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Julian C. Knight

Julian C. Knight is a physician-scientist and Professor of Genomic Medicine at the University of Oxford, known for mapping genetic variants that shape immune responses.

Julian D. Gillmore

Julian D. Gillmore is a British amyloidosis researcher and UCL Professor of Medicine who leads the first in vivo CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing trials for ATTR amyloidosis.

Julian Davies (microbiologist)

Julian Davies, also known as Julian E. Davies, was a Welsh-born microbiologist who showed how bacteria enzymatically inactivate antibiotics and how resistance genes spread between species.

Julian Downward

Julian Downward is a British cancer biologist who leads the Oncogene Biology Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, known for work on Ras signaling and apoptosis.

Julian M. Hibberd

Julian M. Hibberd is a British plant biologist who studies how C4 photosynthesis evolved from the ancestral C3 pathway and how it might be engineered into crops like rice.

Julian M. Hopkin

Julian M. Hopkin, born in 1948, is a British physician and researcher in respiratory medicine, known for work on the genetics of asthma and allergy and DNA-based diagnosis of Pneumocystis pneumonia.

Julián Panés

Julián Panés, also published as Julian Panes, is a Spanish gastroenterologist at Hospital Clínic in Barcelona, known for tofacitinib trials in ulcerative colitis and as president of ECCO.

Julian Parkhill

Julian Parkhill is a British genomicist known for sequencing major bacterial pathogen genomes and for Roary; he has been a professor at Cambridge since 2019.

Julian Peto

Julian Peto is a British cancer epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine known for work on asbestos, cervical screening, and breast cancer genetics.

Julian Savulescu

Julian Savulescu is an Australian bioethicist and moral philosopher who has held Oxford's Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics since 2002, known for procreative beneficence and moral bioenhancement.

Julian Schroeder

Julian I. Schroeder is a plant biologist at UC San Diego, a National Academy of Sciences member known for plant ion channels, stomatal signaling, and salt-tolerant crops.

Julian Tudor Hart

Julian Tudor Hart (1927–2018) was a Welsh general practitioner and researcher who coined the inverse care law in 1971 and ran the first research general practice, in Glyncorrwg, Wales.

Juliana Machado Ferreira

Juliana Machado Ferreira is a Brazilian conservation geneticist who founded and leads Freeland Brasil, fighting wildlife trafficking through research, enforcement training, and public policy since 2005.

Julianne Imperato‐McGinley

Julianne Imperato-McGinley is an American endocrinologist and physician-scientist at Weill Cornell Medical College who identified inherited 5-alpha-reductase deficiency in the Dominican Republic in 1974, work that informed finasteride.

Julie A. Schneider

Julie A. Schneider is an American physician-scientist and neuropathologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, known for showing that most dementia in older people arises from mixed brain pathologies.

Julie Ahringer

Julie Ahringer is a biologist and Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge, known for pioneering genome-wide RNA interference screening in the worm C. elegans.

Julie E. Buring

Julie E. Buring is a chronic-disease epidemiologist, Professor Emerita at Harvard Medical School, known for leading large prevention trials in women, including the Women's Health Study and VITAL.

Julie L. Gerberding

Julie Louise Gerberding is an American infectious-disease physician who was the first woman to direct the CDC, from 2002 to 2009, and became FNIH CEO in 2022.

Julie M. Old

Julie M. Old, published also as J. M. Old, is a British medical geneticist at Oxford who characterized β0-thalassaemia molecularly and pioneered first-trimester prenatal diagnosis of the hemoglobinopathies.

Julie Overbaugh

Julie Overbaugh is an American virologist at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle who studies HIV transmission and antibody responses, leading HIV research cohorts in Kenya since 1993.

Julie Parsonnet

Julie Parsonnet is an American infectious diseases physician and epidemiologist, George DeForest Barnett Professor of Medicine, Emerita, at Stanford. Her work established H. pylori as a gastric cancer cause.

Julie R. Brahmer

Julie R. Brahmer, also published as Julie Brahmer, is an American medical oncologist at Johns Hopkins who led the first-in-human trial of nivolumab for lung cancer.

Julie Thompson

Julie Thompson, also published as Julie D. Thompson, is a British-trained bioinformatician and CNRS research director at the University of Strasbourg, known for the CLUSTAL W and CLUSTAL X alignment tools.

Julien Bogousslavsky

Julien Bogousslavsky (J. Bogousslavsky), born 1954 in Paris, is a Swiss neurologist and stroke researcher known for creating the Lausanne Stroke Registry at CHUV in Lausanne.

Julien Sage

Julien Sage is a cancer biologist and professor of genetics and pediatrics at Stanford University, known for research on the RB pathway and small cell lung cancer.

Julien Taïeb

Julien Taïeb, also written Julien Taieb, is a French physician and professor at Université Paris Cité who heads digestive oncology at the Hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou in Paris.

Juliet K Brophy

Juliet K Brophy is an American paleoanthropologist and associate professor at Louisiana State University, lead author of the 2021 paper describing the first Homo naledi child skull.

Julio A. Aguirre‐Ghiso

Julio A. Aguirre-Ghiso is a cancer biologist known for research on tumor dormancy, and founding director of the Cancer Dormancy Institute at Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Julio A. Chirinos

Julio A. Chirinos, also known as Julio Chirinos, is a cardiologist and professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania who studies arterial stiffness and HFpEF.

Julio A. Panza

Julio A. Panza is an Argentina-trained cardiologist who is Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College and inaugural Director of Cardiology at Westchester Medical Center.