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John D. Hainsworth

John D. Hainsworth is an American medical oncologist in Nashville who co-founded the Sarah Cannon Research Institute in 1993 and directs clinical research at Sarah Cannon Cancer Center.

John D. Helmann

John D. Helmann is an American microbiologist and professor at Cornell University since 1990, known for work on metalloregulation and peroxide sensing in Bacillus subtilis, including the PerR mechanism.

John D. Keith

John D. Keith (1908–1989) was a Canadian pediatric cardiologist at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children whose studies of congenital heart disease won the Gairdner International Award.

John D. Lantos

John D. Lantos, also known as John Lantos, is an American pediatrician and bioethicist who moved to Kansas City in 2009 to create and direct the Children's Mercy Bioethics Center.

John D. Mathews

John D. Mathews is an Australian physician-epidemiologist known for his 1967 transmission model for kuru and as founding director of the Menzies School of Health Research.

John D. McKinney

John D. McKinney is a microbiologist and professor at EPFL in Lausanne known for showing that the enzyme isocitrate lyase lets tuberculosis bacteria persist in the host.

John D. Michenfelder

John D. Michenfelder, born in 1931, is an American anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic who researched anesthetics' effects on cerebral metabolism and brain protection.

John D. Minna

John D. Minna is an American medical oncologist and lung cancer researcher who directs the Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research at UT Southwestern in Dallas.

John D. Parker

John D. Parker is a Canadian cardiologist and cardiovascular clinical pharmacologist, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of Toronto, known for research on nitrate therapy and nitrate tolerance.

John D. Pettigrew

John D. Pettigrew, known as Jack Pettigrew, was an Australian physiologist and neuroscientist who first showed that neurons in the striate cortex detect binocular disparity, the basis of depth perception.

John D. Schuetz

John D. Schuetz is an American pharmacologist and oncology researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, known for work on ABC transporters in chemotherapy response.

John D. Scott

John D. Scott is an American biochemist at the University of Washington known for defining A-kinase anchoring proteins (AKAPs), which organize cell signaling in space and time.

John D. Shaughnessy

John D. Shaughnessy is an American molecular biologist and multiple myeloma researcher who is a professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Myeloma Center.

John D. York

John D. York, also published as J.D. York, is a biochemist who studies inositol phosphate signaling and became chair of biochemistry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

John Danesh

John Danesh is a physician and epidemiologist who has been Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at the University of Cambridge since 2001, working on the causes and prediction of cardiovascular disease.

John David Carpten

John David Carpten is an American cancer geneticist, director of City of Hope's Comprehensive Cancer Center, known for discovering the first hereditary prostate cancer gene, HOXB13.

John Deanfield

John Deanfield is a British cardiologist, Professor of Cardiology at University College London and director of NICOR, known for landmark studies on smoking, endothelial function, and cardiovascular prevention.

John Dick (cancer researcher)

John Dick is a Canadian cancer researcher at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto who showed in 1994 that leukemia is sustained by rare self-renewing stem cells.

John Diffley (molecular biologist)

John F.X. Diffley is a British-American molecular biologist who leads the Chromosome Replication Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, known for discovering the pre-replicative complex.

John Dimarco

John P. DiMarco is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist at the University of Virginia, known for work on adenosine, ventricular tachycardia mechanisms, and implantable defibrillators.

John Ding‐E Young

John Ding-E Young (杨定一), born 1958, is a Taiwanese-born immunologist best known for purifying and characterizing perforin, the pore-forming protein killer lymphocytes use to destroy target cells.

John Dobrinsky

John R. Dobrinsky is an American animal physiologist and developmental biologist at the USDA's Beltsville research center who pioneered pig embryo cryopreservation, producing the first live pigs from vitrified embryos.

John Doebley

John F. Doebley is an American plant geneticist and emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for identifying teosinte, a weedy Mexican grass, as corn's wild ancestor.

John E. Casida

John E. Casida, known as J. E. Casida, was an American pesticide toxicologist at Berkeley, a leading authority on how pesticides act and harm humans.

John E. Cronan

John E. Cronan is an American microbiologist and biochemist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017, whose research established how bacteria synthesize and regulate their membrane fatty acids.

John E. Dick

John E. Dick is a Canadian cancer stem cell biologist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto who first identified leukemia stem cells in acute myeloid leukemia.

John E. Donelson

John E. Donelson is an American molecular parasitologist, professor emeritus of biochemistry at the University of Iowa, known for research on antigenic variation in African trypanosomes.

John E. Dowling

John E. Dowling is an American neuroscientist and vision scientist, emeritus professor at Harvard, known for retinal circuitry research, establishing dopamine as a retinal neuromodulator, and zebrafish genetics.

John E. Gerich

John E. Gerich, known as Jack, is an American endocrinologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester, known for a 1973 Science paper on glucagon deficiency in type 1 diabetes.

John E. Hearst

John E. Hearst (1935–2022) was an American chemist at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for psoralen photochemistry probing nucleic acid structure and for co-founding Cerus Corporation.