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James E. Lock

James E. Lock is a pediatric cardiologist and Harvard professor who led cardiology at Boston Children's Hospital and pioneered transcatheter treatment of congenital heart disease.

James E. Loyd

James E. Loyd is a pulmonary physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, known for genetic studies of pulmonary hypertension and fibrosis, including a 2001 NEJM study.

James E. McGuigan

James E. McGuigan (1931–2018) was an American gastroenterologist who developed the radioimmunoassay of the hormone gastrin, enabling diagnosis of Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, and spent most of his career at the University of Florida.

James E. Muller

James E. Muller, also known as James Muller, is an American cardiologist who showed heart attacks peak in the morning and co-founded IPPNW, which won the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.

James E. Rothman

James E. Rothman, born in 1950, is an American cell biologist and Yale professor who won the 2013 Nobel Prize for discovering the machinery of vesicle transport in cells.

James E. Udelson

James E. Udelson is an American cardiologist who has led the Division of Cardiology at Tufts Medical Center since 2008 and researches cardiac imaging and heart failure.

James E. Womack

James E. Womack (1941–2023) was an American animal geneticist at Texas A&M University who developed the first comparative map of cattle genes against human and mouse genomes.

James Earl King Hildreth

James Earl King Hildreth, born 1956 in Camden, Arkansas, is an American virologist and immunologist serving since 2015 as the 12th president of Meharry Medical College.

James Eberwine

James H. Eberwine is an American molecular pharmacologist at the University of Pennsylvania whose laboratory developed the nucleic acid amplification methods that enabled single-cell transcriptomics.

James Eric Gouaux Jr.

Eric Gouaux (James Eric Gouaux Jr.) is a structural neuroscientist at Oregon Health & Science University's Vollum Institute known for structures of neurotransmitter receptors and transporters.

James Ewing (pathologist)

James Ewing (1866–1943) was an American pathologist, first professor of pathology at Cornell, best known for describing Ewing sarcoma and founding American cancer research organizations.

James F. Bonner

James Frederick Bonner (1910–1996) was an American molecular and plant biologist at Caltech who showed that chromatin, not naked DNA, carries gene regulation in higher organisms.

James F. Crow

James F. Crow (1916–2012) was an American population geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who co-authored the 1970 textbook with Motoo Kimura and mentored over 50 scientists.

James F. Fries

James F. Fries (1938–2021) was an American rheumatologist and Stanford professor who proposed the "compression of morbidity" hypothesis and developed the Health Assessment Questionnaire for arthritis patients.

James F. Gusella

James F. Gusella is a Canadian human geneticist, Bullard Professor of Neurogenetics at Harvard Medical School, who mapped the Huntington's disease gene in 1983 and identified its CAG repeat cause in 1993.

James F. Holland

James F. Holland (1925–2018) was an American physician and cancer researcher, a founding father of combination chemotherapy and the modern cooperative clinical trial in oncology.

James F. Leckman

James F. Leckman is an American child psychiatrist and clinical neuroscientist, a Yale Child Study Center professor from 1976 to 2025, known for research on Tourette syndrome and pediatric OCD.

James F. Rusling

James F. Rusling is an American analytical and bioanalytical chemist, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Connecticut since 1990, known for biosensors and cancer diagnostics.

James G. Fox

James G. Fox is a veterinary comparative-medicine scientist who founded MIT's Division of Comparative Medicine and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2004.

James G. Herman

James G. Herman is an American physician-scientist in cancer epigenetics who developed methylation-specific PCR, the method that made promoter DNA methylation detectable in routine clinical samples.

James G. Hirsch

James G. Hirsch (1922–1987) was an American physician-scientist at Rockefeller University who pioneered the study of phagocytosis, discovered the bacteria-killing substance phagocytin in 1956, and helped launch cellular immunology.

James G. Jollis

James G. Jollis is an American cardiologist and outcomes researcher, adjunct professor at Duke University, known for showing that hospital volume and admitting specialty affect heart attack survival.

James G. Krueger

James G. Krueger is an American physician-scientist who heads the Laboratory of Investigative Dermatology at Rockefeller University, where his research on psoriasis shaped modern immune therapies.

James G. Morin

James G. Morin is a professor emeritus at Cornell University who, with J. Woodland Hastings, named green fluorescent protein in 1971 and proposed the energy-transfer mechanism behind coelenterate bioluminescence.

James G. Rheinwald

James G. Rheinwald is an American cell biologist who, as a graduate student in Howard Green's MIT lab, developed the first reliable method for growing human skin cells in culture.

James German

James German, also known as James L. German, was an American human geneticist who spent 50 years studying Bloom's syndrome and founded the Bloom's Syndrome Registry.

James Giovannoni

James Giovannoni is an American plant molecular biologist at the USDA who cloned the tomato RIN ripening gene and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

James Gray (zoologist)

Sir James Gray (1891–1975) was an English zoologist who held the Professorship of Zoology at Cambridge and pioneered the experimental study of animal locomotion, including Gray's paradox about dolphin swimming speed.

James H. Brown (American ecologist)

James H. Brown is an American ecologist at the University of New Mexico, known as the founder of macroecology and a co-developer of the metabolic theory of ecology.

James H. Chesebro

James H. Chesebro is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist known for randomized trials of dipyridamole plus aspirin after coronary-artery bypass surgery and a 1992 review of acute coronary syndromes.