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Bruce D. Hammock

Bruce D. Hammock (1947–2026) was an American entomologist and toxicologist, Distinguished Professor at UC Davis, known for co-discovering soluble epoxide hydrolase and developing its inhibitors as drugs.

Bruce D. Levy

Bruce D. Levy is an American physician-scientist in pulmonary and critical care medicine who studies how lung inflammation resolves, appointed dean of WashU Medicine in 2026.

Bruce D. McCandliss

Bruce D. McCandliss is an American developmental cognitive neuroscientist who studies how children learn to read, and a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

Bruce D. Trapp

Bruce D. Trapp is an American neuroscientist who chairs Neurosciences at Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute, known for the 1998 finding that axons are injured in multiple sclerosis.

Bruce D. Walker

Bruce D. Walker is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who studies how some people control HIV without medication, as founding director of the Ragon Institute.

Bruce D. Weintraub

Bruce D. Weintraub is an American endocrinologist who directed thyroid research at NIH, co-invented recombinant human TSH (Thyrogen), approved in 1998, and co-founded the biotech firm Trophogen.

Bruce Damer

Bruce Damer, born 1962, is a Canadian-American scientist at UC Santa Cruz and NASA Ames known for the hot spring hypothesis for the origin of life and 1990s virtual worlds.

Bruce Demple

Bruce Demple is an American molecular biologist who studies oxidative DNA damage repair and bacterial stress sensing, a professor at Stony Brook University since 2009 after 25 years at Harvard.

Bruce E. Hillner

Bruce E. Hillner is an American physician-researcher in oncology at Virginia Commonwealth University, known for cost-effectiveness analysis of cancer care and the 2011 NEJM article "Bending the Cost Curve in Cancer Care."

Bruce E. Johnson

Bruce E. Johnson is an American medical oncologist and lung cancer researcher at Dana-Farber and Harvard, who led trials of dabrafenib plus trametinib and served as ASCO president in 2017.

Bruce E. Kemp

Bruce E. Kemp, born 1946 in Sydney, is an Australian biochemist at St Vincent's Institute in Melbourne, a Royal Society Fellow known for kinase autoregulation and AMPK.

Bruce E. Landon

Bruce E. Landon is an American physician and health services researcher, professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School who studies payment reform and Medicare.

Bruce E. Lyon

Bruce E. Lyon is a behavioral and evolutionary ecologist, Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz, known for decades of research on American coots and conspecific brood parasitism.

Bruce E. Sands

Bruce E. Sands is an American gastroenterologist and clinical researcher in inflammatory bowel disease, chief of gastroenterology at Mount Sinai since 2010 after Harvard and Massachusetts General.

Bruce E. Tabashnik

Bruce E. Tabashnik is an American entomologist at the University of Arizona known for documenting and managing insect resistance to Bt crops, and a National Academy of Sciences member.

Bruce Edwards Ivins

Bruce Edwards Ivins, USAMRIID anthrax vaccine researcher at Fort Detrick, was named by the FBI and DOJ as sole perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax letters; he died by acetaminophen overdose in July 2008 before charges, and the case closed February 19, 2010.

Bruce Furie

Bruce Furie (1944–2025) was an American hematologist and physician-scientist, Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and former Chief of Hemostasis and Thrombosis at Beth Israel Deaconess, known for discoveries in blood coagulation and thrombosis.

Bruce Guthrie

Bruce Guthrie is a professor of general practice at the University of Edinburgh whose 2012 Lancet study showed multimorbidity is common and starts earlier in deprived areas.

Bruce H. Price

Bruce H. Price is an American neurologist and neuropsychiatrist, chief of neurology at McLean Hospital since 1994, known for work on memory dysfunction and behavioral neurology.

Bruce H. Stewart

Bruce H. Stewart, fully Bruce Hubbard Stewart, was an American urologist at the Cleveland Clinic who showed that a blood test with CT could diagnose pheochromocytoma without angiography.

Bruce L. Evatt

Bruce L. Evatt is an American hematologist who led CDC hematology research from 1978 to 2004 and played a central role in identifying AIDS as a blood-borne disease in hemophilia.

Bruce L. Goode

Bruce L. Goode, born 1965, is an American cell biologist who chairs the Biology Department at Brandeis University, where his laboratory studies how cells build and dismantle actin filament networks.

Bruce L. Granger

Bruce L. Granger, also published as B. L. Granger, is a cell biologist who studied muscle intermediate filament proteins at Caltech, discovering and naming synemin in 1980.

Bruce L. McNaughton

Bruce L. McNaughton is a neuroscientist known for work on the hippocampus, learning and memory, and for originating tetrode multineuron recording, now a professor at UC Irvine.

Bruce L. Miller

Bruce L. Miller is an American behavioral neurologist who directs the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, known for research on frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Bruce L. Wilkoff

Bruce L. Wilkoff was an American cardiac electrophysiologist who spent 37 years at the Cleveland Clinic, led the WRAP-IT trial, and served as Heart Rhythm Society president.

Bruce L. Zuraw

Bruce L. Zuraw is an American allergy and immunology physician-scientist, Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego and director of the US HAEA Angioedema Center, known for hereditary angioedema research.

Bruce M. Hall

Bruce Milne Hall is an Australian renal transplant physician and immunologist, Professor of Medicine at UNSW, known for identifying regulatory T cells in transplant tolerance.

Bruce M. Paterson

Bruce M. Paterson is an American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute known for 1977 Cell papers on messenger RNA in differentiating chick muscle.

Bruce M. Psaty

Bruce M. Psaty is an American physician-scientist at the University of Washington who works in cardiovascular epidemiology, drug safety, and pharmacogenetics, and led the Cardiovascular Health Study.