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Jing-Ke Weng

Jing-Ke Weng is a plant biochemist known for work on plant specialized metabolism, including firefly bioluminescence genomes, who joined MIT in 2013 and directs Northeastern's Institute for Plant-Human Interface.

Jinghui Zhang

Jinghui Zhang is a cancer genomics researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis who maps pediatric cancer genomes and built tools including ProteinPaint and St. Jude Cloud.

Jingjing Duan

Jingjing Duan is a Chinese biologist who leads the Sphingolipid Metabolism and Aging lab at Nanchang University and solved cryo-EM structures of TRP ion channels.

Jingyuan Fu

Jingyuan Fu is a Dutch systems geneticist and professor of systems medicine at the University Medical Center Groningen, known for a 2021 Cell paper on gut microbiome stability.

Jinjun Shi

Jinjun Shi is a nanomedicine and drug-delivery scientist and Harvard Medical School professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital, whose laboratory develops nanoparticles and hydrogels carrying RNA drugs to tumors.

Jinming Gao

Jinming Gao is a chemist and biomedical engineer, professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for pH-responsive proton transistor nanoparticles, the PC7A STING nanovaccine, and founding OncoNano Medicine.

Jinrong Min

Jinrong Min (闵金荣) is a Chinese structural biologist known for early crystal structures of DOT1L and YTH domain proteins, and a professor at Central China Normal University in Wuhan.

Jinzhong Zhang

Jinzhong Zhang is a Chinese molecular and cell biologist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for showing that COPII vesicles feed the autophagy pathway.

Jiří Bártek

Jiri Bartek is a Czech-born molecular biologist who studies how cells protect their genome and why that protection fails in cancer, leading research groups in Copenhagen, Prague, and Stockholm.

Jiří Friml

Jiří Friml, also known as Jiri Friml, is a Czech plant developmental biologist and professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, born in 1973.

Jiřı́ Šponer

Jiri Sponer, born 1964, is a Czech computational chemist who studies nucleic acid structure and evolution, leading a research department at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno.

Jirō Kondō

Jirō Kondō (近藤 次郎; Jiro Kondo) is a Japanese structural molecular biologist and professor at Sophia University in Tokyo, known for X-ray crystal structures of DNA and RNA, including a metallo-DNA nanowire.

Jizhong Zhou

Jizhong (Joe) Zhou is a Chinese-American microbial ecologist at the University of Oklahoma who studies microbial climate feedbacks and metagenomics, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Jo Ann Wise

Jo Ann Wise is a molecular biologist known for work on small nuclear RNAs and pre-mRNA splicing in yeast, and for her long association with Case Western Reserve University.

Jo Anne Crouch

Jo Anne Crouch is an American mycologist and molecular biologist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, known for fungal taxonomy and plant pathogen genomics, and a 2019 PECASE recipient.

Jo Handelsman

Jo Handelsman is an American microbiologist, director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at UW–Madison, known for pioneering functional metagenomics and for studies of gender bias in science.

Jo Vandesompele

Jo Vandesompele is a senior full professor in biomolecular medicine at Ghent University since 2007, known for the geNorm qPCR normalization method, the MIQE guidelines, and co-founding the spin-off pxlence.

Joachim Frank

Joachim Frank, born 1940 in Siegen, Germany, is a German-born American biophysicist at Columbia University who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy.

Joachim Herz

Joachim Herz is a German-born physician-scientist and molecular biologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for discovering LRP and showing that LDL receptor family members transmit Reelin signals in the brain.

Joachim L. Schultze

Joachim L. Schultze is a German immunologist, Scientific Director of the DZNE in Bonn since 2026, known for coordinating the COVID-19 OMICS Initiative and swarm learning.

Joachim Lingner

Joachim Lingner, born 1962, is a Swiss molecular biologist known for identifying the catalytic subunit of telomerase and discovering TERRA, and is a full professor at EPFL in Lausanne.

Joachim Messing

Joachim "Jo" Messing (1946–2019) was a German-born American molecular biologist who developed shotgun DNA sequencing, led Rutgers' Waksman Institute, and won the 2013 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.

Joachim Spiess

Joachim Spiess is a molecular neuroendocrinologist known for sequencing corticotropin-releasing factor, the hypothalamic peptide that triggers the stress response, while at the Salk Institute in 1981.

Joachim Wittbrodt

Joachim (Jochen) Wittbrodt is a developmental biologist at Heidelberg University who studies eye and brain development and regeneration in fish, using zebrafish and medaka as model systems.

Joakim Dillner

Joakim Dillner is a Swedish physician-scientist and professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet who led the Swedescreen HPV screening trial and founded Sweden's National Cervical Screening Registry.

Joakim Lundeberg

Joakim Lundeberg is a professor of molecular biotechnology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, known for co-developing spatial transcriptomics, named Method of the Year 2020 by Nature Methods.

Joan A. Steitz

Joan A. Steitz is an American biochemist, Sterling Professor at Yale University, whose laboratory discovered that snRNPs carry out pre-mRNA splicing, removing noncoding segments from messenger RNA precursors.

Joan B. Rose

Joan B. Rose is an American water microbiologist at Michigan State University who pioneered Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment and led the scientific response to the 1993 Milwaukee cryptosporidiosis outbreak.

Joan Ballester

Joan Ballester is a Research Professor at ISGlobal in Barcelona who quantified over 181,000 heat-related deaths in Europe in 2022–2024 and built heat-health early warning systems.

Joan Brugge

Joan S. Brugge is an American cancer cell biologist at Harvard Medical School known for isolating the Src protein and for work on entosis and breast tissue models.