Life and health scientists

James N. Kochenderfer

James N. Kochenderfer is an American physician-scientist at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, whose laboratory develops CAR T-cell immunotherapies for lymphoma, leukemia, and multiple myeloma.

James N. Weinstein

James N. Weinstein is an orthopedic surgeon and health services researcher known for the SPORT back-surgery trials, who led Dartmouth-Hitchcock from 2011 to 2017 and then joined Microsoft.

James N. Weiss

James N. Weiss is an American cardiologist and cardiovascular scientist at UCLA known for his 1992 Science paper showing chaos theory can control cardiac arrhythmias.

James Neuberger

James Max Neuberger, born 1949, is a British hepatologist and transplant physician at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, who led NHS Blood and Transplant and chairs SaBTO.

James Neville Galloway

James N. Galloway is a University of Virginia biogeochemist elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020, known for acid rain research and the nitrogen cascade concept.

James O McNamara

James O McNamara, also known as J O McNamara, is a Duke University neurologist and neuroscientist who studies how a normal brain becomes epileptic, a process called epileptogenesis.

Jamés O. Armitage

James O. Armitage is a hematology-oncology physician and Joe Shapiro Professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center who founded its blood and bone marrow transplant program in 1982.

James O. Davis

James O. Davis was an American physiologist at the University of Missouri who studied renin release and blood pressure control, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1982.

James O. Kahn

James O. Kahn is an American HIV clinical researcher, now emeritus faculty at Stanford, who led the largest 1990s HIV randomized trial and fought to publish its negative findings.

James Olzmann

James Olzmann is a cell biologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for work on lipid droplets, lipotoxicity, and ferroptosis, and a 2017 PECASE recipient.

James P. Allison

James P. Allison, American immunologist born in Alice, Texas, discovered CTLA-4 is a T-cell brake; blocking it produced ipilimumab, the first checkpoint inhibitor, and the 2018 Nobel Prize shared with Tasuku Honjo.

James P. Di Santo

James P. Di Santo is an immunologist who heads the Innate Immunity Unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, known for research on innate lymphoid cells and humanized mouse models.

James P. Kushner

James P. Kushner is an American physician-scientist in hematology at the University of Utah, an internationally recognized authority on hereditary hemochromatosis and the porphyrias who retired in 2011.

James P. Noonan

James P. Noonan is a geneticist at Yale University who studies how gene regulation changed during human evolution, known for work on human accelerated regions and Neanderthal genomics.

James P. Quigley

James P. Quigley is a cancer biologist and professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for chick-embryo models of metastasis and research on tumor cell intravasation.

James P. Tam

James P. Tam is a peptide chemist and Lee Wee Nam Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, known for inventing peptide dendrimers as synthetic vaccines.

James P. Whitlock

James P. Whitlock (1942–2023) was a physician and Stanford professor of molecular pharmacology known for showing how dioxin, the toxic contaminant in Agent Orange, acts on cells.

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James Papez

James Wenceslas Papez (1883–1958) was an American neuroanatomist at Cornell University who proposed in 1937 that a loop of brain structures, the Papez circuit, forms the anatomic basis of emotion.

James Peter Hill

James Peter Hill (1873–1954) was a British embryologist at University College London who became the leading authority on the early development of marsupial and monotreme mammals.

James Poulet

James F.A. Poulet is a British systems neuroscientist who leads a research group at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, studying how internal brain states shape sensory perception.

James Priess

James Priess is an American developmental biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle known for his genetic analysis of embryogenesis in the roundworm C. elegans.

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James Q. Miller

James Quinter Miller (1926–2005) was an American neurologist at the University of Virginia whose 1963 description of lissencephaly in two siblings gave his name to Miller–Dieker syndrome, and who won record teaching awards.

James R. Broach

James R. Broach is an American molecular biologist who defined how the yeast 2μm plasmid replicates and maintains high copy number, and now leads biochemistry at Penn State.

James R. Downing

James R. Downing is a physician-scientist in pediatric cancer genomics who spent his career at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, serving as president and CEO from 2014, and co-founded the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project.

James R. Ehleringer

James R. Ehleringer is an ecologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, known for pioneering stable isotope ecology and founding the SIRFER isotope facility in 1986.

James R. Feramisco

James R. Feramisco is a molecular biologist known for microinjecting purified ras oncogene proteins into living cells, working at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and later UCSD.

James R. Heath

James R. Heath is an American chemist who co-discovered C60 fullerenes in 1985 and has led the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle since 2018.

James R. Lupski

James R. Lupski (born 1957) is an American medical geneticist and professor at Baylor College of Medicine who defined genomic disorders through his research on Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

James R. O’Dell

James R. O'Dell is an American rheumatologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha whose trials established combination drug therapy for rheumatoid arthritis.