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Jonathan Trent

Jonathan Trent is a NASA scientist and biological oceanographer best known as the inventor of OMEGA, a system that grows microalgae for biofuel in floating plastic photobioreactors offshore.

Jonathan Uhr

Jonathan W. Uhr (1927–2024) was an American immunologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1984, known for B-cell receptor discovery and circulating tumor cell testing.

Jonathan W. Friedberg

Jonathan W. Friedberg, also known as Jonathan Friedberg, is an American hematologist-oncologist who directs the Wilmot Cancer Institute and studies lymphoma at the University of Rochester.

Jonathan W. Yewdell

Jonathan W. Yewdell is an American physician-scientist who serves as chief of a cellular biology section at NIAID, known for the DRiPs hypothesis of antigen presentation.

Jonathan Weissman

Jonathan S. Weissman is an American molecular biologist who co-developed ribosome profiling and CRISPRi, and is the Landon T. Clay Professor of Biology at the Whitehead Institute and MIT.

Jonathan Widom

Jonathan Widom (1955–2011) was an American biochemist at Northwestern University who studied how DNA is packaged into chromosomes, best known for the 2006 genomic code for nucleosome positioning.

Jonathon Pines

Jonathon Pines, also known as Jon Pines, is a British cell biologist who studies mitosis and holds the Chris Marshall Chair at the Institute of Cancer Research.

Jong-Cheol Rah

Jong-Cheol Rah is a South Korean neuroscientist at the Korea Brain Research Institute in Daegu, known for his 2008 study of syntaxin-1 and synaptic vesicle fusion.

Jonghwan Kim

Jonghwan Kim is a molecular biologist who studies transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of stem cells, and has been Professor of Molecular Biosciences at the University of Texas at Austin since 2023.

Joni D. Wallis

Joni D. Wallis is a neuroscientist and professor at UC Berkeley who directs the Wallis Lab, known for work on decision-making, reward, and abstract rule encoding in the prefrontal cortex.

Joonyeol Lee

Joonyeol Lee is a South Korean neuroscientist who studies how the brain combines prior expectations with noisy sensory data to guide movement, using smooth pursuit eye movements.

Joost G.J. Hoenderop

Joost G.J. Hoenderop is a Dutch molecular kidney physiologist and full professor at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, known for identifying the calcium channel TRPV5 and studying TRP channels in calcium and magnesium balance.

Joost Gribnau

Joost Gribnau is a Dutch epigeneticist studying X chromosome inactivation, and is Professor of Epigenetics at Erasmus MC and a department head at Leiden University Medical Center.

Joost J. Oppenheim

Joost J. Oppenheim (1934–2022) was a Dutch-born American immunologist known as "the Father of Cytokines" who spent six decades at the NIH, discovering interleukin-8 and MCP-1.

Joost P.H. Drenth

Joost P.H. Drenth (Johannes Paulus Hubertus Drenth) is a Dutch hepatologist who identified the gene causing hyper-IgD syndrome and heads gastroenterology and hepatology at Radboudumc.

Jop Kind

Jop Kind is a Dutch molecular biologist who leads a group at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, studying chromatin and gene regulation in single cells.

Joram Piatigorsky

Joram Piatigorsky is an American molecular biologist and eye researcher who founded and led the National Eye Institute's Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology from 1981 to 2009.

Jordan Grafman

Jordan Grafman is an American cognitive neuroscientist who has led the Vietnam Head Injury Study since 1990 and studies the brain bases of belief, including religious belief.

Jordan J. Feld

Jordan J. Feld is a Canadian hepatologist, Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and Director of the Toronto Centre for Liver Disease, known for leading trials that cure hepatitis C.

Jordan N. Fink

Jordan N. Fink (1934–2024) was an American allergist-immunologist who spent fifty years at the Medical College of Wisconsin and defined the clinical picture of hypersensitivity pneumonitis.

Jordan Raff

Jordan W. Raff is a British cell biologist at Oxford who studies centrioles and centrosomes in fruit flies and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2022.

Jordan S. Pober

Jordan S. Pober (born 1949) is an American immunologist and physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine known for showing that blood vessel lining cells actively participate in immune responses.

Jordan U. Gutterman

Jordan U. Gutterman is an American oncologist who joined MD Anderson in 1971, led its Biological Therapy Section, and pioneered alpha interferon therapy for hairy-cell leukemia.

Jordan W. Smoller

Jordan W. Smoller is a psychiatrist, epidemiologist, and geneticist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who studies genetic risk for psychiatric disorders, including depression and schizophrenia.

Jordan W. Tappero

Jordan W. Tappero is an American physician and epidemiologist who led CDC responses to the Haiti cholera and West African Ebola epidemics before joining the Gates Foundation in 2018.

Jordi Bascompte

Jordi Bascompte, born 1967 in Olot, Spain, is a Spanish ecologist and professor of ecology at the University of Zurich, known for applying network theory to mutualism.

Jordi Bruix

Jordi Bruix (Jordi Bruix i Tudó) is a Spanish hepatologist at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona who created the BCLC staging system and led the SHARP and RESORCE trials establishing sorafenib and regorafenib for liver cancer.

Jordi Casanova

Jordi Casanova is a Spanish developmental biologist, a CSIC Research Professor in Barcelona, known for defining the functional structure of Drosophila Hox genes in the 1980s.

Jordi Soler‐Soler

Jordi Soler-Soler is a Spanish cardiologist who founded and led the Cardiology Service of Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona for three decades, retiring in 2006.

Jordi Sunyer

Jordi Sunyer is a Spanish physician and environmental epidemiologist at ISGlobal in Barcelona, known for linking air pollution to children's asthma, lung function, and brain development.