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Jacques R. Fresco

Jacques R. Fresco (1928–2021) was an American molecular biologist who spent 53 years on the Princeton University faculty, known for work on RNA structure and mutations.

Jacques Samarut

Jacques Samarut (born 1949) is a French biologist working on endocrinology and cancer, known for showing a thyroid hormone receptor can act as an oncogene.

Jacques Van Dam

Jacques Van Dam (J. Van Dam) is a gastroenterologist who led Stanford's gastroenterology division until 2021 and served as president of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

Jadwiga A. Wedzicha

Jadwiga A. Wedzicha, born 1953, is a British respiratory physician and professor at Imperial College London known for research on COPD exacerbations and for leading the FLAME trial.

Jae Bum Kim

Jae Bum Kim (김재범) is a South Korean molecular biologist and professor at Seoul National University known for discovering ADD1/SREBP1c as a regulator of fat-cell formation and lipid synthesis.

Jae Hyung Park

Jae Hyung Park (박재형) is a South Korean chemical engineer and nanomedicine researcher, a professor at Sungkyunkwan University since 2011 known for polymeric nanomedicine, cancer immunotherapy, and extracellular vesicles.

Jae K. Oh

Jae K. Oh, also known as Jae Oh, is a Korean-born cardiologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for echocardiography and the CoreValve TAVR trial imaging analyses.

Jae U. Jung

Jae U. Jung, also known as Jae Jung, is a virologist and cancer biologist who studies Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus and chairs Cancer Biology at Cleveland Clinic.

Jaffer A. Ajani

Jaffer A. Ajani is a gastrointestinal medical oncologist and tenured professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center who has chaired the NCCN esophageal and gastric cancers panel since 1997.

Jagadish Chandra Bose (জগদীশ চন্দ্র বসু)

Jagadish Chandra Bose (জগদীশ চন্দ্র বসু), Indian physicist and plant physiologist (1858-1937); demonstrated 60 GHz wireless transmission in Calcutta in 1894-95, invented the crescograph, founded Bose Institute, and largely refused patents.

Jagat Narula

Jagat Narula is an Indian-American cardiologist known for imaging vulnerable heart plaques and describing apoptosis in heart failure, and president of the World Heart Federation since 2025.

Jaideep Bains

Jaideep S. Bains is a Canadian neuroscientist known for showing that stress can be transmitted socially through alarm signals, and who has led the Krembil Research Institute in Toronto since 2022.

Jaime Bosch (hepatologist)

Jaime Bosch (Jaume Bosch Genover, 1947–2025) was a Spanish hepatologist at the University of Barcelona and Hospital Clínic known for research on portal hypertension and the early-TIPS trial.

Jaime Grutzendler

Jaime Grutzendler is a Colombian-born neurologist and neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine who studies stroke and neurodegeneration, known for intravital imaging of living brain cells and the 2010 embolus extravasation mechanism.

Jaime Sepulveda Amor

Jaime Sepúlveda Amor is a Mexican epidemiologist and global health leader who designed Mexico's Universal Vaccination Program, eliminating polio, measles, and diphtheria, and leads UCSF's global health institute.

Jakob Johann von Uexküll

Jakob Johann von Uexküll (1864–1944), Baltic-German biologist born in Estonia, died on Capri; founder of Umweltlehre, coined Umwelt, Funktionskreis, Merkwelt, Wirkwelt; neovitalist Kantian; professor in Hamburg from 1925; forerunner of biosemiotics and ethology.

Jakob Nikolas Kather

Jakob Nikolas Kather, also published as Jakob N. Kather, is a German physician and computer scientist known for predicting cancer molecular features from routine histopathology slides using deep learning.

Jamel Chelly

Jamel Chelly, full name Jameleddine Chelly, is a French human geneticist and CNRS research director at Institut Cochin in Paris known for identifying genes behind X-linked intellectual disability and brain malformations.

James A. Berkley

James A. Berkley is a pediatric infectious-diseases physician and Oxford professor based at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya, since 1997, known for research on bacteremia and severe malnutrition in children.

James A. Birchler

James A. Birchler (born 1950) is an American plant geneticist and Curators' Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri, known for gene dosage effects and synthetic maize chromosomes.

James A. Brierley

James A. Brierley, also known as Jim Brierley, is a biohydrometallurgist and U.S. National Academy of Engineering member. He pioneered commercial bioleaching technologies for copper and gold recovery.

James A. de Lemos

James A. de Lemos, also published as James de Lemos, is an American cardiologist at UT Southwestern known for biomarker research and the Dallas Heart Study.

James A. DeCaprio

James A. DeCaprio is an American physician-scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who showed that SV40 large tumor antigen binds the retinoblastoma protein and identified the DREAM complex.

James A. Estes

James A. Estes (1945–2025) was an American marine ecologist whose five decades studying sea otters in Alaska's Aleutian Islands made the otter–urchin–kelp system a classic example of a trophic cascade.

James A. Fagin

James A. Fagin is an Argentine-born American physician-scientist who studies and treats thyroid cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, known for restoring radioiodine uptake in refractory tumors.

James A. Goodrich

James A. Goodrich is an American molecular biologist, Professor and Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for defining RNA polymerase II promoter clearance.

James A. Halsted

James A. Halsted was an American physician and nutrition researcher who studied vitamin B12 absorption and, during a Fulbright post in Shiraz, Iran, opened the study of human zinc deficiency.

James A. Imlay

James A. Imlay is an American biochemist and microbiologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign whose work defines how bacteria are damaged by reactive oxygen species.

James A. Lake

James A. Lake is an American molecular biologist and evolutionary genomicist at UCLA, known for the eocyte hypothesis, the ring of life genome fusion model, and the New Animal Phylogeny.

James A. McCloskey

James A. McCloskey (1936–2017) was an American analytical chemist at the University of Utah who applied mass spectrometry to nucleic acids and discovered the nucleoside Q.