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João H. Morais‐Cabral

João H. Morais-Cabral is a Portuguese structural biochemist at i3S in Porto known for crystal structures of the hERG potassium channel and bacterial KtrAB transporter.

Joaquím Roca

Joaquím Roca, also known as Joaquim Roca, is a Spanish molecular biologist at CSIC known for establishing the two-gate mechanism of type II DNA topoisomerases.

Joaquı́n Castilla

Joaquín Castilla (Joaquín Castilla Castrillón) is a Spanish molecular biologist who studies prion diseases, heading the Prion Research Lab at CIC bioGUNE in Derio, Spain, since 2009.

Joaquı́n Dopazo

Joaquín Dopazo is a Spanish computational biologist and biomedical data scientist, born in 1961, known for the FatiGO tool and Babelomics suite of genomic analysis resources.

Joaquı́n M. Espinosa

Joaquín M. Espinosa is an Argentine-American molecular biologist, Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Colorado and Executive Director of the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome.

Joaquı́n Mateo

Joaquín Mateo is a Spanish medical oncologist and prostate cancer researcher who leads the Prostate Cancer Research Group at the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology in Barcelona.

Job Dekker

Job Dekker is a Dutch-born molecular biologist and geneticist at UMass Chan Medical School known for developing chromosome conformation capture, which opened the 3D genome to measurement.

Jocelyne Bloch

Jocelyne Bloch is a Swiss neurosurgeon who leads neurosurgery at Lausanne University Hospital and co-directs .NeuroRestore, developing spinal cord implants that let paralyzed people walk.

Jochen Guck

Jochen Guck (1973–2025) was a German biophysicist known for the optical stretcher and real-time deformability cytometry, and director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light.

Jochen Hampe

Jochen Hampe, born 1967 in Dresden, is a German physician-scientist and professor of gastroenterology at TU Dresden, known for the 2001 discovery of NOD2 as a Crohn's disease gene.

Jochen K. Lennerz

Jochen K. Lennerz is a German-trained molecular pathologist who directed Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Integrated Diagnostics, argued for oversight of laboratory-developed tests, and by 2026 worked at Natera.

Jochen Reiser

Jochen Reiser is a German-born physician-scientist and nephrologist who has served as president of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston since 2023, known for identifying suPAR as a circulating factor in kidney disease.

Jochen Rink

Jochen C. Rink, born 1976, is a developmental biologist directing the Department of Tissue Dynamics and Regeneration at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen.

Jochen Zimmer

Jochen Zimmer is a structural biologist and HHMI Investigator at the University of Virginia who determines the structures of membrane machines that build and transport sugar polymers like cellulose.

Jodi Nunnari

Jodi Nunnari is an American cell biologist known for her work on mitochondrial fission and fusion, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Jody Rosenblatt

Jody Rosenblatt is a cell biologist known for discovering epithelial cell extrusion, the squeezing of dying cells out of a layer without gaps, and is a professor at King's College London.

Joe Leigh Simpson

Joe Leigh Simpson is an American reproductive geneticist at Florida International University, a member of the National Academy of Medicine and Sciences, and former president of several reproductive medicine societies.

Joe Lutkenhaus

Joe Lutkenhaus is an American bacterial geneticist at the University of Kansas Medical Center who identified FtsZ as the central protein of bacterial cell division.

Joe M. McCord

Joe M. McCord is an American biochemist who co-discovered the antioxidant enzyme superoxide dismutase in 1969 as a graduate student with Irwin Fridovich at Duke University.

Joe Pogliano

Joe Pogliano is an American molecular biologist and professor at UC San Diego, known for discovering the phage nucleus and developing Bacterial Cytological Profiling for antibiotics.

Joe Sambrook

Joe Sambrook (1939–2019) was a British-born Australian molecular biologist who mapped DNA tumor virus integration at Cold Spring Harbor, co-authored the manual Molecular Cloning, and led cancer research in Melbourne.

Joe Verghese

Joe Verghese is an American neurologist, chair of neurology at Stony Brook University since 2024, known for gait studies predicting dementia and defining Motoric Cognitive Risk syndrome.

Joe W. Gray

Joe W. Gray is an American physicist and cancer researcher, Professor Emeritus at Oregon Health & Science University, known for developing tools to analyze tumor genomes and heterogeneity.

Joeanna Arthur

Joeanna Arthur is an American cognitive neuroscientist who applies vision science to geospatial intelligence, won a 2012 PECASE at NGA, and joined DARPA's Biological Technologies Office in 2022.

Joel A. Huberman

Joel A. Huberman is an American molecular biologist known for work on eukaryotic DNA replication, who led a laboratory at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York.

Joel Asaph Allen

Joel Asaph Allen (1838–1921) was an American zoologist who formulated Allen's rule, that warm-blooded animals in colder climates have shorter extremities, and curated birds and mammals at the American Museum of Natural History.

Joel D. Kopple

Joel D. Kopple, born 1938 in Chicago, is an American nephrologist who led the nephrology division at Harbor-UCLA for 25 years, co-founded World Kidney Day, and established renal nutrition guidelines.

Joel D. Meyers

Joel D. Meyers was an American physician and infectious disease epidemiologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center who identified cytomegalovirus risk factors in bone marrow transplant patients.

Joel D. Richter

Joel D. Richter is an American molecular biologist and professor at UMass Chan Medical School, known for work on mRNA translational control by cytoplasmic polyadenylation and the CPEB protein.

Joel E. Cohen

Joel E. Cohen is an American population biologist who heads the Laboratory of Populations at Rockefeller University and is known for food webs and human carrying capacity.