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Jan W. ten Cate
Jan W. ten Cate (Jan Wouter ten Cate, 1939–2020) was a Dutch internist and hematologist at the University of Amsterdam whose work fixed how deep-vein thrombosis is diagnosed and treated.
Jan Winberg
Jan Winberg was a Swedish professor of pediatrics at Karolinska Institutet, chair there from 1974 to 1989, known for influential research on urinary tract infections in children.
Jan Zeevaart
Jan Zeevaart, full name Jan Adriaan Dingenis Zeevaart, was a Dutch-American plant biologist at Michigan State University known for florigen grafting experiments and abscisic acid biosynthesis.
Jan-Ακε Gustafsson
Jan-Åke Gustafsson (1943–2026) was a Swedish molecular biologist who discovered estrogen receptor beta and led nuclear receptor research at Karolinska Institutet and the University of Houston.
Jan‐Erik Johansson
Jan-Erik Johansson is a Swedish professor of urology and oncology at Örebro University and Örebro University Hospital, principal investigator of the SPCG-4 trial comparing prostate surgery with watchful waiting.
Jan‐Inge Henter
Jan-Inge Henter (born 1953) is a Swedish pediatric hematologist-oncologist and professor at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for defining hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) and leading the international HLH-94 and HLH-2004 treatment studies.
Jan‐Michael Peters
Jan-Michael Peters is a German cell biologist, born in 1962, who studies the cohesin complex and leads the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.
Jan‐Willem Veening
Jan-Willem Veening is a Dutch microbiologist and full professor at the University of Lausanne since 2016, known for single-cell studies of pneumococcal cell division and the CcrZ cell-cycle regulator.
Janaki Ammal
Janaki Ammal (Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal, 1897–1984), Indian botanist and cytogeneticist; first Indian woman PhD in botany (Michigan, 1931); bred sweeter sugarcane at Coimbatore, co-authored the 1945 Chromosome Atlas, led the Botanical Survey of India, and helped save Kerala's Silent Valley.
Janardan K. Reddy
Janardan K. Reddy, also known as J. K. Reddy, is a pathologist at Northwestern University who identified peroxisome proliferators as chemical carcinogens and hypothesized the PPAR receptors.
Jane C. Davies
Jane C. Davies is a British physician-scientist and professor at Imperial College London who led the clinical trials bringing CFTR modulator drugs to people with cystic fibrosis.
Jane C. Weeks
Jane C. Weeks, also known as Jane Weeks, was an American oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who pioneered cancer outcomes research before her death in 2013.
Jane Dodd
Jane Dodd is a neuroscientist at Columbia University known for research on how the embryonic spinal cord is patterned and how growing axons find their paths.
Jane E. Freedman
Jane E. Freedman is an American physician-scientist whose research centers on platelets, thrombosis, and immunity in cardiovascular disease; she chairs Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Medicine.
Jane E. Harding
Jane E. Harding is a New Zealand neonatologist, Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland's Liggins Institute and President of Royal Society Te Apārangi from 2024.
Jane E. Koehler
Jane E. Koehler, born 1953, is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus at UCSF known for isolating the bacteria that cause bacillary angiomatosis, an AIDS-associated disease.
Jane E. Norman
Jane E. Norman is a British maternal and fetal health researcher who has been President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham since January 2025, after leading preterm birth research at Edinburgh.
Jane E. Parker
Jane E. Parker is a British plant scientist who studies plant innate immunity and leads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne.
Jane E. Salmon
Jane E. Salmon is an American rheumatologist and physician-scientist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York whose research established how complement-driven inflammation causes pregnancy complications in lupus and antiphospholipid syndrome.
Jane Elith
Jane Elith is an Australian quantitative ecologist at the University of Melbourne whose species distribution models shaped how ecologists predict where species occur; she won the 2015 Prime Minister's Prize for Life Scientist of the Year.
Jane Gitschier
Jane Gitschier is an American human geneticist who spent her career at UCSF, was an HHMI investigator from 1985 to 2006, and studied hemophilia and Menkes disease.
Jane K. Setlow
Jane K. Setlow was a geneticist who, with her husband Richard at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, showed in 1962 that UV-induced thymine dimers cause DNA damage.
Jane Langdale
Jane A. Langdale is Professor of Plant Development at the University of Oxford, known for research on leaf evolution and for coordinating the C4 Rice Project.
Jane Lubchenco
Jane Lubchenco, born 1947 in Denver, is an American marine ecologist at Oregon State University, the first woman to lead NOAA (2009–2013) and a White House climate official from 2021 to 2025.
Jane Mellor
Jane Mellor is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford who studies chromatin remodeling and gene regulation, known for 1985 Nature papers establishing yeast Ty as retrovirus-like.
Jane Shelby Richardson
Jane Shelby Richardson is an American protein structural biologist at Duke University, born in 1941, known for inventing ribbon diagrams, naming protein folds, and the MolProbity service.
Jane Visvader
Jane E. Visvader is an Australian molecular biologist at WEHI, Melbourne, known for identifying the breast stem cell and defining the cells from which breast cancers arise.
Janean Holden
Janean Holden is an American nurse scientist at the University of Michigan who studies how the brain modulates pain and, in 1999, became the first nurse scientist to receive a Presidential Early Career Award.
Janelle S. Ayres
Janelle S. Ayres is an American molecular and systems physiologist at the Salk Institute who established disease tolerance, surviving infections by limiting damage rather than killing pathogens.
Janet C. King
Janet C. King is an American nutrition scientist at UC Davis and Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, known for stable-isotope methods for studying zinc metabolism and for chairing the 2005 U.S. Dietary Guidelines committee.