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B.L. Horecker
B.L. Horecker, also known as Bernard L. Horecker, was an American biochemist who worked out the pentose phosphate pathway and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1961.
B.M. Cattanach
B.M. Cattanach, also known as Bruce M. Cattanach, was a British mouse geneticist (1932 to 2020) who pioneered chemical mutagenesis in mice and discovered autosomal imprinting in mammals.
Baha M. Sibai
Baha M. Sibai, also known as Baha Sibai, is a maternal-fetal medicine physician and researcher at UTHealth Houston known for work on preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome.
Bailey Ashford
Bailey Kelly Ashford was an American Army physician who, after the 1899 hurricane in Puerto Rico, proved hookworm caused the island's anemia and built treatment campaigns.
Bailus Walker Jr.
Bailus Walker Jr. (1934–2020) was an American environmental and occupational health scientist who led the Massachusetts and Michigan public health agencies and taught at Howard University.
Baland Jalal
Baland Jalal, Harvard Department of Psychology neuroscientist and Cambridge PhD, leading sleep paralysis researcher; creator of Meditation-Relaxation therapy, 5-HT2A hallucination theory, and cross-cultural sleep paralysis studies.
Balbino Alarcón
Balbino Alarcón is a Spanish immunologist and CSIC Research Professor in Madrid known for work on T-cell receptor signaling, TCR assembly, and a familial immunodeficiency.
Baldomero M. Olivera
Baldomero M. Olivera is a Filipino molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah who founded conotoxin research; his work yielded the pain drug Prialt.
Baldur R. Stefansson
Baldur R. Stefansson (1917–2002) was a Canadian agronomist at the University of Manitoba whose rapeseed breeding created canola, earning him the title father of canola.
Bali Pulendran
Bali Pulendran is a Sri Lanka-born immunologist, professor at Stanford School of Medicine and director of its Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection since 2024.
Baljit Khakh
Baljit S. Khakh is a molecular and cellular neuroscientist at UCLA known for work on P2X receptors and astrocytes, elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2025.
Ban‐Hock Toh
Ban-Hock Toh, also known as B H Toh, is an Australian immunologist and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Monash, known for work on autoimmune gastritis and pernicious anemia.
Bana Jabrì
Bana Jabri is a French-born immunologist known for celiac disease research, a University of Chicago Distinguished Service Professor who directs Institut Imagine in Paris since 2025.
Baoji Xu
Baoji Xu is a neuroscientist whose laboratory established BDNF as a key regulator of body weight and synaptic plasticity; he has been a professor at UF Scripps since 2022.
Barak A. Cohen
Barak A. Cohen is a computational biologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known for thermodynamic models of cis-regulation and massively parallel reporter assays.
Barbara A. Block
Barbara A. Block is a marine biologist and fish physiologist, professor at Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station since 1994, known for discovering how fishes generate heat and for electronic tagging of tunas and sharks.
Barbara A. Gilchrest
Barbara A. Gilchrest is an American dermatologist and physician-scientist known for photomedicine, melanoma biology, and skin aging; she chaired dermatology at Boston University from 1985 to 2008.
Barbara A. Schaal
Barbara A. Schaal is an American plant evolutionary geneticist at Washington University in St. Louis who studies gene flow and crop domestication, including identifying the wild progenitor of cassava.
Barbara Abrams
Barbara Abrams is an American epidemiologist and registered dietitian, a UC Berkeley professor who served on the 1990 and 2009 US pregnancy weight gain guidelines.
Barbara Ann Gilchrest
Barbara Ann Gilchrest is an American dermatologist known for research on how ultraviolet radiation damages and pigments skin, and longtime Chair of Dermatology at Boston University.
Barbara Ann Halkier
Barbara Ann Halkier is a plant biochemist and professor at the University of Copenhagen known for identifying the transporters that move glucosinolates, defense compounds of brassica plants, into seeds.
Barbara B. Kahn
Barbara B. Kahn is an American endocrinologist and physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center who studies fat tissue and insulin resistance.
Barbara B. Knowles
Barbara B. Knowles is an American geneticist and stem cell biologist who created the HepG2 liver cell line and the SSEA antibodies for identifying pluripotent stem cells.
Barbara Baker
Barbara Baker is an American plant biologist who cloned the tobacco N gene, the first plant virus resistance gene isolated, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Barbara Block
Barbara Block is a Stanford University marine biologist who showed that bluefin tuna are warm-bodied and led large electronic tagging programs mapping their ocean migrations.
Barbara C. Furie
Barbara C. Furie is a hematology researcher and Professor of Medicine, Emerita, at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, known for work on blood coagulation and thrombosis.
Barbara C. Hansen
Barbara C. Hansen is an American physiologist and metabolic-disease researcher at the University of South Florida, known for her rhesus monkey studies of type 2 diabetes and calorie restraint.
Barbara Casadei
Barbara Casadei is an Italian-born British cardiologist who studies atrial fibrillation and heart failure and heads the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London.
Barbara Conradt
Barbara Conradt is a cell and developmental biologist at University College London known for discovering EGL-1, a key activator of programmed cell death in the nematode C. elegans.
Barbara E. Bierer
Barbara E. Bierer is a hematologist and oncologist, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Faculty Director of the MRCT Center.