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John W. Holaday
John W. Holaday (1945–2019) was an American neuropharmacologist and Army researcher who showed that endorphins contribute to shock and spinal cord injury, and later co-founded Medicis, EntreMed, and MaxCyte.
John W. Kirklin
John W. Kirklin (1917–2004) was an American cardiac surgeon who led the first successful series of open-heart operations using a heart-lung machine, at the Mayo Clinic in 1955.
John W. Little
John W. Little is a molecular biologist at the University of Arizona known for showing that the LexA repressor self-cleaves to switch on the SOS system.
John W. McEvoy
John W. McEvoy, known as Bill McEvoy, is an Irish preventive cardiologist who is Established Professor of Preventive Cardiology at the University of Galway and chaired the 2024 ESC hypertension guidelines.
John W. Newport
John W. Newport was an American cell biologist at UC San Diego who showed how frog embryos time development and identified the kinase driving mitosis.
John W. Olney
John W. Olney (died 2015) was an American psychiatrist and neuropathologist at Washington University in St. Louis who originated excitotoxicity, the death of nerve cells from excess glutamate.
John W. R. Schwabe
John W. R. Schwabe, also published as John Schwabe, is a structural biologist and professor at the University of Leicester known for structures of nuclear receptors and HDAC complexes.
John W. Saunders, Jr.
John W. Saunders, Jr. was an American developmental biologist who discovered the apical ectodermal ridge and zone of polarizing activity, which organize vertebrate limb development.
John W. Strieder
John W. Strieder (1901–1993) was an American thoracic surgeon in Boston, the first there to limit his practice to thoracic surgery and the 52nd president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
John W. Weisel
John W. Weisel is a biophysicist and professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for his 1985 fibrinogen model and work on clot mechanics.
John W.B. Hershey
John W.B. Hershey (1934–2023) was an American molecular biologist who worked out how translation, protein synthesis from messenger RNA, is initiated, at UC Davis from 1970 to 2004.
John Wahren
John Wahren, born 1937 in Uppsala, is a Swedish clinical physiologist and professor emeritus at Karolinska Institutet, known for exercise fuel metabolism research and later C-peptide replacement therapy in diabetes.
John Waterlow
John Waterlow (1916–2010) was a British physiologist and nutrition scientist who classified childhood malnutrition, founded Jamaica's Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1982.
John Whyte (physiatrist)
John Whyte is an American physiatrist and experimental psychologist known for research on traumatic brain injury rehabilitation and disorders of consciousness, and founding director of the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute.
John Wilding
John P.H. Wilding is a British physician-scientist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Liverpool, known for leading large trials of GLP-1 obesity drugs, including semaglutide STEP 1.
John Williamson (biochemist)
John Williamson was a biochemist at the University of Pennsylvania's Johnson Research Foundation known for work on metabolic control in the heart and liver and for NMR studies of intact, metabolizing cells and organs.
John Yates (biochemist)
John R. Yates III is an American scientist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, lead inventor of the SEQUEST software and a principal developer of shotgun proteomics.
John Yudkin
John Yudkin (1943–2025) was a British physician-scientist in diabetes and metabolism, Emeritus Professor at University College London, who worked on insulin resistance and global insulin access.
John Z. Ayanian
John Z. Ayanian is a physician and health policy researcher who has directed the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation at the University of Michigan since 2012.
John Zachary Young
John Zachary Young, known as J. Z. Young, was a British zoologist and neurophysiologist who rediscovered the squid giant axon and pioneered the octopus for memory research.
John Zalcberg
John Raymond Zalcberg AO is an Australian medical oncologist at Alfred Health in Melbourne who co-founded the Australasian Gastrointestinal Trials Group and co-authored a landmark 2008 cetuximab study.
John-Arne Røttingen
John-Arne Røttingen is a Norwegian physician, epidemiologist, and health diplomat who has served as chief executive of Wellcome since January 2024. He led the WHO Solidarity Trial for Covid-19 and helped found CEPI.
Johnatan Aljadeff
Johnatan (Yonatan) Aljadeff is a computational neuroscientist who has been on the UC San Diego neurobiology faculty since 2020, applying dynamical systems and information theory to synaptic plasticity and learning.
Johnathan R. Whetstine
Johnathan R. Whetstine is a cancer epigenetics researcher who directs the Cancer Epigenetics Institute at Fox Chase Cancer Center and helped discover JmjC histone demethylases.
JohnF. Wilkinson
John Frederick Wilkinson (1897–1998) was a British physician and haematologist who built the clinical hematology service at Manchester Royal Infirmary and helped found hematology in Britain.
Johnny Ludvigsson
Johnny Ludvigsson is a Swedish pediatrician and diabetes researcher, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at Linköping University, known for the Linköping Complication Study and GAD65 immunotherapy trials.
Johnson L. Thistle
Johnson L. Thistle, also published as J. L. Thistle, is a Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist who pioneered dissolving cholesterol gallstones without surgery, first with chenodeoxycholic acid in 1972 and later with methyl tert-butyl ether.
Joia Mukherjee
Joia Mukherjee is an American physician who joined Partners In Health as Chief Medical Officer in 2000, treating HIV and tuberculosis in Haiti and other poor countries.
Jolieke G van Oosterwijk
Jolieke G. van Oosterwijk is a Dutch-trained scientist in bone tumor biology known for co-discovering the somatic mosaic genetic basis of Ollier disease and Maffucci syndrome.
Jon Clardy
Jon Clardy is a chemical biologist who holds the Christopher T. Walsh Professorship at Harvard Medical School and studies biologically active small molecules from bacteria and fungi.