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Ben de Kruijff

Ben de Kruijff (Bernard de Kruijff) is a Dutch biochemist who held the biomembranes chair at Utrecht University from 1984 to 2010 and co-founded its Utrecht Institute of Biomembranes.

Ben E. Black

Ben E. Black is a chromosome and centromere biologist and Eldridge Reeves Johnson Foundation Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for building human artificial chromosomes that bypass centromeric DNA.

Ben F. Luisi

Ben F. Luisi is a British-based structural biologist and professor of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, known for determining the structures of the RNase E catalytic domain and the AcrAB–TolC efflux pump.

Ben Langmead

Ben Langmead is an American computational biologist and professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University, known for the Bowtie aligners, HISAT, and Kraken 2.

Ben Lehner

Ben Lehner is a geneticist who studies genetic robustness and how genomes predict traits. He leads Generative Genomics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and is a Royal Society Fellow.

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.

Ben Scheres

Ben Scheres (born 1960) is a Dutch plant developmental biologist who established how the stem cell niche at the Arabidopsis root tip is specified and maintained.

Ben-Zion Shilo

Ben-Zion Shilo (1951–April 2025) was an Israeli developmental biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for defining how receptor tyrosine kinase signaling patterns the Drosophila embryo.

Bence P. Ölveczky

Bence P. Ölveczky is a systems neuroscientist at Harvard University who studies how neural circuits learn and produce complex motor sequences, using rats as his main model system.

Benedict Anchang

Benedict Anchang is a German-trained computational and systems biologist who leads the Computational and Systems Biology Group at NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Benedict Paten

Benedict Paten is a computational biologist and professor at UC Santa Cruz who works on pangenome genomics, leading the Computational Genomics Lab and contributing to the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium.

Bengt Nordén

Bengt Nordén, also published as Bengt Norden, is a Swedish physical chemist known for developing linear dichroism spectroscopy to study DNA and proteins in solution.

Bengt Samuelsson

Bengt Samuelsson (1934–2024) was a Swedish biochemist at Karolinska Institutet who shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering thromboxanes and leukotrienes.

Bengt Westermark

Bengt Westermark is a Swedish tumor-biology researcher and professor at Uppsala University, known for work on platelet-derived growth factor and cancer, especially glioblastoma, and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Benjamin Blencowe

Benjamin J. Blencowe is an RNA biologist and Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto, known for mapping alternative splicing and discovering neuronal microexons misregulated in autism.

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 D. Humphreys

Benjamin D. Humphreys is an American nephrologist and kidney stem cell researcher who is Chief of Nephrology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Benjamin D. Rowland

Benjamin D. Rowland is a molecular biologist leading a research group at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam and a Professor of Genome Biology at TU Delft.

Benjamin F. Cravatt

Benjamin F. Cravatt is an American chemical biologist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for developing activity-based protein profiling and founding biotechnology companies including Vividion Therapeutics.

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 Haibe‐Kains

Benjamin Haibe-Kains is a Canadian-based computational biologist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, known for a 2013 Nature paper showing that large pharmacogenomic datasets disagreed.

Benjamin Harrison Willier

Benjamin Harrison Willier (1890–1972) was an American experimental embryologist who chaired zoology at Johns Hopkins and showed that pigment cells arise from the neural crest.

Benjamin J. Raphael

Benjamin J. Raphael is a computational biologist and computer scientist, professor at Princeton University since 2016 and previously at Brown, known for algorithms used in TCGA and ICGC cancer projects.

Benjamin Libet

Benjamin Libet (1916–2007) was an American physiologist and neuroscientist who spent nearly 50 years at UCSF and is known for the Libet experiments on free will and conscious awareness.

Benjamin Lincoln Robinson

Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1864–1935) was an American systematic botanist who led Harvard's Gray Herbarium for 43 years, became its first Asa Gray Professor in 1899, and founded the journal Rhodora.

Benjamin M. Neale

Benjamin M. Neale is a statistical geneticist at the Broad Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, known for LD Score regression and psychiatric genomics.

Benjamin Minge Duggar

Benjamin Minge Duggar (1872–1956) was an American plant physiologist and mycologist who wrote the first U.S. plant pathology textbook and discovered Aureomycin, the first tetracycline antibiotic.

Benjamin Peter Kleinstiver

Benjamin Peter Kleinstiver is a Canadian-trained biochemist and genome engineer at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for widening the genomic range CRISPR-Cas9 can target.

Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon

Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon, also known as Benjamin Falcon, is a structural biologist who leads a research group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.

Benjamin S. Bunney

Benjamin S. Bunney is an American psychiatrist and systems neuroscientist, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and a National Academy of Medicine member.