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Bart De Strooper

Bart De Strooper is a Belgian neuroscientist known for showing that presenilins form the core of γ-secretase, professor at University College London and winner of the 2018 Brain Prize.

Bart Deplancke

Bart Deplancke is a Belgian bioengineer and Full Professor of Systems Biology and Genetics at EPFL, where he leads a laboratory known for Live-seq, SMiLE-seq, and single-cell genomics.

Bart G. J. "GeeJay" Knols

Bart G. J. "GeeJay" Knols is a Dutch malariologist whose work on the odors attracting African malaria mosquitoes earned the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize; he founded In2Care and MalariaWorld.

Bart Kempenaers

Bart Kempenaers (born 1967) is a Belgian behavioral ecologist and ornithologist who has directed the Max Planck Institute's ornithology department at Seewiesen since 2003, known for research on extra-pair paternity and Arctic shorebirds.

Bart N. Lambrecht

Bart N. Lambrecht, also known as Bart Lambrecht, is a Belgian physician-scientist in immunology and pulmonology, professor at Ghent University and director of the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research.

Bart O. Roep

Bart O. Roep is a Dutch immunologist who studies type 1 diabetes, holding professorships at Leiden University Medical Center and City of Hope in Los Angeles.

Bart Staels

Bart Staels is a pharmacologist at the University of Lille who directs Inserm Unit UMR1011 and studies nuclear receptors in lipid and glucose metabolism, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.

Bart Vanhaesebroeck

Bart Vanhaesebroeck is a professor of cell signaling at the UCL Cancer Institute who identified the white-cell PI3Kδ isoform and drove PI3Kδ inhibitors used in cancer treatment since 2014.

Bart W. Koes

Bart W. Koes is a Dutch clinical epidemiologist and Professor of General Practice at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, since 1999, known for research on low back pain and sciatica.

Barth F. Smets

Barth F. Smets is an environmental microbiologist, professor at Aarhus University since 2024, known for work on plasmid transfer, comammox Nitrospira, and nitrogen removal from water.

Bartholomeus C.J.M. Fauser

Bartholomeus C.J.M. (Bart) Fauser is a Dutch reproductive medicine specialist and Professor Emeritus at UMC Utrecht, known for research on anti-Müllerian hormone, ovarian aging, and PCOS.

Bartholomew M. Sefton

Bartholomew M. Sefton is a molecular biologist at the Salk Institute in San Diego whose 1980 work showed that the Rous sarcoma virus transforming protein is a tyrosine kinase.

Bartley P. Griffith

Bartley P. Griffith is an American cardiac surgeon and transplant scientist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who performed the world's first pig heart transplant into a human in 2022.

Bartolomé R. Celli

Bartolomé R. Celli is a Venezuelan-trained pulmonary physician and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, known for the BODE index and co-chairing ATS/ERS COPD guidelines.

Bartolomeo Gosio

Bartolomeo Gosio (1863–1944) was an Italian physician and microbiologist who showed that fungi convert arsenic into a volatile gas and isolated the first antibiotic crystallized from a mold.

Barton F. Haynes

Barton F. Haynes is an American immunologist and virologist at Duke University who founded the Duke Human Vaccine Institute in 1990 and led the RV144 HIV vaccine trial analysis.

Baruch I. Kanner

Baruch I. Kanner, also published as Baruch Kanner, is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who cloned the brain's neurotransmitter transporters for glutamate and GABA.

Baruch Krauss

Baruch S. Krauss is a pediatrician and emergency physician at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known internationally for treating acute pain and anxiety in children.

Baruch Modan

Baruch Modan (1932–2001) was an Israeli physician and cancer epidemiologist who founded the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Sheba Medical Center and served as Director-General of the Israel Ministry of Health.

Baruch S. Blumberg

Baruch S. Blumberg (1925–2011) was an American physician who discovered the Australia antigen, developed the first hepatitis B vaccine, and won the 1976 Nobel Prize.

Baruj Benacerraf

Baruj Benacerraf, born in Caracas in 1920, was a Venezuelan-born American immunologist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering immune response genes.

Bas van Steensel

Bas van Steensel is a Dutch molecular biologist who heads the Division of Gene Regulation at the Netherlands Cancer Institute and developed the DamID genome-mapping technique.

Basil Greber

Basil J. Greber is a structural biologist using cryo-electron microscopy to study molecular machines, known for structures of the mammalian mitochondrial ribosome and human TFIIH.

Basil M. Rifkind

Basil M. Rifkind, also published as B. M. Rifkind, was a physician and lipid researcher who led the NHLBI's Coronary Primary Prevention Trial and the National Cholesterol Education Program.

Basile Luyet

Basile Joseph Luyet (1897–1974) was a Swiss-born Catholic priest and biologist, regarded as the father of cryobiology for proposing in 1937 that rapid cooling could turn water into glass.

Bassem A. Hassan

Bassem A. Hassan, also published as Bassem Hassan, is a Belgian-trained developmental neurobiologist who leads the laboratory of Brain Development at the Paris Brain Institute.

Bastiaan R. Bloem

Bastiaan R. Bloem, known as Bas Bloem, is a Dutch neurologist and professor of movement disorders at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, best known as co-founder of ParkinsonNet.

Bastien D. Gomperts

Bastien D. Gomperts is a cell biologist at University College London known for showing that G-proteins control secretion, and for co-authoring the textbook Signal Transduction.

Bauke W. Dijkstra

Bauke W. Dijkstra is a Dutch biochemist and protein crystallographer, emeritus professor at the University of Groningen, known for the α/β-hydrolase fold and enzyme structures.

Beat Keller

Beat Keller, born 1958, is a Swiss plant molecular biologist and professor at the University of Zurich known for identifying the durable wheat resistance gene Lr34.