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Jacob Fine

Jacob Fine (1900–?) was an American surgeon and shock researcher at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for the claim that intestinal endotoxin makes traumatic shock irreversible.

Jacob Furth

Jacob Furth (1896–1979) was an American experimental pathologist who built the first experimental leukemia system in mammals and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1974.

Jacob George

Jacob George is an Australian hepatologist who directs the Storr Liver Centre in Sydney and is known for research on hepatitis C treatment response and fatty liver disease.

Jacob Hanna

Jacob H. Hanna is a Palestinian Israeli stem cell biologist and professor at the Weizmann Institute, known for synthetic embryo models grown entirely from stem cells.

Jacob Jongbloed

Jacob Jongbloed (1895–1974) was a Dutch physiologist and physician who studied the effects of altitude and acceleration on pilots, and is regarded as the founder of aviation medicine in the Netherlands.

Jacob Selhub

Jacob Selhub, also known as Yakov Selhub, was a nutritional biochemist born in Libya in 1937 who led the Vitamin Metabolism Laboratory at Tufts and linked folate status to vascular disease.

Jacob V. Maizel

Jacob V. Maizel, also cited as J.V. Maizel, is an American virologist known for work on poliovirus protein synthesis and RNA-folding algorithms at the National Cancer Institute.

Jacob Zwart

Jacob Zwart is an American aquatic biogeochemist and senior research data scientist with the USGS Water Resources Mission Area, awarded the 2025 PECASE for environmental forecasting.

Jacobus J. Boomsma

Jacobus J. (Koos) Boomsma, born 1951 in Rotterdam, is a Dutch evolutionary biologist at the University of Copenhagen known for split sex-ratio theory and the lifetime-monogamy hypothesis.

Jacopo Meldolesi

Jacopo Meldolesi (1937–2026) was an Italian cell biologist and pharmacologist who studied secretion, calcium signaling, and extracellular vesicles, holding pharmacology chairs at the University of Milan and San Raffaele.

Jacqueline A. Noonan

Jacqueline A. Noonan, also known as Jacqueline Noonan, was an American pediatric cardiologist at the University of Kentucky who described Noonan syndrome, named for her.

Jacqueline French

Jacqueline A. French is an American epileptologist, professor of neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and founder of the Epilepsy Study Consortium, known for novel epilepsy trial designs.

Jacqueline Torres

Jacqueline Torres is an American social epidemiologist and Associate Professor of Epidemiology at UCSF, known for a 2019 JAMA Pediatrics study linking immigration policy concerns to Latino adolescents' health.

Jacques Banchereau

Jacques Banchereau is a French-born immunologist whose career has centered on human dendritic cells; he founded and directed the Baylor Institute for Immunology Research in Dallas.

Jacques Clémenty

Jacques Clémenty is a French cardiologist specializing in cardiac electrophysiology who led the Bordeaux team that identified pulmonary veins as the trigger of atrial fibrillation.

Jacques Dantal

Jacques Dantal, born 1959, is a French nephrologist and professor of clinical immunology at the CHU de Nantes, known for trials on cancer after kidney transplantation.

Jacques De Keyser

Jacques De Keyser is a Belgian neurologist and neuroscientist, professor emeritus at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, known for research on stroke, multiple sclerosis, and astrocytes.

Jacques Donnez

Jacques Donnez, born 1947 in Tournai, Belgium, is a Belgian gynecologist at UCLouvain known for the first live birth after cryopreserved ovarian tissue transplantation and for endometriosis surgery.

Jacques Drouin

Jacques Drouin is a Canadian molecular biologist directing the Molecular Genetics Research Unit at Montreal's IRCM since 1981, known for discovering the Pitx transcription factors and Tpit.

Jacques Forestier

Jacques Forestier (1890–1978) was a French rheumatologist at Hôpital Cochin in Paris who pioneered gold salt therapy for rheumatoid arthritis and described DISH, long known as Forestier's disease.

Jacques Genest

Jacques Genest (1919–2018) was a Canadian physician and hypertension researcher who founded and directed the Montreal Clinical Research Institute, and whose work on the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system helped establish the hormonal basis of high blood pressure.

Jacques Glowinski

Jacques Glowinski (1936–2020) was a French neuropharmacologist, trained as a pharmacist, who pioneered in vivo measurement of neurotransmitter release and led Inserm Unit 114 at the Collège de France.

Jacques J. Bourgoignie

Jacques J. Bourgoignie is an American nephrologist at Washington University, Albert Einstein, and the University of Miami, known for his 1988 New England Journal of Medicine study linking cocaine to rhabdomyolysis.

Jacques Loeb

Jacques Loeb, born Isaak Loeb, was a German-born American physiologist who induced development in unfertilized sea-urchin eggs in 1899 and championed a mechanistic view of life at the Rockefeller Institute.

Jacques Mallet

Jacques Mallet (born 1945) is a French molecular neurobiologist and CNRS research director whose laboratory cloned the human tyrosine hydroxylase gene and developed adenoviral vectors for brain gene transfer.

Jacques Miller

Jacques Miller, born 1931, is an Australian immunologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne who discovered the thymus's essential immune role and the T and B cell lineages.

Jacques Monod

Jacques Monod (1910–1976) was a French biologist at the Institut Pasteur who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and pioneered the operon model of gene regulation.

Jacques Neefjes

Jacques Neefjes is a Dutch cell biologist known for research on how MHC molecules present antigens, and head of Cell and Chemical Biology at LUMC.

Jacques Oudin

Jacques Oudin (1908–1985) was a French physician and immunologist at the Institut Pasteur who developed immunodiffusion in gels and discovered allotypy and idiotypy in antibodies.

Jacques Pouysségur

Jacques Pouysségur is a French biochemist who spent his main career at the CNRS in Nice, known for the Na+/H+ exchanger, MAP kinase signaling, and the Warburg effect.