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Josep Brugada

Josep Brugada is a Spanish cardiologist and electrophysiologist who co-described Brugada syndrome, an inherited cause of sudden death, and built the arrhythmia unit at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.

Josep Dalmau

Josep Dalmau, born 1953, is a Spanish neurologist and neuroimmunology researcher at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and the University of Pennsylvania who discovered anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis and described most known autoimmune encephalitides.

Josep M. Llovet

Josep M. Llovet, also cited as J.M. Llovet, is a Spanish hepatologist who leads liver cancer programs in Barcelona and at Mount Sinai in New York.

Josep Penuelas

Josep Peñuelas, born 1958 in Vic, is a Spanish ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist, a CSIC Research Professor at CREAF known for work on nitrogen-phosphorus imbalance and the carbon sink.

Josep Rizo

Josep Rizo, officially Jose Rizo-Rey, is a Spanish-born structural biologist and biophysicist, born in Barcelona in 1959, who is a professor at UT Southwestern in Dallas known for research on the protein machinery of neurotransmitter release.

Josep Tabernero

Josep Tabernero is a Spanish medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers, who heads medical oncology at Vall d'Hebron University Hospital and directs the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology in Barcelona.

Joseph A. Baur

Joseph A. Baur is a physiologist and Professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania who studies the molecular mechanisms of aging, NAD metabolism, and mTOR signaling.

Joseph A. Beavo

Joseph A. Beavo Jr. is an American pharmacologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, known for defining the superfamily of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases, enzymes that degrade cAMP and cGMP.

Joseph A. Bellanti

Joseph A. Bellanti is an American immunologist, professor emeritus of pediatrics and microbiology-immunology at Georgetown University, known for work on mucosal antibody responses and primary immunodeficiencies.

Joseph A. Gogos

Joseph A. Gogos is a physician-scientist and professor at Columbia University who studies the molecular genetics and neural circuit mechanisms of schizophrenia and 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, a chromosomal microdeletion carrying high risk of the disorder.

Joseph A. Hill

Joseph A. Hill is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for work on cardiac remodeling, fibrosis, and autophagy.

Joseph A. Kovacs

Joseph A. Kovacs is an American physician-scientist at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, known for work on Pneumocystis pneumonia and HIV immune-based therapy.

Joseph A. Piccirilli

Joseph A. Piccirilli (born 1960) is an American chemical biologist at the University of Chicago known for showing that RNA enzymes use metal ions in catalysis.

Joseph A. Sparano

Joseph A. Sparano is an American medical oncologist who has led hematology and medical oncology at Mount Sinai since 2021 and led the TAILORx breast cancer trial.

Joseph A. Vita

Joseph A. Vita (1956–2014) was an American cardiologist and vascular biology researcher at Boston University who showed endothelial dysfunction predicts cardiovascular events, and was the inaugural editor-in-chief of JAHA.

Joseph A. Zasadzinski

Joseph A. Zasadzinski is an American chemical engineer at the University of Minnesota, known for lung surfactant biophysics and the vesosome, a nested-liposome drug delivery vehicle.

Joseph Altman

Joseph Altman (1925–2016) was an American biologist at MIT who showed in the early 1960s that new neurons form in adult mammalian brains, overturning decades of dogma.

Joseph Avruch

Joseph Avruch is a physician-biochemist who has led the Diabetes Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital since 1979 and studies how hormones and oncogenes signal to the nucleus.

Joseph B. Bolen

Joseph B. Bolen is an American immunologist known for defining how src-family tyrosine kinases initiate signaling in lymphocytes, then leading oncology research at Millennium and Moderna.

Joseph B. Kirsner

Joseph B. Kirsner (1909–2012) was an American gastroenterologist at the University of Chicago who pioneered the modern study of inflammatory bowel disease and helped found gastroenterology's national societies.

Joseph B. McCormick

Joseph B. McCormick, born 1942, is an American infectious disease epidemiologist who led the Lassa fever research that produced the first successful drug treatment of a viral hemorrhagic fever.

Joseph B. Warshaw

Joseph B. Warshaw (1936–2003) was an American pediatrician known for research on fetal growth and neonatal care, and dean of the University of Vermont College of Medicine.

Joseph Babinski

Joseph Babinski (1857–1932) was a French neurologist of Polish descent, the favorite pupil of Jean-Martin Charcot, who described the Babinski sign in 1896 and coined terms like anosognosia.

Joseph Banks

Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820), British naturalist and botanist, lead naturalist on Cook's Endeavour voyage 1768–1771, 41-year President of the Royal Society, Kew advisor, and champion of Botany Bay colonization.

Joseph Barcroft

Sir Joseph Barcroft (1872–1947) was a British physiologist at Cambridge, a world leader in respiratory physiology, known for his studies of blood oxygenation, high-altitude acclimatization, and founding fetal physiology.

Joseph Berkson

Joseph Berkson (1899–1982) was an American physician and biostatistician who headed biometry at the Mayo Clinic from 1932 to 1964, introduced logistic bio-assay, and named Berkson's bias.

Joseph Biederman

Joseph Biederman (1947–2023) was an Argentine-trained American psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who built the field of pediatric psychopharmacology, treating psychiatric disorders in children.

Joseph Bodine

Joseph Bodine was an American zoologist who spent his career studying diapause in grasshopper embryos and headed zoology at the State University of Iowa from 1929 until 1954.

Joseph Bondy-Denomy

Joseph Bondy-Denomy is a microbiologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco who studies how bacteria and bacteriophages fight, and who discovered anti-CRISPR proteins, off-switches for CRISPR gene editing.

Joseph Bryan

Joseph Bryan is a cell biologist known for cloning the sulfonylurea receptor SUR1 and showing in 1995 that the beta-cell KATP channel has two subunits, Kir6.2 and SUR.