Life and health scientists

Brigitte A. Askonas

Brigitte A. Askonas was an Austrian-born British immunologist who first cloned B cells and headed the immunology division at London's National Institute for Medical Research.

Brigitte C. Widemann

Brigitte C. Widemann is a German-trained pediatric oncologist who is Chief of the Pediatric Oncology Branch at the National Cancer Institute, known for developing selumetinib for NF1.

Brigitte Kieffer

Brigitte Kieffer is a French molecular neurobiologist known for isolating the first opioid receptor gene and showing the mu receptor mediates morphine's analgesic and addictive effects.

Britt Adamson

Britt Adamson (Brittany S. Adamson) is an American molecular biologist and associate professor at Princeton University, known for co-developing the single-cell CRISPR screening method Perturb-seq.

Britt Wray

Britt Wray is a human and planetary health researcher, author, and broadcaster who directs CIRCLE at Stanford School of Medicine, studying climate change's mental health impacts on young people.

Britton Chance (1913–2010) was an American biochemist and biophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania who demonstrated the enzyme-substrate complex, invented the dual-wavelength spectrophotometer, and won Olympic sailing gold in 1952.

Brock Chisholm

George Brock Chisholm (1896–1971) was a Canadian psychiatrist, wartime chief of Canadian Army medicine, and the first director-general of the World Health Organization, serving from 1948 to 1953.

Bronislav Verigo

Bronislav Verigo, born Boris Fortunatovich Verigo, was a Russian physiologist whose 1892 work gave his name to the Verigo effect, and who founded physiology at Perm University.

Bronislaw Onuf-Onufrowicz

Bronislaw Onuf-Onufrowicz (1863–1928) was an American neuroanatomist and neuropsychiatrist who in 1899 identified Onuf's nucleus, the spinal structure controlling the external urethral and anal sphincters.

Brooke T. Mossman

Brooke T. Mossman (Brooke Taylor Mossman) is an American cell biologist and fiber-toxicology researcher, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Vermont.

Bruce A. Chabner

Bruce A. Chabner is an American medical oncologist and clinical pharmacologist known for developing paclitaxel and leading the National Cancer Institute's cancer treatment division before joining Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Bruce A. Edgar

Bruce A. Edgar is an American cell and stem-cell biologist at the University of Utah and Huntsman Cancer Institute, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Bruce A. Hay

Bruce A. Hay is a Caltech biologist known for early work on programmed cell death in fruit flies and gene-drive systems that spread malaria-blocking traits through mosquitoes.

Bruce A. Hungate

Bruce A. Hungate is an American ecosystem ecologist at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff who studies how rising CO2, warming, and nitrogen reshape soil carbon and nitrogen cycles.

Bruce A. Julian

Bruce A. Julian is an American nephrologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham known for research on IgA nephropathy and for establishing that it runs in families.

Bruce A. Maguire

Bruce A. Maguire is a ribosome biochemist whose 2005 Molecular Cell paper on protein L27 was cited in the Nobel Committee's 2009 Chemistry advanced information.

Bruce A. Perkins

Bruce A. Perkins is a Canadian endocrinologist at the University of Toronto who researches prediction and prevention of type 1 diabetes complications, including kidney disease and nerve injury.

Bruce A. Runyon

Bruce A. Runyon is an American hepatologist whose 1992 study established the serum-ascites albumin gradient as the standard test for ascites, and who wrote the AASLD ascites guideline.

Bruce A. Sullenger

Bruce A. Sullenger is an American molecular biologist and Beard Distinguished Professor of Experimental Surgery at Duke University, known for aptamer antidotes and RNA-based therapeutics.

Bruce A. Yankner

Bruce A. Yankner is a Harvard Medical School professor of genetics and neurology whose laboratory showed amyloid beta is toxic to neurons and defined the aging brain's transcriptome.

Bruce A.J. Ponder

Bruce A.J. Ponder, known as Bruce Ponder, is a British cancer geneticist at Cambridge known for identifying the ret gene and the polygenic model of breast cancer risk.

Bruce Alberts

Bruce Alberts, born in 1938, is an American biochemist at UCSF who led work on DNA replication and served as president of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bruce Arroll

Bruce Arroll is a New Zealand general practitioner and professor of general practice at the University of Auckland, known for research on hypertension, depression screening, and venous leg ulcers.

Bruce Beutler

Bruce Beutler, born 1957 in Chicago, is an American immunologist at UT Southwestern who identified TLR4 as the LPS receptor and shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Bruce Bowerman

Bruce Bowerman is an American developmental biologist and professor at the University of Oregon known for genetic studies of cell fates in the early C. elegans embryo.

Bruce C. Wightman

Bruce C. Wightman is a biologist and Professor of Biology at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, co-author of the 1993 Cell paper founding microRNA regulation.

Bruce Chesebro

Bruce Chesebro is an American physician-scientist at NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana who led research on prion diseases and retroviral brain diseases from 1979.

Bruce Cree

Bruce A. C. Cree is a neurologist and multiple sclerosis researcher at UCSF, where he is Clinical Research Director of the UCSF Multiple Sclerosis Center and led trials of ublituximab and inebilizumab.