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Bruce Furie

Bruce Furie (1944–2025) was an American hematologist and physician-scientist, Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and former Chief of Hemostasis and Thrombosis at Beth Israel Deaconess, known for discoveries in blood coagulation and thrombosis.

Bruce Guthrie

Bruce Guthrie is a professor of general practice at the University of Edinburgh whose 2012 Lancet study showed multimorbidity is common and starts earlier in deprived areas.

Bruce H. Price

Bruce H. Price is an American neurologist and neuropsychiatrist, chief of neurology at McLean Hospital since 1994, known for work on memory dysfunction and behavioral neurology.

Bruce H. Stewart

Bruce H. Stewart, fully Bruce Hubbard Stewart, was an American urologist at the Cleveland Clinic who showed that a blood test with CT could diagnose pheochromocytoma without angiography.

Bruce L. Evatt

Bruce L. Evatt is an American hematologist who led CDC hematology research from 1978 to 2004 and played a central role in identifying AIDS as a blood-borne disease in hemophilia.

Bruce L. Miller

Bruce L. Miller is an American behavioral neurologist who directs the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, known for research on frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Bruce L. Wilkoff

Bruce L. Wilkoff was an American cardiac electrophysiologist who spent 37 years at the Cleveland Clinic, led the WRAP-IT trial, and served as Heart Rhythm Society president.

Bruce L. Zuraw

Bruce L. Zuraw is an American allergy and immunology physician-scientist, Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego and director of the US HAEA Angioedema Center, known for hereditary angioedema research.

Bruce M. Hall

Bruce Milne Hall is an Australian renal transplant physician and immunologist, Professor of Medicine at UNSW, known for identifying regulatory T cells in transplant tolerance.

Bruce M. Psaty

Bruce M. Psaty is an American physician-scientist at the University of Washington who works in cardiovascular epidemiology, drug safety, and pharmacogenetics, and led the Cardiovascular Health Study.

Bruce M. Spiegelman

Bruce M. Spiegelman is a biologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School who discovered PGC-1α in 1998 and identified the exercise-induced hormone irisin.

Bruce Mark Psaty

Bruce Mark Psaty is an American physician-epidemiologist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Washington, known for drug-safety research that shaped FDA regulation and for the CHARGE Consortium.

Bruce N. Ames

Bruce N. Ames was an American biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for developing the Ames test, a low-cost bacterial assay that detects whether chemicals may cause cancer.

Bruce Neal

Bruce Neal is a UK-trained physician and clinical epidemiologist, Professor of Medicine at UNSW Sydney, who led the SSaSS salt-substitute trial in China and the CANVAS analyses of canagliflozin.

Bruce Nedrow Calonge

Bruce Nedrow (Ned) Calonge is an American physician and health-services researcher who chaired the US Preventive Services Task Force and twice served as Colorado's chief medical officer.

Bruce P. Lanphear

Bruce P. Lanphear, born in 1963, is a Canadian-American physician and epidemiologist at Simon Fraser University whose research showed lead impairs children's IQ below 10 µg/dL.

Bruce R. Bacon

Bruce R. Bacon, also known as Bruce Bacon (1949–2025), was an American hepatologist at Saint Louis University who helped discover the HFE hemochromatosis gene and led hepatitis C clinical trials.

Bruce S. Bochner

Bruce S. Bochner is an American allergist and immunologist who co-discovered Siglec-8, an inhibitory receptor on eosinophils and mast cells, led Johns Hopkins' allergy division, and co-founded Allakos.

Bruce S. Klein

Bruce S. Klein is an American physician-scientist in medical mycology who leads the Division of Infectious Diseases in Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, studying the fungus Blastomyces dermatitidis.

Bruce Α. Freeman

Bruce A. Freeman is an American pharmacologist and redox biologist who is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for research on myeloperoxidase and nitro-fatty acids.

Brunangelo Falini

Brunangelo Falini, born in 1951, is an Italian hematologist and Full Professor at the University of Perugia known for discovering NPM1 mutations in AML and BRAF V600E in hairy-cell leukemia.

Bruno Calabretta

Bruno Calabretta is an Italian-trained physician-scientist and professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia whose research addresses hematopoiesis and BCR/ABL-driven leukemogenesis in chronic myelogenous leukemia.

Bruno H. Stricker

Bruno H. Stricker, full name Bruno Hugo Charles Stricker, is a Dutch pharmacoepidemiologist at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, known for a 2001 study linking NSAIDs to lower Alzheimer's risk.

Bruno Spire

Bruno Spire is a French physician-scientist and INSERM research director in Marseille who studies HIV prevention and led the behavioral research of the IPERGAY PrEP trial.

Bryan D. Myers

Bryan D. Myers (1936–2023) was a South African-born American nephrologist at Stanford University whose dextran-clearance methods made the glomerular filtration barrier measurable in living patients.

Bryan Grenfell

Bryan T. Grenfell is a British population biologist and infectious disease modeller at Princeton University, known for phylodynamics and measles traveling waves, and winner of the 2022 Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences.

Bryan J. Traynor

Bryan J. Traynor is an Irish-American neurologist and neurogeneticist at the National Institutes of Health who led the 2011 discovery of the C9orf72 mutation causing ALS and frontotemporal dementia.

Bryan Jennett

Bryan Jennett (1926–2008) was a British neurosurgeon and the first full-time Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Glasgow, best known for co-creating the Glasgow Coma Scale and coining persistent vegetative state.

Bryan Williams (physician-scientist)

Bryan Williams is a British physician-scientist researching hypertension. He became Chair of Medicine at University College London in 2012 and the British Heart Foundation's first Chief Scientific and Medical Officer in 2023.

Bryce Weir

Bryce Weir (born 1936) is a Canadian-born cerebrovascular neurosurgeon and emeritus professor at the University of Chicago, known for research on cerebral aneurysms, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and vasospasm.