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Bertil Hille

Bertil Hille is an American physiologist and biophysicist at the University of Washington whose work established ion channels as gated membrane pores, winning the 1999 Lasker Award.

Bertram L. Kasiske

Bertram L. Kasiske, also published as Bertram Kasiske, is an American transplant nephrologist and University of Minnesota professor who directed nephrology at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.

Bertram Pitt

Bertram Pitt, born 1932 in New York, is an American cardiologist at the University of Michigan who led landmark heart failure trials including SOLVD, RALES, and EPHESUS.

Bertram Wiedenmann

Bertram Wiedenmann is a German gastroenterologist and neuroendocrine tumor researcher at Charité Berlin, known for discovering synaptophysin, a standard diagnostic marker for neuroendocrine tumors, and for co-founding ENETS, which gave him its 2024 Life Achievement Award.

Bertrand Coiffier

Bertrand Coiffier (1947–2019) was a French hematologist, professor at Lyon, who led the trials establishing R-CHOP as standard treatment for elderly patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Bertrand Coste

Bertrand Coste (born 1979 in Manosque, France) is a French neuroscientist at the CNRS in Marseille who, as first author of the 2010 Science paper, identified the PIEZO ion channels underlying touch.

Bertrand Routy

Bertrand Routy is a Canadian hemato-oncologist who directs the oncomicrobiome laboratory at CRCHUM in Montreal, known for linking antibiotics and gut bacteria to cancer immunotherapy response.

Bertrand Séraphin

Bertrand Séraphin, born 1961, is a French molecular biologist who leads the Eukaryotic mRNA decay team at CNRS and IGBMC near Strasbourg, known for spliceosome work and the TAP method.

Bertrand Tombal

Bertrand Tombal is a Belgian urologic oncologist, professor at UCLouvain and head of urology at Saint-Luc in Brussels since 1998, known for the PREVAIL prostate cancer trial.

Berwind P. Kaufmann

Berwind P. Kaufmann was an American cytogeneticist who studied radiation-induced chromosome breaks at Cold Spring Harbor and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1952.

Bess B. Ward

Bess B. Ward is an American biological oceanographer who studies the marine and global nitrogen cycle, holding the William J. Sinclair professorship at Princeton University and chairing its Geosciences department from 2006 to 2022.

Bess Dawson‐Hughes

Bess Dawson-Hughes is an American endocrinologist at Tufts University whose clinical trials established how much calcium and vitamin D older adults need to prevent bone loss and fractures.

Bessel Kok

Bessel Kok (1918–1979) was a Dutch-born biophysicist who worked in the Netherlands and the United States, discovered P700, described the Kok effect, and proposed Kok's cycle of photosynthetic oxygen evolution.

Bessel van der Kolk

Bessel van der Kolk, Dutch-born American psychiatrist (born 1943), founder of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, and author of The Body Keeps the Score (2014); PTSD researcher known for SSRI, neuroimaging, and childhood-trauma studies, and a contested figure in trauma science.

Beth Levine (physician-scientist)

Beth Levine (1960–2020) was an American physician-scientist who established the genetic study of autophagy in mammals; her lab identified beclin 1 as the first mammalian autophagy gene.

Beth P. Bell

Beth P. Bell is a CDC physician-scientist known for viral hepatitis research, who led the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases from 2010 and is now a University of Washington professor.

Beth Shapiro

Beth Shapiro is an American evolutionary biologist and paleogenomicist who is Chief Science Officer of the de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences and a professor at UC Santa Cruz.

Beth Stevens

Beth Stevens is an American neuroscientist, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, known for showing how complement proteins and microglia eliminate synapses in development and disease.

Bette Korber

Bette Korber is an American computational biologist who led the Los Alamos HIV database, designed mosaic HIV vaccines, and showed the SARS-CoV-2 D614G mutation increased infectivity.

Betty Diamond

Betty Diamond is an American rheumatologist and immunologist who studies how lupus autoantibodies affect the brain, leading the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the Feinstein Institutes.

Betty Hay

Elizabeth Dexter "Betty" Hay (1927–2007) was an American cell and developmental biologist at Harvard Medical School, the first woman to chair a preclinical department there, known for discovering epithelial-mesenchymal transition.

Betty Kim

Betty Y.S. Kim is a neurosurgeon and physician-scientist, Professor of Neurosurgery at MD Anderson since 2022, known for bispecific nanobioconjugate engagers that trigger macrophages to engulf tumor cells.

Betül Kaçar

Betül Kaçar is a Turkish-American astrobiologist and professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies early life by resurrecting ancient proteins in modern bacteria, and directs NASA's MUSE consortium.

Beverly E. Griffin

Beverly E. Griffin (1930–2016) was an American-born virologist, Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, known for sequencing mouse polyomavirus and her research on Epstein–Barr virus and cancer.

Beverly H. Koller

Beverly H. Koller is a molecular geneticist and Professor of Genetics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who builds gene-targeted and humanized mouse models of disease.

Beverly H. Lorell

Beverly H. Lorell is an American cardiologist and cardiovascular researcher, formerly Professor of Medicine at Harvard and later a medical-device regulatory advisor at King & Spalding.

Beverly L. Davidson

Beverly L. Davidson is an American molecular neuroscientist and gene-therapy researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, known for gene silencing in the brain.

Beverly M. Emerson

Beverly M. Emerson is an American molecular biologist who studies gene regulation and epigenetic changes in cancer, and is a Distinguished Scientist at OHSU's Knight Cancer Institute.

Beverly S. Mitchell

Beverly S. Mitchell is an American hematologist-oncologist at Stanford known for research on leukemia drug resistance, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2001.

Bharat B. Aggarwal

Bharat B. Aggarwal, full name Bharat Bhushan Aggarwal, is a biochemist who discovered TNF-α and TNF-β and led cytokine research at MD Anderson from 1989 to 2015.