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Bruce C. Wightman

Bruce C. Wightman is a biologist and Professor of Biology at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, co-author of the 1993 Cell paper founding microRNA regulation.

Bruce Chesebro

Bruce Chesebro is an American physician-scientist at NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana who led research on prion diseases and retroviral brain diseases from 1979.

Bruce D. Gelb

Bruce D. Gelb is an American pediatric cardiologist and human geneticist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for identifying Noonan syndrome genes.

Bruce D. Hammock

Bruce D. Hammock (1947–2026) was an American entomologist and toxicologist, Distinguished Professor at UC Davis, known for co-discovering soluble epoxide hydrolase and developing its inhibitors as drugs.

Bruce D. McCandliss

Bruce D. McCandliss is an American developmental cognitive neuroscientist who studies how children learn to read, and a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

Bruce D. Walker

Bruce D. Walker is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who studies how some people control HIV without medication, as founding director of the Ragon Institute.

Bruce Damer

Bruce Damer, born 1962, is a Canadian-American scientist at UC Santa Cruz and NASA Ames known for the hot spring hypothesis for the origin of life and 1990s virtual worlds.

Bruce Demple

Bruce Demple is an American molecular biologist who studies oxidative DNA damage repair and bacterial stress sensing, a professor at Stony Brook University since 2009 after 25 years at Harvard.

Bruce E. Kemp

Bruce E. Kemp, born 1946 in Sydney, is an Australian biochemist at St Vincent's Institute in Melbourne, a Royal Society Fellow known for kinase autoregulation and AMPK.

Bruce E. Lyon

Bruce E. Lyon is a behavioral and evolutionary ecologist, Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz, known for decades of research on American coots and conspecific brood parasitism.

Bruce E. Tabashnik

Bruce E. Tabashnik is an American entomologist at the University of Arizona known for documenting and managing insect resistance to Bt crops, and a National Academy of Sciences member.

Bruce Edwards Ivins

Bruce Edwards Ivins, USAMRIID anthrax vaccine researcher at Fort Detrick, was named by the FBI and DOJ as sole perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax letters; he died by acetaminophen overdose in July 2008 before charges, and the case closed February 19, 2010.

Bruce L. Goode

Bruce L. Goode, born 1965, is an American cell biologist who chairs the Biology Department at Brandeis University, where his laboratory studies how cells build and dismantle actin filament networks.

Bruce L. Granger

Bruce L. Granger, also published as B. L. Granger, is a cell biologist who studied muscle intermediate filament proteins at Caltech, discovering and naming synemin in 1980.

Bruce L. McNaughton

Bruce L. McNaughton is a neuroscientist known for work on the hippocampus, learning and memory, and for originating tetrode multineuron recording, now a professor at UC Irvine.

Bruce M. Paterson

Bruce M. Paterson is an American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute known for 1977 Cell papers on messenger RNA in differentiating chick muscle.

Bruce P. Bean

Bruce P. Bean, born in 1951, is an American neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School who studies how ion channels control the excitability of neurons and cardiac muscle.

Bruce R. Blazar

Bruce R. Blazar is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist and immunologist, Regents Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, known for graft-versus-host disease and regulatory T cell therapy research.

Bruce R. Conklin

Bruce R. Conklin, MD, is a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and UCSF professor known for engineering GPCR signaling and CRISPR editing of human stem cells.

Bruce R. Zetter

Bruce R. Zetter is a cancer researcher at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, a pioneer in tumor angiogenesis and metastasis who defined the role of cell migration in metastatic cancer.

Bruce S. Baker

Bruce S. Baker (1945–2018) was an American geneticist at Stanford University who showed how a cascade of gene regulation builds the two sexes of the fruit fly.

Bruce S. McEwen

Bruce S. McEwen (Bruce Sherman McEwen, 1938–2020) was an American neuroendocrinologist at Rockefeller University whose 1968 discovery of stress-hormone receptors in the hippocampus reshaped neuroscience.

Bruce Stillman

Bruce Stillman is an Australian-born molecular biologist who leads Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and identified the origin recognition complex, the initiator of DNA replication.

Bruce T. Lahn

Bruce T. Lahn is a human geneticist and professor at the University of Chicago, known for research on brain evolution genes and for founding the gene-delivery company VectorBuilder.

Bruce Wallace (geneticist)

Bruce Wallace (1920–2015) was an American evolutionary biologist and population geneticist known for experimental studies of Drosophila populations, genetic load, and his professorships at Cornell University and Virginia Tech.

Bruno Amati

Bruno Amati is an Italian molecular biologist at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan, known for showing that the MYC oncoprotein requires dimerization with Max.

Bruno Antonny

Bruno Antonny is a French biochemist and CNRS research director at the IPMC in Valbonne, known for work on membrane curvature sensing and lipid transport.

Bruno B. Averbeck

Bruno B. Averbeck is a neuroscientist who leads the Section on Learning and Decision Making at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Bruno E. Correia

Bruno E. Correia (Bruno Emanuel Correia) is a Portuguese computational structural biologist and full professor at EPFL, known for MaSIF and BindCraft protein design tools.

Bruno Goud

Bruno Goud is a French cell biologist at the CNRS and Institut Curie in Paris, known for his work on Rab GTPases and the Golgi apparatus.