Life and health scientists

Joshua A Chu-Tan

Joshua A Chu-Tan is an Australian vision scientist at the Australian National University in Canberra who studies age-related macular degeneration, developing microRNA-based therapeutics for the retina.

Joshua A. Boyce

Joshua A. Boyce is an American allergist-immunologist, chief of allergy and clinical immunology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard professor who chaired NIH food allergy guidelines.

Joshua A. Gordon

Joshua A. Gordon is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist who directed the National Institute of Mental Health from 2016 to 2024, then became chair of psychiatry at Columbia University.

Joshua A. Salomon

Joshua A. Salomon is a health policy researcher and Professor of Health Policy at Stanford School of Medicine, directing the Prevention Policy Modeling Lab for infectious disease modeling.

Joshua Akey

Joshua Akey is an American population and evolutionary geneticist at Princeton University whose IBDmix method found Neanderthal ancestry in African populations and showed human-Neanderthal gene flow was recurrent.

Joshua Alwood

Joshua S. Alwood is an American space biologist at NASA's Ames Research Center who studies bone loss from microgravity and radiation and develops countermeasures for astronauts.

Joshua B. Plotkin

Joshua B. Plotkin is a population and evolutionary biologist who holds the Annenberg Professorship at the University of Pennsylvania, using mathematics to study evolution, cooperation, and codon usage.

Joshua Brickman

Joshua Brickman is a developmental and stem cell biologist at the University of Copenhagen who studies how transcription factors control cell fate in early embryos.

Joshua C. Denny

Joshua C. Denny is an American physician and biomedical informatics researcher known for developing PheWAS and serving as CEO of the NIH's All of Us Research Program since 2020.

Joshua Coon

Joshua J. Coon is an American chemist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for co-inventing electron transfer dissociation, a mass spectrometry method for protein sequencing, in 2004.

Joshua D. Milner

Joshua D. Milner is an American allergist-immunologist known for discovering genetic diseases that cause allergy, including PLAID and PGM3 deficiency, and has led allergy and immunology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center since 2019.

Joshua Hare

Joshua M. Hare is an American cardiologist and stem cell therapy researcher at the University of Miami, known for trials of mesenchymal stem cells in heart disease and Alzheimer's.

Joshua L Lillvis

Joshua L Lillvis is an American neuroscientist who studies how neural circuits evolve to generate different behaviors, using the courtship song of fruit flies as his main model.

Joshua Lederberg

Joshua Lederberg was an American geneticist who discovered that bacteria mate and exchange genes, winning half of the 1958 Nobel Prize at 33 and later leading Rockefeller University.

Joshua M. Kaplan

Joshua M. Kaplan is an American neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital who studies behavior and synaptic signaling in the roundworm C. elegans.

Joshua M. Stuart

Joshua M. Stuart, also published as Josh Stuart, is a computational biologist and professor at UC Santa Cruz known for leading the TCGA pan-cancer analysis of 12 cancer types.

Joshua Mendell

Joshua T. Mendell is an American physician-scientist in RNA biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, known for work on microRNAs in cancer.

Joshua N. Goldstein

Joshua N. Goldstein is an American emergency physician and clinical researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for trials in stroke, seizures, and anticoagulation reversal.

Joshua P. Johansen

Joshua P. Johansen, also published as Joshua Johansen, is a neuroscientist who leads a learning and memory laboratory at Japan's RIKEN Center for Brain Science.

Joshua R. Sanes

Joshua R. Sanes, also known as Joshua Sanes, is an American neuroscientist, emeritus professor at Harvard, known for work on synapse formation, retinal circuits, and Brainbow.

Joshua Rabinowitz

Joshua D. Rabinowitz is a Princeton chemistry professor and director of the Ludwig Princeton Branch, known for metabolomics, isotope-tracing methods, and cancer metabolism research, including the oncometabolite 2-hydroxyglutarate.

Joshua S. Weinger

Joshua S. Weinger is a biochemist who, in Scott Strobel's Yale laboratory, led the 2004 study showing the tRNA 2'-hydroxyl group is essential to ribosomal catalysis.

Joshua Starmer

Joshua Starmer is the founder and CEO of StatQuest, a YouTube channel explaining statistics, data science, and machine learning with pictures, toy datasets, and songs.

Joshua T Dudman

Joshua Tate Dudman is an American neuroscientist and Senior Group Leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, studying how basal ganglia and dopamine circuits let animals learn skillful behaviors.

Joshua T. Trachtenberg

Joshua T. Trachtenberg is a neuroscientist and Professor of Neurobiology at UCLA known for long-term in vivo imaging of synaptic plasticity in the adult cortex and work on critical-period plasticity in visual cortex.

Joshua Yarrow

Joshua F. Yarrow is an American rehabilitation scientist studying sex-steroid hormones, bone, and muscle after spinal cord injury; he directs the Eastern Colorado GRECC and won a 2014 PECASE award.

Joshua Zimmerberg

Joshua Zimmerberg is a membrane biophysicist and physician-scientist who serves as Chief of the Section on Integrative Biophysics at NIH, known for discovering the fusion pore and winning the 2021 Katz Award.

Josias Braun-Blanquet

Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884–1980) was a Swiss botanist, born in Chur and trained in Montpellier, who founded the Zürich-Montpellier school of phytosociology and Europe's standard vegetation classification method.

Jost B. Jonas

Jost B. Jonas, born 1958, is a German ophthalmologist who was Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology at Heidelberg University's Mannheim faculty, known for glaucoma research and the Beijing Eye Study.