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Jens Overgaard

Jens Overgaard is a Danish physician-scientist and professor of experimental clinical oncology at Aarhus University Hospital, known for the DAHANCA fractionation trials in head-and-neck cancer.

Jens Stougaard

Jens Stougaard is a Danish plant molecular biologist and professor at Aarhus University who studies nitrogen-fixing root nodules in legumes, having established Lotus japonicus as a model organism.

Jens Walter

Jens Walter is a microbiome scientist and professor at University College Cork since 2020, known for the 2025 NiMe diet trial that lowered cholesterol and inflammation.

Jens-Christian Svenning

Jens-Christian Svenning is a Danish macroecologist and biogeographer, professor of ecology at Aarhus University, known for work on megafauna ecology, late-Quaternary extinctions, and trophic rewilding.

Jerald P. Radich

Jerald P. Radich, known as Jerry Radich, is an American physician-scientist who directs the Molecular Oncology Lab at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle, studying leukemia monitoring.

Jerald Sadoff

Jerald C. Sadoff is an American vaccinologist and physician who spent 22 years at Walter Reed, led vaccine development at Merck and Aeras, and helped develop the Ad26.COV2.S COVID-19 vaccine.

Jerard Hurwitz

Jerard Hurwitz (1928–2019) was an American biochemist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who co-discovered DNA-dependent RNA polymerase in 1960 and polynucleotide kinase, DNA ligase, and RNA ligase.

Jere H. Lipps

Jere H. Lipps is an American paleontologist and Professor Emeritus at the UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology, known for studies of foraminifera, extinction patterns, and possible life on Europa.

Jeremy A. Bruenn

Jeremy A. Bruenn is an American molecular virologist and Professor Emeritus at the University at Buffalo, known for research on the double-stranded RNA viruses of yeast.

Jeremy A. Greene

Jeremy A. Greene (born 1974) is an American physician and historian of medicine who holds the William H. Welch Professorship at Johns Hopkins and wrote Prescribing by Numbers (2007).

Jeremy B. C. Jackson

Jeremy B. C. Jackson is an American marine ecologist and paleobiologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Scripps, best known for his 2001 overfishing paper.

Jeremy Bloxham

Jeremy Bloxham is Mallinckrodt Professor of Geophysics at Harvard University, a British geophysicist who studies planetary magnetic fields and is a Co-Investigator on NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter.

Jeremy C Wyatt

Jeremy C Wyatt is a British physician and health informatics researcher, emeritus professor of digital healthcare at Southampton, known for the TIDieR checklist and evaluating digital health interventions.

Jeremy C. Smith

Jeremy C. Smith is a computational biophysicist who directs the UT-ORNL Center for Molecular Biophysics, combining molecular simulation with neutron scattering to study proteins and bioenergy.

Jeremy E. Wilusz

Jeremy E. Wilusz is an RNA biologist, Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, known for showing how the cancer-associated RNA MALAT1 is processed and for circular RNA research.

Jeremy F. Reiter

Jeremy F. Reiter is an American scientist at the University of California, San Francisco who studies how primary cilia, antenna-like structures on cells, transmit signals, especially through the Hedgehog pathway.

Jeremy Farrar

Jeremy Farrar is a British clinician-scientist in infectious disease and global health who directed the Wellcome Trust from 2013 to 2023 and served as WHO Chief Scientist.

Jeremy Gray (cognitive neuroscientist)

Jeremy Gray is an American cognitive neuroscientist known for research on how emotion and cognitive control interact to support self-control and intelligence; he received a 2007 PECASE award.

Jeremy Grimshaw

Jeremy M. Grimshaw is a Canadian-based physician and implementation scientist who studies how to get proven clinical evidence used in routine patient care, long based in Ottawa.

Jeremy Luban

Jeremy Luban is an American physician-scientist and virologist at UMass Chan Medical School who studies how human cells interact with HIV-1, Ebola virus, and SARS-CoV-2.

Jeremy M Berg

Jeremy M. Berg is an American biochemist known for predicting the structure of zinc finger proteins and directing NIGMS at the NIH from 2003 to 2011.

Jeremy M. Henley

Jeremy M. Henley, also known as Jeremy Henley, is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Bristol who studies receptor trafficking and SUMOylation.

Jeremy M. Kahn

Jeremy M. Kahn is an American critical care physician and health services researcher at the University of Pittsburgh who studies how ICU organization affects patient outcomes.

Jeremy N. Rich

Jeremy N. Rich is an American neuro-oncologist and cancer stem cell researcher known for his work on glioblastoma stem cells. In 2025 he became deputy director for research and chief scientific officer of UNC Lineberger.

Jeremy N. Ruskin

Jeremy N. Ruskin is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist who founded the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1978 and teaches at Harvard Medical School.

Jeremy Nathans

Jeremy Nathans (born 1958) is an American molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins who identified the human visual pigment genes and linked them to color blindness.

Jeremy P. Brockes

Jeremy P. Brockes, also known as Jeremy Brockes, is a British biochemist at University College London known for his work on salamander limb regeneration and Schwann cell biology.

Jeremy R. Chapman

Jeremy R. Chapman is an Australian nephrologist and transplantation researcher who has worked at Westmead Hospital and the University of Sydney since 1987, and received the Medawar Prize in 2022.

Jeremy R. Knowles

Jeremy R. Knowles (1935–2008) was a British-born biochemist and enzymologist who spent most of his career at Harvard University, and was known for the first complete free-energy profile of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction.

Jeremy S. Abramson

Jeremy S. Abramson is a hematologist-oncologist, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Jon and Jo Ann Hagler Center for Lymphoma at Mass General.