Life and health scientists

Joseph C. Sun

Joseph C. Sun is an immunologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York whose 2009 Nature paper showed that natural killer cells can mount adaptive immune memory.

Joseph C. Wu

Joseph C. Wu, also known as Joseph Wu, is an American cardiologist who directs the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and was the American Heart Association's 87th president from 2023 to 2024.

Joseph Capgras (1873–1950) was a French psychiatrist who described the illusion of doubles, now called Capgras syndrome, in 1923 with his intern Jean Reboul-Lachaux, and led a sought-after ward at Sainte-Anne hospital in Paris.

Joseph Charles Aub

Joseph Charles Aub (1890–1973) was an American physician and endocrinologist at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital whose lead poisoning and calcium metabolism studies laid foundations for cancer research.

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Joseph Cubells

Joseph F. Cubells is an American psychiatrist and human geneticist at Emory University known for research on how copy-number-variant genomic disorders predispose carriers to autism and schizophrenia.

Joseph D. Buxbaum

Joseph D. Buxbaum is a molecular neuroscientist and geneticist who directs the Seaver Autism Center at Mount Sinai and studies the genetic basis of autism and schizophrenia.

Joseph D. Etlinger

Joseph D. Etlinger is a cell biologist who, with Alfred Goldberg at Harvard in 1977, established the ATP-dependent reticulocyte lysate system that led to the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway.

Joseph D. Schulman

Joseph D. Schulman is an American physician and medical geneticist known for research on sulfur metabolism disorders and for founding the Genetics & IVF Institute in 1984.

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) was an English botanist and explorer who directed Kew Gardens from 1865 to 1885, co-authored Genera Plantarum, and was the first confidant of Darwin's theory of evolution.

Joseph Dancis

Joseph Dancis was an American pediatrician and biochemist at New York University known for defining maple syrup urine disease and for studies of familial dysautonomia.

Joseph E. LeDoux

Joseph E. LeDoux, also known as Joseph LeDoux, is an American neuroscientist known for research on the brain mechanisms of fear and emotion, especially the role of the amygdala.

Sep 17, 2026

Joseph E. Murray

Joseph E. Murray (1919–2012) was an American surgeon who performed the first successful kidney transplant in 1954 and shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Joseph E. Parrillo

Joseph E. Parrillo is an American cardiologist and critical care researcher who showed septic shock involves reversible heart-muscle depression, and directs research at Hackensack University Medical Center's Heart and Vascular Hospital.

Joseph E. Rall

Joseph E. Rall (1920–2008) was an American physician and thyroid physiologist at the NIH who founded its Clinical Endocrinology Branch and advanced the free thyroid hormone hypothesis.

Joseph E. Ravenell

Joseph E. Ravenell is an American physician-investigator at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies hypertension and cancer screening in Black men, best known for barbershop-based blood pressure trials.

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Joseph E. Varner

Joseph E. Varner (1921–1995) was an American plant biochemist known for showing that gibberellin controls α-amylase gene expression in barley, and for cloning extensin cDNA.

Joseph Edward Smadel

Joseph Edward Smadel (1907–1963) was an American physician and virologist who led the 1948 chloramphenicol trials for scrub typhus and typhoid fever, winning the 1962 Lasker Award.

Joseph Erlanger

Joseph Erlanger was an American physiologist who shared the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Herbert S. Gasser for discoveries on single nerve fibers.

Joseph Everett Dutton

Joseph Everett Dutton (1874–1905) was a British parasitologist who identified the first trypanosome found in human blood and died of relapsing fever in the Congo.

Joseph F. Fraumeni

Joseph F. Fraumeni was an American cancer epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute who co-discovered Li-Fraumeni syndrome and founded its Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics.

Joseph Felsenstein

Joseph Felsenstein, born 1942 in Philadelphia, is an American population geneticist at the University of Washington known for bringing rigorous statistical methods, above all maximum likelihood, into inferring evolutionary trees.

Joseph G. Culotti

Joseph G. Culotti is a neuroscientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto who discovered the axon guidance cue UNC-6/netrin and its receptors in C. elegans.

Joseph G. Gall

Joseph G. Gall (1928–2024) was an American cell biologist who invented in situ hybridization, determined the first telomeric DNA sequence, and characterized Cajal bodies, earning the 2006 Lasker Award.

Joseph G. Gleeson

Joseph G. Gleeson is an American physician-scientist in neurogenetics, the Rady Professor of Neuroscience at UC San Diego whose research has identified over 100 genetic causes of pediatric brain disease.

Joseph Gilbert Hamilton

Joseph Gilbert Hamilton (1907–1957) was an American medical physicist at UC Berkeley who pioneered radioisotope cancer therapy and organized the secret human plutonium injection experiments of 1945–1947.

Joseph Goldberger

Joseph Goldberger (1874–1929) was a Slovak-born American epidemiologist with the US Public Health Service who demonstrated between 1914 and 1923 that pellagra was caused by dietary deficiency, not infection.

Joseph H. Antin

Joseph H. Antin is an American hematologist-oncologist who led the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's stem-cell transplant program from 1997 to 2018, known for work on graft-versus-host disease.

Joseph H. Burchenal

Joseph H. Burchenal (Joseph Holland Burchenal, 1912–2006) was an American oncologist who helped found modern cancer chemotherapy, bringing 6-mercaptopurine to the first long-term remissions of childhood leukemia.

Joseph H. Nadeau

Joseph H. Nadeau is a geneticist known for mouse genetics, comparative genomics, and complex traits, best known for the first chromosome substitution strain panel in mammals.