell migration, working in Austria.
J. Wade Harper
J. Wade Harper is an American cell biologist at Harvard Medical School, known for co-discovering cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases and for work on mitophagy in Parkinson's disease.
J. Warren Harthorne
J. Warren Harthorne is an American cardiologist, Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and a longtime Massachusetts General Hospital cardiologist, known for cardiac pacing and coronary angiography.
J. Wayne Streilein
J. Wayne Streilein (1935–2004) was an American immunologist who showed that immune privilege in the eye is actively maintained suppression, and was president of Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston.
J. William Harbour
J. William Harbour is an American ophthalmologist and ocular oncologist who chairs ophthalmology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and developed the standard prognostic test for uveal melanoma.
J. William Langston
J. William Langston is an American neurologist who identified the toxin MPTP as a cause of parkinsonism in 1982 and founded the Parkinson's Institute in Sunnyvale, California.
J. Woodland Hastings
J. Woodland Hastings (1927–2014) was an American biochemist at Harvard University who established bioluminescent organisms, above all the dinoflagellate Gonyaulax, as model systems for circadian biology.
J.A. Stockman
J.A. Stockman, also known as James A. Stockman, is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist whose New England Journal of Medicine work defined the anemia of prematurity and sickle-cell stroke.
J.E. Folk
J.E. Folk, John E. Folk (1925–2010), was an American biochemist at the National Institutes of Health who discovered the hypusine modification of eIF5A, essential for cell growth.
J.F. Pantridge
J.F. Pantridge, known as Frank Pantridge, was a Northern Irish cardiologist who built the first portable defibrillator and started the world's first prehospital cardiac care unit in Belfast in 1966.
J.G. Heathcote
J.G. Heathcote is a British biochemist who researched oral vitamin B12 treatment of pernicious anemia at St Helens Hospital and the University of Salford, publishing from 1958 to 1976.
J.G. Seidman
J.G. Seidman, or Jonathan G. Seidman, is a human molecular geneticist and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School known for identifying genes that cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and congenital heart defects.