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Bradley T. Hyman

Bradley T. Hyman is the John B. Penney, Jr. Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, directing Alzheimer's disease research there since 1989.

Brahmajee K. Nallamothu

Brahmajee K. Nallamothu, also published as Brahmajee Nallamothu, is an American interventional cardiologist at the University of Michigan known for research on door-to-balloon times in heart attack care.

Brajesh K. Singh

Brajesh K. Singh is an Australian-based soil scientist and microbial ecologist at Western Sydney University known for large-scale studies showing that losses of soil microbial diversity reduce ecosystem functions.

Bram van Ginneken

Bram van Ginneken is a Dutch medical image analysis researcher and professor at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, known for computer-aided diagnosis of chest radiographs and lung CT scans.

Bramah N. Singh

Bramah N. Singh (1938–2014) was a Fiji-born, New Zealand-trained cardiologist at UCLA who co-created the Singh-Vaughan Williams classification of antiarrhythmic drugs and led major amiodarone trials.

Brandon S. Gaut

Brandon S. Gaut is an American plant evolutionary genomicist and Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine, known for a 2005 Science analysis of artificial selection in maize genes.

Brandt F. Eichman

Brandt F. Eichman is an American structural biologist at Vanderbilt University known for discovering that the DNA repair enzyme AlkD excises damaged bases without base flipping.

Branislav D. Janković

Branislav D. Janković (1920–1994) was a Serbian immunologist and neuroimmunologist who headed the University of Belgrade Faculty of Pharmacy's institute for 30 years and founded the Immunology Research Center in Belgrade.

Brant M. Weinstein

Brant M. Weinstein is a biologist and NIH senior investigator in Bethesda, Maryland, known as a leading expert on zebrafish blood and lymphatic vessel development.

Bratislav Mišić

Bratislav Mišić is a network neuroscientist and Associate Professor at the Montreal Neurological Institute who leads the Network Neuroscience Lab, studying how brain dynamics emerge from connections among brain areas.

Brenda A. Schulman

Brenda A. Schulman is an American structural biologist who studies ubiquitin enzymes and has led a department at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry since 2017.

Brenda Andrews

Brenda J. Andrews is a Canadian molecular geneticist at the University of Toronto known for pioneering genetic interaction networks and cell cycle control in budding yeast.

Brenda J. Reinhart

Brenda J. Reinhart is a biologist who, in Gary Ruvkun's Harvard laboratory, was first author of the 2000 Nature paper identifying let-7, the second animal microRNA.

Brenda L. Bass

Brenda L. Bass, born 1955, is an American molecular biologist at the University of Utah who discovered the ADAR RNA editing enzymes and established Dicer's role in RNA silencing.

Brenda Milner

Brenda Milner, née Langford and born in 1918, is a McGill neuropsychologist whose studies of the epilepsy patient H.M. established that the brain holds several distinct memory systems.

Brenda R. Hemmelgarn

Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, also known as Brenda Hemmelgarn, is a Canadian nephrologist and clinical epidemiologist who became dean of medicine at the University of Alberta in 2020.

Brenda W.J.H. Penninx

Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, known as Brenda Penninx, is a Dutch psychiatric epidemiologist and professor of psychiatry at Amsterdam UMC who studies depressive and anxiety disorders.

Brendan D. Manning

Brendan D. Manning is a cell signaling researcher who studies how the PI3K and mTOR pathways control cell growth, and chairs Molecular Metabolism at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Brendan Frey

Brendan J. Frey is a machine learning and genome biology researcher at the University of Toronto, known for affinity propagation and for cofounding Deep Genomics in 2015.

Brendan J. M. Bohannan

Brendan J. M. Bohannan is a microbial ecologist and Full Professor at the University of Oregon, known for Nature papers on bacterial biodiversity and a Humboldt Research Award.

Brendan Lee

Brendan H.L. Lee is an American physician-scientist who chairs molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine, studying rare skeletal disorders like osteogenesis imperfecta.

Brendan M. Walker

Brendan M. Walker is an American addiction neuroscientist who studies how alcohol rewires the brain, won a 2011 PECASE award, and holds a professorship at the University of South Florida.

Brendan S. Crabb

Brendan S. Crabb is an Australian molecular malaria researcher who described the first gene knockout in the human malaria parasite and has led the Burnet Institute since 2008.

Brennan Decker

Brennan Decker is an American physician-scientist and molecular pathologist in genomic medicine and cancer genetics, known for consortium-scale analyses quantifying breast cancer risks from PALB2 variants.

Brent L. Iverson

Brent L. Iverson is an American chemist at the University of Texas at Austin whose lab created synthetic folding molecules and co-developed the anthrax antitoxin Anthim, FDA-approved in 2016.

Brent R. Stockwell

Brent R. Stockwell is an American chemical biologist at Columbia University known for discovering and naming ferroptosis, an iron-dependent form of regulated cell death driven by lipid peroxidation.

Brenton R. Graveley

Brenton R. Graveley is a molecular biologist and chair of Genetics and Genome Sciences at UConn Health, known for studies of alternative splicing and the Drosophila Dscam gene.

Bret Freudenthal

Bret Freudenthal is an American structural biologist and biochemist, a professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center known for structural studies of DNA base excision repair.

Brett D. Mensh

Brett D. Mensh is an American physician-scientist in systems neuroscience who has served as Scientific Advisor at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus since 2013, studying how thalamic and cortical circuits generate skilled movement.

Brett Finlay

Brett Finlay, born 1959 in Edmonton, Alberta, is a Canadian microbiologist and University of British Columbia professor emeritus known for E. coli pathogenesis, SARS vaccine work, and microbiome research.