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John C. Cassel

John C. Cassel (1921–1976) was a South African-born epidemiologist, a pioneer of social epidemiology who led the University of North Carolina's epidemiology department from 1958.

John C. Chambers

John C. Chambers is a genetic epidemiologist, Professor at Imperial College London and President's Chair at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, known for the 2016 BMI methylation study.

John C. Fletcher

John C. Fletcher, also known as John Fletcher, was an American bioethicist and former Episcopal priest who pioneered bioethics and led the NIH Clinical Center's Bioethics Program from 1977 to 1987.

John C. Gerhart

John C. Gerhart, born 1936, is an American developmental biologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for work on Xenopus axis formation and deuterostome origins.

John C. Gore

John C. Gore is a British-born medical imaging scientist at Vanderbilt University who develops MRI methods and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011.

John C. Hobbins

John C. Hobbins is an American maternal-fetal medicine physician at the University of Colorado known for pioneering the clinical use of ultrasound in obstetrics and prenatal diagnosis.

John C. Kendrew

John Cowdery Kendrew was a British biochemist and X-ray crystallographer who determined the first three-dimensional structure of a protein, myoglobin, and shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

John C. Liebeskind

John C. Liebeskind (1935–1997) was an American research psychologist at UCLA who pioneered the study of pain relief in the brain and showed that unmanaged pain can suppress the immune system.

John C. Lilly

John C. Lilly (1915–2001), American neurophysiologist who invented the isolation tank in 1954 at NIMH, pioneered dolphin communication research, and wrote Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer.

John C. Long

John C. Long is a pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the first there to focus solely on hematopathology, the diagnosis of blood and lymphoid diseases.

John C. Mazziotta

John C. Mazziotta is an American neurologist and brain imaging researcher who has been Vice Chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences and CEO of UCLA Health since 2015.

John C. Pickup

John C. Pickup is a British physician-scientist, Emeritus Professor of Diabetes and Metabolism at King's College London, known for introducing insulin pump therapy in the late 1970s.

John C. Rothwell

John C. Rothwell is a British neurophysiologist at the UCL Institute of Neurology known for research on motor control, movement disorders, and transcranial magnetic stimulation.

John C. Schimenti

John C. Schimenti is a molecular geneticist, the James Law Professor of Genetics at Cornell University since 2004, known for identifying mouse genes governing meiosis, recombination, and fertility.

John C. Sinclair

John C. Sinclair, known as Jack Sinclair, was a Canadian neonatologist who ran some of the first randomized trials in newborn medicine and founded McMaster's neonatal unit.

John Cairns Jr.

John Cairns Jr. (1923–2017) was an American ecotoxicologist at Virginia Tech, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1991, who wrote about 1,750 publications.

John Call Dalton

John Call Dalton (1825–1889) was an American physiologist and medical educator, the first person in the United States to devote his career entirely to physiology.

John Carbon

John Carbon is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Barbara known for isolating the first centromere of any organism, from budding yeast, in 1980.

John Chalmers (neuroscientist)

John Chalmers, born 1937, is an Australian medical researcher at the George Institute known for work on the brain's control of blood pressure and the INTERACT and ENCHANTED stroke trials.

John Chant

John Chant is a molecular biologist who studies cell polarity in budding yeast, known for his 1991 Cell paper identifying the BUD1–BUD4 genes for bud-site selection.

John Charles Walker

John Charles Walker (1893–1994) was an American plant pathologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who first demonstrated that disease resistance in plants has a chemical basis.

John Charnley

Sir John Charnley (1911–1982) was an English orthopedic surgeon who devised low-friction arthroplasty at Wrightington Hospital, the first total hip replacement to give consistently predictable results.

John Crown

John Crown is an Irish medical oncologist at St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, known for breast cancer drug trials and for founding the national trials group ICORG, now Cancer Trials Ireland.

John D. Aitchison

John D. Aitchison is a Canadian-trained molecular cell biologist and systems biologist, co-director of the Center for Global Infectious Disease Research at Seattle Children's Research Institute.

John D. Bagdade

John D. Bagdade is an American endocrinologist at the University of Washington known for New England Journal of Medicine papers on lipid metabolism in diabetes and uremia.

John D. Baxter

John D. Baxter (1940–2011) was an American endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco, best known for cloning the first human growth hormone gene and pioneering work on nuclear hormone receptors.

John D. Clemens

John D. Clemens is an American infectious disease epidemiologist whose Bangladesh field trials established oral cholera vaccines; he was founding Director General of the International Vaccine Institute and developed Shanchol.

John D. Crawford

John D. Crawford (1920–2005) was an American pediatric endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who led its pediatric endocrine program for decades and was among the first to treat children with human growth hormone.

John D. E. Gabrieli

John D. E. Gabrieli, also known as John Gabrieli, is an American cognitive neuroscientist at MIT known for brain-imaging studies of memory, dyslexia, and psychiatric disease.

John D. Grabenstein

John D. Grabenstein is an American vaccinologist, pharmacist, and epidemiologist who directed the Military Vaccine Agency, led medical affairs at Merck Vaccines, and won the 2020 Remington Honor Medal.