edgepedia

Researchers in molecular and cell biology

1,486 articles

Barbara Ruskin

Barbara Ruskin is a molecular biologist and patent attorney who, as a Harvard doctoral student in the 1980s, helped establish the biochemistry of mammalian pre-mRNA splicing, including discovery of U2AF.

Barbara Sollner-Webb

Barbara Sollner-Webb is a molecular biologist and professor emerita at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, known for work on ribosomal RNA gene expression and RNA editing.

Barry D. Shur

Barry D. Shur is an American cell biologist known for work on sperm–egg binding and for chairing Cell Biology at Emory University from 1996 to 2010.

Barry M. Gumbiner

Barry M. Gumbiner is a cell biologist known for defining the molecular basis of cell adhesion, the cadherin–catenin complex, and epithelial morphogenesis, and for work on endothelial junctions.

Bart Vanhaesebroeck

Bart Vanhaesebroeck is a professor of cell signaling at the UCL Cancer Institute who identified the white-cell PI3Kδ isoform and drove PI3Kδ inhibitors used in cancer treatment since 2014.

Bartholomew M. Sefton

Bartholomew M. Sefton is a molecular biologist at the Salk Institute in San Diego whose 1980 work showed that the Rous sarcoma virus transforming protein is a tyrosine kinase.

Bastien D. Gomperts

Bastien D. Gomperts is a cell biologist at University College London known for showing that G-proteins control secretion, and for co-authoring the textbook Signal Transduction.

Bechara Kachar

Bechara Kachar is a Brazilian-born physician and cell biologist who leads the Structural Cell Biology Section at the NIH's NIDCD, known for identifying the hair-cell tip link.

Ben Margolis

Ben Margolis (Benjamin Lewis Margolis) is a physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus of nephrology at the University of Michigan who studies epithelial polarity and kidney disease.

Benjamin D. Hall

Benjamin D. Hall (1932–2019) was an American molecular biologist and University of Washington professor known for yeast RNA transcription research and inventions behind the first recombinant hepatitis B vaccine.

Benjamin Geiger

Benjamin (Benny) Geiger is an Israeli cell biologist and emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, a leading researcher on focal adhesions and cell adhesion.

Benjamin Tu

Benjamin Tu is an American molecular biologist and HHMI Investigator at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for discovering the yeast metabolic cycle and studying how metabolism controls cell growth.

Benoît De Crombrugghe

Benoît De Crombrugghe, born 1935 in Bruges, Belgium, is a Belgian molecular biologist at M.D. Anderson known for discovering Osterix and establishing Sox9's role in cartilage.

Berl R. Oakley

Berl R. Oakley is an American geneticist, Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas since 2008, known for discovering γ-tubulin in the fungus Aspergillus nidulans.

Bernd Bukau

Bernd Bukau, born 1954 in Leipzig, is a German molecular biologist who studies protein folding and quality control through molecular chaperones, leading groups at Heidelberg University's ZMBH and the German Cancer Research Center.

Bernd‐Joachim Benecke

Bernd-Joachim Benecke is a molecular biologist working on RNA biology, known for a 1977 Cell paper identifying a new class of small nuclear RNA molecules.

Bernhard Dobberstein

Bernhard Dobberstein, born 1944, is a German molecular biologist who trained with Günter Blobel, led EMBL Heidelberg research, and became professor at Heidelberg's ZMBH, known for signal peptides and protein translocation.

Bernhard Lüscher

Bernhard Lüscher is a German molecular biologist and biochemist at RWTH Aachen known for work on oncoproteins like Myb and c-Myc and on mono-ADP-ribosylation, which controls DNA repair and signaling.

Berthold Göttgens

Berthold Göttgens, born 1966, is Professor of Molecular Haematology at Cambridge and Director of the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, known for single-cell studies of blood stem cells and leukemia.

Bertrand Séraphin

Bertrand Séraphin, born 1961, is a French molecular biologist who leads the Eukaryotic mRNA decay team at CNRS and IGBMC near Strasbourg, known for spliceosome work and the TAP method.

Beth Levine (physician-scientist)

Beth Levine (1960–2020) was an American physician-scientist who established the genetic study of autophagy in mammals; her lab identified beclin 1 as the first mammalian autophagy gene.

Beverly M. Emerson

Beverly M. Emerson is an American molecular biologist who studies gene regulation and epigenetic changes in cancer, and is a Distinguished Scientist at OHSU's Knight Cancer Institute.

Bharat B. Aggarwal

Bharat B. Aggarwal, full name Bharat Bhushan Aggarwal, is a biochemist who discovered TNF-α and TNF-β and led cytokine research at MD Anderson from 1989 to 2015.

Bik-Kwoon Tye

Bik-Kwoon Tye is a molecular biologist known for identifying the MCM genes, initiators of eukaryotic DNA replication, and for cryo-EM structures of the replication machinery.

Bohdan Wasylyk

Bohdan Wasylyk is a French-based molecular biologist in Strasbourg known for defining how the SV40 enhancer works and helping establish the Ets transcription factor family.

Bostjan Kobe

Boštjan Kobe, born 1965 in Ljubljana, is a Slovenian-born Australian structural biologist and professor at the University of Queensland, known for leucine-rich repeat protein structures and TIR-domain signaling in innate immunity.

Boudewijn Burgering

Boudewijn Burgering is a Dutch molecular biologist, professor of signal transduction at UMC Utrecht since 2003, known for identifying protein kinase B as an insulin signaling target in 1995.

Brad Cairns

Brad Cairns, also known as Bradley R. Cairns, is an American chromatin biologist at the University of Utah who discovered the SWI/SNF and RSC remodeling complexes.

Bradford C. Berk

Bradford C. Berk is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular molecular biology at the University of Rochester, known for research on vascular signaling, oxidative stress, and aneurysm mechanisms.

Brenda L. Bass

Brenda L. Bass, born 1955, is an American molecular biologist at the University of Utah who discovered the ADAR RNA editing enzymes and established Dicer's role in RNA silencing.