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Björn Pasternak

Björn Pasternak, born 1980, is a Swedish physician and pharmacoepidemiologist known for large-scale register studies of drug safety in pregnancy, including a 2013 NEJM study of SSRIs and autism.

Bjørn R. Olsen

Bjørn R. Olsen, born in Norway in 1940, is Hersey Professor of Cell Biology, Emeritus at Harvard, whose laboratory discovered new collagen families and mutations causing inherited cartilage, bone, and vascular disorders.

Blair Johnson

Blair Johnson is an American exercise physiologist at the University at Buffalo who studies water immersion, breathing control, and concussion, and received a 2017 PECASE award.

Blanche P. Alter

Blanche P. Alter is an American physician-scientist in pediatric hematology and cancer genetics, known for building and leading the National Cancer Institute's Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes study.

Blas Frangione

Blas Frangione is a physician-scientist and Research Professor of Pathology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine whose group discovered the first amyloid-β gene mutation, found in Dutch-type hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis.

Blasé A. Carabello

Blasé A. Carabello, also written Blase A. Carabello, is an American cardiologist specializing in valvular heart disease, known for his influential 1997 New England Journal of Medicine review.

Bo Angelin

Bo Angelin is a Swedish physician-scientist, professor of clinical metabolic research at Karolinska Institutet, who led the 2010 New England Journal of Medicine trial of eprotirome.

Bo Lagerqvist

Bo Lagerqvist is a Swedish interventional cardiologist and researcher at Uppsala University Hospital, a principal investigator behind the SCAAR stent-safety analyses and the TASTE trial.

Bob Löwenberg

Bob Löwenberg, also published as B. Löwenberg, is a Dutch hematologist at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, known for practice-changing acute myeloid leukemia trials and founding HOVON.

Bob T. Li

Bob T. Li (Bob Li) is an Australian medical oncologist in thoracic oncology who led trials producing the first KRAS-targeted and HER2-directed drug approvals in lung cancer.

Bodo Grimbacher

Bodo Grimbacher is a German physician-scientist in clinical immunology at the Medical Center – University of Freiburg, known for identifying genetic causes of primary immunodeficiencies such as hyper-IgE syndrome.

Boghuma Kabisen Titanji

Boghuma Kabisen Titanji is a Cameroonian-born physician-scientist and bioethicist at Emory University in Atlanta, known for HIV drug resistance research and advocacy on clinical trial ethics in Africa.

Bongani M. Mayosi

Bongani M. Mayosi, also known as Bongani Mayosi, was a South African cardiologist at the University of Cape Town who led research on tuberculous pericarditis and rheumatic heart disease.

Bonnie Ramsey

Bonnie Ramsey is an American pediatric pulmonologist at the University of Washington who led trials of inhaled tobramycin, dornase alfa, and the CF drug ivacaftor.

Bonnie W. Ramsey

Bonnie W. Ramsey is an American pediatric pulmonologist and University of Washington professor emerita who developed inhaled tobramycin (TOBI), the first inhaled antibiotic for cystic fibrosis.

Børge G. Nordestgaard

Børge G. Nordestgaard is a Danish clinical biochemist and cardiovascular researcher at the University of Copenhagen who studies remnant cholesterol and founded the Copenhagen General Population Study in 2003.

Boris C. Bastian

Boris C. Bastian is a German-trained physician-scientist and Gerson and Barbara Bakar Distinguished Professor at UCSF whose research showed melanoma is not one disease but genetically distinct subtypes.

Boris Senior

Boris Senior (1923–2012) was a Ukraine-born pediatric endocrinologist, professor at Tufts University in Boston, known for describing Senior-Loken syndrome and functional tests for glycogen storage diseases.

Boris Tabakoff

Boris Tabakoff is a neuropharmacologist and behavioral geneticist at the University of Colorado known for research on the genetics and biological markers of alcoholism risk.

Borja Ibáñez

Borja Ibáñez is a Spanish interventional cardiologist and Scientific Director of the Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) in Madrid, best known for leading the REBOOT trial.

Borys Surawicz

Borys Surawicz (1917–2015) was a Polish-born American cardiologist and pioneer of electrocardiography who led the University of Kentucky cardiology department and served as ACC president from 1979 to 1980.

Boyi Gan

Boyi Gan is a cancer biologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center whose lab studies metabolically driven cell death, including ferroptosis and the disulfidptosis he discovered in 2023.

Brad H. Nelson

Brad H. Nelson is a Canadian cancer immunologist and founding director of BC Cancer's Deeley Research Centre in Victoria, known for research on T-cell signaling and B cells in tumors.

Brad H. Rovin

Brad H. Rovin is an American nephrologist at Ohio State Wexner Medical Center specializing in lupus nephritis and IgA nephropathy; he led the AURORA 1 and PROTECT trials.

Brad Spellberg

Brad Spellberg is an American infectious diseases physician-researcher and Chief Medical Officer of Los Angeles General Medical Center, known for work on antibiotic resistance and stewardship.

Braden Manns

Braden Manns is a Canadian nephrologist and health economist at the University of Calgary, known for dialysis trials and cost-effectiveness studies that informed drug and kidney-care policy in Canada.

Bradford Cannon

Bradford Cannon (1907–2005) was an American plastic surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for modernizing burn care after the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire and leading plastic surgery in Boston.

Bradley Bernstein

Bradley E. Bernstein is an American cancer epigenetics researcher who chairs the Department of Cancer Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and is known for discovering bivalent domains in embryonic stem cells.

Bradley J. Monk

Bradley J. Monk is an American gynecologic oncologist whose trials of bevacizumab, PARP inhibitors, and immunotherapy in cervical and ovarian cancer have been described as practice-changing.

Bradley S. Peterson

Bradley S. Peterson is an American psychiatrist and developmental neuroscientist who uses magnetic resonance imaging to study childhood psychiatric disorders at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.