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John Pasi

K. John Pasi is a British hematologist who led the first successful gene therapy program for hemophilia A and is a professor at Queen Mary University of London.

John Paul (cell biologist)

John Paul (1922–1994) was a Scottish cell biologist and cancer researcher, founding director of the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow and a pioneer of tissue and cell culture.

John Peters (epidemiologist)

John M. Peters (1935–2010) was an American epidemiologist at the University of Southern California who created the Children's Health Study and showed that air pollution slows children's lung growth.

John Preer Jr.

John Preer Jr., also known as John Randolph Preer Jr., was an American geneticist at Indiana University who studied Paramecium for seven decades and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.

John Q. Trojanowski

John Q. Trojanowski (John Trojanowski, 1946–2022) was an American neuropathologist at the University of Pennsylvania who identified tau in Alzheimer's tangles, alpha-synuclein in Lewy bodies, and TDP-43 in ALS.

John Quackenbush

John Quackenbush is an American computational biologist, chair of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.

John R. B. Perry

John R. B. Perry is a human geneticist and MRC Investigator at the University of Cambridge known for landmark studies of puberty timing, menopause, and testosterone's sex-specific disease effects.

John R. Brobeck

John R. Brobeck (1914–2009) was an American physiologist who demonstrated that the hypothalamus controls food intake and chaired physiology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1952 to 1970.

John R. Carlson

John R. Carlson is an American molecular neuroscientist and Eugene Higgins Professor at Yale, known for discovering the first insect odor and taste receptors and mapping how they encode smell.

John R. David

John R. David is an American physician and immunologist, emeritus professor of tropical public health at Harvard, known for cytokine research on leishmaniasis and recombinant migration inhibitory factor.

John R. Glenney

John R. Glenney, Jr. (J. R. Glenney) is a cell biologist who established fodrin as the general spectrin-like protein of non-erythroid cells and worked at the Salk Institute.

John R. Hodges

John R. Hodges, born in 1952, is a British cognitive neurologist who founded the FRONTIER research group in Sydney and studies frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

John R. Huguenard

John R. Huguenard is a Professor of Neurology at Stanford University who studies thalamocortical synchrony and epilepsy, known for a 1999 Science paper showing thalamic inhibition restrains network synchrony.

John R. Hutchinson

John R. Hutchinson is an American evolutionary biomechanicist and professor at the Royal Veterinary College in London, known for his 2002 finding that Tyrannosaurus was not a fast runner.

John R. Lukens

John R. Lukens, also known as John Lukens, is a neuroscientist and professor at the University of Virginia who studies how microglia drive neurodegenerative disease.

John R. Mascola

John R. Mascola, also known as John Mascola, is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who directed NIAID's Vaccine Research Center from 2013 to 2022 and is known for broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies such as VRC01.

John R. Paul

John Rodman Paul (1893–1971) was an American virologist and epidemiologist who spent his career at Yale, researched poliomyelitis for three decades, and founded the field of clinical epidemiology.

John R. Preer

John R. Preer was an American geneticist at Indiana University who studied non-Mendelian inheritance in Paramecium and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.

John R. Riordan

John R. Riordan is a Canadian biochemist known for his central role in the 1989 discovery of the cystic fibrosis gene and its most common mutation, ΔF508.

John R. Roth

John R. Roth is an American bacterial geneticist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, known for decades of Salmonella typhimurium genetics and a central role in the adaptive mutation debate.

John R. Stanley

John R. Stanley is an American physician-scientist and Emeritus Professor of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for molecularly cloning the pemphigus and pemphigoid autoantigens.

John R. Teerlink

John R. Teerlink is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist who directs heart failure and echocardiography at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and led the GALACTIC-HF trial of omecamtiv mecarbil.

John R. Vane

Sir John Robert Vane (J. R. Vane) was a British pharmacologist who won the 1982 Nobel Prize for discovering that aspirin blocks prostaglandin synthesis and for discovering prostacyclin.

John R. Wingard

John R. Wingard is an American hematologist-oncologist and professor emeritus at the University of Florida, known for research on bone marrow transplantation and its infectious complications.

John Radford (medical oncologist)

John Radford is a British medical oncologist specializing in lymphoma, Professor at the University of Manchester and Director of Research at The Christie, known for PET-directed Hodgkin lymphoma therapy.

John Raper

John Raper (1911–1974) was an American mycologist and geneticist, professor of botany at Harvard from 1954, recognized as the foremost investigator of sexuality in fungi.

John Ray

John Ray (1627–1705) was an English naturalist, born in Essex, who defined the biological species and classified about 18,000 plants in his Historia plantarum before Linnaeus.

John Raymond Murlin

John Raymond Murlin (1874–1960) was an American physiologist and nutritionist, Professor of Physiology at the University of Rochester, who co-discovered glucagon in 1923 and founded the American Institute of Nutrition.

John Rinn

John Rinn, also known as John L. Rinn, is an American RNA biologist who studies long noncoding RNAs and holds a professorship at the University of Colorado Boulder.

John Robert Evans

John Robert Evans was a Canadian cardiologist and researcher, founding dean of McMaster University's medical school and president of the University of Toronto from 1972 to 1978.