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Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel

Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel (1846–1916) was a German surgeon who held the chair of surgery at the University of Jena and gave his name to Riedel thyroiditis.

Bernhard Naunyn

Bernhard Naunyn (1839–1925) was a German internist who introduced experimental laboratory work into clinical internal medicine, co-founded the first pharmacology journal, and shaped the study of gallstones and diabetes.

Bernhard Nieswandt

Bernhard Nieswandt, born 1968, is a German cell biologist and platelet researcher who heads Experimental Biomedicine I at the University of Würzburg and coined the term "thrombo-inflammation".

Bernhard Nocht

Bernhard Nocht (1857–1945) was a German naval physician, called the father of German tropical medicine, who founded Hamburg's Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases in 1900 and led it until 1930.

Bernhard Sigmund Schultze

Bernhard Sigmund Schultze (1827–1919) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician who held the chair at Jena for 45 years and is remembered for the Schultze placental and newborn-resuscitation methods.

Bernhard Zondek

Bernhard Zondek (1891–1966) was a German-Israeli gynecologist and endocrinologist who, with Selmar Aschheim, developed the Aschheim-Zondek test, the first reliable biological pregnancy test, and showed the pituitary governs the ovaries.

Bernice Eddy

Bernice Eddy (1903–1989) was an American bacteriologist and virologist at the NIH who tested polio vaccine safety and co-discovered the SE polyoma virus with Sarah Stewart.

Bert Brunekreef

Bert Brunekreef (born 1953 in Utrecht) is a Dutch environmental epidemiologist known for research on air pollution and children's respiratory health, long based at Wageningen and Utrecht universities.

Bert Vogelstein

Bert Vogelstein is an American physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins who first explained how colorectal cancer develops through accumulating gene mutations, and later pioneered liquid biopsy blood tests.

Bertil Glader

Bertil Glader is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist and Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at Stanford University, known for work on hereditary red blood cell disorders and bone marrow failure.

Bertram L. Kasiske

Bertram L. Kasiske, also published as Bertram Kasiske, is an American transplant nephrologist and University of Minnesota professor who directed nephrology at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.

Bertram Pitt

Bertram Pitt, born 1932 in New York, is an American cardiologist at the University of Michigan who led landmark heart failure trials including SOLVD, RALES, and EPHESUS.

Bertram Wiedenmann

Bertram Wiedenmann is a German gastroenterologist and neuroendocrine tumor researcher at Charité Berlin, known for discovering synaptophysin, a standard diagnostic marker for neuroendocrine tumors, and for co-founding ENETS, which gave him its 2024 Life Achievement Award.

Bertrand Coiffier

Bertrand Coiffier (1947–2019) was a French hematologist, professor at Lyon, who led the trials establishing R-CHOP as standard treatment for elderly patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Bertrand Routy

Bertrand Routy is a Canadian hemato-oncologist who directs the oncomicrobiome laboratory at CRCHUM in Montreal, known for linking antibiotics and gut bacteria to cancer immunotherapy response.

Bertrand Tombal

Bertrand Tombal is a Belgian urologic oncologist, professor at UCLouvain and head of urology at Saint-Luc in Brussels since 1998, known for the PREVAIL prostate cancer trial.

Bess Dawson‐Hughes

Bess Dawson-Hughes is an American endocrinologist at Tufts University whose clinical trials established how much calcium and vitamin D older adults need to prevent bone loss and fractures.

Bessel van der Kolk

Bessel van der Kolk, Dutch-born American psychiatrist (born 1943), founder of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, and author of The Body Keeps the Score (2014); PTSD researcher known for SSRI, neuroimaging, and childhood-trauma studies, and a contested figure in trauma science.

Beth P. Bell

Beth P. Bell is a CDC physician-scientist known for viral hepatitis research, who led the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases from 2010 and is now a University of Washington professor.

Betty Diamond

Betty Diamond is an American rheumatologist and immunologist who studies how lupus autoantibodies affect the brain, leading the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the Feinstein Institutes.

Betty Kim

Betty Y.S. Kim is a neurosurgeon and physician-scientist, Professor of Neurosurgery at MD Anderson since 2022, known for bispecific nanobioconjugate engagers that trigger macrophages to engulf tumor cells.

Beverly H. Koller

Beverly H. Koller is a molecular geneticist and Professor of Genetics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who builds gene-targeted and humanized mouse models of disease.

Beverly H. Lorell

Beverly H. Lorell is an American cardiologist and cardiovascular researcher, formerly Professor of Medicine at Harvard and later a medical-device regulatory advisor at King & Spalding.

Beverly S. Mitchell

Beverly S. Mitchell is an American hematologist-oncologist at Stanford known for research on leukemia drug resistance, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2001.

Bi‐Sen Ding

Bi-Sen Ding (丁楅森) is a Chinese vascular biologist known for angiocrine factors, blood-vessel signals that direct lung and liver regeneration or fibrosis, and a researcher at Sichuan University since 2016.

Biff F. Palmer

Biff F. Palmer is an American nephrologist, professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, known for widely cited NEJM reviews on hyperkalemia and salicylate toxicity.

Bill Sugden

Bill Sugden is an American molecular virologist and James A. Miller Professor of Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who has studied Epstein-Barr virus and other tumor viruses since 1975.

Bin Gao

Bin Gao is a physician-scientist who leads the Laboratory of Liver Diseases at NIAAA, NIH, and created the widely used NIAAA mouse model of alcoholic liver disease.

Bin Tean Teh

Bin Tean Teh is a Singapore-based cancer geneticist at A*STAR and the National Cancer Centre Singapore who studies the genomics of Asian-prevalent cancers, including cholangiocarcinoma.

Björn Dahlbäck

Björn Dahlbäck, born 1949, is a Swedish physician-scientist and professor emeritus at Lund University in Malmö, best known for discovering APC resistance and the factor V Leiden mutation.