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Jean Gautier
Jean Gautier is a molecular biologist known for purifying maturation-promoting factor from Xenopus eggs and showing how cdc25 activates the cell-cycle kinase p34cdc2; he joined MD Anderson in 2025.
Jean Ginsburg
Jean Ginsburg (1926–2004) was a British endocrinologist at the Royal Free Hospital in London who set up one of Britain's first menopause clinics and published over 250 papers.
Jean Grüenberg
Jean Gruenberg is a cell biologist at the University of Geneva known for cell-free assays that reconstitute endosome fusion and for showing the GTPase rab5 controls early endosome fusion.
Jean Hyacinthe Vincent
Jean Hyacinthe Vincent (1862–1950) was a French army physician and bacteriologist who identified the organisms behind Vincent's angina and directed the antityphoid vaccination that nearly eliminated typhoid from French armies in World War I.
Jean J. Zhao
Jean J. Zhao, also published as Jean Zhao, is a molecular biologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School known for PI3K isoform research in cancer.
Jean Klášterský
Jean Klášterský (Jean Klastersky), born 1940 in Prague, is a Belgian medical oncologist who led the Institut Jules Bordet in Brussels and created the MASCC risk index.
Jean L. Rouleau
Jean L. Rouleau is a Canadian cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute known for leading the STICH heart-surgery trial and entering the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2023.
Jean Laigret
Jean Laigret (1893–1966) was a French physician at the Pasteur Institute who developed the Dakar vaccine, the first used against yellow fever in mass campaigns.
Jean Lhermitte
Jean Lhermitte, full name Jacques Jean Lhermitte (1877–1959), was a French neurologist and neuropsychiatrist, son of the painter Léon Augustin Lhermitte, known for Lhermitte's sign and Lhermitte-Duclos disease.
Jean Lindenmann
Jean Lindenmann (1924–2015) was a Swiss virologist who co-discovered and named interferon with Alick Isaacs in London in 1957, then studied the Mx gene at Zurich.
Jean Marie Charles Abadie
Jean Marie Charles Abadie (1842–1932) was a French ophthalmologist born in Saint-Gaudens, trained in Paris, Vienna, and Berlin, known for Abadie's sign, a lid sign of Graves' disease.
Jean Mayer
Jean Mayer (1920-1993) was a French-born American nutrition scientist, Harvard professor, and originator of the glucostatic theory of appetite regulation who led Tufts University as its tenth president.
Jean Orr-Ewing
Jean Orr-Ewing (1897–1944) was a co-worker in Howard Florey's penicillin team at Oxford's Dunn School of Pathology, named in the Nobel Committee's 1945 presentation speech yet left with almost no individual record.
Jean Paul Thiery
Jean Paul Thiery is a French cell and cancer biologist whose work on epithelial-mesenchymal transition established it as a central mechanism of carcinoma progression and metastasis.
Jean Pierre Mégnin
Jean Pierre Mégnin (1828–1905), French army veterinarian and entomologist, author of La faune des cadavres (1894) with its eight waves of insect succession, founder of forensic entomology and pioneer of dog-breed classification.
Jean Pierre Soulier
Jean Pierre Soulier (1915–2003) was a French physician and hematologist who directed the Centre national de transfusion sanguine from 1954 to 1984 and helped identify the two forms of hemophilia.
Jean Roche
Jean Roche (1901–1992) was a French biochemist known for demonstrating the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine in 1952 and serving as rector of the University of Paris.
Jean Rosa
Jean Rosa (1927–2025) was a French physician-scientist in hematology and red-cell biochemistry who identified hemoglobin variants, pioneered prenatal diagnosis of sickle cell disease in France, and led an INSERM research unit at the Hôpital Henri Mondor.
Jean Rossier
Jean Rossier (1944–2025) was a Belgian and Swiss neurobiologist known for work on opioid peptides and neocortical interneurons, elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 2002.
Jean Thomas (Welsh biochemist)
Jean Olwen Thomas is a British biochemist whose work on histone association underpinned the nucleosome model of chromatin; she is a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Jean W. Pape
Jean W. Pape, also known as Jean William or Bill Pape, is a Haitian-born physician-scientist who founded GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince in 1982, helping cut Haiti's HIV prevalence.
Jean Weigle
Jean Weigle (Jean-Jacques Weigle, 1901–1968) was a Swiss experimental physicist who became a molecular biologist in Max Delbrück's phage group at Caltech, known for Weigle reactivation and mutagenesis of UV-damaged virus DNA.
Jean Weissenbach
Jean Weissenbach, born 1946 in Strasbourg, is a French molecular geneticist and CNRS researcher who directed the Généthon genetic map and Genoscope, and won the 2008 CNRS gold medal.
Jean Y. J. Wang
Jean Y. J. Wang, also published as Jean Yin Jen Wang, is a cancer biologist at UC San Diego known for work on the ABL kinase, DNA damage response, and apoptosis.
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (1828–1911) was a French botanist and physician who worked chiefly on algae and lichens, collaborated with Gustave Thuret, and joined the Académie des sciences in 1886.
Jean-Claude Chermann
Jean-Claude Chermann is a French retrovirologist who co-discovered HIV at the Institut Pasteur in 1983, yet was the only co-discoverer excluded from the 2008 Nobel Prize.
Jean-Claude Martinou
Jean-Claude Martinou is a Swiss molecular and cell biologist known for work on cell death and mitochondrial metabolism, and for identifying the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier.
Jean-François Borel
Jean-François Borel (1933–2025) was a Belgian-born Swiss pharmacologist and immunologist at Sandoz in Basel who identified cyclosporin A's immunosuppressive action, the first drug to control organ-transplant rejection.
Jean-François Calot
Jean-François Calot (1861–1944) was a French surgeon whose 1890 thesis gave his name to Calot's triangle, a key landmark in cholecystectomy, and who founded the Institut orthopédique de Berck-sur-Mer.
Jean-François Heymans
Jean-François Heymans (Jan Frans Heymans; 1859–1932) was a Belgian pharmacologist who held Belgium's first chair of experimental pharmacology at Ghent University and co-founded a pharmacology journal.