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James Van Etten

James Van Etten is an American virologist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln who discovered PBCV-1, the first virus of algae, opening the study of giant algal viruses.

James Versalovic

James Versalovic is an American physician-scientist in medical microbiology and pathology, known for human gut microbiome and probiotic research, who leads pathology at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.

James W. Curran

James W. Curran is an American physician-epidemiologist who coordinated the CDC task force that investigated the first reported AIDS cases in 1981, then led the federal HIV/AIDS program for 15 years.

James W. Dennis

James W. Dennis is a Canadian cancer biologist and glycobiologist, Senior Investigator Emeritus at Toronto's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, known for pioneering work on N-glycan branching and metastatic spread.

James W. Fawcett

James W. Fawcett, born in 1950, is a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge known for work on CNS axon regeneration, chondroitinase ABC, and perineuronal nets.

James W. Kazura

James W. Kazura is an American physician-scientist at Case Western Reserve University whose field studies in Papua New Guinea and Kenya advanced malaria and lymphatic filariasis research.

James W. Linman

James W. Linman is an American hematologist at Northwestern University and the Veterans Administration Research Hospital in Chicago, known for his 1968 study of chronic idiopathic neutropenia.

James W. Posakony

James W. Posakony is an American developmental geneticist, emeritus professor at UC San Diego since 1985, known for elucidating the Notch signaling pathway in the fruit fly Drosophila.

James W. Putney

James W. Putney is an American pharmacologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences known for proposing capacitative calcium entry, now called store-operated calcium entry.

James W. Valentine

James W. Valentine (1926–2023) was an American paleontologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for work on the origin of animal phyla and the Cambrian explosion.

James Walker Dawson

James Walker Dawson (1870–1927) was a Scottish pathologist at the Royal College of Physicians' Laboratory in Edinburgh whose landmark 1916 monograph on multiple sclerosis gave medicine the Dawson's fingers MRI sign.

James Watson (Nobel laureate)

James Watson was an American molecular biologist who, with Francis Crick, proposed the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953, winning the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

James Whelan (plant biologist)

James Whelan, also known as Jim Whelan, is an Australian plant biologist elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2019 while at La Trobe University.

James Whisstock

James C. Whisstock is an Australian structural biologist at Monash University whose laboratory determines the structures of proteins controlling blood coagulation and the immune toxin perforin.

James Wyngaarden

James Wyngaarden (1924–2019) was an American physician-biochemist and authority on purine biosynthesis and gout who served as Duke's chair of medicine and the twelfth NIH director.

Jamey D. Marth

Jamey D. Marth is an American molecular and cellular biologist who studies protein glycosylation and its links to diabetes, sepsis, and autoimmunity, and is a professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys in La Jolla, California.

Jamie L. Renbarger

Jamie L. Renbarger is an American pediatric hematology-oncology physician-scientist who spent 21 years at Indiana University studying chemotherapy toxicities in children, winning a PECASE award in 2011.

Jamie Rossjohn

Jamie Rossjohn, born 1969, is a Welsh structural biologist at Monash University in Melbourne known for showing how T cells recognize lipids and vitamin B metabolites.

Jamshed R. Tata

Jamshed R. Tata (1930–2020) was an Indian-born British endocrinologist who showed that thyroid hormones act by regulating gene expression, working at Mill Hill in London.

Jamy D. Ard

Jamy D. Ard is an American physician-scientist in obesity medicine and clinical nutrition, vice dean at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and co-director of its Weight Management Center.

Jan A. Burger

Jan A. Burger is a German-trained hematologist and professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center who studies chronic lymphocytic leukemia and led the RESONATE-2 trial of ibrutinib.

Jan A. Staessen

Jan A. Staessen is a Belgian hypertension researcher, emeritus professor at the University of Leuven who led the Syst-Eur trial and pioneered home blood pressure measurement.

Jan B. Vermorken

Jan B. Vermorken is a Dutch medical oncologist who led medical oncology at the University of Antwerp and Antwerp University Hospital, known for the EXTREME and TAX 323 trials.

Jan Born

Jan Born (born 1958 in Celle) is a German neuroscientist who directs the Department of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology at the University of Tübingen.

Jan Bureš

Jan Bureš (1926–2012) was a Czech neuroscientist at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, known for turning cortical spreading depression into a tool for reversible brain lesions.

Jan C. Semenza

Jan C. Semenza is an environmental epidemiologist who led the CDC response to the 1995 Chicago heat wave and studied climate change and infectious disease at ECDC.

Jan Carette

Jan E. Carette is a virologist and geneticist who is Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford, known for using haploid and CRISPR screens to find host genes viruses need.

Jan Claassen

Jan Claassen is a German-trained neurologist and neurocritical care specialist who is Chief of Critical Care and Hospitalist Neurology at Columbia University, known for detecting hidden consciousness.

Jan Cools

Jan Cools is a Belgian leukemia genetics researcher and full professor at KU Leuven, known for identifying FIP1L1-PDGFRA as imatinib's target in hypereosinophilic syndrome and for the NUP214-ABL1 oncogene in T-ALL.

Jan D. Blankensteijn

Jan D. Blankensteijn, born 1959 in Aruba, is a Dutch vascular surgeon and full professor at Amsterdam UMC, known for leading the DREAM trial of abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.