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John Ngai

John Ngai is an American neuroscientist who studies the olfactory system and has directed the NIH BRAIN Initiative since 2020, after 27 years on the UC Berkeley faculty.

John Niederhauser

John Niederhauser was an American plant pathologist known as "Mr. Potato" who bred late blight resistance into potato varieties and won the 1990 World Food Prize.

John Norrie

John Norrie is a British medical statistician and clinical trialist, Chair of Medical Statistics at the University of Edinburgh and former Director of its Clinical Trials Unit.

John O. Almquist

John O. Almquist (1921–2015) was an American dairy physiologist at Penn State who pioneered milk extenders and frozen bull semen, making cattle artificial insemination practical, and shared the 1981 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.

John O. Hunter

John O. Hunter is a gastroenterologist and emeritus professor at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, known for dietary treatments for Crohn's disease and research on food intolerance, colitis, and irritable bowel syndrome.

John O. Parker

John O. Parker, known as Jack Parker, was a Canadian cardiologist at Queen's University who pioneered coronary angiography in Canada and whose nitrate tolerance studies reshaped angina treatment.

John O’Keefe

John O'Keefe, born 1939, is a British-American neuroscientist at University College London who discovered hippocampal place cells and won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

John P. Adelman

John P. Adelman is a neuroscientist at the Vollum Institute in Portland, Oregon, who cloned the SK potassium channel family and showed calmodulin gates them.

John P. Atkinson

John P. Atkinson is an American rheumatologist and immunologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known internationally for research on the complement system.

John P. Bilezikian

John P. Bilezikian is an American endocrinologist at Columbia University specializing in metabolic bone disease, known for long-term hyperparathyroidism research and international guidelines on osteoporosis and parathyroid disorders.

John P. Blass

John P. Blass (1937–2023) was an Austrian-born American physician and neurological researcher at the Burke Neurological Institute and Weill Cornell Medicine, known for linking thiamine-dependent enzyme deficits to Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome and Alzheimer's disease.

John P. Chute

John P. Chute (John Chute) is an American hematologist and stem cell biologist who directs the Division of Hematology and Cellular Therapy at Cedars-Sinai Cancer since 2020.

John P. Cooke

John P. Cooke is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular medicine and vascular biology, a Stanford professor emeritus who led cardiovascular research at Houston Methodist from 2013.

John P. DeVincenzo

John P. DeVincenzo, also known as John DeVincenzo, is an American pediatric infectious-diseases physician-scientist at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis known for RSV antiviral research.

John P. Giesy

John P. Giesy is a Canadian-based ecotoxicologist who first reported perfluorinated compounds in the environment and led the 2001 global survey of PFOS in wildlife.

John P. Hayslett

John P. Hayslett (1935–2012) was an American nephrologist at Yale University School of Medicine known for research on kidney disease progression and pregnancy in renal insufficiency.

John P. Huelsenbeck

John P. Huelsenbeck is a computational and evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for Bayesian phylogenetic inference and for writing the widely used program MrBayes.

John P. Hughes

John P. Hughes, born 1942, is a British pharmacologist who co-discovered the enkephalins, the brain's natural morphine-like peptides, at Aberdeen in 1975, winning the 1978 Lasker Award.

John P. Kampine

John P. Kampine is an American anesthesiologist-scientist at the Medical College of Wisconsin whose laboratory explained how anesthetics affect the heart, including why propofol lowers blood pressure.

John P. Kinsella

John P. Kinsella is an American neonatologist and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado, known for developing inhaled nitric oxide therapy for newborn lung disease.

John P. Kress

John P. Kress is an American critical care physician and Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, known for the 2000 trial establishing daily sedation interruption in ICUs.

John P. Leonard

John P. Leonard is an American hematologist and medical oncologist who directs the Center for Blood Cancers at NYU Langone Health and led trials of lenalidomide plus rituximab for lymphoma.

John P. Merlie

John P. Merlie, born John Paul Merlie (1945–1995), was an American molecular biologist at Washington University in St. Louis who worked out how the muscle acetylcholine receptor is synthesized and assembled.

John P. Merrill

John P. Merrill was an American nephrologist at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Harvard who co-led the world's first successful organ transplant, a 1954 twin kidney transplant.

John P. Moore

John P. Moore is a virologist who has been Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College since 2000, known for HIV-1 entry inhibitors and the SOSIP.664 vaccine trimer.

John P. Neoptolemos

John P. Neoptolemos is a pancreatic cancer surgeon-scientist, Professor of Surgery at Heidelberg since 2017 and formerly Liverpool's Chair of Surgery, known for the ESPAC adjuvant chemotherapy trials and founding the ISGPS.

John P. O’Doherty

John P. O'Doherty is a cognitive neuroscientist who studies the neural basis of reward-related learning and decision making, and is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Decision Neuroscience at Caltech.

John P. Peters

John Punnett Peters (1887–1955) was an American clinical chemist at Yale whose Quantitative Clinical Chemistry with Donald Van Slyke made clinical chemistry a quantitative discipline.

John P. Utz

John P. Utz, known as Jack Utz, was an American infectious-diseases physician and medical mycologist who led NIH's infectious disease service and later served as dean of Georgetown's medical school.

John Pappenheimer

John Pappenheimer (1915–2007) was an American physiologist at Harvard whose work defined the pore theory of capillary permeability and the role of cerebrospinal fluid in controlling breathing.