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Benedict F. Massell

Benedict F. Massell (1906–2008) was an American physician and clinical researcher who led the first study showing penicillin could prevent rheumatic fever, at the House of the Good Samaritan in Boston.

Benedict Paten

Benedict Paten is a computational biologist and professor at UC Santa Cruz who works on pangenome genomics, leading the Computational Genomics Lab and contributing to the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium.

Bengt I. Eriksson

Bengt I. Eriksson (Bengt Ingemar Eriksson) is a Swedish physician-scientist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg who led trials establishing desirudin, fondaparinux, and rivaroxaban for preventing thrombosis after hip surgery.

Bengt Nordén

Bengt Nordén, also published as Bengt Norden, is a Swedish physical chemist known for developing linear dichroism spectroscopy to study DNA and proteins in solution.

Bengt Samuelsson

Bengt Samuelsson (1934–2024) was a Swedish biochemist at Karolinska Institutet who shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering thromboxanes and leukotrienes.

Bengt Westermark

Bengt Westermark is a Swedish tumor-biology researcher and professor at Uppsala University, known for work on platelet-derived growth factor and cancer, especially glioblastoma, and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Bengt Winblad

Bengt Winblad (B. Winblad) is a Swedish physician and professor of geriatric medicine at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for research on Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

Benjamin A. Alman

Benjamin A. Alman is an orthopedic surgeon and clinician-scientist who has chaired orthopedic surgery at Duke University since 2013, researching cartilage tumors, fracture repair, and osteoarthritis.

Benjamin A. Barnes

Benjamin A. Barnes was a surgeon and health-services researcher at Massachusetts General and Peter Bent Brigham hospitals in Boston, known for the 1977 book Costs, Risks and Benefits of Surgery.

Benjamin A. Lipsky

Benjamin A. Lipsky is an American infectious diseases physician and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington who chaired IDSA and IWGDF diabetic foot infection guidelines and led the 2005 SIDESTEP trial.

Benjamin Alexander

Benjamin Alexander was a physician-scientist in blood coagulation research at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for describing serum prothrombin conversion accelerator (SPCA) in 1949.

Benjamin Besse

Benjamin Besse is a French medical oncologist specializing in thoracic cancers, Director of Clinical Research at Gustave Roussy since 2021 and known for biomarker-directed lung cancer trials.

Benjamin Blencowe

Benjamin J. Blencowe is an RNA biologist and Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto, known for mapping alternative splicing and discovering neuronal microexons misregulated in autism.

Benjamin Burrows

Benjamin Burrows (1927–2002) was an American pulmonary physician-scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, known for epidemiological research on COPD and obstructive airway disease.

Benjamin D. Hall

Benjamin D. Hall (1932–2019) was an American molecular biologist and University of Washington professor known for yeast RNA transcription research and inventions behind the first recombinant hepatitis B vaccine.

Benjamin D. Humphreys

Benjamin D. Humphreys is an American nephrologist and kidney stem cell researcher who is Chief of Nephrology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Benjamin D. Levine

Benjamin D. Levine, also known as Benjamin Levine, is an American cardiologist and exercise physiologist at UT Southwestern who founded the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine in 1992.

Benjamin D. Rowland

Benjamin D. Rowland is a molecular biologist leading a research group at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam and a Professor of Genome Biology at TU Delft.

Benjamin Deneen

Benjamin Deneen is a neuroscientist and professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston who studies glial biology and cancer neuroscience, known for work on astrocytes, glioma, and ependymoma.

Benjamin Djulbegović

Benjamin Djulbegović is a physician-scientist in hematology and evidence-based medicine, a Professor of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston since 2023.

Benjamin F. Cravatt

Benjamin F. Cravatt is an American chemical biologist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for developing activity-based protein profiling and founding biotechnology companies including Vividion Therapeutics.

Benjamin G. Druss

Benjamin G. Druss is an American psychiatrist and mental health services researcher, the Rosalynn Carter Chair in Mental Health at Emory University, known for work on excess mortality in serious mental illness.

Benjamin G. Ferris

Benjamin G. Ferris (1919–1996) was an American physician and environmental-health scientist at Harvard who helped found environmental epidemiology and initiated the Harvard Six Cities Study of air pollution.

Benjamin Geiger

Benjamin (Benny) Geiger is an Israeli cell biologist and emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, a leading researcher on focal adhesions and cell adhesion.

Benjamin H. Landing

Benjamin H. Landing (1920–2000) was an American pediatric pathologist, a founder of pediatric pathology, who led the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles laboratories from 1961.

Benjamin Haibe‐Kains

Benjamin Haibe-Kains is a Canadian-based computational biologist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, known for a 2013 Nature paper showing that large pharmacogenomic datasets disagreed.

Benjamin Harrison Willier

Benjamin Harrison Willier (1890–1972) was an American experimental embryologist who chaired zoology at Johns Hopkins and showed that pigment cells arise from the neural crest.

Benjamin Izar

Benjamin Izar is a German-born medical oncologist and cancer researcher at Columbia University who studies tumor single-cell genomics and resistance to immunotherapy, with a clinical focus on melanoma.

Benjamin J. Luft

Benjamin J. Luft is an infectious-disease physician-scientist at Stony Brook University, known for toxoplasmosis in AIDS, Lyme disease, and directing the World Trade Center Health and Wellness Program.

Benjamin J. Marsland

Benjamin J. Marsland is a New Zealand-born immunologist and professor at Monash University in Melbourne who studies how gut and lung microbes shape asthma and lung transplant failure.