Life and health scientists

Peter J. Barnes

Peter J. Barnes, known in the literature as P. J. Barnes, is a British respiratory pharmacologist and Professor of Thoracic Medicine at Imperial College London, known for work on asthma and COPD.

Peter J. Bryant, also published as P J Bryant, is a developmental biologist and Research Professor at UC Irvine known for work on growth control and tumor-suppressor genes in the fruit fly Drosophila.

Peter J. Campbell

Peter J. Campbell is a British cancer genomics researcher who coined chromothripsis and kataegis, headed the Sanger Institute's Cancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation program, and left in 2024 for Quotient Therapeutics.

Peter J. Espenshade

Peter J. Espenshade is an American cell biologist and professor at Johns Hopkins known for showing that the SREBP pathway controls cholesterol feedback and oxygen sensing.

Peter J. Fischinger

Peter J. Fischinger is a virologist with M.D. and Ph.D. degrees who worked at the National Cancer Institute on murine retroviruses and later on HIV and AIDS vaccine research.

Peter J. Hollenbeck

Peter J. Hollenbeck is a cellular neurobiologist known for his work on mitochondrial transport along nerve cell axons, with faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School and Purdue University.

Peter J. Hutchinson

Peter J. Hutchinson is a British neurosurgeon and NIHR Research Professor at the University of Cambridge, known for leading the RESCUE trials on traumatic brain injury.

Peter J. Kahrilas

Peter J. Kahrilas is a gastroenterologist and Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University who led the Montreal Definition of GERD, the Chicago Classification, and the Lyon Consensus.

Peter J. Morris

Peter J. Morris (Sir Peter John Morris) was an Australian-born transplant surgeon who led Oxford's Nuffield Department of Surgery from 1974 to 2001 and pioneered transplant matching.

Peter J. Mumby

Peter J. Mumby is a marine ecologist and Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, known for coral reef resilience research and parrotfish fishing bans in Belize and Bonaire.

Peter J. Newman

Peter J. Newman is an American hematology researcher who discovered and characterized PECAM-1 (CD31), a cell adhesion molecule on platelets, and works at the Versiti Blood Research Institute in Milwaukee.

Peter J. O’Dwyer

Peter J. O'Dwyer is a medical oncologist, professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and co-chair of ECOG-ACRIN, known for gastrointestinal cancer research and the NCI-MATCH precision medicine trial.

Peter J. Peters

Peter J. Peters is a Dutch cell biologist known for discovering the MHC class II compartment and for showing that tuberculosis bacteria translocate to the host cell's cytosol.

Peter J. Polverini

Peter J. Polverini is an American oral and maxillofacial pathologist and cancer researcher who served as dean of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry from 2003 to 2013.

Peter J. Pronovost

Peter J. Pronovost is an American critical care physician and patient-safety researcher known for a central-line checklist that sharply reduced Michigan ICU infections, earning a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008.

Peter J. Quesenberry

Peter J. Quesenberry (1938–2025) was an American hematologist-oncologist and stem cell researcher at Brown University, known for the stem cell continuum and extracellular vesicle research.

Peter J. Ratcliffe

Peter J. Ratcliffe, also known as Peter Ratcliffe, is a British physician-scientist and nephrologist at Oxford who discovered how cells sense oxygen, winning the 2019 Nobel Prize.

Peter J. Roach

Peter J. Roach (1948–2022) was an English-born biochemist at the Indiana University School of Medicine who established the role of glycogen phosphorylation in Lafora disease.

Peter J. Sadler

Peter John Sadler is a chemist and Chair of Chemistry at the University of Warwick. He pioneered the chemistry of metals in medicine and developed targeted anticancer agents.

Peter J. Scheuer

Peter J. Scheuer (1928–2006) was a British hepatopathologist at the Royal Free Hospital and University College London, known for the textbook Liver Biopsy Interpretation and his classification of chronic hepatitis.

Peter J. Schwartz

Peter J. Schwartz is an Italian cardiologist known for his work on long QT syndrome and the autonomic nervous system, directing cardiac genetics research in Milan.

Peter J. Selby

Peter J. Selby is a British oncologist and Professor of Cancer Medicine at the University of Leeds, known for the acyclovir studies and the MRC Myeloma VII trial.

Peter J. Snyder

Peter J. Snyder is an American endocrinologist and professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, known for leading the Testosterone Trials and the 2024 finding that testosterone did not reduce fractures.

Peter John Campbell

Peter John Campbell is a cancer genomicist and clinician-scientist known for chromothripsis, kataegis, and mutational signatures, who led the Cancer, Ageing and Somatic Mutation program at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Peter John Morris

Sir Peter John Morris (1934–2022) was an Australian-born transplant surgeon who led surgery at Oxford and served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Peter Johnson (medical oncologist)

Peter Johnson, also known as Peter M. Johnson, is a British medical oncologist at the University of Southampton known for the RAPID trial in Hodgkin lymphoma.

Peter Jonas (neuroscientist)

Peter Jonas (born 1961) is a German neuroscientist studying synaptic transmission and hippocampal microcircuits, a professor at ISTA in Austria since 2010 and a Wittgenstein Award winner.

Peter Joseph Embi

Peter Joseph Embi is an American physician-scientist in biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who created the nation's first Chief Research Information Officer role.

Peter Jüni

Peter Jüni is a Swiss clinical epidemiologist who led the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table and has been a professor at the University of Oxford since 2022.