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Bradley T. Hyman

Bradley T. Hyman is the John B. Penney, Jr. Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, directing Alzheimer's disease research there since 1989.

Brahmajee K. Nallamothu

Brahmajee K. Nallamothu, also published as Brahmajee Nallamothu, is an American interventional cardiologist at the University of Michigan known for research on door-to-balloon times in heart attack care.

Bram van Ginneken

Bram van Ginneken is a Dutch medical image analysis researcher and professor at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, known for computer-aided diagnosis of chest radiographs and lung CT scans.

Bramah N. Singh

Bramah N. Singh (1938–2014) was a Fiji-born, New Zealand-trained cardiologist at UCLA who co-created the Singh-Vaughan Williams classification of antiarrhythmic drugs and led major amiodarone trials.

Brenda R. Hemmelgarn

Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, also known as Brenda Hemmelgarn, is a Canadian nephrologist and clinical epidemiologist who became dean of medicine at the University of Alberta in 2020.

Brenda W.J.H. Penninx

Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, known as Brenda Penninx, is a Dutch psychiatric epidemiologist and professor of psychiatry at Amsterdam UMC who studies depressive and anxiety disorders.

Brendan S. Crabb

Brendan S. Crabb is an Australian molecular malaria researcher who described the first gene knockout in the human malaria parasite and has led the Burnet Institute since 2008.

Brennan Decker

Brennan Decker is an American physician-scientist and molecular pathologist in genomic medicine and cancer genetics, known for consortium-scale analyses quantifying breast cancer risks from PALB2 variants.

Brett J. Manley

Brett J. Manley, also published as Brett James Manley, is an Australian neonatologist at The Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, known for trials of nasal high-flow therapy in preterm infants.

Brian A. Ference

Brian A. Ference is a cardiologist and genetic epidemiologist, Professor at Cambridge and Milan, known for 2016 New England Journal of Medicine genetic studies of LDL cholesterol lowering.

Brian C. Callaghan

Brian C. Callaghan is an American neurologist and neuromuscular specialist at the University of Michigan known for research on diabetic neuropathy and reducing low-value diagnostic testing.

Brian Czerniecki

Brian J. Czerniecki is an American breast surgical oncologist and immunotherapy researcher who leads breast oncology research at Moffitt Cancer Center, after two decades on the University of Pennsylvania surgery faculty.

Brian D. Ross

Brian D. Ross is an American scientist in radiology and magnetic resonance spectroscopy at the University of Michigan, known for pioneering quantitative imaging biomarkers of tumor response.

Brian Druker

Brian J. Druker is an American physician-scientist at Oregon Health & Science University who developed the targeted drug imatinib (Gleevec), transforming chronic myeloid leukemia survival from about 30% to nearly 90%.

Brian E. Henderson

Brian E. Henderson was an American physician and cancer epidemiologist at the University of Southern California who founded the Los Angeles County cancer registry and the Multiethnic Cohort study.

Brian F. Hoffman

Brian F. Hoffman (1925–2013) was an American cardiac electrophysiologist and pharmacologist who chaired Columbia's pharmacology department for over 30 years and built the framework still used to classify cardiac arrhythmias.

Brian G. Feagan

Brian G. Feagan, also known as Brian Feagan, was a Canadian gastroenterologist and clinical epidemiologist at Western University who led more than 140 trials of inflammatory bowel disease treatments.

Brian G. Spratt

Brian G. Spratt is a British molecular microbiologist at Imperial College London known for developing multilocus sequence typing, a standard method for tracking bacterial strains.

Brian G. Weinshenker

Brian G. Weinshenker is an American neurologist and multiple sclerosis researcher who spent 30 years at the Mayo Clinic and is a professor of neurology at UVA Health since 2022.

Brian Greenwood

Sir Brian Greenwood is a British physician-scientist in clinical tropical medicine who directed the MRC Laboratories in The Gambia from 1980 to 1995 and advanced malaria control.

Brian H. Anderton

Brian Henry Anderton, born 1945, is a British neuroscientist and emeritus professor of neuroscience at King's College London whose research traced the tau protein and neuronal cytoskeleton into Alzheimer's disease.

Brian Hurwitz

Brian Hurwitz is a British physician and medical humanities scholar, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and The Arts in the Department of English at King's College London.

Brian I. Rini

Brian I. Rini is an American medical oncologist who leads kidney cancer clinical research as Chief of Clinical Trials at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, joining in 2020 from Cleveland Clinic.

Brian J. Lipworth

Brian J. Lipworth, also known as Brian Lipworth, is a British physician-scientist in respiratory medicine who holds the Chair of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine at the University of Dundee.

Brian J. Nankivell

Brian J. Nankivell is an Australian transplant nephrologist at Westmead Hospital in Sydney, known for his 2003 New England Journal of Medicine study of chronic allograft nephropathy.

Brian J. Reid

Brian J. Reid, born in 1946, is a retired physician-scientist in Seattle who founded the Seattle Barrett's Esophagus Study, defining how Barrett's esophagus progresses to esophageal adenocarcinoma.

Brian J.G. Pereira

Brian J.G. Pereira, also known as B J Pereira, is an American nephrologist whose 1991 research showed organ transplantation transmits hepatitis C, and later a biotech executive.

Brian J.P. Huntly

Brian J.P. Huntly is a British clinical scientist, Professor of Leukaemia Stem Cell Biology at the University of Cambridge, known for showing which genes create leukemia stem cells.

Brian K. Kaspar

Brian K. Kaspar is an American neuroscientist and gene therapy researcher at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, known for developing Zolgensma, the gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy.

Brian L. Kotzin

Brian L. Kotzin is an American immunologist and rheumatologist known for lupus research, including the first identification of a lupus-susceptibility gene in mice, and leadership at Amgen and Nektar Therapeutics.