Life and health scientists

Jerry A. Schneider

Jerry A. Schneider (1937–2021) was an American pediatrician and researcher at UC San Diego who turned the fatal childhood disease cystinosis into a treatable condition through cysteamine therapy.

Jerry A. Shields

Jerry A. Shields (1937–2025) was an American ophthalmologist who founded the Ocular Oncology Service at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia in 1974 and led it for 44 years.

Jerry Avorn is a physician and pharmacoepidemiologist, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and founding chief of the Brigham and Women's Hospital pharmacoepidemiology division, who originated academic detailing.

Jerry B. Lingrel

Jerry B. Lingrel (1935–2020) was an American molecular biologist at the University of Cincinnati whose laboratory identified hemoglobin mRNA and mapped the goat globin gene cluster.

Jerry D. Gardner

Jerry D. Gardner is a physician-scientist at the National Institutes of Health known for research on gastrointestinal hormone receptors on pancreatic acinar cells and for showing that H2-receptor antagonists control gastric acid hypersecretion in Zollinger-Ellison syndrome.

Jerry E. Chipuk

Jerry Edward Chipuk is an American cell biologist known for research on mitochondria, cell death, and cancer, who joined Florida International University as department chair in 2026.

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Jerry H.-C. Wang

Jerry H.-C. Wang, born in China in 1937 and trained in Taiwan and the United States, is a Canada-based biochemist who discovered calmodulin, winning the 1981 Canada Gairdner International Award.

Jerry Kaplan

Jerry Kaplan is an American hematology researcher and Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the University of Utah, known for yeast-genetics studies of how cells take up and export iron.

Jerry L. Spivak

Jerry L. Spivak is an American hematologist, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins, and former director of its Center for the Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders.

Jerry L. Workman

Jerry L. Workman is an American biochemist at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research who pioneered the study of chromatin in transcription regulation and discovered the SAGA complex.

Jerry M. Adams

Jerry M. Adams, born 1940, is an American-born Australian molecular biologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne whose work established how Myc translocations drive Burkitt lymphoma and how Bcl-2 blocks cell death.

Jerry M. Melillo

Jerry M. Melillo is an American ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.

Jerry P. Palmer

Jerry P. Palmer was an American physician and diabetes researcher at the University of Washington, the first to describe insulin autoantibodies in insulin-naive type 1 diabetes patients.

Jerry Pelletier

Jerry Pelletier was a molecular biologist at McGill University, a world leader in protein synthesis whose work showed that translation is a druggable vulnerability of tumor cells.

Jerry R. McGhee

Jerry R. McGhee is an immunologist and professor of microbiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham whose work established how mucosal surfaces mount antibody defenses through secretory IgA.

Jerry R. Mendell

Jerry R. Mendell is an American pediatric neurologist and neuromuscular disease researcher at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, who led the pivotal trials behind Zolgensma for spinal muscular atrophy and ELEVIDYS for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Jerry S. Trier

Jerry S. Trier is an American gastroenterologist and Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, known for work establishing small-intestinal biopsy and organ culture as tools for diagnosing celiac disease.

Jerry S. Wolinsky

Jerry S. Wolinsky is an American neurologist and multiple sclerosis researcher at UTHealth Houston who helped revise the McDonald diagnostic criteria and led the ORATORIO ocrelizumab trial.

Jerry Silver

Jerry Silver (died 2025, age 77) was an American neuroscientist at Case Western Reserve University who showed that scar molecules called CSPGs block nerve regrowth after spinal cord injury.

Jerry W. Shay

Jerry W. Shay (born 1945 in Dallas, Texas) is an American cell biologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center known for research on telomeres and telomerase in cancer and aging.

Jerzy E. Rose

Jerzy E. Rose (Jerzy Edwin Rose) was a Polish-born American neuroscientist in auditory neurophysiology who, with Clinton Woolsey, shaped the first view of auditory cortex organization.

Jerzy Edwin Rose

Jerzy Edwin Rose (1909–1992) was a Polish-born American neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.

Jerzy Konorski

Jerzy Konorski (1903–1973) was a Polish neurophysiologist who, with Stefan Miller, discovered instrumental conditioning in 1928, founded the Polish School of Brain Physiology, and headed neurophysiology at the Nencki Institute in Warsaw.

Jerzy Paszkowski

Jerzy Paszkowski, known informally as Jurek Paszkowski, is a plant biologist who studies epigenetic inheritance in plants, a Geneva professor until 2011 and later at Cambridge.

Jes Olesen

Jes Olesen, born in 1941, is a Danish neurologist at the University of Copenhagen who chaired all three editions of the International Classification of Headache Disorders.

Jesper Lagergren

Jesper Lagergren is a Swedish academic surgeon and epidemiologist who studies esophageal and gastric cancer, holding professorships at Karolinska Institutet and King's College London and a 1999 NEJM study linking reflux to esophageal adenocarcinoma.

Jesper Pallesen

Jesper Pallesen is a cryo-electron microscopist and structural biologist, trained with Nobel laureate Joachim Frank at Columbia, now an assistant professor at the Wistar Institute working on ribosomes and vaccine design.

Jesper Q. Svejstrup

Jesper Q. Svejstrup is a Danish molecular biologist who studies RNA polymerase II transcription and DNA repair, and is a professor at the University of Copenhagen.

Jesse Bloom

Jesse D. Bloom is an American evolutionary biologist and virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and an HHMI Investigator, known for deep mutational scanning of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza.