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Joel E. Richter

Joel E. Richter is an American gastroenterologist specializing in esophageal diseases, who led gastroenterology at USF after chairing it at the Cleveland Clinic and medicine at Temple University.

Joel Elmquist

Joel Elmquist is an American neuroscientist at UT Southwestern Medical Center who studies how the hypothalamus controls energy balance and glucose homeostasis, known for mouse-genetics work on leptin and melanocortin pathways.

Joel F. Habener

Joel F. Habener (1937–2025) was an American endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School whose discovery of GLP-1 led to drugs for diabetes and obesity.

Joel G. Belasco

Joel G. Belasco is a molecular biologist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies how messenger RNA degradation controls gene expression in bacteria and mammalian cells.

Joel G. Breman

Joel G. Breman, also known as Joel Breman, was an American physician-scientist who helped certify smallpox eradication, investigated the first Ebola outbreak in 1976, and led malaria research at the CDC.

Joel Gelernter

Joel Gelernter is an American psychiatrist and human geneticist at Yale University School of Medicine, known for large multi-ancestry genome-wide studies of problematic alcohol use and cannabis use disorder.

Joel Gottesfeld

Joel M. Gottesfeld is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, known for chromatin research and HDAC inhibitors for Friedreich's ataxia.

Joel Griffitts

Joel Griffitts is an American microbiologist at Brigham Young University who studies bacterial genes that decide whether a strain benefits plants or acts like a pathogen.

Joel Kaufman

Joel Kaufman, also known as Joel D. Kaufman, is an American physician-epidemiologist at the University of Washington who established that long-term air pollution exposure accelerates atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.

Joel L. Moake

Joel L. Moake is a physician-scientist in hematology at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine who discovered how von Willebrand factor drives platelet clumping in TTP.

Joel L. Rosenbaum

Joel L. Rosenbaum is an American cell biologist and Yale professor emeritus whose laboratory discovered intraflagellar transport, opening the study of ciliary diseases called ciliopathies.

Joel L. Sussman

Joel L. Sussman is a structural biologist and Professor Emeritus at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for determining the first 3D structure of acetylcholinesterase and co-developing Proteopedia.

Joel M. Palefsky

Joel M. Palefsky is an infectious diseases physician and professor of medicine at UCSF known for research on HPV and anal cancer prevention in people with HIV.

Joel Moss

Joel Moss is a physician-scientist at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute whose research spans ADP-ribosylation biochemistry and lymphangioleiomyomatosis, a progressive cystic lung disease affecting primarily women.

Joel N. Hirschhorn

Joel N. Hirschhorn is an American human geneticist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School who chairs the GIANT consortium studying the genes behind human height and obesity.

Joel S. Finkelstein

Joel S. Finkelstein (1954–2026) was an American endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who showed that estrogen, not only testosterone, drives many symptoms of low testosterone in men.

Joel S. Weissman

Joel S. Weissman is a health services researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for research on quality, patient safety, and care of the poor.

Joel Schwartz

Joel Schwartz, also known as Joel D. Schwartz, is an environmental epidemiologist at Harvard whose work on air pollution and lead drove tighter U.S. standards.

Joel Voss

Joel Voss is an American cognitive neuroscientist known for network-targeted noninvasive brain stimulation of the hippocampal memory system and lesion-based mapping of depression circuits, now at the University of Chicago.

Joerg Bewersdorf

Joerg Bewersdorf (Jörg Bewersdorf) is a German-born physicist and Yale professor who develops super-resolution light microscopy, including DNA-PAINT and expansion microscopy, for biomedical research.

Joffre Baker

Joffre Baker is a biochemist and cancer researcher known for discovering protease-nexin, a cell-surface protease regulator, and for the Oncotype DX 21-gene breast cancer test developed at Genomic Health.

Johan Åqvist

Johan Åqvist is a Swedish professor of theoretical chemistry at Uppsala University, known for empirical valence bond simulations of enzyme reactions and studies of ion channels.

Johan Askling

Johan Askling is a Swedish physician and epidemiologist who is professor of rheumatology at Karolinska Institutet, studying cancer risks in inflammatory disease and drug safety.

Johan Auwerx

Johan Auwerx, born 1958, is a Belgian biologist and professor at EPFL in Switzerland, holding the Nestlé Chair in Energy Metabolism and studying mitochondria, NAD+, sirtuins, and longevity.

Johan Elf

Johan Elf, born 1975, is a Swedish physical biologist and professor at Uppsala University who tracks single molecules in living cells and founded Astrego Diagnostics, whose PA-100 system tests antibiotic susceptibility in 45 minutes.

Johan Ericson

Johan Ericson is a Swedish developmental neuroscientist, Professor of Developmental Biology at Karolinska Institutet since 2006, known for neural patterning research and stem cell therapies for Parkinson's disease.

Johan G. Eriksson

Johan G. Eriksson, also known as Johan Eriksson, is a Finnish physician and epidemiologist, born in 1958, who studies how early growth shapes later heart disease and diabetes risk.

Johan Hofkens

Johan Hofkens is a Belgian chemist and full professor at KU Leuven known for single-molecule fluorescence microscopy, including a 2006 Nature study mapping catalytic activity across a crystal by counting individual turnover events.

Johan Maertens

Johan Maertens is a Belgian infectious-diseases physician-scientist at KU Leuven and UZ Leuven who studies invasive fungal disease and febrile neutropenia in hematologic cancer patients.

Johan P. Mackenbach

Johan P. Mackenbach is a Dutch physician-epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus of Public Health at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, known for measuring and explaining socioeconomic inequalities in health across Europe.