Life and health scientists

Bernhard G. Herrmann

Bernhard G. Herrmann (born 1956) is a developmental geneticist who cloned the mouse Brachyury gene in 1990 and directed developmental genetics research at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin.

Bernhard Hemmer

Bernhard Hemmer (born 1963) is a German neurologist and neuroimmunologist who has directed neurology at TUM University Hospital in Munich since 2007, specializing in multiple sclerosis.

Bernhard Kräutler

Bernhard Kräutler is an Austrian organic chemist who was Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Innsbruck from 1991 to 2015, known for work on vitamin B12 and the phyllobilins of chlorophyll breakdown.

Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang

Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang (1848–1932) was a Danish veterinarian and bacteriologist who discovered Brucella abortus, the cause of Bang's disease in cattle, and designed Denmark's bovine tuberculosis eradication program.

Bernhard Lüscher

Bernhard Lüscher is a German molecular biologist and biochemist at RWTH Aachen known for work on oncoproteins like Myb and c-Myc and on mono-ADP-ribosylation, which controls DNA repair and signaling.

Bernhard Meier

Bernhard Meier, born 1950 in Bern, is a Swiss interventional cardiologist who led cardiology at the Inselspital from 1992 to 2015 and ran PFO closure trials.

Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel

Bernhard Moritz Carl Ludwig Riedel (1846–1916) was a German surgeon who held the chair of surgery at the University of Jena and gave his name to Riedel thyroiditis.

Bernhard Moser

Bernhard Moser is a Swiss-trained immunologist, Chair of Infection and Immunity at Cardiff University since 2006, known for identifying the natural ligand of the HIV receptor fusin.

Bernhard Naunyn

Bernhard Naunyn (1839–1925) was a German internist who introduced experimental laboratory work into clinical internal medicine, co-founded the first pharmacology journal, and shaped the study of gallstones and diabetes.

Bernhard Nieswandt

Bernhard Nieswandt, born 1968, is a German cell biologist and platelet researcher who heads Experimental Biomedicine I at the University of Würzburg and coined the term "thrombo-inflammation".

Bernhard Nocht

Bernhard Nocht (1857–1945) was a German naval physician, called the father of German tropical medicine, who founded Hamburg's Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases in 1900 and led it until 1930.

Bernhard Palsson

Bernhard Palsson (Bernharð Örn Pálsson) is a systems biologist at UC San Diego known for genome-scale metabolic models of bacteria and humans, flux balance analysis, and the COBRA Toolbox.

Bernhard Rensch

Bernhard Rensch (1900–1990) was a German zoologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Münster, an architect of the modern evolutionary synthesis whose 1947 book Evolution Above the Species Level shaped the theory.

Bernhard Sigmund Schultze

Bernhard Sigmund Schultze (1827–1919) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician who held the chair at Jena for 45 years and is remembered for the Schultze placental and newborn-resuscitation methods.

Bernhard Zondek

Bernhard Zondek (1891–1966) was a German-Israeli gynecologist and endocrinologist who, with Selmar Aschheim, developed the Aschheim-Zondek test, the first reliable biological pregnancy test, and showed the pituitary governs the ovaries.

Bernice Eddy

Bernice Eddy (1903–1989) was an American bacteriologist and virologist at the NIH who tested polio vaccine safety and co-discovered the SE polyoma virus with Sarah Stewart.

Bernt Eric Uhlin

Bernt Eric Uhlin is a Swedish molecular microbiologist and professor of medical microbiology at Umeå University, who directed MIMS from 2007 to 2018 and studies bacterial virulence and biofilms.

Bert Brunekreef

Bert Brunekreef (born 1953 in Utrecht) is a Dutch environmental epidemiologist known for research on air pollution and children's respiratory health, long based at Wageningen and Utrecht universities.

Bert Hölldobler

Bert Hölldobler, born 1936, is a German-American behavioral biologist and myrmecologist who studies ant communication, taught at Harvard and Würzburg, and won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for The Ants.

Bert L de Groot

Bert L. de Groot (born 1971) is a Dutch computational biophysicist who leads the Computational Biomolecular Dynamics group at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen.

Bert L. Vallée

Bert L. Vallee (1919–2010) was a German-born, Luxembourg-raised physician-biochemist at Harvard Medical School, called the father of metallobiochemistry for establishing the biological roles of zinc and trace metals.

Bert Poolman

Bert Poolman is a Dutch biochemist, professor of Biochemistry at the University of Groningen since 1999, known for membrane transport research and building synthetic cells from molecular components.

Bert Sakmann

Bert Sakmann, born in Stuttgart in 1942, is a German physician and neuroscientist who shared the 1991 Nobel Prize for discoveries about single ion channels in cells.

Bert van den Berg

Bert van den Berg is a structural biologist who has been Professor in Membrane Protein Structural Biology at Newcastle University since 2013, known for the SecY channel and SusCD structures.

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Bert Vogelstein

Bert Vogelstein is an American physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins who first explained how colorectal cancer develops through accumulating gene mutations, and later pioneered liquid biopsy blood tests.

Bert W. O’Malley

Bert Wilson O'Malley (1936–2025) was an American physician-scientist at Baylor College of Medicine, called the founding father of molecular endocrinology and elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Berta Scharrer

Berta Scharrer (1906–1995) was a German-born American scientist who, with her husband Ernst, founded neuroendocrinology, the study of hormone-secreting nerve cells, winning the 1983 National Medal of Science.

Berthold Göttgens

Berthold Göttgens, born 1966, is Professor of Molecular Haematology at Cambridge and Director of the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, known for single-cell studies of blood stem cells and leukemia.

Bertil Glader

Bertil Glader is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist and Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at Stanford University, known for work on hereditary red blood cell disorders and bone marrow failure.