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Brett J. Manley

Brett J. Manley, also published as Brett James Manley, is an Australian neonatologist at The Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, known for trials of nasal high-flow therapy in preterm infants.

Brett M. Tyler

Brett M. Tyler, also known as Brett Tyler, is a plant pathologist and oomycete genomics researcher who is a professor and center director at Oregon State University.

Brian A. Ference

Brian A. Ference is a cardiologist and genetic epidemiologist, Professor at Cambridge and Milan, known for 2016 New England Journal of Medicine genetic studies of LDL cholesterol lowering.

Brian A. Hemmings

Brian A. Hemmings is a Swiss-based molecular biologist who identified protein kinase B (Akt), a major anti-cancer drug target, at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel.

Brian A. Larkins

Brian A. Larkins (1946–2025) was an American plant molecular biologist whose work on maize seed storage proteins helped establish plant molecular biology as a field.

Brian A. MacVicar

Brian A. MacVicar is a neuroscientist and Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia whose research showed astrocytes actively regulate brain blood flow.

Brian A. Wandell

Brian A. Wandell is an American vision scientist at Stanford University, a National Academy of Sciences member known for mapping visual field maps in the human cortex and studying reading development.

Brian Brown (immunologist)

Brian D. Brown is a Canadian-trained immunologist who directs the Icahn Genomics Institute at Mount Sinai in New York, developing functional genomics tools like Perturb-map to turn the immune system against cancer.

Brian C. Callaghan

Brian C. Callaghan is an American neurologist and neuromuscular specialist at the University of Michigan known for research on diabetic neuropathy and reducing low-value diagnostic testing.

Brian Charlesworth

Brian Charlesworth, born in Brighton in 1945, is a British population geneticist at the University of Edinburgh known for background selection and sex chromosome evolution.

Brian Czerniecki

Brian J. Czerniecki is an American breast surgical oncologist and immunotherapy researcher who leads breast oncology research at Moffitt Cancer Center, after two decades on the University of Pennsylvania surgery faculty.

Brian D. Ross

Brian D. Ross is an American scientist in radiology and magnetic resonance spectroscopy at the University of Michigan, known for pioneering quantitative imaging biomarkers of tumor response.

Brian David Dynlacht

Brian David Dynlacht, also published as Brian D. Dynlacht, is an American molecular biologist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine known for identifying the centriolar protein CP110.

Brian Druker

Brian J. Druker is an American physician-scientist at Oregon Health & Science University who developed the targeted drug imatinib (Gleevec), transforming chronic myeloid leukemia survival from about 30% to nearly 90%.

Brian E. Henderson

Brian E. Henderson was an American physician and cancer epidemiologist at the University of Southern California who founded the Los Angeles County cancer registry and the Multiethnic Cohort study.

Brian F. Hoffman

Brian F. Hoffman (1925–2013) was an American cardiac electrophysiologist and pharmacologist who chaired Columbia's pharmacology department for over 30 years and built the framework still used to classify cardiac arrhythmias.

Brian F. Volkman

Brian F. Volkman is an American biochemist and NMR structural biologist, professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin since 2010, known for work on metamorphic proteins like XCL1.

Brian G. Feagan

Brian G. Feagan, also known as Brian Feagan, was a Canadian gastroenterologist and clinical epidemiologist at Western University who led more than 140 trials of inflammatory bowel disease treatments.

Brian G. Spratt

Brian G. Spratt is a British molecular microbiologist at Imperial College London known for developing multilocus sequence typing, a standard method for tracking bacterial strains.

Brian G. Weinshenker

Brian G. Weinshenker is an American neurologist and multiple sclerosis researcher who spent 30 years at the Mayo Clinic and is a professor of neurology at UVA Health since 2022.

Brian Greenwood

Sir Brian Greenwood is a British physician-scientist in clinical tropical medicine who directed the MRC Laboratories in The Gambia from 1980 to 1995 and advanced malaria control.

Brian H. Anderton

Brian Henry Anderton, born 1945, is a British neuroscientist and emeritus professor of neuroscience at King's College London whose research traced the tau protein and neuronal cytoskeleton into Alzheimer's disease.

Brian Harrison Walker

Brian Harrison Walker, born 1940 in Harare, Zimbabwe, is an Australian ecologist who co-developed the state-and-transition model of rangelands and led resilience theory for social-ecological systems.

Brian Head (neuroscientist)

Brian Head is a neuroscientist and Professor of Anesthesiology at UCSD who studies gene therapy for central nervous system repair and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2012.

Brian Hurwitz

Brian Hurwitz is a British physician and medical humanities scholar, Emeritus Professor of Medicine and The Arts in the Department of English at King's College London.

Brian I. Rini

Brian I. Rini is an American medical oncologist who leads kidney cancer clinical research as Chief of Clinical Trials at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, joining in 2020 from Cleveland Clinic.

Brian J. Enquist

Brian J. Enquist is an American plant biologist and macroecologist at the University of Arizona, known for Metabolic Scaling Theory and for leading BIEN, a global plant biodiversity data network.

Brian J. Lipworth

Brian J. Lipworth, also known as Brian Lipworth, is a British physician-scientist in respiratory medicine who holds the Chair of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine at the University of Dundee.

Brian J. McCarthy

Brian J. McCarthy was a molecular biologist whose 1980 Cell papers showed that Drosophila actin and tubulin gene families are scattered across chromosomes, defining dispersed multigene families.

Brian J. Nankivell

Brian J. Nankivell is an Australian transplant nephrologist at Westmead Hospital in Sydney, known for his 2003 New England Journal of Medicine study of chronic allograft nephropathy.