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John H.J. Petrini
John H.J. Petrini, also known as John Petrini, is an American molecular biologist who studies DNA repair and chairs the Molecular Biology Program at the Sloan Kettering Institute.
John Hardy (neurogeneticist)
John Hardy, born 1954 in Lancashire, is a British neurogeneticist at University College London whose team identified the first Alzheimer's disease mutation in 1991 and was knighted in 2022.
John Harris (dermatologist)
John E. Harris is an American physician-scientist and dermatologist who showed that interferon-gamma drives vitiligo, enabling JAK inhibitor therapies, and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.
John Hedley‐Whyte
John Hedley-Whyte (1933–2026) was a British-born anesthesiologist who built the academic discipline of anesthesia and respiratory intensive care at Harvard and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.
John Heuser
John Heuser is an American cell biologist and electron microscopist, Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, known for the quick-freeze, deep-etch method and discovering synaptic vesicle recycling.
John Heysham Gibbon
John Heysham Gibbon was an American surgeon at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia who invented the heart-lung machine and performed the first successful open-heart operation in 1953.
John Homans
John Homans (1877–1954) was a Boston surgeon at Harvard and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a founder of vascular surgery and the eponym of Homans' sign.
John Hotchin
John Hotchin (1921–2014) was an English-born virologist who headed the virus laboratory at the New York State Department of Health in Albany and defined persistent tolerant infection.
John Howard Mueller
John Howard Mueller (1891–1954) was an American microbiologist and Harvard professor who isolated methionine in 1923 and developed Mueller-Hinton agar, the standard for antibiotic testing.
John Hughlings Jackson
John Hughlings Jackson (1835–1911) was an English neurologist known as the father of English neurology, who defined epilepsy as a local discharge of gray matter.
John I. Gallin
John I. Gallin (1943–2024) was an American immunologist who spent 50 years at NIH studying phagocyte immune deficiencies and served as the Clinical Center's longest-serving director, 1994 to 2017.
John Ioannidis (Ιωάννης Π. Α. Ιωαννίδης)
John Ioannidis (Ιωάννης Π. Α. Ιωαννίδης), born 1965, Greek-American Stanford physician-scientist and meta-researcher, author of the 2005 essay "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" and co-director of METRICS.
John J. Burns
John J. Burns (1920–2007) was an American pharmacologist known for pioneering work on vitamin C biosynthesis and metabolism, later a research executive at Burroughs Wellcome and Hoffmann-La Roche.
John J. Calabro
John J. Calabro was an American physician and rheumatologist whose research on juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and arthritis and cancer spanned the 1960s into the 1980s.
John J. Cebra
John J. Cebra (1934-2005) was an American immunologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for showing that Peyer's patches are the source of the gut's IgA-producing plasma cells.
John J. Gallagher
John J. Gallagher (John Joseph Gallagher, 1943–2020) was an American cardiac electrophysiologist who pioneered surgical and catheter ablation, led Duke's electrophysiology program, and shaped the classification of preexcitation syndromes.
John J. Holland
John J. Holland was an American virologist at UC San Diego known for founding the experimental study of RNA virus evolution and the virus quasispecies concept.
John J. Lemasters
John J. Lemasters is an American cell biologist and mitochondrial physiologist at the Medical University of South Carolina, known for work on the mitochondrial permeability transition.
John J. Marchalonis
John J. Marchalonis (1940–2007) was an immunologist who spent his last twenty years at the University of Arizona, pioneering research on immune-system evolution and autoimmunity.
John J. McNeil
John J. McNeil is an Australian clinical pharmacologist and epidemiologist at Monash University, best known as co-principal investigator of the ASPREE trial of aspirin in older adults.
John J. Mekalanos
John J. Mekalanos is an American microbiologist, Adele Lehman Professor at Harvard Medical School since 1981, known for the ToxR regulon and discovering the type VI secretion system.
John J. Monaco
John J. Monaco is an American immunologist at the University of Cincinnati known for identifying the MHC-linked genes and proteasome subunits that generate peptides for class I antigen presentation.
John J. Rossi
John J. Rossi is an American molecular biologist at City of Hope in Duarte, California, a leader in RNA interference and nucleic-acid therapeutics for AIDS and cancer.
John J. Voorhees
John J. Voorhees, also known as J.J. Voorhees, is an American dermatologist and University of Michigan professor whose research established psoriasis as an immune-mediated disease and explained how ultraviolet light ages skin.
John J. Wasmuth
John J. Wasmuth was an American molecular geneticist and professor at UC Irvine who identified the FGFR3 gene causing achondroplasia and helped find the Huntington's disease gene.
John J. Wild
John J. Wild (1914–2009) was a Cambridge-trained surgeon and founder of medical ultrasound imaging who, with engineer John M. Reid, built the first instruments producing diagnostic images of the breast.
John J.P. Kastelein
John J.P. Kastelein, also known as J.J.P. Kastelein, is a Dutch vascular medicine specialist and lipidologist, Emeritus Professor at Amsterdam UMC, known for familial hypercholesterolemia research.
John J.V. McMurray
John J.V. McMurray, known as John McMurray, is a British cardiologist and Professor of Medical Cardiology at the University of Glasgow, known for the PARADIGM-HF and DAPA-HF heart failure trials.
John Jacob Abel
John Jacob Abel (1857–1938) was an American pharmacologist and the first professor of pharmacology at Johns Hopkins Medical School, known for isolating epinephrine, crystalline insulin, and the artificial kidney.
John Joseph Bittner
John Joseph Bittner (1904–1961) was an American geneticist who discovered the "milk factor", an agent in mother's milk transmitting mammary cancer in mice, later called mouse mammary tumor virus.