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Jouni Uitto

Jouni Uitto (1943–2022) was a Finnish-born dermatologist and cutaneous biologist, called the father of EB research, who chaired dermatology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia from 1986.

Joy Bergelson

Joy Bergelson is an American plant evolutionary geneticist at New York University known for showing that plant disease-resistance genes persist for millions of years rather than evolving by arms races.

Joy E Lawn

Joy E. Lawn is a Ugandan-born, British-trained pediatrician and perinatal epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for global neonatal death and stillbirth research.

Joyce Bischoff

Joyce Bischoff is a vascular biologist and Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School whose lab identified the stem cell that gives rise to infantile hemangioma.

Joyce M. Slingerland

Joyce M. Slingerland, also known as Joyce Slingerland, is a Canadian-trained physician-scientist credited with discovering the cell-cycle inhibitor p27, and has been Professor of Oncology at Georgetown University since 2020.

Józef Brudziński

Józef Brudziński (1874–1917) was a Polish pediatrician and neurologist remembered as the father of Polish pediatrics, who described four signs, including the neck sign, for detecting meningitis.

Jozef Gecz

Jozef Gecz, born 1962, is a human molecular geneticist and Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Adelaide whose team has discovered more than 350 disease genes.

Jozef J. Zwislocki

Józef Zwisłocki (1922–2018) was a Polish-born American auditory physiologist whose 1948 dissertation first explained cochlear traveling waves mathematically; he spent most of his career at Syracuse University.

Jozef Schell

Jozef Schell, known as Jeff Schell (1935–2003), was a Belgian microbiologist and plant molecular biologist who turned Agrobacterium into the standard method for making genetically engineered plants.

József Baló

József Baló (1895–1979) was a Hungarian physician, pathologist, and oncologist who described Baló's disease, a rare demyelinating brain disease, in 1928, directed pathology institutes at Szeged and Budapest, and co-discovered pancreatic elastase.

Jozsef Csicsvari

Jozsef Csicsvari is an Austrian-based systems neuroscientist, professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria since 2011, known for research on hippocampal spatial memory.

József Marek

József Marek (1868–1952) was a Hungarian veterinary pathologist and professor at the Royal Hungarian Veterinary College whose 1907 paper on poultry polyneuritis gave its name to Marek's disease.

Ju-Seog Lee

Ju-Seog Lee (이주석) is a South Korean cancer genomics researcher and Professor of Systems Biology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for molecular subtyping of hepatocellular carcinoma.

Juan Antonio Vizcaíno

Juan Antonio Vizcaíno is a Spanish proteomics and metabolomics bioinformatician at EMBL-EBI, known for the PRIDE database, the MetaboLights resource, and coordinating the ProteomeXchange consortium since 2011.

Juan C. Alonso

Juan C. Alonso, also published as Juan Carlos Alonso, is a molecular biologist leading the Genetic Stability laboratory at the CNB-CSIC in Madrid, studying DNA repair in Bacillus subtilis.

Juan C. Celedón

Juan C. Celedón (J.C. Celedon) is an American pulmonary physician-scientist at the University of Pittsburgh who led the VDKA vitamin D asthma trial and was 2020 American Thoracic Society president.

Juan Carlos Ayus

Juan Carlos Ayus, also published as Juan C. Ayus, is an Argentine-born nephrologist at UC Irvine known for work on hyponatremic encephalopathy and rapid correction of hyponatremia.

Juan Carlos Castilla

Juan Carlos Castilla, born in Argentina in 1940, is a Chilean marine ecologist at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and pioneer of South American marine ecology.

Juan Carlos García‐Pagán

Juan Carlos García-Pagán is a Spanish hepatologist who heads the Hepatic Hemodynamic Section at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and led a landmark 2010 trial of early TIPS for variceal bleeding.

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte

Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, born 1960 in Hellín, Spain, is a Spanish stem cell researcher at Altos Labs, known for partial reprogramming that reverses aging hallmarks in mice.

Juan Carlos Saéz

Juan Carlos Sáez Carreño is a Chilean physiologist and neuroscientist known for research on connexin and pannexin channels, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Juan Carlos Zúñiga‐Pflücker

Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker is a Canadian immunologist and professor at the University of Toronto whose OP9-DL1 co-culture system generates T cells from stem cells in over 1,000 laboratories.

Juan I. Fuxman Bass

Juan I. Fuxman Bass, also known as Juan Ignacio Fuxman Bass, is an Argentine computational biologist at Boston University who maps human transcription factor networks.

Juan Ignacio Sanguinetti-Scheck

Juan Ignacio Sanguinetti-Scheck is a Uruguayan systems neuroscientist and quantitative ethologist, an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania who co-authored the 2019 Science study on rats playing hide-and-seek.

Juan J. Armesto

Juan J. Armesto (Juan José Armesto Zamudio) was a Chilean ecologist who studied the ecology and biogeochemistry of Chile's native forests and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Juan J. Badimón

Juan J. Badimon is a Spanish-born pharmacologist and Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, known for work on HDL cholesterol, high-risk plaque, and empagliflozin in heart failure.

Juan J. Lafaille

Juan J. Lafaille is an immunologist and professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine known for research on γδ T cells and regulatory T cells.

Juan Luis Arsuaga

Juan Luis Arsuaga is a Spanish palaeoanthropologist, born in Madrid in 1954, whose team at the Atapuerca caves defined Homo antecessor and excavated the Sima de los Huesos.

Juan Modolell

Juan Modolell (1937–2023) was a Spanish molecular biologist and developmental geneticist who spent his career at CSIC in Madrid, characterizing the Drosophila proneural genes and the iroquois complex.

Juan Oliver (nephrologist)

Juan A. Oliver is a nephrologist and physician-scientist at Columbia University in New York, known for his work on vasodilatory shock and kidney stem cells.