Life and health scientists

Joseph P. Miletich

Joseph P. Miletich is a physician-scientist in hematology and thrombosis, known for protein C deficiency research, who was a professor at Washington University and later a research executive at Amgen and Merck.

Joseph P. Neglia

Joseph P. Neglia, also published as Joseph Neglia, is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist at the University of Minnesota known for defining second-cancer risk in childhood cancer survivors.

Joseph P. Noel

Joseph P. Noel is a structural and chemical biologist, a Salk Institute professor from 1994 to 2026 and HHMI investigator who studies how plants make specialized compounds.

Joseph P. Ornato

Joseph P. Ornato is an American emergency physician and resuscitation scientist, professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, who chaired the NIH Public Access Defibrillation trial and co-chaired the $50 million Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium.

Joseph P. Vacanti

Joseph P. Vacanti is an American pediatric transplant surgeon and tissue engineering researcher who, with Robert Langer of MIT, defined the field of tissue engineering and created the earmouse.

Joseph Puglisi

Joseph Puglisi, known as Jody Puglisi, is an American structural biologist at Stanford who studies the ribosome and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.

Joseph R. Bertino

Joseph R. Bertino was an American physician-scientist in cancer pharmacology whose research on methotrexate resistance led to leukemia and lymphoma treatments; he served as president of ASCO and the AACR.

Joseph R. Bloomer

Joseph R. Bloomer was an American hepatologist and physician-scientist who defined the enzymatic defects underlying the porphyrias and directed the UAB Liver Center from 1995 to 2016.

Joseph R. Ecker

Joseph R. Ecker is a plant biologist and epigenomicist who directs the Genomic Analysis Laboratory at the Salk Institute and pioneered single-base-resolution DNA methylation mapping.

Joseph R. Lakowicz

Joseph R. Lakowicz, born 1948, is an American fluorescence spectroscopist, professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and author of the standard textbook Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy.

Joseph R. Nevins

Joseph R. Nevins is an American molecular biologist at Duke University known for discovering the E2F transcription factor and its regulation by the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor.

Joseph Rutenfranz

Joseph Rutenfranz (1928–1989) was a German occupational physiologist and physician, professor at the University of Dortmund, whose 1977 shift-work review and Rutenfranz rules for shift-system design are still cited.

Joseph S. Fruton

Joseph S. Fruton (1912–2007) was a Polish-born American biochemist and historian of biochemistry, a Yale professor who studied proteolytic enzymes and coauthored the landmark textbook General Biochemistry (1953).

Joseph S. Nelson

Joseph S. Nelson, born Joseph Schieser Nelson (1937–2011), was a Canadian ichthyologist and University of Alberta zoology professor, author of four editions of Fishes of the World.

Joseph S. Pagano

Joseph S. Pagano is an American physician-scientist and tumor virologist at UNC-Chapel Hill, where since 1965 he has studied Epstein-Barr virus and cancer and founded the Lineberger Cancer Center.

Joseph S. Ross

Joseph S. Ross is an American physician and health services researcher at Yale School of Medicine who studies how medicines are regulated and how hospital care quality is measured.

Joseph S. Takahashi

Joseph S. Takahashi is an American chronobiologist who identified the first mammalian circadian clock gene, Clock, and has chaired neuroscience at UT Southwestern Medical Center since 2009.

Joseph Sambrook

Joseph Sambrook (1939–2019) was a British-born molecular biologist best known for DNA tumor virus research and as senior author of Molecular Cloning, the standard lab manual.

Joseph Schacherer

Joseph Schacherer is a geneticist and professor of genetics and genomics at the Université de Strasbourg, known for large-scale surveys of baker's yeast genome diversity in Nature.

Joseph Schlessinger

Joseph Schlessinger is a biochemist and pharmacologist at Yale School of Medicine who established how receptor tyrosine kinases activate, and founded biotech companies that discovered sunitinib and vemurafenib.

Joseph Sodroski

Joseph G. Sodroski is a virologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School known for identifying the HIV coreceptor CCR5 and the restriction factor TRIM5α.

Joseph T. Bass

Joseph T. Bass is an American physician-scientist at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine who studies how circadian clocks regulate metabolism, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2025.

Joseph T. Coyle

Joseph T. Coyle is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School known for his Huntington's disease animal model and glutamate research in schizophrenia.

Joseph T. Ferrucci

Joseph T. Ferrucci is an American abdominal radiologist who headed abdominal radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and received the American Roentgen Ray Society's Gold Medal in 2000.

Joseph V. Bonventre

Joseph V. Bonventre is an American nephrologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital whose research defined acute kidney injury, its biomarkers, and repair.

Joseph von Mering

Joseph von Mering (Josef Freiherr von Mering) was a German pharmacologist who showed in 1889 that removing the pancreas causes diabetes and developed Veronal, the first barbiturate.

Joseph W. St. Geme

Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. (1931–1986) was an American physician-scientist in pediatric infectious disease who showed mumps virus crosses the human placenta, leaving children with cellular immunity.

Joseph W. St. Geme III

Joseph W. St. Geme III is an American pediatric infectious diseases physician-scientist, Physician-in-Chief of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a National Academy of Medicine member.

Joseph W. Thornton

Joseph W. Thornton is an American evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago who pioneered ancestral gene resurrection, reconstructing ancient proteins to test how their functions evolved.