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John Joseph O’Shea Jr.
John Joseph O'Shea Jr. is an American NIH physician-scientist known for defining the JAK-STAT signaling pathway in immune cells, work that underpinned JAK inhibitor drugs.
John Jumper (computational biologist)
John Jumper, born 1985 in Little Rock, Arkansas, is an American computational biologist at Google DeepMind who led AlphaFold and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
John K. Rose
John K. Rose is an American virologist and Professor Emeritus at Yale School of Medicine. His lab developed a 1994 system for RNA viruses and the vector for Ervebo.
John Kaldor
John Kaldor is an Australian infectious-diseases epidemiologist and Scientia Professor at UNSW Sydney's Kirby Institute who helped establish national HIV surveillance and now leads work on neglected tropical diseases.
John Kappler
John W. Kappler is an American immunologist at National Jewish Health in Denver known for identifying the T cell receptor, earning the 2015 Wolf Prize in Medicine.
John Kendrick-Jones
John Kendrick-Jones is a molecular biophysicist who identified myosin regulatory light chains and how their phosphorylation controls filament assembly, working at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge since 1970.
John Kerr (pathologist)
John Kerr, full name John Foxton Ross Kerr, was an Australian pathologist who discovered apoptosis, named it in 1972, and spent his career at the University of Queensland.
John Krebs, Baron Krebs
John Krebs, Baron Krebs, is a British zoologist and crossbench life peer, the first Chairman of the UK Food Standards Agency from 2000 to 2005.
John Kuriyan
John Kuriyan is an American structural biologist, dean of basic sciences at Vanderbilt University since 2023, known for structures of cell signaling and DNA replication proteins.
John L. Bowman
John L. Bowman is an Australian-based plant developmental geneticist and professor at Monash University in Melbourne, known for the ABC model of floral development and the first liverwort genome sequence.
John L. Cameron
John L. Cameron, full name John Lemuel Cameron, is an American surgeon at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore who performed more than 2,000 Whipple operations and served as chairman of surgery from 1984 to 2003.
John L. Cleveland
John L. Cleveland is an American cancer biologist and Center Director of Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, known for research on the MYC oncogene and Myc-driven lymphoma.
John L. Decker
John Laws Decker was an American rheumatologist who led NIH's arthritis research program for eighteen years, directed the NIH Clinical Center from 1983 to 1990, and established cyclophosphamide as standard therapy for lupus nephritis.
John L. Harper
John L. Harper (1925–2009) was a British plant ecologist who founded plant population biology, working at Bangor and elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1978.
John L. Hopper
John L. Hopper (1950–2024) was an Australian genetic epidemiologist and statistician at the University of Melbourne who led the Australian Twin Registry from 1990 to 2024.
John L. Markley
John L. Markley is an American biochemist and NMR spectroscopist, Steenbock Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who founded the National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison and BioMagResBank.
John L. Sapp
John L. Sapp is a Canadian cardiac electrophysiologist and professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax who led the VANISH and VANISH2 trials establishing catheter ablation for ventricular tachycardia.
John L. Sever
John L. Sever (J. L. Sever) was an American virologist and epidemiologist who led NIH's Infectious Diseases Branch and set Rotary on its polio eradication campaign in 1979.
John L. Spudich
John L. Spudich is an American biophysicist, Professor and Director of the Center for Membrane Biology at UTHealth Houston, whose laboratory's work on channelrhodopsins and anion channelrhodopsins underlies optogenetics.
John L. Wallace
John L. Wallace (John Lawrence Wallace) is a Canadian pharmacologist at the University of Calgary known for research on anti-inflammatory drug-induced stomach injury and hydrogen sulfide biology.
John L. Woolford
John L. Woolford Jr. is an American molecular biologist and professor at Carnegie Mellon University who has studied how eukaryotic ribosomes assemble in yeast since 1979.
John L. Ziegler
John L. Ziegler, born 1938, is an American oncologist and UCSF professor emeritus who developed curative chemotherapy for Burkitt's lymphoma in Uganda and won the 1972 Lasker Award.
John L.R. Rubenstein
John L.R. Rubenstein is a developmental neuroscientist and psychiatrist at UCSF, a National Academy of Sciences member and 2026 Gruber Neuroscience Prize winner for forebrain development research.
John Lawrence LeConte
John Lawrence LeConte (1825–1883) was an American physician and entomologist, the leading nineteenth-century authority on North American beetles, who described or named some 3,800 species and coauthored the 1883 Classification of the Coleoptera of North America.
John Lindenbaum
John Lindenbaum, a Columbia University physician-investigator based at Harlem Hospital Center, did vitamin B-12 research that changed sickle cell anemia therapy and won a 1996 Franklin Institute award.
John Lisman
John E. Lisman (1944–2017) was an American neuroscientist at Brandeis University known for proposing that CaMKII acts as a bistable molecular switch storing long-term memories.
John Littlefield
John Walley Littlefield (1925–2017) was an American human geneticist and physician-scientist who developed amniocentesis for prenatal diagnosis, pioneered human gene mapping methods, and led pediatrics at Johns Hopkins.
John M. Buchanan
John M. Buchanan, known as Jack Buchanan, was an American biochemist who worked out how cells build purine nucleotides, work underlying anticancer chemotherapy drugs, and led MIT's biochemistry division from 1953 to 1967.
John M. Carethers
John M. Carethers is an American gastroenterologist and physician-scientist who became UC San Diego's vice chancellor for Health Sciences in 2023, known for research on DNA mismatch repair in colorectal cancer.
John M. Coffin
John M. Coffin is an American retrovirologist and Distinguished Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for his work on HIV persistence during antiretroviral therapy.