Medical and health researchers

B. Mark Evers

B. Mark Evers is an American surgical oncologist who directs the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020.

B. Shannon Danes

B. Shannon Danes is a human geneticist in medicine who established cellular metachromasia of cultured skin fibroblasts as a genetic marker for the mucopolysaccharidoses, including Hurler's syndrome.

Baha M. Sibai

Baha M. Sibai, also known as Baha Sibai, is a maternal-fetal medicine physician and researcher at UTHealth Houston known for work on preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome.

Oct 10, 2026

Bailey Ashford

Bailey Kelly Ashford was an American Army physician who, after the 1899 hurricane in Puerto Rico, proved hookworm caused the island's anemia and built treatment campaigns.

Bailus Walker Jr.

Bailus Walker Jr. (1934–2020) was an American environmental and occupational health scientist who led the Massachusetts and Michigan public health agencies and taught at Howard University.

Baland Jalal, Harvard Department of Psychology neuroscientist and Cambridge PhD, leading sleep paralysis researcher; creator of Meditation-Relaxation therapy, 5-HT2A hallucination theory, and cross-cultural sleep paralysis studies.

Ban‐Hock Toh

Ban-Hock Toh, also known as B H Toh, is an Australian immunologist and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Monash, known for work on autoimmune gastritis and pernicious anemia.

Bana Jabrì

Bana Jabri is a French-born immunologist known for celiac disease research, a University of Chicago Distinguished Service Professor who directs Institut Imagine in Paris since 2025.

Barbara A. Gilchrest

Barbara A. Gilchrest is an American dermatologist and physician-scientist known for photomedicine, melanoma biology, and skin aging; she chaired dermatology at Boston University from 1985 to 2008.

Barbara Abrams

Barbara Abrams is an American epidemiologist and registered dietitian, a UC Berkeley professor who served on the 1990 and 2009 US pregnancy weight gain guidelines.

Barbara Ann Gilchrest

Barbara Ann Gilchrest is an American dermatologist known for research on how ultraviolet radiation damages and pigments skin, and longtime Chair of Dermatology at Boston University.

Barbara B. Kahn

Barbara B. Kahn is an American endocrinologist and physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center who studies fat tissue and insulin resistance.

Barbara C. Furie

Barbara C. Furie is a hematology researcher and Professor of Medicine, Emerita, at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, known for work on blood coagulation and thrombosis.

Barbara C. Hansen

Barbara C. Hansen is an American physiologist and metabolic-disease researcher at the University of South Florida, known for her rhesus monkey studies of type 2 diabetes and calorie restraint.

Barbara Casadei

Barbara Casadei is an Italian-born British cardiologist who studies atrial fibrillation and heart failure and heads the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London.

Barbara E. Bierer

Barbara E. Bierer is a hematologist and oncologist, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Faculty Director of the MRCT Center.

Barbara Eichhorst

Barbara Eichhorst is a German hematologist and oncologist at the University Hospital of Cologne, deputy head of the German CLL Study Group, known for the CLL13 and RT1 trials.

Barbara Ensoli

Barbara Ensoli is an Italian virologist and physician, Director of the National HIV/AIDS Research Center at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome, known for developing an HIV-1 Tat-based vaccine.

Barbara J. Stoll

Barbara J. Stoll is an American neonatologist known for research on neonatal sepsis and preterm infant outcomes, and was the first woman dean of McGovern Medical School.

Oct 10, 2026

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is an American cardiologist and evolutionary biologist, a UCLA professor and Harvard faculty member best known for coining "zoobiquity," and coauthor of the 2012 bestseller Zoobiquity.

Barbara Rehermann

Barbara Rehermann is a German-trained physician-scientist who leads the Immunology Section of the Liver Diseases Branch at NIH, studying immune responses to hepatitis B and C.

Barbara S. Hulka

Barbara S. Hulka is an American cancer and reproductive epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for molecular epidemiology and hormone replacement therapy research.

Barbara Schmidt

Barbara Schmidt is a neonatologist and clinical epidemiologist who led the TIPP, CAP, and Canadian Oxygen trials, which changed care in neonatal intensive care units across North America.

Bárbara Starfield

Barbara Starfield (1932–2011) was an American pediatrician and health services researcher at Johns Hopkins who spent over 50 years building the evidence base showing that primary care improves health outcomes.

Barbara Vickrey

Barbara Grace Vickrey is an American neurologist and health services researcher, chair of neurology at Mount Sinai since 2015, known for the QOLIE-89 epilepsy quality-of-life measure.

Bariş Boyraz

Bariş Boyraz is a Turkish-trained physician-scientist and board-certified anatomic pathologist specializing in breast and gynecologic pathology at Weill Cornell Medical College, known for research on telomere disease.

Oct 10, 2026

Barnett Rosenberg

Barnett Rosenberg (1926–2009) was an American biophysicist at Michigan State University who discovered in 1965 that a platinum compound stopped cell division, leading to cisplatin.

Barney Graham

Barney Graham, born 1953, is an American physician-scientist and immunologist known for structure-based design of the RSV F protein immunogen and the 2P-stabilized coronavirus spike used in COVID-19 vaccines.

Barrett J. Rollins

Barrett J. Rollins is an American oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School known for chemokine research and discovering BRAF mutations in Langerhans cell histiocytosis.