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Bruce M. Spiegelman

Bruce M. Spiegelman is a biologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School who discovered PGC-1α in 1998 and identified the exercise-induced hormone irisin.

Bruce Mark Psaty

Bruce Mark Psaty is an American physician-epidemiologist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Washington, known for drug-safety research that shaped FDA regulation and for the CHARGE Consortium.

Bruce N. Ames

Bruce N. Ames was an American biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for developing the Ames test, a low-cost bacterial assay that detects whether chemicals may cause cancer.

Bruce Neal

Bruce Neal is a UK-trained physician and clinical epidemiologist, Professor of Medicine at UNSW Sydney, who led the SSaSS salt-substitute trial in China and the CANVAS analyses of canagliflozin.

Bruce Nedrow Calonge

Bruce Nedrow (Ned) Calonge is an American physician and health-services researcher who chaired the US Preventive Services Task Force and twice served as Colorado's chief medical officer.

Bruce P. Bean

Bruce P. Bean, born in 1951, is an American neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School who studies how ion channels control the excitability of neurons and cardiac muscle.

Bruce P. Lanphear

Bruce P. Lanphear, born in 1963, is a Canadian-American physician and epidemiologist at Simon Fraser University whose research showed lead impairs children's IQ below 10 µg/dL.

Bruce R. Bacon

Bruce R. Bacon, also known as Bruce Bacon (1949–2025), was an American hepatologist at Saint Louis University who helped discover the HFE hemochromatosis gene and led hepatitis C clinical trials.

Bruce R. Blazar

Bruce R. Blazar is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist and immunologist, Regents Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, known for graft-versus-host disease and regulatory T cell therapy research.

Bruce R. Conklin

Bruce R. Conklin, MD, is a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and UCSF professor known for engineering GPCR signaling and CRISPR editing of human stem cells.

Bruce R. Zetter

Bruce R. Zetter is a cancer researcher at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, a pioneer in tumor angiogenesis and metastasis who defined the role of cell migration in metastatic cancer.

Bruce S. Baker

Bruce S. Baker (1945–2018) was an American geneticist at Stanford University who showed how a cascade of gene regulation builds the two sexes of the fruit fly.

Bruce S. Bochner

Bruce S. Bochner is an American allergist and immunologist who co-discovered Siglec-8, an inhibitory receptor on eosinophils and mast cells, led Johns Hopkins' allergy division, and co-founded Allakos.

Bruce S. Klein

Bruce S. Klein is an American physician-scientist in medical mycology who leads the Division of Infectious Diseases in Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, studying the fungus Blastomyces dermatitidis.

Bruce S. McEwen

Bruce S. McEwen (Bruce Sherman McEwen, 1938–2020) was an American neuroendocrinologist at Rockefeller University whose 1968 discovery of stress-hormone receptors in the hippocampus reshaped neuroscience.

Bruce Stillman

Bruce Stillman is an Australian-born molecular biologist who leads Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and identified the origin recognition complex, the initiator of DNA replication.

Bruce T. Lahn

Bruce T. Lahn is a human geneticist and professor at the University of Chicago, known for research on brain evolution genes and for founding the gene-delivery company VectorBuilder.

Bruce Wallace (geneticist)

Bruce Wallace (1920–2015) was an American evolutionary biologist and population geneticist known for experimental studies of Drosophila populations, genetic load, and his professorships at Cornell University and Virginia Tech.

Bruce Α. Freeman

Bruce A. Freeman is an American pharmacologist and redox biologist who is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for research on myeloperoxidase and nitro-fatty acids.

Brunangelo Falini

Brunangelo Falini, born in 1951, is an Italian hematologist and Full Professor at the University of Perugia known for discovering NPM1 mutations in AML and BRAF V600E in hairy-cell leukemia.

Bruno Amati

Bruno Amati is an Italian molecular biologist at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan, known for showing that the MYC oncoprotein requires dimerization with Max.

Bruno Antonny

Bruno Antonny is a French biochemist and CNRS research director at the IPMC in Valbonne, known for work on membrane curvature sensing and lipid transport.

Bruno B. Averbeck

Bruno B. Averbeck is a neuroscientist who leads the Section on Learning and Decision Making at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Bruno Calabretta

Bruno Calabretta is an Italian-trained physician-scientist and professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia whose research addresses hematopoiesis and BCR/ABL-driven leukemogenesis in chronic myelogenous leukemia.

Bruno E. Correia

Bruno E. Correia (Bruno Emanuel Correia) is a Portuguese computational structural biologist and full professor at EPFL, known for MaSIF and BindCraft protein design tools.

Bruno Goud

Bruno Goud is a French cell biologist at the CNRS and Institut Curie in Paris, known for his work on Rab GTPases and the Golgi apparatus.

Bruno H. Stricker

Bruno H. Stricker, full name Bruno Hugo Charles Stricker, is a Dutch pharmacoepidemiologist at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, known for a 2001 study linking NSAIDs to lower Alzheimer's risk.

Bruno H. Zimm

Bruno H. Zimm (1920–2005) was an American physical chemist who studied polymers and DNA in solution, known for the Zimm plot, the Zimm model, and the Zimm–Bragg theory.

Bruno Klaholz

Bruno P. Klaholz is a CNRS Research Director at the IGBMC near Strasbourg who studies the ribosome by cryo-electron microscopy, mapping its structure and more than 230 RNA modifications.

Bruno Lemaître

Bruno Lemaître is a French immunologist whose 1996 Cell paper showed that the Toll receptor controls innate immunity in Drosophila, paving the way for Toll-like receptors.