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Bhart‐Anjan S. Bhullar

Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar is a vertebrate paleontologist and comparative anatomist at Yale University and its Peabody Museum whose Nature papers cover the origins of birds, mammals, and dinosaur locomotion.

Bhushan Nagar

Bhushan Nagar is a structural biologist and professor of biochemistry at McGill University in Montreal, known for crystal structures of c-Abl kinase, Argonaute 2, and IFIT proteins.

Bi‐Sen Ding

Bi-Sen Ding (丁楅森) is a Chinese vascular biologist known for angiocrine factors, blood-vessel signals that direct lung and liver regeneration or fibrosis, and a researcher at Sichuan University since 2016.

Biagio Longo

Biagio Longo (1872–1950) was an Italian botanist who identified the pino loricato pine on the Pollino massif in 1905 and held botany chairs at Siena, Pisa, and Naples.

Biff F. Palmer

Biff F. Palmer is an American nephrologist, professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, known for widely cited NEJM reviews on hyperkalemia and salicylate toxicity.

Bijan Pesaran

Bijan Pesaran is an American systems neuroscientist and neural engineer at the University of Pennsylvania, known for Nature studies on decision circuits and speech processing.

Bik-Kwoon Tye

Bik-Kwoon Tye is a molecular biologist known for identifying the MCM genes, initiators of eukaryotic DNA replication, and for cryo-EM structures of the replication machinery.

Bill S. Hansson

Bill S. Hansson, born in 1959 in Sweden, is a chemical ecologist who studies insect olfaction and directs the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena.

Bill Sugden

Bill Sugden is an American molecular virologist and James A. Miller Professor of Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who has studied Epstein-Barr virus and other tumor viruses since 1975.

Billy G. Hudson

Billy G. Hudson is an American biochemist and matrix biologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known for discovering type IV collagen chains, the Goodpasture autoantigen, and bromine's essential role.

Bin Gao

Bin Gao is a physician-scientist who leads the Laboratory of Liver Diseases at NIAAA, NIH, and created the widely used NIAAA mouse model of alcoholic liver disease.

Bin Tean Teh

Bin Tean Teh is a Singapore-based cancer geneticist at A*STAR and the National Cancer Centre Singapore who studies the genomics of Asian-prevalent cancers, including cholangiocarcinoma.

Bing Chen

Bing Chen, also known as Chen Bing, is a structural biologist at Harvard Medical School who studies how HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins change shape to enter cells.

Bing Gong

Bing Gong is a Chinese-American chemist and emeritus professor at the University at Buffalo known for aromatic foldamers and synthetic nanotubes that transport ions across membranes.

Bing Ren

Bing Ren is a molecular biologist who studies how regulatory elements of the human genome control gene expression, and how that control fails in cancer and brain disease.

Binghui Shen

Binghui Shen is a professor and chair of the Department of Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics at City of Hope in Duarte, California, known for work on FEN1 and DNA2.

Bingwei Lu

Bingwei Lu is a neuroscientist and Professor of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to study neurodegenerative disease.

Birdsey Renshaw

Birdsey Renshaw (1911–1948) was a neuroscientist who demonstrated recurrent inhibition of spinal motoneurons, recorded the interneuron named the Renshaw cell in his honor, and died of polio at 37.

Birger Lindberg Møller

Birger Lindberg Møller, born 1946, is a Danish plant biochemist at the University of Copenhagen known for his work on cyanogenic glucosides and plant metabolic engineering.

Birutė Galdikas

Birutė Mary Galdikas was a Canadian primatologist and conservationist who began the longest continuous study of wild orangutans at Camp Leakey, Borneo, in 1971, and founded Orangutan Foundation International.

Björn Dahlbäck

Björn Dahlbäck, born 1949, is a Swedish physician-scientist and professor emeritus at Lund University in Malmö, best known for discovering APC resistance and the factor V Leiden mutation.

Björn Pasternak

Björn Pasternak, born 1980, is a Swedish physician and pharmacoepidemiologist known for large-scale register studies of drug safety in pregnancy, including a 2013 NEJM study of SSRIs and autism.

Bjørn R. Olsen

Bjørn R. Olsen, born in Norway in 1940, is Hersey Professor of Cell Biology, Emeritus at Harvard, whose laboratory discovered new collagen families and mutations causing inherited cartilage, bone, and vascular disorders.

Björn Schumacher

Björn Schumacher is a German molecular biologist who studies how DNA damage drives aging, directing the Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease at the University of Cologne.

Björn Vennström

Björn Vennström (1948–2024) was a Swedish molecular biologist and Karolinska Institutet professor who identified the oncogenes erbA and erbB and showed c-erb-A is a thyroid hormone receptor.

Blair Johnson

Blair Johnson is an American exercise physiologist at the University at Buffalo who studies water immersion, breathing control, and concussion, and received a 2017 PECASE award.

Blake C. Meyers

Blake C. Meyers is an American plant genomicist at UC Davis known for pioneering small RNA sequencing in crops and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Blake Wiedenheft

Blake Wiedenheft is an American structural biologist and professor at Montana State University known for work on CRISPR-Cas immunity, who received the Presidential Early Career Award from President Obama in 2017.

Blanche Capel

Blanche Capel is an American developmental biologist at Duke University known for research on how the gonad commits to becoming a testis or an ovary, including the role of Sry.

Blanche P. Alter

Blanche P. Alter is an American physician-scientist in pediatric hematology and cancer genetics, known for building and leading the National Cancer Institute's Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes study.