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James A. Merchant

James A. Merchant is an American physician and epidemiologist at the University of Iowa whose cotton dust research led to OSHA's 1978 Cotton Dust Standard.

James A. Morris Jr

James A. Morris Jr is an American marine ecologist at NOAA's Beaufort, North Carolina lab, known for invasive lionfish research and leading marine aquaculture siting work.

James A. Nathanson

James A. Nathanson is a physician-scientist with MD and PhD degrees known for research on cyclic nucleotide signaling in the brain, cerebral vessels, and eye.

James A. R. Nicoll

James A. R. Nicoll is a British clinical neuropathologist and Professor of Neuropathology at the University of Southampton, known for the first neuropathological study of an Alzheimer brain after amyloid immunization.

James A. Russell

James A. Russell is an American psychologist, Professor of Psychology at Boston College, known for the circumplex model of affect and the concept of core affect.

James A. Spudich

James A. Spudich is a Stanford biochemist known for in vitro motility assays that made myosin the first measurable molecular motor; he won the 2012 Lasker Award.

James A. Wells

James A. Wells is an American chemical biologist and protein engineer who pioneered gain-of-function protein engineering, protein phage display, and Tethering, and co-founded Sunesis Pharmaceuticals.

James Alexander Thomson

James Alexander Thomson, also known as James A. Thomson, is an American developmental biologist who derived the first human embryonic stem cell line in 1998.

James B. Bassingthwaighte

James B. Bassingthwaighte was a Canadian-born cardiovascular physiologist and bioengineer at the University of Washington who modeled blood flow in organs and founded the Physiome Project in 1997.

James B. Hurley

James B. Hurley, also published as J. B. Hurley, is a biochemist and professor at the University of Washington known for research on the molecular machinery of vision.

James B. Meigs

James B. Meigs is an American physician-scientist and genetic epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital who studies the cause and prevention of type 2 diabetes.

James B. Rowe

James B. Rowe is a British neurologist, Professor of Cognitive Neurology at the University of Cambridge, and consultant at Addenbrooke's Hospital who studies Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and PSP.

James B. Seward

James B. Seward is an American cardiologist and echocardiographer who directed Mayo Clinic's Echocardiography Laboratory in Rochester, Minnesota, and helped develop the Tei index and AcuNav catheter.

James Baddiley

Sir James Baddiley (1918–2008) was a British biochemist who made the first chemical synthesis of ATP, helped determine coenzyme A's structure, and discovered teichoic acids.

James Barber (biochemist)

James Barber (1940–2020) was a British biochemist at Imperial College London, latterly Ernst Chain Professor, known for structural work on Photosystem II and for artificial photosynthesis.

James Brenton (oncologist)

James D. Brenton is a clinician-scientist and Professor of Ovarian Cancer Medicine at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, known for blood tests tracking tumor DNA in ovarian cancer.

James Briscoe

James Briscoe is a British developmental biologist and Deputy Research Director at the Francis Crick Institute in London, known for his work on how Sonic hedgehog patterns the vertebrate neural tube.

James Bristow

James Bristow is a physician-scientist in pediatric cardiology and human genetics, a UCSF professor who showed that tenascin-X deficiency causes a recessive form of Ehlers–Danlos syndrome.

James Bruce Bussel

James Bruce Bussel, also known as James B. Bussel, is an American pediatric hematologist at Weill Cornell Medicine who defined the modern treatment of fetal alloimmune thrombocytopenia.

James Brugarolas

James Brugarolas is a kidney cancer physician-scientist and professor at UT Southwestern whose work on HIF-2 led to belzutifan, first FDA-approved HIF-2 inhibitor for kidney cancer.

James Bumgardner Murphy

James Bumgardner Murphy (1884–1950) was an American cancer researcher who spent his career at the Rockefeller Institute, established the lymphocyte's role in graft rejection, and developed the first technique for growing tumor viruses in hens' eggs.

James C Mullikin

James C Mullikin, published as Jim Mullikin, is a genome informatics researcher who developed sequence-alignment and variant-detection methods used in HapMap, ENCODE, and the 1000 Genomes Project.

James C. A. Bardwell

James C. A. Bardwell is an American biochemist at the University of Michigan known for discovering DsbA, the enzyme that builds disulfide bonds in E. coli.

James C. Carrington

James C. Carrington (born 1960) is an American plant scientist at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center who studies RNA silencing and small RNA biology.

James C. Grotta

James C. Grotta is an American vascular neurologist in Houston who helped run the 1995 NINDS tPA trial and led the BEST-MSU trial of mobile stroke units.

James C. Hogg

James C. Hogg is a Canadian pulmonary pathologist at the University of British Columbia whose work established the small airways as the site of obstruction in COPD.

James C. Melby

James C. Melby was an American physician-scientist in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism who led Boston University's endocrinology section from 1962 to 1993, known for work on aldosterone and hypertension.

James C. Metcalfe

James C. Metcalfe, born 20 July 1939, is a molecular biochemist at Cambridge who held the chair of Mammalian Cell Biochemistry and studied TGF-β in atherosclerosis.

James C. Paulson

James C. Paulson is an American glycobiologist and Professor Emeritus at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for research on sialic acid, Siglecs, and influenza receptor specificity.

James C. Sacchettini

James C. Sacchettini, also published as James Sacchettini, is a professor of biochemistry, biophysics, and chemistry at Texas A&M University who designs tuberculosis drugs using X-ray crystallography.