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Janet D. Rowley
Janet D. Rowley (1925–2013) was an American hematologist at the University of Chicago who founded cancer cytogenetics, showing in 1973 that the Philadelphia chromosome is a translocation.
Janet E. Stout
Janet E. Stout is an American infectious disease microbiologist known for establishing hospital potable water systems, not cooling towers, as the reservoir for Legionnaires' disease.
Janet Franklin
Janet Franklin, born 1959 in Frankfurt, Germany, is an American biogeographer and landscape ecologist at San Diego State University, a National Academy of Sciences member known for species distribution modeling.
Janet Heasman
Janet Heasman is a British-born developmental biologist who defined how maternal gene products pattern the early Xenopus embryo and pioneered morpholino antisense gene knockdown in vertebrates.
Janet Hemingway
Janet Hemingway is a British entomologist and geneticist known for her research on insecticide resistance in mosquitoes, and Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine from 2001.
Janet Iwasa
Janet Iwasa is an American cell biologist turned molecular animator who leads the Animation Lab at the University of Utah, creating visualizations of HIV, SARS-CoV-2, and other molecular processes.
Janet Kelso
Janet Kelso is a South African bioinformatician who leads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, co-authoring the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes.
Janet L. Smith
Janet L. Smith is an American structural biologist at the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute who uses X-ray crystallography to determine structures of viral proteins and biosynthetic enzymes.
Janet M. Thornton
Janet M. Thornton is a British structural bioinformaticist who developed PROCHECK and the CATH protein classification and led EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute from 2001 to 2015.
Janet Pierrehumbert
Janet Pierrehumbert is an experimental and computational linguist, Professor of Language Modelling at Oxford since 2015, known for her influential 1980 model of English intonation and the ToBI prosody standard.
Janet R. Daling
Janet R. Daling (1934–2022) was an American cancer epidemiologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, known for landmark studies linking HPV to anal cancer and IUD use to infertility.
Janet Rossant
Janet Rossant is a Canadian developmental biologist at SickKids in Toronto who discovered the trophoblast stem cell, defined early embryo cell fate, and led the Gairdner Foundation for ten years.
Janet Treasure
Janet Treasure is a British psychiatrist and professor at King's College London known for research on eating disorders and for developing MANTRA, a NICE-recommended therapy for anorexia nervosa.
Janet W. McArthur
Janet W. McArthur was an American reproductive endocrinologist who developed a bioassay for luteinizing hormone and in 1972 became the first woman at MGH with a Harvard full professorship.
Janet Werker
Janet Werker is a Canadian developmental psychologist at the University of British Columbia who studies how infants perceive speech and how that perception is tuned to the native language during the first year of life.
Janez Plavec
Janez Plavec is a Slovenian structural biologist who heads the Slovenian NMR Centre at the National Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana and identified four-stranded DNA structures named AGCGA-quadruplexes in 2017.
Jang‐Soo Chun
Jang-Soo Chun (전장수) is a South Korean biomedical scientist and professor at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, known for research on the molecular mechanisms of cartilage destruction in osteoarthritis.
Janice Y. Chou
Janice Y. Chou, also known as Janice Yang Chou, is an American biochemist at NIH who established the genetic basis of glycogen storage disease type I.
Janina Ferbinteanu
Janina Ferbinteanu is a behavioral neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine, known for showing that hippocampal neurons encode past, current, and future locations during memory-guided navigation.
Janine Jagger
Janine Jagger is an American epidemiologist at the University of Virginia whose research on needlestick injuries reoriented health care worker safety toward safer device design.
Janine T. Erler
Janine Terra Erler is a professor at the University of Copenhagen's Biotech Research and Innovation Centre known for identifying lysyl oxidase as a driver of cancer metastasis.
Janis L. Abkowitz
Janis L. Abkowitz is an American hematologist at the University of Washington known for research on marrow-failure syndromes and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2013.
Jannie Borst
Jannie Borst, born 1957, is a Dutch immunologist known for work on the T-cell receptor complex and costimulatory signals relevant to cancer immunotherapy, leading immunology divisions at the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Leiden University.
János Szentágothai
János Szentágothai, born János Schimert (1912–1994), was a Hungarian neuroanatomist who co-created the classic 1967 cerebellar model and proposed the modular architectonics of the cerebral cortex.
János Xántus
János Xántus, also known as John Xantus, was a Hungarian naturalist and ethnographer who collected specimens in North America and founded the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest.
Janos Κ. Lanyi
Janos K. Lanyi is a biochemist and biophysicist, Professor Emeritus of Physiology and Biophysics at UC Irvine, known for determining how bacteriorhodopsin pumps protons and halorhodopsin pumps chloride using light.
Janusz Bujnicki
Janusz Bujnicki is a Polish bioinformatician and structural biologist who heads a laboratory at IIMCB in Warsaw and created the MODOMICS database of RNA modifications.
Jaqueline Barton
Jaqueline Barton, born 1952, is an American chemist at Caltech known for establishing that DNA mediates long-range charge transport; her honors include the National Medal of Science and the Priestley Medal.
Jaques-Louis Reverdin
Jaques-Louis Reverdin (1842–1929) was a Swiss surgeon from Geneva who in 1869 performed the first successful pinch skin graft, earning the name Father of Skin Grafting.
Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond, American scientist and UCLA professor of geography and physiology, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel (1998 Pulitzer Prize), Collapse, and The Third Chimpanzee; known for geographic explanations of human history and the determinism debate.