Life and health scientists

Julio E. Celis

Julio E. Celis is a molecular biologist and biochemist recognized as one of the founding fathers of proteomics, known for protein expression profiles of normal and transformed cells.

Julio Frenk

Julio Frenk is a global health researcher and UCLA's seventh chancellor since 2025, formerly president of the University of Miami, Harvard public health dean, and Mexico's health minister.

Júlio Licinio

Júlio Licinio is a psychiatrist and pharmacogenomics researcher who became dean of the College of Medicine at SUNY Upstate in 2017 and founded Molecular Psychiatry.

Julio Montaner

Julio S. G. Montaner is an Argentine-born Canadian physician who directs the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and pioneered Treatment as Prevention, adopted by the United Nations.

Julio Rosenstock

Julio Rosenstock is a Costa Rica–trained endocrinologist and clinical professor at UT Southwestern who directs the Dallas Diabetes Research Center and led pivotal type 2 diabetes drug trials.

Julio Saez-Rodriguez

Julio Saez-Rodriguez (Julio Sáez-Rodríguez) is a Spanish computational biologist who has been Head of Research at EMBL-EBI since 2024 and a Heidelberg professor of medical bioinformatics.

Julio V. Santiago

Julio V. Santiago (1942–1997) was an endocrinologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis known for research on childhood diabetes, insulin therapy, and hypoglycemia.

Julius Adler (biochemist)

Julius Adler (1930–2024) was an American microbiologist and biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose work from the 1960s founded the modern field of bacterial chemotaxis.

Julius Axelrod (1912–2004) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist who shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for showing that norepinephrine is inactivated by reuptake into nerve endings, the mechanism targeted by antidepressants.

Julius Bernstein

Julius Bernstein (1839–1917) was a German physiologist who made the first quantitative measurement of the nerve action potential in 1868 and proposed the membrane theory of bioelectricity in 1902.

Julius Brennecke

Julius Brennecke is a molecular biologist and senior group leader at IMBA in Vienna who studies genome defense against transposable elements in the fruit fly Drosophila.

Julius H. Comroe, Jr.

Julius H. Comroe, Jr. (1911–1984) was an American pulmonary physiologist who made body plethysmography a practical clinical test and founded the Cardiovascular Research Institute at UCSF.

Julius Hirschberg

Julius Hirschberg (1843–1925) was a German ophthalmologist and medical historian in Berlin, known for the Hirschberg test for measuring eye misalignment and a nine-volume history of ophthalmology.

Julius Kollmann

Julius Kollmann, full name Julius Konstantin Ernst Kollmann, was a German anatomist and anthropologist, professor of anatomy at Basel from 1878 to 1913, known for his embryological atlas and craniometric studies.

Julius Lukeš

Julius Lukeš is a Czech parasitologist and protist molecular biologist at the Czech Academy of Sciences, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Julius Morgenroth

Julius Morgenroth (1871–1924) was a German bacteriologist and immunologist, remembered as a co-founder of antibacterial chemotherapy. Working in Paul Ehrlich's institute, he showed the quinine derivative optochin could kill pneumococci in the human body.

Julius von Sachs

Julius von Sachs (1832–1897) was a German botanist and plant physiologist who introduced controlled, quantitative experimentation into botany, proved photosynthesis occurs in chloroplasts, and founded modern plant physiology.

Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857–1940) was an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist at Vienna University who won the 1927 Nobel Prize for introducing malaria inoculation to treat general paralysis.

Julius Wolff (German surgeon)

Julius Wolff (1836–1902) was a German orthopedic surgeon in Berlin whose 1892 monograph gave his name to Wolff's law: bone adapts its structure to the loads placed on it.

Jun J. Yang

Jun J. Yang is a pharmacogenomics researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital known for identifying genetic variants that affect chemotherapy response in childhood leukemia.

Jun Lü (molecular biologist)

Jun Lü, also published as Jun Lu, is a molecular biologist and Professor of Genetics at Yale, known for the 2005 Nature study classifying cancers by microRNA profiles.

Jun O. Liu

Jun O. Liu is a chemical biologist and professor of pharmacology and oncology at Johns Hopkins, who directs the Johns Hopkins Drug Library and created the rapafucins.

Jun Qin (medical researcher)

Jun Qin is a structural and molecular biologist at Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute, known since his 2002 Cell paper for structural work on integrin inside-out activation.

Jun Qin (molecular biologist)

Jun Qin is a molecular biologist and mass-spectrometry proteomics researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, known for co-leading the 2011 Cell study that mapped the human endogenous coregulator complexome.

Jun Wang

Jun Wang (born 1976) is a Chinese genomics and bioinformatics researcher who founded BGI's Bioinformatics Department in 1999, contributed to the SARS coronavirus genome analysis, and led sequencing of the first Asian diploid genome.

Jun Wu

Jun Wu is a molecular biologist and stem cell researcher at UT Southwestern in Dallas, known for creating the first human–pig chimeric embryos in 2017.

Jun-ichi Nakayama

Jun-ichi Nakayama (中山俊一, born 1971) is a Japanese epigenetics researcher who has been Professor of Chromatin Regulation at the National Institute for Basic Biology since 2016.

Jun-ichi Tomizawa

Jun-ichi Tomizawa (富澤純一; 1924–2017) was a Japanese molecular geneticist who worked on phage and plasmid DNA replication and first showed antisense RNAs regulate genes.

Jun‐Lin Guan

Jun-Lin Guan is a cancer biologist and professor at the University of Cincinnati known for identifying focal adhesion kinase and showing that autophagy can promote tumor development.