Life and health scientists

Jeffrey Schlom

Jeffrey Schlom is an American cancer immunologist who led the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology for about 30 years and developed the PANVAC and PROSTVAC vaccines.

Jeffrey Settleman

Jeffrey Settleman is an American cancer biologist who serves as Chief Scientific Officer for Oncology R&D at Pfizer, after 18 years as a Harvard Medical School professor.

Jeffrey Shaman is an epidemiologist and environmental scientist at Columbia University known for forecasting influenza outbreaks and estimating that most early COVID-19 infections in China were undocumented.

Jeffrey Sklar

Jeffrey L. Sklar is a pathologist and physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine whose laboratory identified genes central to the molecular diagnosis of cancer, including BCL2 and NOTCH1.

Jeffrey Skolnick

Jeffrey Skolnick is a computational biologist, Regents' Professor, and director of the Center for the Study of Systems Biology at Georgia Tech, known for the TASSER structure prediction method.

Jeffrey Struewing

Jeffrey P. Struewing is an American physician-scientist in cancer genetics whose 1997 NEJM study re-estimated BRCA1 and BRCA2 cancer risks in Ashkenazi Jews, earning a 1998 PECASE.

Jeffrey T Morgan

Jeffrey T. Morgan is an American molecular biologist who studies how cells sense their metabolic environment, known for showing that excised intron RNAs regulate growth in yeast.

Jeffrey Tyner

Jeffrey Tyner is an American hematology and oncology researcher at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, known for the Beat AML drug-profiling program in acute myeloid leukemia.

Jeffrey V. Lazarus

Jeffrey V. Lazarus is an American epidemiologist who heads the Public Health Liver Group at ISGlobal in Barcelona, known for COVID-19 vaccine surveys and liver disease policy.

Jeffrey W. Moses

Jeffrey W. Moses is an American interventional cardiologist, Professor of Cardiology at Columbia University, who led the SIRIUS drug-eluting stent trial and served on the PARTNER transcatheter aortic valve trials.

Jeffrey W. Olin

Jeffrey W. Olin is an American vascular medicine physician, Professor of Cardiology at Mount Sinai, known for fibromuscular dysplasia research and past president of the Society for Vascular Medicine.

Jeffrey W. Pollard

Jeffrey W. Pollard (1950–2023) was a British biologist who showed that macrophages help cancers spread, and founded the immuno-oncology company Macomics. He led the MRC Centre for Reproductive Health at the University of Edinburgh.

Jeffrey W. Smith

Jeffrey W. Smith is an American cell biologist known for integrin ligand binding research and for discovering that orlistat inhibits fatty acid synthase and slows tumor growth.

Jeffries Wyman

Jeffries Wyman (1814–1874) was an American comparative anatomist, physiologist, and anthropologist, first Hersey Professor of Anatomy at Harvard, whose 1847 gorilla memoir with Thomas Savage gave science its first full account of the ape.

Jeffry S. Isaacson

Jeffry S. Isaacson is an American neuroscientist and Emeritus Professor of Neurosciences at UC San Diego who studies how inhibition shapes sensory processing in the olfactory system.

Jen Sheen

Jen Sheen is a plant biologist, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and a Molecular Biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for glucose sensing and MAP kinase immune signaling in Arabidopsis.

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Jenna Lester

Jenna Lester is an American dermatologist and Associate Professor at UCSF, founding Director of its Skin of Color Program, known for research showing darker skin is missing from medical images.

Jennie Kline

Jennie Kline is an American epidemiologist and adjunct professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health known for research on trisomy, ovarian aging, and spontaneous abortion.

Jennifer A. Clack

Jennifer A. Clack, née Agnew, was a British paleontologist at Cambridge whose work on early tetrapods showed that limbs and digits first evolved in water, not on land.

Jennifer A. Doudna

Jennifer A. Doudna, born 1964, is an American biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, who developed CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing and shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Jennifer A. Marshall Graves

Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, born 1941, is an Australian geneticist known for work on mammalian sex chromosome evolution and predicting the human Y chromosome's disappearance.

Jennifer A. Pietenpol

Jennifer A. Pietenpol is an American cancer researcher at Vanderbilt University known for work on p53 tumor suppressors and molecular subtyping of triple-negative breast cancer.

Jennifer A. Woyach

Jennifer A. Woyach is an American hematologist-oncologist and professor at Ohio State University whose chronic lymphocytic leukemia research identified ibrutinib resistance mechanisms and led major frontline clinical trials.

Jennifer Barrila

Jennifer Barrila is a microbiologist and Assistant Research Professor at Arizona State University known for studying how spaceflight alters microbial virulence and host-pathogen interactions, and for receiving a PECASE award from NASA.

Jennifer Bryce

Jennifer Bryce is an international-health researcher and Senior Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, known for The Lancet's 2003 child survival and 2008 undernutrition series.

Jennifer E. DeVoe

Jennifer E. DeVoe is an American family physician and health services researcher at Oregon Health & Science University, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2014.

Jennifer Elizabeth Phillips-Cremins

Jennifer Elizabeth Phillips-Cremins, known as Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins, is an American epigenetics researcher studying 3D genome folding in neurons, and a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

Jennifer Gillette

Jennifer Gillette is an American cell biologist at the University of New Mexico who studies bone marrow stem cells and leukemia, and received a PECASE award.

Jennifer K. Sun

Jennifer K. Sun is an American vitreoretinal surgeon and Harvard Medical School professor who leads nationwide trials of anti-VEGF drug treatment for diabetic retinopathy at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston.