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Jared E. Toettcher

Jared E. Toettcher is a molecular biologist and Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University who studies cell signaling and engineers light-sensitive proteins to control pathways with optogenetics.

Jared J. Grantham

Jared J. Grantham, also known as Jared Grantham, was an American nephrologist at the University of Kansas who established how cysts grow in polycystic kidney disease and co-founded the PKD Foundation.

Jared M. Baeten

Jared M. Baeten (born 1973) is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at the University of Washington whose Partners PrEP trial proved antiretroviral pills prevent HIV acquisition in heterosexual men and women.

Jared Potter Kirtland

Jared Potter Kirtland (1793–1877) was an American physician, naturalist, and horticulturist in northeastern Ohio who co-founded Cleveland Medical College and the Cleveland Academy of Natural Sciences, and is remembered for Kirtland's warbler.

Jared Rutter

Jared Rutter is an American biochemist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Utah who studies metabolism and identified the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier in 2012.

Jari Björne

Jari Björne (Jari Bjorne) is a Finnish computer scientist and docent of biomedical data science at the University of Turku, known for the Turku Event Extraction System (TEES).

Jari Tiihonen

Jari Tiihonen (born 1960) is a Finnish psychiatrist and physician-scientist, professor at Karolinska Institutet and the University of Eastern Finland, known for the 2009 FIN11 register study of antipsychotics in schizophrenia.

Jaroslaw P. Maciejewski

Jaroslaw P. Maciejewski is an American hematologist-oncologist who chairs Translational Hematology and Oncology Research at Cleveland Clinic's Taussig Cancer Institute, known for bone marrow failure research.

Jasmin Graham

Jasmin Graham is an American marine biologist who studies sharks and rays, co-founded Minorities in Shark Sciences, and wrote the 2024 memoir Sharks Don't Sink.

Jasmine Quynh Le

Jasmine Quynh Le is a neurobiologist studying circadian rhythms, sleep, and visual processing in fruit flies, known for single-cell and CRISPR methods for tiny neuron populations.

Jasmohan S. Bajaj

Jasmohan S. Bajaj is an American hepatologist, a professor of medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Richmond VA Medical Center, who studies the gut-liver-brain axis in cirrhosis.

Jason Cyster

Jason G. Cyster is an American immunologist, professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and HHMI investigator known for work on lymphocyte trafficking and germinal center biology.

Jason D Wittenbach

Jason D Wittenbach is an American computational neuroscientist known for work on recurrent circuits in the cerebral cortex and computational tools for whole-brain functional imaging.

Jason D. Buenrostro

Jason D. Buenrostro is an American molecular biologist at Harvard and the Broad Institute who created ATAC-seq, the standard method for mapping open chromatin, and won a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship.

Jason D. Morrow

Jason D. Morrow, also known as Jason Morrow, was an American physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University who co-discovered the isoprostanes, biomarkers of oxidative stress, in 1990.

Jason E. Gestwicki

Jason E. Gestwicki is a chemical biologist and professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at UCSF who studies molecular chaperones such as Hsp70 and Hsp90 in neurodegeneration and cancer.

Jason G. Andrade

Jason G. Andrade is a Canadian cardiac electrophysiologist at Vancouver General Hospital and the University of British Columbia, known for early-ablation trials in atrial fibrillation.

Jason Gotlib

Jason R. Gotlib is an American hematologist-oncologist and Stanford professor of medicine whose clinical trials led to FDA approval of midostaurin and avapritinib for advanced systemic mastocytosis.

Jason Lieb

Jason D. Lieb is a chromatin biologist who co-developed FAIRE, mapped genome-wide protein–DNA binding, and worked on the ENCODE project before resigning from Chicago in 2016.

Jason M. Baron

Jason M. Baron is a clinical pathologist and informaticist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who applies machine learning to laboratory diagnosis, including ferritin prediction and reflex testing.

Jason M. Haugh

Jason M. Haugh is a quantitative cell biologist, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University, and a 2002 recipient of the PECASE award.

Jason McLellan

Jason S. McLellan is an American structural biologist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin whose prefusion-stabilized spike protein design is used in COVID-19 and RSV vaccines.

Jason Micklefield

Jason Micklefield is a chemical biologist who discovered and engineered enzymes for antibiotic biosynthesis and amide synthesis, and became Professor at Imperial College London in 2024.

Jason Moffat

Jason Moffat is a Canadian molecular geneticist, Program Head of Genetics and Genome Biology at SickKids in Toronto, known for genome-scale CRISPR screens that identified 1,580 human core fitness genes.

Jason N. D. Kerr

Jason N. D. Kerr is a New Zealand-born neuroscientist who studies how mammals use vision to make decisions and builds head-mounted microscopes for freely moving rodents.

Jason R. Andrews

Jason R. Andrews is an American infectious-disease physician and Stanford professor whose research quantifies prisons as drivers of tuberculosis epidemics in Latin America and models cholera in Haiti.

Jason R. Rohr

Jason R. Rohr is an American disease ecologist at the University of Notre Dame known for research on how pollution and climate change drive infectious disease.

Jason R. Swedlow

Jason R. Swedlow is an American-born biophysicist and cell biologist at the University of Dundee who studies mitotic chromosome dynamics and co-founded the Open Microscopy Environment.

Jason R. Westin

Jason R. Westin, also known as Jason Westin, is an American oncologist and lymphoma researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for leading the ZUMA-7 CAR T-cell therapy trial.

Jason Vassy

Jason Vassy is an American general internist and genomic-medicine researcher at VA Boston, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, and a PECASE recipient.