edgepedia

Life and health scientists

18,587 articles

Jack Greenblatt

Jack Greenblatt, or Jack F. Greenblatt, is a Canadian molecular biologist and University Professor at the University of Toronto known for the first genome-wide protein interaction network.

Jack H. Freed

Jack H. Freed (J. H. Freed) is an American physical chemist and biophysicist at Cornell University, on its faculty since 1963, known for building electron spin resonance into a quantitative tool for studying membranes and proteins.

Jack H. Medalie

Jack H. Medalie (1922–2006) was a South African-born physician and epidemiologist who founded family medicine at Case Western Reserve University and directed the Israeli Ischemic Heart Disease Study from 1963.

Jack H. Mendelson

Jack H. Mendelson (Jack Harold Mendelson, 1929–2007) was an American psychiatrist and endocrinologist who led the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center at McLean Hospital and helped establish alcoholism as a medical disorder.

Jack H. Oppenheimer

Jack H. Oppenheimer (1927–2006) was a German-born American endocrinologist who defined how thyroid hormone acts in cells, set the levothyroxine replacement dose for hypothyroidism, and led the American Thyroid Association in 1986.

Jack Harlan

Jack Rodney Harlan (1917–1998) was an American botanist and agronomist who studied cultivated plants' evolution, taught at the University of Illinois, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.

Jack Heslop-Harrison

Jack Heslop-Harrison (1920–1998) was a British botanist, elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1970, who directed the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, from 1971 to 1976.

Jack Hirsh

Jack Hirsh (born January 7, 1935, in Melbourne) is an Australian-born physician-scientist at McMaster University whose work on heparin monitoring and the INR shaped anticoagulant therapy.

Jack L. Feldman

Jack L. Feldman is an American neurobiologist at UCLA who identified the pre-Bötzinger complex, the brainstem region that generates the rhythm of breathing in mammals.

Jack L. Gallant

Jack L. Gallant, known as Jack Gallant, is an American cognitive neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for decoding visual images and language meaning from fMRI brain activity.

Jack L. Paradise

Jack L. Paradise (1925–2021) was an American pediatrician and professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh whose randomized trials redefined tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, and tympanostomy tube use in children.

Jack L. Strominger

Jack L. Strominger (born 1925) is an American immunologist and Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus, at Harvard, known for determining the structures of human MHC proteins governing transplant rejection.

Jack Lieberman

Jack Lieberman, M.D., is a pulmonary-medicine researcher known for papers from 1959 to 1961 showing deficient lung fibrinolysis in hyaline-membrane disease, and for later work on alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency and emphysema.

Jack M. Colwill

Jack M. Colwill is an American family physician and physician-workforce researcher at the University of Missouri, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1989.

Jack M. Guralnik

Jack M. Guralnik is an American epidemiologist of aging who developed the Short Physical Performance Battery and is a professor at the University of Maryland.

Jack M. Gwaltney

Jack M. Gwaltney was an American physician-scientist at the University of Virginia who spent four decades studying the common cold, showing rhinoviruses spread mainly by hand transfer.

Jack Myers (algal physiologist)

Jack Edgard Myers (1913–2006) was an American algal physiologist who studied photosynthesis at the University of Texas at Austin and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.

Jack Orloff

Jack Orloff was an American kidney physiologist at NIH who showed how antidiuretic hormone acts through cyclic AMP and led NHLBI research from 1974 to 1988.

Jack P. Antel

Jack P. Antel is a Canadian neurologist and neuroimmunologist at McGill University and the Montreal Neurological Institute, known for multiple sclerosis research and the 2005 Dystel Award.

Jack R. Bennink

Jack R. Bennink is an immunologist known for defining which influenza proteins cytotoxic T cells target and for work on antigen processing, done at The Wistar Institute and NIAID.

Jack R. Wands

Jack R. Wands, also known as Jack Wands, was an American hepatologist who studied viral hepatitis and liver cancer for over fifty years, leading Brown's gastroenterology division from 1999 to 2023.

Jack S. Remington

Jack S. Remington was an American infectious diseases physician-researcher and Stanford professor who studied toxoplasmosis, developed the neonatal IgM diagnostic test known in Europe as the Remington test, and died in 2021 aged 90.

Jack Silver

Jack Silver is an immunologist known for amino acid sequencing of transplantation antigens at Caltech in the mid-1970s, Thy-1 gene transgenic studies, and later molecular medicine work at North Shore University Hospital.

Jack V. Tu

Jack V. Tu (1965–2018) was a Canadian cardiologist at the University of Toronto and ICES who measured and improved the quality of cardiac care in Ontario.

Jack W. Coburn

Jack W. Coburn (1932–2004) was an American nephrologist at UCLA and the VA Greater Los Angeles system whose research defined treatment of bone and mineral disorders in kidney failure.

Jackie D. Corbin

Jackie D. Corbin is an emeritus Vanderbilt University professor whose 1976 discovery of the cGMP-binding protein PDE5 led to the erectile dysfunction drugs Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis.

Jackie King

Jackie King (Jacqueline M. King, 1945–2025) was a South African aquatic ecologist who pioneered environmental flow assessment, developed the DRIFT framework, and won the 2019 Stockholm Water Prize.

Jacob A. Brody

Jacob A. Brody (1931–2014) was an American epidemiologist known for his ALS and parkinsonism-dementia studies on Guam and for founding the National Institute on Aging's epidemiology program.

Jacob E. Corn

Jacob E. Corn is an American genome biologist, Professor of Genome Biology at ETH Zurich, who develops genome editing technologies to understand and treat disease.

Jacob Eifer Møller

Jacob Eifer Møller is a Danish cardiologist and clinical professor at the University of Southern Denmark and Odense University Hospital, known for leading the DanGer Shock trial.