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Jeremy S. Dasen

Jeremy S. Dasen, also known as Jeremy Dasen, is a developmental neuroscientist and professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine studying how Hox genes assign motor neuron identity.

Jeremy S. Duffield

Jeremy S. Duffield is a British nephrologist who showed macrophages play opposing roles in organ injury and repair, and later led research at Biogen, Vertex, and Prime Medicine.

Jeremy Schmutz

Jeremy Schmutz is an American plant genomicist who co-directs the Genome Sequencing Center at HudsonAlpha in Huntsville, Alabama, and leads the Joint Genome Institute's Plant Program.

Jeremy Shiffman

Jeremy Shiffman is an American political scientist who studies how global health issues rise and fall on policy agendas, and a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University since 2018.

Jeremy Sugarman

Jeremy Sugarman is an American physician and bioethicist at Johns Hopkins University, a professor of medicine and deputy director of the Berman Institute of Bioethics.

Jeremy Thorner

Jeremy Thorner is an American biochemist at UC Berkeley known for research on signal transduction in budding yeast, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Jernej Ule

Jernej Ule is a Slovenian RNA biologist who leads the UK Dementia Research Institute center at King's College London and developed the CLIP method for mapping RNA–protein interactions.

Jeroen Hendrikse

Jeroen Hendrikse (born 1976) is a Dutch neuroradiologist and professor at UMC Utrecht, known for arterial spin labeling perfusion MRI and vessel-wall imaging in stroke.

Jeroen J. Bax

Jeroen J. Bax is a Dutch cardiologist at Leiden University Medical Center known for cardiac imaging research and as President of the European Society of Cardiology from 2016 to 2018.

Jeroen Raes

Jeroen Raes is a Belgian microbiome researcher, professor at KU Leuven and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Bacteriology at the Rega Institute, known for gut enterotypes.

Jeroen S. Dickschat

Jeroen S. Dickschat (born 1977) is a German bioorganic chemist and professor at the University of Bonn who studies microbial terpene biosynthesis and enzyme mechanisms.

Jerold Chun

Jerold Chun is a molecular neuroscientist, MD and PhD from Stanford, known for lysophospholipid receptor discovery and his somatic gene recombination proposal for Alzheimer's disease.

Jerome A. Zack

Jerome A. Zack is a virologist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA known for research on HIV latency and for developing humanized mouse models of HIV infection.

Jerome B. Posner

Jerome B. Posner, born 1932, is an American neurologist who built neuro-oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering, defined paraneoplastic syndromes, and co-wrote Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma.

Jérôme Déjardin

Jérôme Déjardin (born 1975) is a French molecular biologist who heads the Genome Dynamics department at the Institut de Génétique Humaine in Montpellier and developed PICh.

Jerome Engel

Jerome Engel Jr. is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at UCLA, where he directs the Seizure Disorder Center and studies why epilepsy surgery is underused.

Jerome F. Strauss

Jerome F. Strauss III is an American reproductive endocrinologist who served as dean of the VCU School of Medicine from 2005 and is known for his research on the StAR protein.

Jérôme Galon

Jérôme Galon is a French cancer immunologist, Research Director at Inserm in Paris, who originated the immune contexture concept and the Immunoscore assay for cancer prognosis.

Jerome I. Rotter

Jerome I. Rotter is an American medical geneticist and genetic epidemiologist known for the genetics of common diseases, especially diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease, in multi-ethnic American populations.

Jerome Kim

Jerome Kim (Korean name Kim Han-sik, 김한식) is an American physician-scientist who has led the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul since 2015, after leading the RV144 HIV vaccine trial in Thailand.

Jerome M. Hershman

Jerome M. Hershman (1932–2022) was an American endocrinologist and thyroid researcher, Distinguished Professor of Medicine Emeritus at UCLA, past president of the American Thyroid Association, and founding editor of its journal Thyroid.

Jerome O. Klein

Jerome O. Klein (1931–2021) was an American pediatric infectious diseases physician-researcher who spent his career at Boston City Hospital and Boston Medical Center, best known for research on otitis media.

Jerome P. Kassirer

Jerome P. Kassirer, also known as J.P. Kassirer, is an American nephrologist and Tufts professor who edited the New England Journal of Medicine from 1991 to 1999.

Jerome Ritz

Jerome Ritz is an American physician-scientist in hematology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, known for work on graft-versus-host disease and cellular therapies for blood cancers.

Jerome Vinograd

Jerome Vinograd (1913–1976) was an American biophysical chemist at Caltech, called by The New York Times one of the foremost DNA researchers, known for density gradient ultracentrifugation and closed circular DNA.

Jerome W. Conn

Jerome W. Conn (1907–1994) was an American endocrinologist at the University of Michigan who defined primary aldosteronism, the adrenal hormone disorder known as Conn's syndrome, in 1954, and studied hypertension and diabetes.

Jerri Nielsen

Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald (1952-2009), American ER physician who self-diagnosed and treated her breast cancer as sole doctor at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in winter 1999, aided by a midwinter airdrop and October Air National Guard rescue; author of Ice Bound.

Jerrold M. Olefsky

Jerrold M. Olefsky is an American endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego since 1983, known for research on insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes.

Jerrold R. Turner

Jerrold R. Turner is an American physician-scientist, Professor of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for research on intestinal tight junctions.

Jerry A. Coyne

Jerry A. Coyne, also known as Jerry Coyne, is an American evolutionary geneticist at the University of Chicago known for research on the genetics of speciation.