Life and health scientists

Joan C. Marini

Joan C. Marini is a medical geneticist who leads the bone and extracellular matrix section at NIH's NICHD, known for discovering recessive osteogenesis imperfecta genes.

Joan E. Strassmann

Joan E. Strassmann is an American evolutionary biologist who studies the evolution of cooperation and conflict, first in social wasps and since 1998 in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.

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Joan Folkes

Joan P. Folkes, born 1927, is a biochemist who worked on bacterial protein synthesis and antibiotic action at Cambridge, nominated once for the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Joan Goverman

Joan Goverman is an American immunologist and professor emeritus at the University of Washington known for T cell receptor transgenic mouse models of multiple sclerosis.

Joan Heller Brown

Joan Heller Brown is an American pharmacologist at UC San Diego known for showing that CaMKII drives the transition from cardiac hypertrophy to heart failure.

Joan Kessner Austin is an American epilepsy nursing scientist and Indiana University distinguished professor emerita who studied epilepsy in children, led the American Epilepsy Society in 2005, and joined the National Academy of Medicine in 2000.

Joan L. Luby

Joan L. Luby is a child psychiatrist at Washington University School of Medicine whose research established that depression can be diagnosed in children as young as 3.

Joan M. O’Brien

Joan M. O'Brien is an American ophthalmologist and geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies the genetics of eye disease, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2013.

Joan M. Teno

Joan M. Teno is an American physician and health services researcher in palliative and end-of-life care, known for the SUPPORT study and the Family Evaluation of Hospice Care survey.

Joan Massagué

Joan Massagué is a Spanish-born cancer biologist known for defining the TGF-β signaling pathway and the molecular basis of cancer metastasis, and director of the Sloan Kettering Institute since 2014.

Joan Reede

Joan Reede is an American physician and Harvard Medical School dean who, since 2001, has built more than 20 programs opening medicine and research careers to underrepresented groups.

Joan Rodés

Joan Rodés was a Spanish hepatologist who founded the Liver Unit of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona in 1968 and led it to prominence in liver research.

Joan Ruderman

Joan Ruderman is an American cell and developmental biologist known for her work on cell-division control in clam and frog embryos and, later, for research on hormone-disrupting pollutants.

Joan S. Valentine

Joan Selverstone Valentine (born 1945) is an American bioinorganic chemist at UCLA known for her work on superoxide dismutase enzymes and how SOD1 mutations cause inherited ALS.

Joan Seoane

Joan Seoane is a Spanish cancer biologist and ICREA Research Professor who leads research on TGF-β signaling, glioblastoma, and brain metastasis at the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology in Barcelona.

Joan W. Bennett

Joan W. Bennett is an American mycologist known for research on aflatoxin genetics in Aspergillus and fungal volatile organic compounds, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.

Joan W. Conaway

Joan W. Conaway, also known as Joan Weliky Conaway, is an American biochemist who studies RNA polymerase II transcription and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Joan Whitten Miller

Joan Whitten Miller is a Canadian-born ophthalmologist and scientist who led Harvard Medical School's ophthalmology department for 22 years and helped establish anti-VEGF therapy for retinal disease.

Joana Caetano-Lopes

Joana Caetano-Lopes is a Portuguese-trained biomedical scientist known for research on how chronic inflammation weakens bone in rheumatoid arthritis, now in drug discovery at Blueprint Medicines.

Joann G. Elmore

Joann G. Elmore is an American physician-scientist and UCLA professor whose research measures how accurately doctors interpret mammograms and tissue biopsies, including landmark false-positive studies.

Joanna C. Jen

Joanna C. Jen is an American neurologist and neurogeneticist who identified the ROBO3 gene and is a professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Joanna Fowler

Joanna Fowler is an American radiochemist who synthesized the PET radiotracer FDG in 1976 and mapped brain enzymes like monoamine oxidase at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Joanna Wysocka

Joanna Wysocka is a Polish-born American developmental biologist and HHMI investigator at Stanford who studies how chromatin regulates gene expression during development, evolution, and disease.

Joanne Chory

Joanne Chory (1955–2024) was an American plant biologist and geneticist at the Salk Institute who pioneered molecular genetics of light and hormone signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Joanne Emerson

Joanne Emerson is an American scientist who studies soil viruses and their bacterial hosts at the University of California, Davis, and received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.

Joanne Kahlenberg

Joanne Michelle Kahlenberg is a physician-scientist and professor at the University of Michigan Medical School known for studies of cutaneous lupus, psoriasis, and keratinocytes as immune cells called cytokinocytes.

Joanne Kurtzberg

Joanne Kurtzberg is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist at Duke University who pioneered unrelated-donor umbilical cord blood transplantation, performing the world's first such transplant in 1993.

JoAnne L. Flynn

JoAnne L. Flynn is an American tuberculosis immunologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for the macaque tuberculosis model and PET-CT imaging of granulomas.

Joanne R. Lupton

Joanne R. Lupton (1944–2020) was an American nutrition scientist at Texas A&M University whose research on dietary fiber and colon cancer shaped the 2001 definition of dietary fiber.