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June Round

June Round is an American immunologist and professor at the University of Utah whose laboratory showed that gut bacteria and fungi, including Bacteroides fragilis, shape immune and metabolic health.

Junfeng Zhang

Junfeng (Jim) Zhang is an environmental health scientist and professor at Duke University since 2013, known for studies linking air pollution to cardiovascular and respiratory outcomes.

Junichi Sadoshima

Junichi Sadoshima is a molecular cardiologist who studies cardiac hypertrophy, autophagy, and Hippo signaling, and has led the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School since 2010.

Junichi Takagi

Junichi Takagi (高木淳一, born 1962) is a Japanese structural biologist and professor at Osaka University's Institute for Protein Research, known for work on integrins and the Fv-clasp crystallization chaperone.

Junji Iwahara

Junji Iwahara is a biophysical chemist and professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, known for using NMR spectroscopy to study how proteins scan DNA.

Junji Takeda

Junji Takeda (竹田 潤二) is a Japanese molecular biologist at Osaka University whose 1993 Cell paper identified PIG-A mutations as the cause of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.

Junjie Chen

Junjie Chen is a cancer biologist at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for work on the DNA damage response and genomic stability.

Junjie Hu (胡俊杰)

Junjie Hu (胡俊杰) is a Chinese cell biologist who studies how the endoplasmic reticulum takes shape, leading a lab at the Institute of Biophysics in Beijing.

Junyue Cao

Junyue Cao (曹俊越) is a Chinese-born computational biologist and Rockefeller University associate professor known for sci-RNA-seq combinatorial indexing methods and single-cell atlases of mammalian development and aging.

Jürg Bähler

Jürg Bähler is a Swiss molecular biologist and Professor of Systems Biology at University College London who studies aging and genome regulation in fission yeast.

Jürg Müller

Jürg Müller is a German-based biochemist and group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried since 2010, known for identifying the enzymatic activities of Polycomb complexes PRC2 and PR-DUB.

Jürg Tschopp

Jürg Tschopp (1951–2011) was a Swiss biochemist and immunologist at the University of Lausanne who discovered and named the inflammasome, and also the granzymes and perforin, work that led to therapies for gout and lupus.

Jürgen Braun

Jürgen Braun is a German rheumatologist known for pioneering TNF-blocker trials in ankylosing spondylitis and ASAS assessment tools; he led Germany's largest rheumatology clinic from 2001 to 2021.

Jürgen Floege

Jürgen Floege is a German nephrologist and professor who directs nephrology and clinical immunology at RWTH Aachen, best known for the influential STOP-IgAN trial in IgA nephropathy.

Jürgen Götz

Jürgen Götz is a neuroscientist at the University of Queensland who created the first tau mouse models of Alzheimer's disease and developed scanning ultrasound therapy.

Jürgen Knoblich

Jürgen Knoblich (born 1963) is a German developmental biologist at IMBA in Vienna whose laboratory introduced cerebral organoids, human stem-cell models of brain development, in 2013.

Jürgen M. Lehmann

Jürgen M. Lehmann was a researcher at Glaxo Wellcome in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, known for identifying ligands for the nuclear receptors PPARγ, PXR, and FXR.

Jürgen Popp

Jürgen Popp (born 1966 in Dinkelsbühl) is a German physical chemist who develops Raman-based, label-free optical diagnostics, leading the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology in Jena since 2006.

Jürgen Rehm

Jürgen Rehm is a German epidemiologist at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health who studies the global burden of disease from alcohol and other drugs.

Jürgen Ruland

Jürgen Ruland (born 1966) is a German physician-scientist and immunologist at TU Munich who studies immune signaling pathways and how their defects cause immunodeficiency, inflammation, and lymphoma.

Jürgen Wess

Jürgen Wess is a molecular pharmacologist leading the Molecular Signaling Section at NIH's NIDDK in Bethesda since 1998, known for linking muscarinic acetylcholine receptors to appetite, body weight, and glucose control, and for DREADD technology.

Juro Sakai

Juro Sakai (酒井 寿郎) is a Japanese molecular biologist, professor at Tohoku University, known for showing that SREBP is released from cell membranes by two sequential cleavages.

Jurrien Dean

Jurrien Dean is an NIH Distinguished Investigator who studies fertilization in mice, known for the ZP2/ovastacin model of sperm-egg recognition and a 1989 contraceptive vaccine study.

Jurriën M. ten Berg

Jurriën M. ten Berg (born 1964) is a Dutch interventional cardiologist at St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, and Maastricht University professor known for the POPular TAVI trials.

Jussi Taipale

Jussi Taipale, born 1968, is a Finnish biochemist who studies how gene activity is controlled, known for mapping transcription factor binding and developing HT-SELEX and CAP-SELEX methods.

Justin B. Dimick

Justin B. Dimick is an American general surgeon and health services researcher who chairs the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan and studies surgical quality.

Justin Blau

Justin Blau is an American molecular neuroscientist and Professor of Biology and Neural Science at New York University, known for work on the fruit fly circadian clock.

Justin Crocker

Justin Crocker is a molecular biologist and group leader at EMBL Heidelberg since 2017 who studies how transcriptional enhancers encode gene expression, building artificial enhancers in fruit flies.

Justin L. Sonnenburg

Justin L. Sonnenburg is an American microbiologist and Stanford professor who studies how the gut microbiota interacts with diet and the immune system, leading his Stanford lab since 2008.

Justin Lessler

Justin Lessler is an American infectious disease epidemiologist and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for national COVID-19 modeling and the Scenario Modeling Hub.