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Jean‐Paul Vincent

Jean-Paul Vincent is a developmental biologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London, known for work on Wnt signaling and morphogen gradients in fruit flies.

Jean‐Pierre Benhamou

Jean-Pierre Benhamou (1927–2008) was a French hepatologist who led the liver unit at Hôpital Beaujon in Clichy, directed an INSERM liver research unit, and is remembered as the father of modern hepatology in Europe.

Jean‐Pierre Cartron

Jean-Pierre Cartron is a French biochemist and physician-scientist at the Institut national de transfusion sanguine in Paris, known for defining the molecular basis of human blood group systems.

Jean‐Pierre Changeux

Jean-Pierre Changeux (born 1936) is a French neuroscientist, emeritus professor at the Institut Pasteur and Collège de France, known for the allosteric model of protein regulation.

Jean‐Pierre Després

Jean-Pierre Després is a Canadian kinesiologist and exercise physiologist at Université Laval whose research on visceral obesity and insulin resistance made waist measurement routine medical practice worldwide.

Jean‐Pierre Valet

Jean-Pierre Valet (1954–2024) was a French geophysicist at CNRS and IPGP known for the Sint composite records of geomagnetic field variation and work on polarity reversals.

Jean‐Yves Blay

Jean-Yves Blay is a French medical oncologist, Directeur général of the Centre Léon Bérard in Lyon, professor at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, and president of Unicancer.

Jean‐Yves Delattre

Jean-Yves Delattre is a French neurologist and neuro-oncologist who leads neuro-oncology at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, and led the 2007 trial establishing radiotherapy for elderly glioblastoma patients.

Jean‐Yves Douillard

Jean-Yves Douillard is a French medical oncologist who worked on lung and gastrointestinal cancers, led the PRIME trial of panitumumab, and became ESMO's first Chief Medical Officer in 2016.

Jean–Claude Weill

Jean–Claude Weill, born 1941, is a French immunologist who showed that chickens diversify their antibody genes by gene conversion, and later mapped the polymerases behind mouse antibody hypermutation.

Jean–Michel Pawlotsky

Jean-Michel Pawlotsky, born in 1961, is a French physician-scientist in hepatology and virology, professor at Université Paris-Est Créteil and director of virology at Hôpital Henri Mondor in Créteil.

Jeane Ann Grisso

Jeane Ann Grisso is an American physician and epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for case-control studies of falls, hip fracture, and violent injury in women.

Jeanine P. Wiener-Kronish

Jeanine P. Wiener-Kronish is an American anesthesiologist who served over a decade as Anesthetist-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2002.

Jeanmarie Houghton

Jeanmarie Houghton is an American physician-scientist and Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School, best known for her 2004 Science paper reporting gastric cancer originating from bone marrow-derived cells.

Jeanne Altmann

Jeanne Altmann, born 1940, is an American behavioral ecologist and Princeton professor whose 1974 sampling methods became standard in animal behavior research, and who founded the Amboseli Baboon Project in Kenya in 1971.

Jeanne B. Lawrence

Jeanne B. Lawrence, also published as Jeanne Bentley Lawrence, is an American molecular biologist at UMass Chan Medical School who showed that XIST RNA silences the inactive X chromosome.

Jeanne Marrazzo

Jeanne Marrazzo is an American infectious diseases physician-scientist who served as NIAID director from 2023 until her removal in 2025, and became CEO of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2026.

Jeanne Miranda

Jeanne Miranda is an American clinical psychologist and mental health services researcher, Distinguished University Professor at Florida International University, who studies depression care for low-income and minority populations.

Jeanne S. Mandelblatt

Jeanne S. Mandelblatt is an American geriatrician and professor of oncology at Georgetown University, founder of its Institute for Cancer and Aging Research and leader of CISNET breast cancer modeling.

Jeanne Sinkford

Jeanne Sinkford was an American dentist and educator who in 1975 became the first woman dean of a U.S. dental school, leading Howard University until 1991.

Jeannie T. Lee

Jeannie T. Lee is an American molecular geneticist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for her work on X chromosome inactivation and the RNAs Xist and Tsix.

Jed A. Fuhrman

Jed A. Fuhrman is an American marine microbial ecologist who holds the McCulloch-Crosby Chair in Marine Biology at the University of Southern California and pioneered the study of marine viruses.

Jedd D. Wolchok

Jedd D. Wolchok is an American physician-scientist in cancer immunotherapy who directs the Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine and helped develop checkpoint inhibitor drugs for melanoma.

Jędrzej Śniadecki

Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768–1838) was a Polish chemist, physician, and biologist, professor of chemistry at Vilnius, who wrote the first Polish chemistry textbook and coined Polish chemical terms still in use.

Jeff Coller

Jeff Coller, also known as Jeffery M. Coller, is an American molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins University known for his 2015 discovery that codon optimality determines mRNA stability.

Jeff Errington

Jeff Errington, also known as Jeffery Errington, is a British bacterial cell biologist whose discoveries in Bacillus subtilis helped found the field of bacterial cell biology.

Jeff F. Miller

Jeff F. Miller is an American microbiologist at UCLA, where he directs the California NanoSystems Institute and is known for discovering diversity-generating retroelements in Bordetella bacteriophage.

Jeff Gelles

Jeff Gelles is an American single-molecule biophysicist and the Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Brandeis University, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.

Jeff Gore

Jeff Gore is a professor of physics at MIT, trained as a single-molecule biophysicist in Carlos Bustamante's laboratory, who studies cooperation and community dynamics in microbial populations.

Jeff Hasty

Jeff Hasty is a synthetic biologist and bioengineer, professor at UC San Diego, known for synthetic gene oscillators, biopixels, and a synchronized lysis circuit delivering drugs in tumors.