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John A. Branda

John A. Branda is an American clinical pathologist and clinical microbiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for improving serologic testing for early Lyme disease.

John A. Cidlowski

John A. Cidlowski is an American molecular endocrinologist who has led the Molecular Endocrinology Group at NIEHS in North Carolina since 1995, studying glucocorticoid receptor signaling and apoptosis.

John A. Clausen

John A. Clausen (1915–1996) was an American sociologist and social psychologist who studied mental health, socialization, and the life course, leading a laboratory at the National Institute of Mental Health.

John A. Clements

John A. Clements (1923–2024) was an American pulmonary physiologist at UCSF who discovered pulmonary surfactant, designed Exosurf, and won the 1994 Lasker Award; his work raised premature infant survival.

John A. Dani

John A. Dani is a neuroscientist who studies nicotine addiction and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, chair of neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine since 2013.

John A. Eisman

John A. Eisman is an Australian endocrinologist and bone researcher who led the Garvan Institute's osteoporosis division for nearly three decades and founded the Dubbo Osteoporosis Epidemiology Study in 1989.

John A. Flynn

John A. Flynn is an American rheumatologist and medical educator at Johns Hopkins, where he directed the spondyloarthritis program and a Johns Hopkins professorship was dedicated to him in 2015.

John A. Glomset

John A. Glomset is an American biochemist at the University of Washington known for discovering protein prenylation, the attachment of prenyl groups that anchor proteins to membranes.

John A. Hanover

John A. Hanover is an American glycobiologist who leads a laboratory at the NIH's NIDDK in Bethesda and pioneered research on O-GlcNAc, a nutrient-sensing sugar modification of proteins, winning the 2021 Karl Meyer Award.

John A. Hansen

John A. Hansen was an American transplant immunologist who spent four decades at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, performed an early unrelated-donor marrow transplant in 1979, and helped launch the National Marrow Donor Program.

John A. Jernigan

John A. Jernigan, also published as John Jernigan, is an American infectious diseases physician and epidemiologist directing CDC research on healthcare-associated infections and antibiotic resistance.

John A. Kastor

John A. Kastor is an American cardiologist who helped establish clinical cardiac electrophysiology at the University of Pennsylvania and chaired medicine at the University of Maryland from 1984.

John A. Kellum

John A. Kellum, also known as John Kellum, is an American critical care nephrologist at the University of Pittsburgh known for his work on acute kidney injury and sepsis.

John A. Kessler

John A. Kessler is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, known for research on neural stem cells and spinal cord regeneration.

John A. Klingensmith

John A. Klingensmith is an American developmental biologist at Duke University Medical Center who uses mouse genetics to study how the head, foregut, and heart form in embryos.

John A. Luetscher

John A. Luetscher (1913–2005) was an American endocrinologist at Stanford University who spent over 40 years there, isolated aldosterone, and identified plasma prorenin as a marker of diabetic microvascular disease.

John A. Mannick

John A. Mannick (1928–2019) was an American vascular surgeon and immunologist, chief of surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Moseley Professor at Harvard from 1976 to 1994.

John A. Oates Jr

John A. Oates Jr (John Alexander Oates, 1932–2019) was an American clinical pharmacologist at Vanderbilt University, a founder of clinical pharmacology known for first-pass drug metabolism and eicosanoid research.

John A. Raven

John A. Raven, also known as J. A. Raven, was a British botanist and ecophysiologist at the University of Dundee who studied how algae acquire carbon dioxide.

John A. Spertus

John A. Spertus is an American cardiologist and outcomes researcher at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, known for developing the Seattle Angina Questionnaire and Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire.

John A. Tainer

John A. Tainer is an American structural biologist who determines atomic structures of DNA repair proteins, work linking mutations in those machines to cancer, at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

John A. Todd (medical geneticist)

John A. Todd (John Andrew Todd) is a British medical geneticist known for his work on the genetics and prevention of type 1 diabetes, and a professor at Oxford.

John Abelson

John Abelson (born 1938 in Washington) is an American molecular biologist and Caltech emeritus professor known for tRNA splicing, yeast RNA ligase, and the spliceosome machinery his lab named the spliceozyme.

John Abrams (molecular biologist)

John M. Abrams is a molecular biologist and Professor of Cell Biology at UT Southwestern in Dallas, known for identifying the Drosophila cell death gene reaper.

John Addison Fordyce

John Addison Fordyce (1858–1925) was an American dermatologist and syphilologist, professor at Bellevue and Columbia, who gave his name to Fordyce spots, the Fordyce lesion, and Fox–Fordyce disease.

John Alexander Moore

John Alexander Moore (1915–2002) was an American evolutionary biologist and embryologist, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1963, known for frog hybridization experiments.

John Andrew Pospisilik

John Andrew Pospisilik (born 1976, Vancouver) is a Canadian epigeneticist who chairs the Department of Epigenetics at Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, since 2018.

John Auer

John Auer (1875–1948) was an American pharmacologist and physiologist who first described Auer rods in leukemia cells in 1906 and, with Samuel Meltzer, developed intratracheal insufflation anesthesia.

John B. Buse

John B. Buse is an American endocrinologist at the UNC School of Medicine who chaired the LEADER trial, which showed liraglutide reduced cardiovascular events in type 2 diabetes.

John B. Dixon

John B. Dixon is an Australian physician-researcher in obesity and bariatric medicine who headed clinical obesity research at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne from 2008 to 2020.