Life and health scientists

Boris I. Shraiman

Boris I. Shraiman is an American theoretical physicist at UC Santa Barbara who applies statistical physics to biology, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

Boris Magasanik (1919–2013) was an American microbiologist and biochemist, the Jacques Monod Professor Emeritus at MIT, best known for working out how bacteria sense and respond to nitrogen availability.

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Boris Martinac

Boris Martinac is a German-trained Australian biophysicist who recorded the first mechanosensitive ion channels of E. coli in 1987, work credited by the 2021 Nobel Committee.

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Boris Rajewsky

Boris Rajewsky (1893–1974) was a Ukrainian-born German biophysicist and radiologist who directed the Kaiser Wilhelm, later Max Planck, Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt from 1937 to 1966.

Boris Reizis

Boris Reizis is an immunologist who studies dendritic cell development, immune tolerance to self-DNA, and stem cell renewal, and joined the University of Chicago in 2025.

Boris Senior

Boris Senior (1923–2012) was a Ukraine-born pediatric endocrinologist, professor at Tufts University in Boston, known for describing Senior-Loken syndrome and functional tests for glycogen storage diseases.

Boris Striepen

Boris Striepen is a parasitologist and professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Pennsylvania whose lab pioneered genetic manipulation of Cryptosporidium, a leading cause of childhood diarrhea.

Boris Tabakoff

Boris Tabakoff is a neuropharmacologist and behavioral geneticist at the University of Colorado known for research on the genetics and biological markers of alcoholism risk.

Boris Worm

Boris Worm is a German marine ecologist and conservation biologist, a professor of biology at Dalhousie University in Halifax since 2004, known for studies of global fisheries decline.

Borja Ibáñez

Borja Ibáñez is a Spanish interventional cardiologist and Scientific Director of the Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) in Madrid, best known for leading the REBOOT trial.

Borys Surawicz

Borys Surawicz (1917–2015) was a Polish-born American cardiologist and pioneer of electrocardiography who led the University of Kentucky cardiology department and served as ACC president from 1979 to 1980.

Bostjan Kobe

Boštjan Kobe, born 1965 in Ljubljana, is a Slovenian-born Australian structural biologist and professor at the University of Queensland, known for leucine-rich repeat protein structures and TIR-domain signaling in innate immunity.

Botond Roska

Botond Roska, born 1969, is a Hungarian-Swiss physician and neuroscientist who directs the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel and led optogenetic therapy that partially restored a blind patient's vision in 2021.

Boudewijn Burgering

Boudewijn Burgering is a Dutch molecular biologist, professor of signal transduction at UMC Utrecht since 2003, known for identifying protein kinase B as an insulin signaling target in 1995.

Boyi Gan

Boyi Gan is a cancer biologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center whose lab studies metabolically driven cell death, including ferroptosis and the disulfidptosis he discovered in 2023.

Brad Cairns

Brad Cairns, also known as Bradley R. Cairns, is an American chromatin biologist at the University of Utah who discovered the SWI/SNF and RSC remodeling complexes.

Brad H. Nelson

Brad H. Nelson is a Canadian cancer immunologist and founding director of BC Cancer's Deeley Research Centre in Victoria, known for research on T-cell signaling and B cells in tumors.

Brad H. Rovin

Brad H. Rovin is an American nephrologist at Ohio State Wexner Medical Center specializing in lupus nephritis and IgA nephropathy; he led the AURORA 1 and PROTECT trials.

Brad K Hulse

Brad K Hulse is an American systems neuroscientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, known for co-developing jGCaMP7 calcium sensors and the Drosophila central complex connectome.

Brad Spellberg

Brad Spellberg is an American infectious diseases physician-researcher and Chief Medical Officer of Los Angeles General Medical Center, known for work on antibiotic resistance and stewardship.

Braden Manns

Braden Manns is a Canadian nephrologist and health economist at the University of Calgary, known for dialysis trials and cost-effectiveness studies that informed drug and kidney-care policy in Canada.

Bradford B. Lowell

Bradford B. Lowell is an American neuroscientist and physician, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, known for mapping the brain circuits that control hunger, satiety, and metabolism.

Bradford C. Berk

Bradford C. Berk is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular molecular biology at the University of Rochester, known for research on vascular signaling, oxidative stress, and aneurysm mechanisms.

Bradford Cannon

Bradford Cannon (1907–2005) was an American plastic surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for modernizing burn care after the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire and leading plastic surgery in Boston.

Bradley Bernstein

Bradley E. Bernstein is an American cancer epigenetics researcher who chairs the Department of Cancer Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and is known for discovering bivalent domains in embryonic stem cells.

Bradley C Paasch

Bradley Carlton Paasch is an American plant scientist at Duke University who studies how plant microbiota regulate immunity, showing a healthy microbiota gates immune development in Arabidopsis.

Bradley J. Cardinale

Bradley J. Cardinale is an American ecologist who became head of Penn State's Department of Ecosystem Science and Management in 2021, known for research on biodiversity loss and ecosystem functioning.

Bradley J. Monk

Bradley J. Monk is an American gynecologic oncologist whose trials of bevacizumab, PARP inhibitors, and immunotherapy in cervical and ovarian cancer have been described as practice-changing.

Bradley S. Moore

Bradley S. Moore is an American marine natural products chemist, a Distinguished Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, known for salinosporamide A and domoic acid biosynthesis.