Life and health scientists

Joseph Heitman

Joseph Heitman is an American geneticist at Duke University known for identifying FKBP12 and TOR as the targets of rapamycin, leading to the discovery of mTOR.

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Joseph Hutchinson

Joseph Burtt Hutchinson (1902–1988) was a British geneticist who established the classification of the world's cultivated cottons and later held the Drapers Professorship of Agriculture at Cambridge.

Joseph J. Eron

Joseph J. Eron is an American infectious disease physician-scientist at UNC Chapel Hill whose 1995 trial helped establish combination HIV therapy, and who now chairs the ACTG trials network.

Joseph J. Kieber

Joseph J. Kieber is an American plant molecular biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill known for defining the ethylene and cytokinin signaling pathways.

Joseph J. McGovern

Joseph J. McGovern was an American physician and hematologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for a 1959 study of bone marrow infusion in leukemia.

Oct 10, 2026

Joseph J. Pfiffner

Joseph J. Pfiffner (1903–1975) was an American biochemist who, with Wilbur Swingle at Princeton, developed the first practical cortin extract, used to treat Addison's disease.

Joseph J. Volpe is an American child neurologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, considered the founder of neonatal neurology and author of the landmark textbook Neurology of the Newborn.

Joseph Jankovic

Joseph Jankovic is an American neurologist, Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, who pioneered botulinum toxin therapy and tetrabenazine approval for movement disorders.

Joseph Janvier Woodward

Joseph Janvier Woodward (1833–1884) was a United States Army physician and brevet lieutenant colonel who pioneered photomicrography and helped compile the Civil War's medical record.

Joseph Jez

Joseph M. Jez is an American enzymologist and chemical biologist who studies plant hormone signaling, and is Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula

Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula is a Native Hawaiian clinical health psychologist who chairs Native Hawaiian Health at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and studies cardiometabolic disease disparities.

Joseph Kraut

Joseph Kraut (1926–2012) was an American protein crystallographer at UC San Diego known for determining the structures of chymotrypsinogen and subtilisin and analyzing serine protease catalysis.

Joseph L. DeRisi

Joseph L. DeRisi is an American molecular biologist and virologist who co-developed the Virochip, identified the SARS coronavirus in 2003, and studies malaria at UCSF.

Joseph L. Dieleman

Joseph L. Dieleman is an American health economist and professor at IHME, University of Washington, who leads research tracking global health spending and development assistance for health.

Joseph L. Goldstein

Joseph L. Goldstein, born 1940, is an American molecular geneticist who co-discovered the LDL receptor and receptor-mediated endocytosis, winning the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Joseph L. Kirschvink

Joseph L. Kirschvink is an American geobiologist and paleomagnetist, Van Wingen Professor of Geobiology, Emeritus, at Caltech, known for the Snowball Earth hypothesis and magnetoreception research.

Joseph L. Melnick

Joseph L. Melnick (1914–2001) was an American virologist and epidemiologist at Baylor College of Medicine, best known for polio research and stabilizing oral polio vaccine.

Joseph L. Witztum

Joseph L. Witztum (1943–2026) was an American physician-scientist, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego from 1979, known for the oxidation hypothesis of atherosclerosis and the 2020 Anitschkow Prize.

Joseph Larner

Joseph Larner (1921–2014) was an American biochemical pharmacologist who chaired pharmacology at the University of Virginia from 1969 to 1990 and founded its Diabetes Center for Research in 1974.

Joseph Leidy

Joseph Leidy (1823–1891) was a Philadelphia anatomist, vertebrate paleontologist, and parasitologist known as the "Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology" who described the first relatively complete dinosaur skeleton, Hadrosaurus, in 1858.

Joseph Lister

Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827–1912), was a British surgeon who founded antiseptic surgery by using carbolic acid to destroy wound microbes, cutting amputation deaths and earning the name father of modern surgery.

Joseph Loscalzo

Joseph Loscalzo is an American cardiologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, credited with founding the field of network medicine and known for nitric oxide and redox biology research.

Joseph M. Connors

Joseph M. Connors is a Canadian medical oncologist who spent his career at BC Cancer in Vancouver, leading the ECHELON-1 trial that changed first-line treatment of advanced Hodgkin lymphoma.

Joseph M. Davie

Joseph M. Davie is an American immunologist known for his 1973 work with William E. Paul on how antibody responses mature, and for leading research at Biogen.

Joseph M. McCune

Joseph M. McCune is an American immunologist and virologist at UCSF known for landmark Cell papers on HIV disease and for developing the SCID-hu mouse model.

Joseph M. Metzger

Joseph M. Metzger is an American cardiac muscle physiologist who has headed Integrative Biology and Physiology at the University of Minnesota Medical School since 2008.

Joseph Michael Daly

Joseph Michael Daly (1922–1993) was an American plant physiologist at the University of Nebraska known for research on wheat rust and the 1970 southern corn leaf blight toxin.

Joseph Misdraji

Joseph Misdraji is an American pathologist specializing in gastrointestinal and liver pathology, known for his classification of appendiceal mucinous neoplasms and pseudomyxoma peritonei, who directed Massachusetts General Hospital's GI Pathology Unit.

Joseph Mougous

Joseph D. Mougous is a microbiologist best known for discovering that the type VI secretion system delivers toxins between bacteria, and is an HHMI Investigator.