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Jay R. Harris

Jay R. Harris is an American radiation oncologist known for breast-conserving therapy in breast cancer, who chaired radiation oncology at Dana-Farber and is now a Harvard professor emeritus.

Jay R. Hove

Jay R. Hove is an American physiologist at the University of Cincinnati whose 2003 Nature study showed blood-flow forces drive embryonic heart development; he received a 2006 Presidential Early Career Award.

Jay S Coggan

Jay S Coggan, also cited as Jay Steven Coggan, is a neuroscientist who studied nicotinic receptors at the chick ciliary ganglion and later modeled demyelination and brain metabolism.

Jay S. Skyler

Jay S. Skyler, also known as Jay Skyler, is an American endocrinologist and diabetes researcher at the University of Miami, chairman of DPT-1 and TrialNet from 1993 to 2015.

Jay Shendure

Jay Shendure is an American genomicist, an HHMI Investigator and professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington, known for pioneering next-generation DNA sequencing and single-cell genomics technologies.

Jay T. Groves

Jay T. Groves is an American biophysicist, Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley and a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist, known for patterned supported membrane technology and single-molecule studies of Ras signaling.

Jay W. Mason

Jay W. Mason is an American cardiologist specializing in arrhythmias and electrocardiography, known for the 1987 NEJM review "Amiodarone" and the 1993 ESVEM drug-testing trials.

Jay W. Shin

Jay W. Shin is a genomics researcher at the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore since 2022, working on single-cell genomics and co-leading the FANTOM6 consortium.

Jay Zachary Parrish

Jay Zachary Parrish is an American biologist and professor at the University of Washington who studies how somatosensory neurons in fruit flies and mosquitoes develop and function.

Jayachandran N. Kizhakkedathu

Jayachandran N. Kizhakkedathu, also published as Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu, is a polymer chemist and biomaterials researcher at the University of British Columbia who designs blood-compatible surfaces and synthetic anticoagulants.

Jayakrishna Ambati

Jayakrishna Ambati is an ophthalmologist and vision scientist, DuPont Guerry III Professor at the University of Virginia, known for research on dry age-related macular degeneration.

Jayanta Chaudhuri

Jayanta Chaudhuri is an immunologist and Principal Investigator at the Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he studies how the enzyme AID diversifies antibody genes.

Jayanta Debnath

Jayanta Debnath is an American cancer biologist and pathologist who chairs pathology at UCSF, where his laboratory studies autophagy as a survival mechanism in cancer.

Jayaraj Rajagopal

Jayaraj Rajagopal is a Harvard Medical School professor and Massachusetts General Hospital researcher in lung stem cell biology who discovered pulmonary ionocytes and airway hillocks.

Jayeeta Basu

Jayeeta Basu is an Indian-American systems neuroscientist and Associate Professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, known for work on inhibitory circuits gating memory encoding in the hippocampus.

Jayne A. Franklyn

Jayne A. Franklyn, known as Jayne Franklyn, is a British endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Birmingham whose cohort studies of radioiodine treatment for overactive thyroid shaped national and international guidance.

Jayne Billmayer Morrow

Jayne Billmayer Morrow is an American environmental engineer and microbiology measurement scientist at NIST who received a 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for studying how bacteria attach to surfaces.

Jean Abadie

Jean Abadie (1873–1946) was a French neuropsychiatrist, professor of nervous and mental diseases at Bordeaux, remembered for Abadie's sign of tabes dorsalis, the painless pressure on the Achilles tendon.

Jean Bernard (physician)

Jean Bernard (1907–2006) was a French physician and hematologist who helped establish that some acute leukemias could be cured, built French hematology at Saint-Louis Hospital, and led France's bioethics committee.

Jean Bourhis

Jean Bourhis is a French radiation oncologist, professor and chair of radiation oncology at Lausanne University Hospital since 2012, known for the MACH-NC and MARCH meta-analyses.

Jean Bousquet

Jean Bousquet, born 1946, is a French physician-scientist in allergy and respiratory medicine, honorary professor of pulmonary medicine at Montpellier University, founder of the ARIA guidelines and former chairman of GINA.

Jean Brachet

Jean Brachet (1909–1988) was a Belgian biochemist and embryologist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles who showed that RNA is essential to protein synthesis, making him a founder of molecular biology.

Jean Chastre

Jean Chastre is a French intensivist and physician-scientist in critical care medicine at Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris, known for research on ventilator-associated pneumonia, including a 2003 JAMA trial comparing 8 and 15 days of antibiotics.

Jean D. Beggs

Jean D. Beggs, born Jean Lancaster, is a Scottish molecular biologist known for pioneering gene cloning in yeast and for work on RNA splicing and the spliceosome.

Jean D. Ross

Jean D. Ross was a researcher in pediatrics and hematology at Tufts Children's Hospital and Tufts University, known for work on infant iron-deficiency anemia and newborn methemoglobinemia.

Jean D. Wilson (scientist)

Jean D. Wilson was an American endocrinologist at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas who discovered that testosterone is converted into the more potent androgen dihydrotestosterone.

Jean Dausset

Jean Dausset (1916–2009) was a French immunologist who discovered the HLA system, the cell-surface proteins governing transplant acceptance, and shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Jean Demoor

Jean Demoor (1867–1941) was a Belgian physician and physiologist, professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, known for work on chemical mediators of nerve conduction.

Jean E. Johnson

Jean E. Johnson, full name Jean Elaine Irwin Johnson (1925–2022), was an American nurse scientist at the University of Rochester known for self-regulation theory in patient education.

Jean E. Schaffer

Jean E. Schaffer is an American physician-scientist at Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School known for discovering the first fatty acid transport protein and establishing lipotoxicity in diabetic heart disease.