Life and health scientists

Jennifer Keiser

Jennifer Keiser is a Swiss TPH researcher in Basel who leads the Helminth Drug Development unit and became a Full Professor at the University of Basel in 2025.

Jennifer L. Gerton

Jennifer L. Gerton is a geneticist at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri, who studies centromeres and how chromosomes segregate during cell division.

Jennifer L. Gommerman is a Canadian immunologist at the University of Toronto whose research on IgA-producing gut cells established a gut-to-brain axis suppressing neuroinflammation in multiple sclerosis.

Jennifer L. Pluznick

Jennifer L. Pluznick is a renal physiologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine known for showing that odor-sensing proteins also function in the kidney and blood vessels, helping regulate blood pressure.

Jennifer L. Raymond

Jennifer L. Raymond is a Stanford neuroscientist and Guggenhime Professor of Neurobiology known for work on cerebellar learning, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Jennifer Lippincott‐Schwartz

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz is an American cell biologist who leads 4D Cellular Physiology at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, known for photoactivatable GFP and co-developing PALM super-resolution microscopy.

Jennifer Lorvick

Jennifer Lorvick is an American epidemiologist and senior public health scientist at RTI International, known for research on HIV, hepatitis C, and overdose among people who inject drugs.

Jennifer M. Puck

Jennifer M. Puck is an American pediatric immunologist and medical geneticist, Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF, known for developing the newborn screening test for SCID.

Jennifer Martinez (immunologist)

Jennifer Martinez is an American immunologist who led the Inflammation and Autoimmunity Group at NIH's NIEHS, known for autophagy research and a 2017 PECASE award.

Jennifer Moyle

Jennifer Moyle (born 1921) is a British biochemist who, as Peter Mitchell's experimental partner from 1948 to 1983, did most of the laboratory work establishing the chemiosmotic hypothesis.

Jennifer Nuzzo

Jennifer B. Nuzzo is an American epidemiologist, Professor at Brown University's School of Public Health, and Director of its Pandemic Center, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

Jennifer R. Brown

Jennifer R. Brown is an American physician-scientist who directs the CLL Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and led the ALPINE and AMPLIFY trials that shaped targeted CLL treatment.

Jennifer R. Grandis

Jennifer R. Grandis is an American otolaryngologist and head and neck cancer researcher at UCSF, known for her work on EGFR and STAT3 signaling in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Jennifer Rabke Verani

Jennifer Rabke Verani is an American pediatrician and medical epidemiologist at the CDC's Respiratory Diseases Branch in Atlanta, known for pneumococcal vaccine effectiveness studies in Kenya and other countries.

Jennifer Reed

Jennifer L. Reed (1978–2020) was an American chemical and biological engineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who built computational models of microbial metabolism and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Jennifer S. Temel

Jennifer S. Temel is an American oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital known for her 2010 trial showing early palliative care improved survival in lung cancer.

Jennifer Wargo

Jennifer A. Wargo is an American surgeon and cancer immunotherapy researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for showing that the gut microbiome influences immunotherapy response.

Jennifer Zallen

Jennifer A. Zallen is a developmental biologist and HHMI Investigator at Memorial Sloan Kettering known for work on planar cell polarity and convergent extension in fruit flies.

Jenny Graves

Jenny Graves, full name Jennifer Ann Marshall Graves, is an Australian geneticist at La Trobe University whose comparative genomics work transformed understanding of how mammalian sex chromosomes evolved and decay.

Jenny Heathcote

Jenny Heathcote is a British-born Canadian hepatologist known for her 1970s studies of hepatitis B transmission and for autoimmune liver disease research at the University of Toronto.

Jenny P.‐Y. Ting

Jenny P.-Y. Ting, also known as Jenny Ting, is a Taiwanese-born molecular immunologist at UNC-Chapel Hill who identified the NLR family, studies inflammasomes, and led the American Association of Immunologists.

Jenny Tung

Jenny Tung (born 1982) is an American evolutionary geneticist who studies how social environments shape gene regulation and health, directing a Max Planck Institute department in Leipzig.

Jens Bukh

Jens Bukh (born 1960) is a Danish virologist who first published that hepatitis C virus has six major genotypes and directs the Copenhagen Hepatitis C Program.

Jens C. Brüning

Jens C. Brüning, also known as Jens Brüning, is a German physician-scientist born in Cologne in 1966 who studies how the brain controls energy and glucose metabolism, and directs the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research.

Jens Clausen

Jens Christian Clausen (1891–1969) was a Danish-American botanist who pioneered ecological genetics. He led the Carnegie Institution of Washington at Stanford and conducted transplant-garden experiments.

Jens Jorgen Pindborg

Jens Jørgen Pindborg (1921–1995) was a Danish oral pathologist, professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for establishing oral lichen planus and oral submucous fibrosis as premalignant conditions.

Jens Juul Holst

Jens Juul Holst is a Danish medical physiologist at the University of Copenhagen whose research on the gut hormone GLP-1 led to diabetes and obesity drugs.

Jens Lundgren

Jens D. Lundgren, born 1960, is a Danish infectious-disease physician-scientist, clinical professor at the University of Copenhagen, who directs CHIP and leads the EuroSIDA HIV cohort.

Jens Lykke‐Andersen

Jens Lykke-Andersen is a Danish-trained molecular biologist, Ph.D. from Copenhagen in 1997, and Professor of Molecular Biology at UC San Diego known for work on nonsense-mediated mRNA decay.