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Benoit I. Giasson

Benoit I. Giasson is a University of Florida neuroscientist who studies how alpha-synuclein misfolds and spreads in Parkinson's disease, known for a 2000 Science paper linking nitrated alpha-synuclein to synucleinopathy lesions.

Benoît Ladoux

Benoît Ladoux is a French physicist and CNRS research director who studies mechanobiology, co-leading the Ladoux–Mège laboratory at the Institut Jacques Monod and a tissue mechanobiology division in Erlangen, Germany.

Benoît Nemery

Benoît Nemery, full name Benoit Nemery de Bellevaux, is a Belgian physician-scientist in lung toxicology and occupational medicine at KU Leuven, becoming Emeritus Professor in 2018.

Benoı̂t J. Van den Eynde

Benoît J. Van den Eynde is a Belgian physician-scientist in tumor immunology, director of the de Duve Institute and Ludwig Cancer Research Brussels, and co-founder of iTeos Therapeutics.

Benoı̂t Roux

Benoît Roux is a Canadian computational biophysicist and Amgen Professor at the University of Chicago since 2005, known for Nature papers on how potassium channels conduct and select ions.

Berend Isermann

Berend Isermann, born 1967 in Kiel, is a German physician and clinical chemist who directs the Institute of Laboratory Medicine at Leipzig University Hospital and studies coagulation proteases in vascular disease.

Berge A. Minassian

Berge A. Minassian is a Canadian-trained pediatric neurologist and neurogeneticist, Division Chief of Child Neurology at UT Southwestern, known for discovering the Lafora disease genes and developing gene therapies for childhood neurological diseases.

Berhane Asfaw

Berhane Asfaw is an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist and co-director of the Middle Awash Research Project in the Afar Depression, whose work named species from Australopithecus ramidus to early modern humans.

Berislav V. Zloković

Berislav V. Zloković, also written Berislav Zlokovic, is a neuroscientist and physician at the University of Southern California who showed blood-brain barrier breakdown is an early biomarker of cognitive dysfunction.

Berl R. Oakley

Berl R. Oakley is an American geneticist, Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas since 2008, known for discovering γ-tubulin in the fungus Aspergillus nidulans.

Bern Kohler

Bern Kohler is an American physical chemist and Ohio Eminent Scholar at Ohio State University known for measuring the ultrafast excited-state lifetimes of DNA with femtosecond laser spectroscopy.

Bernadine H. Bulkley

Bernadine H. Bulkley (Bernadine Healy, 1944–2011) was an American cardiologist who, as Bernadine P. Healy, became the first female director of the National Institutes of Health.

Bernadine Healy

Bernadine Healy (1944-2011), American cardiologist and first female NIH director (1991-1993), launched the Women's Health Initiative, led the American Red Cross 9/11 response, and later deaned Ohio State's medical school.

Bernard Babior

Bernard M. Babior (1935–2004) was an American physician-biochemist who showed that phagocytic white blood cells kill bacteria with superoxide, and was professor and head of biochemistry at The Scripps Research Institute from 1986.

Bernard Brodie (pharmacologist)

Bernard Brodie (1907–1989) was an American pharmacologist who founded and led the Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology at NIH, and whose work on serotonin and drug metabolism helped found psychopharmacology.

Bernard C. Rossier

Bernard C. Rossier, born 1941 in Lausanne, is a Swiss physiologist and emeritus professor at the University of Lausanne who led the group that cloned the epithelial sodium channel.

Bernard Chaitman

Bernard R. Chaitman is an American cardiologist at Saint Louis University School of Medicine known for research on ischemic heart disease and exercise stress testing.

Bernard D. Davis

Bernard D. Davis (1916–1994) was an American bacteriologist and molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School, a pioneer of bacterial genetics known for work on streptomycin and bacterial mutants.

Bernard De Bruyne

Bernard De Bruyne is a Belgian interventional cardiologist at the Cardiovascular Center Aalst who developed fractional flow reserve and led the FAME trials showing FFR-guided stenting improves outcomes.

Bernard de Massy

Bernard de Massy is a French geneticist at CNRS and the Institut de Génétique Humaine in Montpellier, known for showing that PRDM9 specifies meiotic recombination hotspots.

Bernard Dujon

Bernard Dujon (born 1947) is a French molecular geneticist, professor emeritus at Sorbonne Université and Institut Pasteur, known for discovering mobile introns and the first homing endonuclease.

Bernard Escudier

Bernard J. Escudier is a French medical oncologist at Gustave Roussy in Villejuif who led the phase III trials introducing sorafenib, bevacizumab, and nivolumab–ipilimumab into kidney cancer treatment, winning the 2022 ESMO Lifetime Achievement Award.

Bernard F. Erlanger

Bernard F. Erlanger was an American immunochemist at Columbia University who developed methods for raising antibodies against small molecules like DNA nucleosides, after serving as a technical adviser on the Manhattan Project.

Bernard Fisher (American surgeon)

Bernard Fisher (1918–2019) was an American surgeon and clinical researcher at the University of Pittsburgh whose randomized trials ended routine radical mastectomy for breast cancer.

Bernard G. Forget

Bernard G. Forget (1939–2015) was an American hematologist and geneticist at Yale School of Medicine whose molecular work on thalassemia and globin genes helped found molecular medicine.

Bernard Guyer

Bernard Guyer is an American pediatrician and perinatal epidemiologist, Zanvyl Krieger Professor emeritus at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who published over 300 works on child health.

Bernard Halpern

Bernard Halpern (Naftali Halpern, 1904–1978) was a French pharmacologist and immunologist, born in what is now Ukraine, who discovered the first synthetic antihistamines usable in human medicine, including Antergan and promethazine.

Bernard Hirschel

Bernard Hirschel is a Swiss infectious-diseases physician and HIV researcher, born in 1946, who headed the HIV/AIDS unit of the Geneva University Hospitals from 1989.

Bernard J. Gersh

Bernard J. Gersh (B.J. Gersh) is a South African-born cardiologist who has spent most of his career at the Mayo Clinic, studying atrial fibrillation and coronary disease.

Bernard J. Poiesz

Bernard J. Poiesz is an American hematologist-oncologist and immunologist at SUNY Upstate Medical University, first author of the 1980 paper reporting HTLV-1, the first human retrovirus.