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Brian J. Palik

Brian J. Palik is an American forest ecologist with the USDA Forest Service's Northern Research Station in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, known for retention forestry and black ash wetland research.

Brian J. Reid

Brian J. Reid, born in 1946, is a retired physician-scientist in Seattle who founded the Seattle Barrett's Esophagus Study, defining how Barrett's esophagus progresses to esophageal adenocarcinoma.

Brian J. Staskawicz

Brian J. Staskawicz, born 1952, is an American plant biologist at UC Berkeley known for molecular work on plant immunity, CRISPR disease-resistant crops, and the 2025 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.

Brian J.G. Pereira

Brian J.G. Pereira, also known as B J Pereira, is an American nephrologist whose 1991 research showed organ transplantation transmits hepatitis C, and later a biotech executive.

Brian J.P. Huntly

Brian J.P. Huntly is a British clinical scientist, Professor of Leukaemia Stem Cell Biology at the University of Cambridge, known for showing which genes create leukemia stem cells.

Brian K. Kaspar

Brian K. Kaspar is an American neuroscientist and gene therapy researcher at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, known for developing Zolgensma, the gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy.

Brian K. Kennedy

Brian K. Kennedy is an American aging researcher and Distinguished Professor at the National University of Singapore, known for the 2014 Cell paper linking aging to chronic disease.

Brian K. Kobilka

Brian K. Kobilka, born 1955 in Little Falls, Minnesota, is an American physician-scientist at Stanford who determined the first high-resolution crystal structures of a G-protein-coupled receptor, sharing the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Brian K. Shoichet

Brian K. Shoichet, also known as Brian Shoichet, is an American computational structural biologist at UCSF who develops molecular docking to find new drug-like ligands.

Brian L. Kotzin

Brian L. Kotzin is an American immunologist and rheumatologist known for lupus research, including the first identification of a lupus-susceptibility gene in mice, and leadership at Amgen and Nektar Therapeutics.

Brian L. Strom

Brian L. Strom is an American pharmacoepidemiologist, one of the founders of the field, who served as inaugural Chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences from 2013 to 2025.

Brian M. Hoffman

Brian M. Hoffman is the Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, where since 1967 he has developed ENDOR spectroscopy to determine the catalytic mechanisms of metalloenzymes such as nitrogenase.

Brian M. Wolpin

Brian M. Wolpin is an American medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who directs pancreatic cancer research there and showed branched-chain amino acids rise years before pancreatic cancer diagnosis.

Brian MacMahon

Brian MacMahon (1923–2007) was a cancer epidemiologist who chaired the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1958 to 1989 and wrote its standard textbook.

Brian O’Rourke

Brian O'Rourke is an American cardiac physiologist at Johns Hopkins who studies how mitochondria supply energy in heart cells and how its failure causes arrhythmia and heart failure.

Brian P. English

Brian P. English is a Senior Scientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, since 2013, who co-authored lattice light-sheet microscopy, the Janelia Fluor dyes, and protein-retention expansion microscopy.

Brian P. Kavanagh

Brian P. Kavanagh (1962–2019) was an Irish-born Canadian critical care physician and anesthesiologist at Toronto known for research on carbon dioxide and ventilator-induced lung injury.

Brian P. Sorrentino

Brian P. Sorrentino was an American hematologist and gene therapy researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, best known for a trial restoring immunity in infants with SCID-X1.

Brian Popko

Brian Popko is an American neuroscientist who studies the myelin sheath and multiple sclerosis; he has been a professor of neurology at Northwestern University since 2020.

Brian R Calvi

Brian R Calvi is a Drosophila geneticist and professor of biology at Indiana University Bloomington who studies how DNA replication and cell cycle checkpoints are controlled during development.

Brian R. Crane

Brian R. Crane, born 1968 in Winnipeg, is a Canadian chemist at Cornell University who studies the structures and mechanisms of signaling proteins, including bacterial chemotaxis receptors.

Brian R. Edlin

Brian R. Edlin is an American physician and epidemiologist who became Chief Medical Officer of the CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention in 2016.

Brian Seed

Brian Seed is a molecular biologist and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School who leads a lab at Massachusetts General Hospital and discovered the RIP kinase.

Brian Strahl

Brian D. Strahl is a biochemist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for the histone code hypothesis proposed with C. David Allis in 2000.

Brian T. Bateman

Brian T. Bateman is an American anesthesiologist and pharmacoepidemiologist who became chair of anesthesiology at Stanford in 2021, after leading obstetric anesthesia at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and studies medication safety in pregnancy.

Brian T. Wimberly

Brian T. Wimberly is an American structural biologist, first author of the 2000 Nature paper reporting the crystal structure of the bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit.

Brian W. Howell

Brian W. Howell is a developmental neuroscientist at SUNY Upstate whose laboratory studies how dysfunction in the Reelin-Dab1 signaling pathway contributes to neuronal migration disorders, autism, and Alzheimer's disease.

Brian W. McCrindle

Brian W. McCrindle is a Canadian pediatric cardiologist and University of Toronto professor at SickKids who first-authored the American Heart Association's 2017 Kawasaki disease statement.

Brigid L.M. Hogan

Brigid L.M. Hogan is a British-born developmental biologist at Duke University known for pioneering mouse embryology techniques and work on lung development and adult lung stem cells.

Brigitta Stockinger

Brigitta Stockinger, known as Gitta Stockinger, is an immunologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London, known for establishing the aryl hydrocarbon receptor as an immune environmental sensor.