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Juan P. Casas

Juan P. Casas, also known as Juan Pablo Casas, is a Colombian-trained genetic epidemiologist at UCL and LSHTM who uses Mendelian randomisation to test cardiovascular causes.

Juan P. Frías

Juan P. Frías (Juan Pablo Frías) is a Chilean-born endocrinologist and clinical trialist who has led more than 250 diabetes studies and directs the Los Angeles Institute for Metabolic Research.

Juan R. Cubillos‐Ruiz

Juan R. Cubillos-Ruiz is a Colombian-born immunologist at Weill Cornell Medicine known for showing how tumors disable dendritic cells via ER stress, work that spawned Quentis Therapeutics.

Juan Rivera (immunologist)

Juan Rivera is an immunologist who is deputy scientific director at NIAMS and led its Laboratory of Molecular Immunogenetics, known for work on IgE receptor signaling.

Juan Rodés

Juan Rodés was a Spanish hepatologist who founded the Liver Unit of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona in 1968, building it into one of Europe's leading liver centers.

Juan S. Bonifacino

Juan S. Bonifacino is an Argentine-born cell biologist who heads intracellular protein trafficking research at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, and is known for discovering the AP-3, AP-4, and GGA adaptors.

Juan Valcárcel

Juan Valcárcel is a Spanish molecular biologist known for work on the splicing factors Sex-lethal and U2AF and for the 2024 functional map of the human spliceosome.

Juan W. Valle

Juan W. Valle is a Peruvian-born, British-based medical oncologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Manchester, known for the ABC-02 and TOPAZ-1 trials in biliary tract cancer.

Juan‐R. Malagelada

Juan-R. Malagelada (Joan Ramon Malagelada Benaprés) is a Spanish gastroenterologist known for the 2003 Lancet review "Gut flora in health and disease" and studies of gastric motility.

Juda Hirsch Quastel

Juda Hirsch Quastel (1899–1987) was a British-born Canadian biochemist who did foundational work in soil biochemistry and neurochemistry, and first demonstrated competitive enzyme inhibition in 1925.

Judah Folkman

Judah Folkman was an American surgeon and physician-scientist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard who founded anti-angiogenesis, the idea that tumors depend on growing new blood vessels.

Judd E. Hollander

Judd E. Hollander, also known as Judd Hollander, is an American emergency medicine physician and researcher at Thomas Jefferson University known for chest pain research.

Judith A. Ferry

Judith A. Ferry is an American diagnostic hematopathologist who directs hematopathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, holds a Harvard pathology chair, wrote the textbook Extranodal Lymphomas, and helped shape the WHO lymphoma classification.

Judith Campisi

Judith Campisi (1948–2024) was an American cell biologist who made cellular senescence central to aging research, coined the term "senolytics", and was a scientific founder of Unity Biotechnology.

Judith Eisen

Judith S. Eisen is an American developmental neurobiologist at the University of Oregon who established the zebrafish as a model organism for studying vertebrate neural development.

Judith Frydman

Judith Frydman is a Stanford professor of biology and genetics who studies protein folding, known for discovering the TRiC chaperonin and establishing cotranslational folding; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Judith Kimble

Judith Kimble is an American developmental geneticist who studies germline stem cells in C. elegans at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she taught from 1983 to 2025.

Judith L. Rapoport

Judith L. Rapoport, born Judith Helen Livant, was an American child psychiatrist who led the NIMH Child Psychiatry Branch from 1984 to 2017 and wrote The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing.

Judith L. Swain

Judith L. Swain is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular medicine who pioneered transgenic animal models of heart disease and led medicine departments at Stanford and Penn.

Judith M. Bliss

Judith M. Bliss is a British medical statistician, Professor of Clinical Trials at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, directing its Clinical Trials and Statistics Unit.

Judith M. White

Judith M. White is an American virologist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine known for her work on viral membrane fusion, ADAM proteins, and sperm–egg fusion.

Judith P. Klinman

Judith P. Klinman, born Judith Pollock in 1941, is an American biochemist at UC Berkeley, the first woman on its chemistry faculty, known for demonstrating hydrogen tunneling in enzyme reactions.

Judith S. Hochman

Judith S. Hochman is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist at NYU Langone who led the NHLBI-funded SHOCK, OAT, and ISCHEMIA trials, reshaping cardiology guidelines.

Judith Stephenson

Judith Stephenson is a British physician-scientist holding the Margaret Pyke Chair of Sexual & Reproductive Health at UCL, known for research on chlamydia screening and preconception health.

Judith Wasserheit

Judith Wasserheit is an American physician-epidemiologist who led the CDC's STD/HIV prevention division, directed the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, and chaired global health at the University of Washington.

Judson Brewer

Judson Brewer is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist who studies how reward-based learning maintains habits like smoking and anxiety, developing app-based mindfulness treatments and directing research at Brown University's Mindfulness Center.

Judy E. Garber

Judy E. Garber (Judy Ellen Garber) is an American physician-scientist in clinical cancer genetics, chief of cancer genetics and prevention at Dana-Farber and a Harvard Medical School professor.

Judy H. Cho

Judy H. Cho is an American physician-scientist in inflammatory bowel disease genetics, Dean of Translational Genetics at Mount Sinai and senior investigator on the NOD2–Crohn's disease gene discovery.

Judy Hirst

Judy Hirst is a British biological chemist, Professor at Cambridge and Director of the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, known for solving mitochondrial complex I's structure.

Judy Lieberman

Judy Lieberman is an American immunologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for her work on killer lymphocytes, pyroptosis, and RNA interference as drugs.