Medical and health researchers

Barry G.W. Arnason

Barry G.W. Arnason, also known as Barry G. Arnason (1933–2023), was a Canadian-born neurologist and neuro-immunologist who founded the University of Chicago's neurology department and developed Betaseron for multiple sclerosis.

Barry Greenberg

Barry Greenberg is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist who directs the Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Program at UC San Diego and led cardiac gene therapy trials.

Barry J. Maron

Barry J. Maron is an American cardiologist who led hypertrophic cardiomyopathy research at the Minneapolis Heart Institute and now practices at Lahey Hospital in Massachusetts.

Barry L. Fanburg

Barry L. Fanburg (1932–2024) was an American physician-scientist in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Tufts Medical Center, known for research on oxygen toxicity and pulmonary hypertension.

Barry L. Zaret

Barry L. Zaret was an American cardiologist at Yale School of Medicine credited with founding nuclear cardiology, the noninvasive imaging of the heart with radioactive tracers.

Barry M. Brenner

Barry M. Brenner was an American nephrologist who directed the Renal Division at Brigham and Women's Hospital and proposed the glomerular hyperfiltration hypothesis of diabetic kidney disease.

Barry M. Massie

Barry M. Massie was an American cardiologist and heart-failure researcher, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at UCSF, who led the I-PRESERVE and PROTECT trials published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Barry M. Popkin

Barry M. Popkin is a nutrition epidemiologist and W. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor at UNC, known for the Nutrition Transition concept and the double burden of malnutrition.

Barry R. Bloom

Barry R. Bloom (1937–2026) was an American immunologist and infectious-disease researcher known for work on tuberculosis and leprosy, who served as dean of the Harvard School of Public Health until 2008.

Barry S. Coller

Barry S. Coller is an American physician-scientist in hematology who established the platelet αIIbβ3 receptor as a drug target, leading to abciximab (ReoPro), approved in 1994.

Barry S. Taylor

Barry S. Taylor is an American computational oncologist and cancer genomicist, formerly a Memorial Sloan Kettering faculty member, now Chief Scientific Officer of Oncology at Eli Lilly.

Bart Barlogie

Bart Barlogie is a German-born physician-scientist in hematology who developed Total Therapy for multiple myeloma and founded the Myeloma Institute at the University of Arkansas.

Bart De Strooper

Bart De Strooper is a Belgian neuroscientist known for showing that presenilins form the core of γ-secretase, professor at University College London and winner of the 2018 Brain Prize.

Bart G. J. "GeeJay" Knols

Bart G. J. "GeeJay" Knols is a Dutch malariologist whose work on the odors attracting African malaria mosquitoes earned the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize; he founded In2Care and MalariaWorld.

Bart N. Lambrecht

Bart N. Lambrecht, also known as Bart Lambrecht, is a Belgian physician-scientist in immunology and pulmonology, professor at Ghent University and director of the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research.

Bart Staels

Bart Staels is a pharmacologist at the University of Lille who directs Inserm Unit UMR1011 and studies nuclear receptors in lipid and glucose metabolism, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.

Bart W. Koes

Bart W. Koes is a Dutch clinical epidemiologist and Professor of General Practice at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, since 1999, known for research on low back pain and sciatica.

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Bartholomeus C.J.M. Fauser

Bartholomeus C.J.M. (Bart) Fauser is a Dutch reproductive medicine specialist and Professor Emeritus at UMC Utrecht, known for research on anti-Müllerian hormone, ovarian aging, and PCOS.

Bartley P. Griffith

Bartley P. Griffith is an American cardiac surgeon and transplant scientist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who performed the world's first pig heart transplant into a human in 2022.

Bartolomé R. Celli

Bartolomé R. Celli is a Venezuelan-trained pulmonary physician and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, known for the BODE index and co-chairing ATS/ERS COPD guidelines.

Bartolomeo Gosio

Bartolomeo Gosio (1863–1944) was an Italian physician and microbiologist who showed that fungi convert arsenic into a volatile gas and isolated the first antibiotic crystallized from a mold.

Baruch Krauss

Baruch S. Krauss is a pediatrician and emergency physician at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known internationally for treating acute pain and anxiety in children.

Baruch Modan

Baruch Modan (1932–2001) was an Israeli physician and cancer epidemiologist who founded the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Sheba Medical Center and served as Director-General of the Israel Ministry of Health.

Basil M. Rifkind

Basil M. Rifkind, also published as B. M. Rifkind, was a physician and lipid researcher who led the NHLBI's Coronary Primary Prevention Trial and the National Cholesterol Education Program.

Bastiaan R. Bloem

Bastiaan R. Bloem, known as Bas Bloem, is a Dutch neurologist and professor of movement disorders at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, best known as co-founder of ParkinsonNet.

Beate Kampmann

Beate Kampmann is a German pediatrician and vaccinologist who, since 2023, has been Professor of Global Health at Charité Berlin, known for research on childhood tuberculosis and maternal immunization.

Béatrice Secretan

Béatrice Secretan, also known as Béatrice Lauby-Secretan, is a Swiss cancer epidemiologist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, leading the IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention since 2014.

Beatrix Hamburg

Beatrix Hamburg, known as Betty Hamburg, was an American child and adolescent psychiatrist who pioneered youth peer counseling and was the first black woman to graduate from Yale School of Medicine.

Béla Schick

Béla Schick (1877–1967) was a Hungarian-born pediatrician who devised the 1913 Schick test for diphtheria susceptibility, helped coin the term allergy, and led pediatric medicine at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital.