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Benjamin J. Raphael

Benjamin J. Raphael is a computational biologist and computer scientist, professor at Princeton University since 2016 and previously at Brown, known for algorithms used in TCGA and ICGC cancer projects.

Benjamin Kerr

Benjamin Kerr is an American evolutionary biologist and Professor of Biology at the University of Washington, known for experimental and theoretical work on cooperation and eco-evolutionary dynamics.

Benjamin L. Ebert

Benjamin L. Ebert is an American physician-scientist in hematology known for research on clonal hematopoiesis and myelodysplastic syndromes, and President and CEO of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute since 2024.

Benjamin Libet

Benjamin Libet (1916–2007) was an American physiologist and neuroscientist who spent nearly 50 years at UCSF and is known for the Libet experiments on free will and conscious awareness.

Benjamin Lincoln Robinson

Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1864–1935) was an American systematic botanist who led Harvard's Gray Herbarium for 43 years, became its first Asa Gray Professor in 1899, and founded the journal Rhodora.

Benjamin M. Banks

Benjamin M. Banks was an American gastroenterologist and clinical investigator at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and Harvard Medical School, known for research on ulcerative colitis and serum leucine aminopeptidase diagnostics.

Benjamin M. Neale

Benjamin M. Neale is a statistical geneticist at the Broad Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, known for LD Score regression and psychiatric genomics.

Benjamin M. Scirica

Benjamin M. Scirica is an American cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where he has practiced since 1999.

Benjamin Minge Duggar

Benjamin Minge Duggar (1872–1956) was an American plant physiologist and mycologist who wrote the first U.S. plant pathology textbook and discovered Aureomycin, the first tetracycline antibiotic.

Benjamin Neel

Benjamin Neel is an American cancer biologist known for work on PTP1B and SHP2 signaling and cancer genomics, who directed the Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU.

Benjamin Peter Kleinstiver

Benjamin Peter Kleinstiver is a Canadian-trained biochemist and genome engineer at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for widening the genomic range CRISPR-Cas9 can target.

Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon

Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon, also known as Benjamin Falcon, is a structural biologist who leads a research group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.

Benjamin S. Bunney

Benjamin S. Bunney is an American psychiatrist and systems neuroscientist, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and a National Academy of Medicine member.

Benjamin S. Halpern

Benjamin S. Halpern is an American marine ecologist and conservation scientist at UC Santa Barbara, known for the first global map of human impact on the ocean.

Benjamin Schuler

Benjamin Schuler (born 1971) is a molecular biophysicist who has been Full Professor of Molecular Biophysics at the University of Zurich since 2009, known for single-molecule FRET studies of intrinsically disordered proteins.

Benjamin Simons

Benjamin D. Simons is a theoretical physicist and stem cell biologist at the University of Cambridge, known for applying statistical physics to stem cell fate and cancer.

Benjamin Solomon

Benjamin J. Solomon is an Australian medical oncologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, known for phase 3 trials of ALK inhibitors in lung cancer.

Benjamin T. Kile

Benjamin T. Kile, also known as Benjamin Kile, is an Australian hematology researcher who showed platelets carry a timed program of cell death and leads the Garvan Institute in Sydney.

Benjamin Tenney

Benjamin Tenney, Jr. was an American obstetrician-gynecologist and placental pathologist in Boston, affiliated with Harvard and Boston City Hospital, whose work shaped mid-twentieth-century understanding of the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.

Benjamin tenOever

Benjamin tenOever is an American virologist who chairs microbiology at NYU Grossman, directs its Virology Institute, and is known for defining the imbalanced host response to SARS-CoV-2 during COVID-19.

Benjamin Tu

Benjamin Tu is an American molecular biologist and HHMI Investigator at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for discovering the yeast metabolic cycle and studying how metabolism controls cell growth.

Benjamin Tycko

Benjamin Tycko is a physician-scientist with M.D. and Ph.D. degrees who studies genomic imprinting and DNA methylation, known for H19 work in Wilms' tumor and hap-ASM.

Benjamin Wolozin

Benjamin Wolozin is an American physician-scientist and professor at Boston University who studies the cell and molecular biology of neurodegenerative disease, including Alzheimer's disease, ALS, and frontotemporal dementia, and co-founded Aquinnah Pharmaceuticals.

Benjamin Y. Hayden

Benjamin Y. Hayden, also published as Benjamin Hayden, is a neuroscientist and Professor of Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine who studies reward, decision-making, and executive control.

Bennett A. Shaywitz

Bennett A. Shaywitz is an American pediatric neurologist and physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine whose functional brain-imaging studies helped establish dyslexia as a disorder of brain organization.

Bennett M. Shapiro

Bennett M. Shapiro was a biochemist, professor and chairman of biochemistry at the University of Washington, known for the phosphorylcreatine shuttle model of sperm energy transport.

Bennett Van Houten

Bennett Van Houten, known as Ben Van Houten, is an American molecular biologist at the University of Pittsburgh who studies how cells detect and repair DNA damage.

Benno Müller‐Hill

Benno Müller-Hill (1933–2018) was a German molecular biologist, professor of genetics at the University of Cologne, who co-isolated the lac repressor at Harvard in 1966.

Benoît De Crombrugghe

Benoît De Crombrugghe, born 1935 in Bruges, Belgium, is a Belgian molecular biologist at M.D. Anderson known for discovering Osterix and establishing Sox9's role in cartilage.

Benoit G. Bruneau

Benoit G. Bruneau is a Canadian developmental biologist known for studying the transcription factor Tbx5 in heart development, and director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease since 2019.