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John B. Glen
John B. (Iain) Glen is a British veterinarian and pharmacologist who discovered and developed propofol, the most widely used anesthetic, earning the 2018 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award.
John B. Hibbs
John B. Hibbs, Jr. is an American physician-scientist at the University of Utah known for discovering in 1987 that cytokine-activated macrophages synthesize nitric oxide from L-arginine.
John B. Hogenesch
John B. Hogenesch (born 1967) is a Dutch-born American chronobiologist who directs the Center for Circadian Medicine at Cincinnati Children's and is known for discovering BMAL1, the master regulator of the mammalian clock.
John B. Little (radiation biologist)
John B. Little (1929–2020) was an American radiation biologist and environmental health scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health whose 1992 experiment launched the radiation bystander-effect field.
John B. Ohlrogge
John B. Ohlrogge, also known as John Ohlrogge, was an American plant biochemist at Michigan State University who studied plant lipid metabolism and engineered oil crops.
John B. Robbins
John B. Robbins (1932–2019) was an American physician-scientist in microbiology and immunology who developed the polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccine principle, enabling Hib vaccines that nearly eliminated childhood bacterial meningitis.
John B. Wallingford
John B. Wallingford is a developmental biologist and professor of molecular biosciences at the University of Texas at Austin, known for work on planar cell polarity and birth defects.
John B. West
John B. West (John Burnard West), born 1928 in Adelaide, is an Australian-born American respiratory physiologist at UC San Diego who led the first physiological measurements on Mount Everest's summit.
John B. Wong
John B. Wong is an American physician-scientist at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, known for cost-effectiveness modeling of hepatitis B and service on the US Preventive Services Task Force.
John B. Zabriskie
John B. Zabriskie (1929–2017) was an American physician-scientist at Rockefeller University who headed its Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology and showed that antibodies against group A streptococcus also attack heart tissue, explaining rheumatic fever.
John B.A.G. Haanen
John B.A.G. Haanen, also known as John B. Haanen, is a Dutch medical oncologist who leads immunotherapy at the Netherlands Cancer Institute and won the 2024 ESMO Lifetime Achievement Award.
John Benjamin Murphy
John Benjamin Murphy (1857–1916) was an American surgeon in Chicago known for the Murphy button and Murphy's sign, and a founder of the American College of Surgeons.
John Bergeron
John Bergeron is a Canadian cell biologist at McGill University known for discovering the calnexin cycle and pioneering organellar proteomics, and appointed to the Order of Canada.
John Blenis
John Blenis is an American cancer cell biologist at Weill Cornell Medicine, known for defining the Ras–ERK and PI3K/mTOR pathways that control cell growth and metabolism.
John Boyer (plant physiologist)
John S. Boyer is an American plant physiologist known for research on how water status controls plant growth and crop productivity, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1990.
John Bretland Farmer
John Bretland Farmer (1865–1944) was a British botanist who showed that chromosome reduction precedes fertilization in liverworts and, with J. E. S. Moore, identified common features of reduction division in animals and plants.
John Bridgewater
John Bridgewater (John A. Bridgewater) is a British medical oncologist and Clinical Professor at the UCL Cancer Institute, known for the ABC-02 and BILCAP trials defining biliary tract cancer treatment.
John Briggs (structural biologist)
John A. G. Briggs is a British structural biologist who uses cryo-electron tomography to determine protein structures inside intact HIV-1 and influenza A particles, and directs a department at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.
John Brigham Ward
John Brigham Ward (1928–2016) was a British-born New Zealand entomologist who specialized in caddisfly taxonomy and worked for many years as a research associate of Canterbury Museum, Christchurch.
John Britton (respiratory physician)
John Richard Britton, born 1955, is a British respiratory physician and epidemiologist at the University of Nottingham who founded the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies.
John Brognard
John Brognard is an American cancer pharmacologist who studies kinase signaling networks in lung, head and neck, and breast cancers, winning a Presidential Early Career Award in 2017.
John Browse
John Browse is a New Zealand-born plant biochemist at Washington State University who used Arabidopsis mutants to work out how plants build membrane and seed lipids.
John Burdon-Sanderson
John Burdon-Sanderson, also known as Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, was an English physiologist (1828–1905) who measured electrical changes in heart, muscle, and plants, and built British physiology at Oxford.
John Burn (clinical geneticist)
Sir John Burn, born 1952, is a British clinical geneticist at Newcastle University who led trials showing daily aspirin reduces cancer risk in Lynch syndrome.
John C. Avise
John C. Avise, also known as J. C. Avise, is an American evolutionary geneticist, founder of phylogeography, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1991.
John C. Ayres
John C. Ayres, M.D., was an American epidemiologist with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health who published on tularemia, encephalitis, and rickettsialpox from 1948 to 1951.
John C. Boothroyd
John C. Boothroyd is a parasitologist and emeritus Stanford professor whose work established trans splicing in trypanosomes and the clonal population structure of Toxoplasma gondii.
John C. Burnett
John C. Burnett is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, director of its Cardiorenal Research Laboratory, known for establishing natriuretic peptides as heart-failure biomarkers.
John C. Byrd
John C. Byrd is an American physician-scientist in hematologic malignancies who directs UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and led development of the leukemia drugs ibrutinib and acalabrutinib.
John C. Cambier
John C. Cambier is an American immunologist at the University of Colorado known for defining B cell receptor signaling and inhibitory checkpoint receptors, and for first cloning STING.