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John Rock (physician)
John Rock (1890–1984) was an American obstetrician-gynecologist and Harvard professor who co-developed the birth control pill and, in 1944, achieved the first fertilization of a human egg in vitro.
John Roder
John C. Roder (1950–2018) was a Canadian immunologist turned neurobiologist, a Senior Scientist at Toronto's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and University of Toronto professor, known for mouse models of schizophrenia and memory.
John Ryals
John A. Ryals is an American molecular biologist who established salicylic acid's role in plant systemic acquired resistance at Ciba-Geigy, then founded Paradigm Genetics and co-founded Metabolon.
John S. Brownstein
John S. Brownstein is a computational epidemiologist who is Chief Innovation Officer at Boston Children's Hospital and a Harvard Medical School professor, known for creating HealthMap and pioneering digital epidemiology.
John S. Condeelis
John S. Condeelis is a cell biologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine known for intravital imaging of cancer metastasis and the TMEM doorway concept.
John S. Duncan
John S. Duncan, born 1955, is a British neurologist specializing in epilepsy, a consultant at Queen Square since 1989 and Professor of Neurology at UCL since 1998.
John S. Floras
John S. Floras, also known as John Floras, is a Canadian cardiologist and University of Toronto professor known for research on the autonomic nervous system in heart failure.
John S. Fordtran
John S. Fordtran (1931–2025) was an American gastroenterologist whose studies of intestinal absorption reshaped the treatment of diarrheal disease, and co-author of the 1973 textbook Gastrointestinal Disease.
John S. Mattick
John S. Mattick is an Australian molecular biologist at UNSW Sydney who argues that most non-coding DNA, long dismissed as junk, is a regulatory architecture transacted through RNA.
John S. Najarian
John S. Najarian (1927–2020) was an American transplant surgeon who chaired surgery at the University of Minnesota from 1967 to 1993 and developed the anti-rejection drug antilymphocyte globulin.
John S. O’Brien
John S. O'Brien (John Smith O'Brien) was an American physician and biochemist who discovered the enzyme deficiency causing Tay-Sachs disease and identified the saposin proteins, lysosomal activator proteins.
John S. O’Neill
John S. O’Neill is a circadian biologist who leads a group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for showing that circadian clocks keep time without gene transcription.
John S. Parkinson
John S. Parkinson is an American geneticist at the University of Utah known for mapping the genes and molecular mechanism of bacterial chemotaxis in E. coli.
John S. Tsang
John S. Tsang, also known as John Tsang, is a systems immunologist and Yale professor who studies why vaccine responses vary and built a metric of immune health.
John Schiefelbein
John W. Schiefelbein is a professor at the University of Michigan who studies Arabidopsis root epidermis patterning, identified the WEREWOLF transcription factor, and pioneered plant single-cell RNA sequencing.
John Scott Haldane
John Scott Haldane (1860–1936) was a British physiologist at Oxford whose work on respiration, carbon monoxide poisoning, and staged decompression reshaped diving practice, mine safety, and respiratory physiology.
John Shaw Billings
John Shaw Billings (1838–1913) was an American army surgeon, medical librarian, and statistician who built the National Library of Medicine, created the Index Medicus, and planned the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
John Silke
John Silke is a cell death researcher leading a laboratory at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, whose work took IAP-antagonist cancer drugs into trials.
John Simes
John Simes, whose full name is Robert John Simes, is an Australian medical oncologist who founded the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre in Sydney in 1988.
John Smythies
John Smythies, also known as J. R. Smythies, was a British psychiatrist and neuroscientist who co-proposed the transmethylation hypothesis of schizophrenia in 1952 and did early psychedelic research.
John Spangler Nicholas
John Spangler Nicholas (1895–1963) was an American experimental embryologist and zoologist at Yale who showed mammalian development is more flexible than assumed and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
John Speakman
John Speakman is a British physiologist at the University of Aberdeen and a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, known for research on energy expenditure, obesity, and aging.
John Stanley Gardiner
John Stanley Gardiner (1872–1946) was a British zoologist who led three Indian Ocean coral reef expeditions and held the Cambridge Chair of Zoology from 1909 to 1937.
John Stephenson (virologist)
John R. Stephenson is a virologist known for his 1970s work at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, on murine leukemia virus and endogenous type-C RNA viruses.
John Stirling Meyer
John Stirling Meyer was a neurologist and pioneer of cerebral blood flow and metabolism research in stroke, migraine, and dementia, longtime chairman of neurology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
John Studd (gynaecologist)
John Studd, full name John William Winston Studd, was a British gynaecologist and professor at Imperial College London known for pioneering menopause treatment and hormone replacement therapy.
John Suttie
John Suttie, also known as John W. Suttie, was an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who worked out how vitamin K enables blood coagulation.
John T. Cacioppo
John T. Cacioppo (1951–2018) was an American psychologist at the University of Chicago who founded social neuroscience and transformed the scientific study of loneliness, also developing the elaboration likelihood model.
John T. Curnutte
John T. Curnutte is an American immunologist and physician-scientist who showed that chronic granulomatous disease stems from defects in NADPH oxidase, the superoxide-producing enzyme of white blood cells.
John T. Fallon
John T. Fallon is an American cardiovascular pathologist, trained at Albany Medical College and Harvard, known for the 1987 myocarditis classification behind the Dallas criteria and for endomyocardial biopsy consensus standards.