Life and health scientists

Jeffrey L. Wrana

Jeffrey L. Wrana, also known as Jeff Wrana, is a molecular biologist and Senior Investigator at Toronto's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, known for defining TGFβ signaling through Smad proteins.

Jeffrey Laurence

Jeffrey Laurence is an American immunologist and hematologist, Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and Director of its Laboratory for AIDS Virus Research, with over 150 papers on AIDS.

Jeffrey Lorch

Jeffrey Lorch is a wildlife disease microbiologist at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin, known for identifying the fungi behind white-nose syndrome and snake fungal disease.

Jeffrey Louis Goldberg

Jeffrey Louis Goldberg is an American ophthalmologist and vision scientist who chairs Ophthalmology at Stanford's Byers Eye Institute and studies retinal ganglion cell degeneration in glaucoma.

Jeffrey M. Drazen

Jeffrey M. Drazen is an American pulmonary physician-scientist whose asthma research contributed to about three licensed drugs, and who edited the New England Journal of Medicine from 2000 to 2019.

Jeffrey M. Isner

Jeffrey M. Isner (1947–2001) was an American cardiologist who pioneered cardiovascular gene therapy and therapeutic angiogenesis at Tufts University and St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston, reporting the first human arterial gene transfer in 1994.

Jeffrey M. Leiden

Jeffrey M. Leiden is an American physician-scientist in molecular biology, immunology, and gene therapy who cloned key transcription factors and later served as President and CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

Jeffrey M. Rosen

Jeffrey M. Rosen is an American cancer biologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, who leads its Breast Cancer Program and studies mammary gland development and breast cancer.

Jeffrey M. Trent

Jeffrey M. Trent, born in 1952, is an American cancer geneticist known for research on melanoma genomics and as founding scientific director of NHGRI's intramural research division.

Jeffrey Michael Friedman

Jeffrey M. Friedman is an American molecular geneticist at Rockefeller University who discovered the hormone leptin in 1994, showing that fat cells signal the brain to regulate body weight.

Jeffrey Milbrandt

Jeffrey Milbrandt is an American physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine known for discovering neurturin and showing that the enzyme SARM1 drives axon degeneration.

Jeffrey N. Katz

Jeffrey N. Katz is an American rheumatologist and outcomes researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and a Harvard Medical School professor who led major meniscal tear trials.

Jeffrey N. Strathern

Jeffrey N. Strathern is a molecular biologist known for working out the mechanism of mating-type switching in budding yeast, at Cold Spring Harbor and the National Cancer Institute.

Jeffrey N. Weiser

Jeffrey N. Weiser is a physician-scientist and C.V. Starr Professor of Microbiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies respiratory bacterial pathogenesis, especially the pneumococcus.

Jeffrey R. Holt

Jeffrey R. Holt is a Harvard Medical School neuroscientist who established TMC1 as the inner ear's mechanotransduction channel and pioneered gene therapies that restored hearing in deaf mice.

Jeffrey R. Smith

Jeffrey R. Smith is an American physician-scientist and Associate Professor of genetic medicine at Vanderbilt University, known for hereditary prostate cancer genetics research and the 2001 PECASE award.

Jeffrey Rathmell

Jeffrey C. Rathmell is an American immunologist known for establishing T cell immunometabolism; he became chair of cancer research at the University of Chicago in 2025.

Jeffrey Ravetch

Jeffrey V. Ravetch, born 1951, is an immunologist and professor at The Rockefeller University whose work on antibody Fc receptors shaped engineered antibody drugs for cancer and autoimmunity.

Jeffrey Robbins

Jeffrey Robbins (1950–2022) was an American cardiac molecular biologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, known as the "father of cardiac transgenesis" for pioneering tissue-specific promoters and gene-targeting approaches for the heart.

Jeffrey Roberts

Jeffrey Warren Roberts, born 1944, is an American molecular biologist and biochemist, the Robert J. Appel Professor Emeritus at Cornell University known for discovering the Rho transcription termination factor.

Jeffrey S. Chamberlain

Jeffrey S. Chamberlain is an American molecular geneticist at the University of Washington who invented micro-dystrophin, work underlying the first FDA-approved gene therapy for a muscular dystrophy.

Jeffrey S. Diamond

Jeffrey S. Diamond is an American neuroscientist at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Scientific Director since 2023, known for work on glutamate transporters and retinal computation.

Jeffrey S. Flier

Jeffrey S. Flier is an American endocrinologist known for research on insulin resistance and obesity, and Dean of Harvard Medical School from 2007 to 2016.

Jeffrey S. Ginsberg

Jeffrey S. Ginsberg, also known as Jeffrey Ginsberg, was a Canadian internist and thrombosis researcher at McMaster University known for research on venous thromboembolism and thrombosis in pregnancy.

Jeffrey S. Glenn

Jeffrey S. Glenn is an American physician-scientist at Stanford University who studies viral hepatitis and broad-spectrum antivirals, directing the Center for Hepatitis and Liver Tissue Engineering.

Jeffrey S. Kieft

Jeffrey S. Kieft is an RNA structural biologist and virologist known for work on viral IRES RNAs, and Executive Director of the New York Structural Biology Center since 2023.

Jeffrey S. Mogil

Jeffrey S. Mogil is a Canadian pain researcher at McGill University known for founding pain genetics and showing that male and female mice process pain differently.

Jeffrey S. Robinson

Jeffrey S. Robinson, born in Northern Ireland in 1941, was an Australian perinatal researcher and professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Adelaide.

Jeffrey S. Ross-Ibarra

Jeffrey S. Ross-Ibarra is an American population geneticist and professor at the University of California, Davis, known for research on the evolutionary genetics of maize and its wild relatives.