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Jean-Henri Fabre
Jean-Henri Fabre (1823–1915) was a self-taught French entomologist who observed live insects at his Harmas estate in Sérignan-du-Comtat and recorded his findings in the ten-volume Souvenirs entomologiques.
Jean-Henri-Adolphe d'Espine
Jean-Henri-Adolphe d'Espine (1846–1930) was a Swiss pediatrician from Geneva, professor of internal pathology, rector of the University of Geneva, and vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, known for d'Espine's sign.
Jean-Laurent Casanova
Jean-Laurent Casanova, born in Paris in 1963, is a French immunologist at Rockefeller University who showed that single-gene defects can make healthy children vulnerable to specific infections.
Jean-Léon Maître
Jean-Léon Maître is a developmental biologist who leads the Mechanics of Mammalian Development team at Institut Curie in Paris, studying forces that shape the early embryo.
Jean-Louis Bessereau
Jean-Louis Bessereau is a French molecular neuroscientist at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 who studies how synapses are built, using the nematode C. elegans as his model organism.
Jean-Louis Mandel
Jean-Louis Mandel (born 1946 in Strasbourg) is a French human geneticist who identified the unstable repeat mutation causing fragile X syndrome in 1991 and received the 2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.
Jean-Marie Ghuysen
Jean-Marie Ghuysen (1925–2004) was a Belgian microbiologist at the University of Liège who established the structure of bacterial peptidoglycan and showed how penicillin inactivates its target enzymes.
Jean-Martin Charcot
Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893), French neurologist, founder of modern neurology with Duchenne; Salpêtrière school, first neurology chair (1882), multiple sclerosis, ALS, Charcot-Marie-Tooth, contested hysteria and hypnosis work.
Jean-Pierre Issa
Jean-Pierre Issa is a physician-scientist in cancer epigenetics who has been President and CEO of the Coriell Institute since 2019, known for describing age-related methylation, discovering CIMP, and developing decitabine.
Jean-Pierre Julien
Jean-Pierre Julien is a Canadian molecular neuroscientist at Université Laval in Quebec City, known for showing that neurofilament disruption causes neurological disease and for building early transgenic mouse models of ALS.
Jean‐Charles Schwartz
Jean-Charles Schwartz (born 1936) is a French neuropharmacologist, professor emeritus at Université Paris Descartes, known for discovering the H3 histamine receptor and developing pitolisant, the first H3-targeting drug in clinical use.
Jean‐Charles Soria
Jean-Charles Soria is a French medical oncologist known for early-phase cancer drug development and for leading the FLAURA trials of osimertinib in EGFR-mutated non-small-cell lung cancer.
Jean‐Christophe Leroux
Jean-Christophe Leroux (born 1969 in Montreal) is a drug formulation and delivery scientist, full professor and institute head at ETH Zurich, known for biodetoxification and co-founding the spin-offs Versantis AG and Inositec AG.
Jean‐Christophe Marine
Jean-Christophe Marine is a Belgian cancer biologist, professor, and director of the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, known for work on melanoma therapy resistance and non-genetic tumor evolution.
Jean‐Claude Tardif
Jean-Claude Tardif is a Canadian cardiologist and professor at the Université de Montréal who directs the Montreal Heart Institute Research Centre and led the COLCOT colchicine trial.
Jean‐David Rochaix
Jean-David Rochaix, born in 1944, is a Swiss molecular biologist who was professor of molecular and plant biology at the University of Geneva from 1981 to 2010, known for discovering the chloroplast kinase STN7.
Jean‐Dominique Vassalli
Jean-Dominique Vassalli, also known as J D Vassalli, is a Swiss biologist born in Geneva in 1946, known for work on the plasminogen activator system and translational control of messenger RNA in mouse oocytes.
Jean‐François Bach
Jean-François Bach (1940–2023) was a French immunologist at Hôpital Necker in Paris who isolated thymulin, pioneered immunotherapy for type 1 diabetes, and championed the hygiene hypothesis.
Jean‐François Brunet
Jean-François Brunet (born 1959) is a French neuroscientist, a CNRS research director at the École normale supérieure in Paris, known for his work on the autonomic nervous system gene Phox2b.
Jean‐François Collet
Jean-François Collet is a Belgian biochemist, full professor at UCLouvain and co-director of the de Duve Institute in Brussels, known for research on bacterial disulfide bond formation and protein folding.
Jean‐Frédéric Colombel
Jean-Frédéric Colombel is a French gastroenterologist specializing in inflammatory bowel disease who directs the Feinstein IBD Clinical Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Jean‐Louis Mas
Jean-Louis Mas is a French neurologist and stroke researcher who headed neurology at Hôpital Sainte-Anne in Paris from 1995 to 2022, known for the CLOSE and EVA-3S trials.
Jean‐Louis Mergny
Jean-Louis Mergny (born 1966 in Nantes) is a French biophysicist and Inserm research director at École Polytechnique known for work on G-quadruplex DNA and the G4Hunter algorithm.
Jean‐Louis Reymond
Jean-Louis Reymond is a Swiss chemist and professor at the University of Bern since 1997, known for the GDB databases enumerating billions of small molecules for drug discovery.
Jean‐Louis Vincent
Jean-Louis Vincent is a Belgian professor of intensive care medicine at the Université libre de Bruxelles and Erasme Hospital, co-creator of the SOFA score used in defining sepsis.
Jean‐Marc Egly
Jean-Marc Egly, born 1945, is a French molecular biologist at the IGBMC in Illkirch known for work on TFIIH, which performs both transcription and DNA repair.
Jean‐Marie Andrieu
Jean-Marie Andrieu was a French hematologist, oncologist, and professor of medicine at Université Paris Descartes who led Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou's oncology department and developed therapeutic dendritic-cell vaccines against HIV.
Jean‐Michel Claverie
Jean-Michel Claverie is a French bioinformatician and genomic virologist at Aix-Marseille University, best known for discovering giant viruses, beginning with Mimivirus in 2003, and for warning that thawing permafrost may revive ancient infectious viruses.
Jean‐Michel Dayer
Jean-Michel Dayer (born 1942) is a Swiss physician-scientist in immunology and rheumatology at the University of Geneva, known for identifying factors driving joint destruction in rheumatoid arthritis.
Jean‐Michel Molina
Jean-Michel Molina is a French infectious-diseases physician-researcher, professor at Université Paris Cité and head of infectious diseases at Hôpital Saint-Louis, known for leading the IPERGAY on-demand PrEP trial and the lenacapavir CAPELLA trial.