DMS Faculty Last Name: B

Dr. Steven Balk	M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Medicine	BIDMC	BBS		Steroid Hormone Receptors and Prostate Cancer
Dr. Nabeel Bardeesy	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Medicine	MGH	BBS		Signaling Pathways in Pancreatic Cancer
Dr. Roland Baron	Ph.D.	Professor of Oral Medicine	HSDM	BBS		Bone cells differentiation, function and signaling
Dr. Dan Barouch	M.D.	Associate Professor of Medicine	BIDMC	VIR		Immunopathogenesis of HIV-1 and the Development of HIV-1 Vaccine Strategies
Dr. Bruce Bean	Ph.D.	Professor of Neurobiology	HMS	NSCI		Neurotransmitter control of ion channels.
Dr. Jonathan Beckwith	Ph.D.	American Cancer Society Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics	HMS	BBS		Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Dr. Alan Beggs	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Pediatrics	CH	BBS		Molecular Genetics of Human Neuromuscular Diseases
Dr. Samuel Behar	M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Medicine	BWH	IMM		Immunity to Tuberculosis.
Dr. David Beier	Ph.D., M.D.	Professor of Medicine	BWH	BBS		Mouse Models of Human Disorders
Dr. Welcome Bender	Ph.D.	Harold T. White Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology	HMS	BBS		Drosophila molecular genetics
Dr. Francine Benes	M.D., Ph.D.	Professor of Psychiatry (Neuroscience)	MCL	NSCI		Quantitative microscopic approaches are used to study neural circuitry in schizophrenia and to determine how postnatal ontogenesis may contribute to the onset of this disorder.
Dr. Gilles Benichou	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Surgery	MGH	IMM		Induction and regulation of antigen-specific T cell responses in autoimmune diseases, transplantation and cancer.
Dr. Laura Benjamin	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Pathology	BIDMC	BBS		Molecular Regulation of Physiological Versus Pathological Angiogenesis
Dr. Christophe Benoist	M.D., Ph.D.	Professor of Medicine	JDC	IMM		T-cell development in animal models of autoimmunity disease
Dr. Larry Benowitz	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Neurosurgery	CH	NSCI		Molecular mechanisms underlying the development, plasticity and regeneration of axonal connections
Dr. Nancy Berliner	M.D.	Professor of Medicine	BWH	BBS		Molecular Regulation of Granulocyte Differentiation
Dr. Thomas Bernhardt	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics	HMS	BBS		Bacterial cell division and cell biology
Dr. Bradley Bernstein	M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Pathology	MGH/E	BBS		Epigenetic mechanisms in mammalian development
Dr. Antonio Bianco	M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Medicine	BWH	BBS		Thyroid Hormone Metabolism and Action
Dr. Joyce Bischoff	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Surgery	CH	BBS		Endothelial Progenitors in Health and Disease
Dr. Stephen Blacklow	M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Pathology	BWH	BBS		Biochemistry of transmembrane receptors and signaling
Dr. T. Keith Blackwell	M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Pathology	JDC	BBS		Transcriptional regulation and cellular differentiation
Dr. John Blenis	Ph.D.	Professor of Cell Biology	HMS	BBS		Molecular biology of cell growth, regulation and tranformation
Dr. Michael Blower	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Genetics	MGH	BBS		Microtubule associated RNAs during mitosis
Dr. Richard Blumberg	M.D.	Professor of Medicine	BWH	IMM	BBS	T cell-epithelial cell interactions in mucosal immunity
Dr. Marianne Boes	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Dermatology	BWH	IMM		Mechanisms underlying the unique ability of antigen presenting cells to activate naive T lymphocytes
Dr. Vadim Bolshakov	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Psychiatry	MCL	NSCI		Mechanisms of central synaptic transmission
Dr. Azad Bonni	M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Pathology	HMS	BBS	NSCI	Intracellular signaling mechanisms in brain development and disease
Dr. Joseph Bonventre	M.D., Ph.D.	Robert H. Ebert Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology	BWH	BBS		Kidney Injury and Repair
Dr. Richard Born	M.D.	Professor of Neurobiology	HMS	NSCI		Neural circuitry of primate visual cortex.
Dr. Xandra Breakefield	Ph.D.	Professor of Neurology	MGH/E	NSCI		Molecular etiology and gene therapy of neurologic disease.
Dr. Michael Brenner	M.D.	Theodore Bevier Bayles Professor of Medicine	BWH	IMM	BBS	Chief Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy. Antigen presentation, T lymphocyte recognition, rheumatoid arthritis and asthma
Dr. Dennis Brown	Ph.D.	Professor of Medicine	MGH	BBS		Polarity and Trafficking of Membrane Proteins in Epithelial Cells
Dr. Emery Brown	Ph.D., M.D.	Massachusetts General Hospital Professor of Anaesthesia	MGH	NSCI	BBS	Statistical modeling and stochastic dynamical systems analysis of neurophysiologic systems.
Dr. Joan Brugge	Ph.D.	Professor of Cell Biology	HMS	BBS		Signal transduction in normal and tranformed cells
Dr. Martha Bulyk	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health Sciences, and Technology	BWH	BBS		Transcriptional regulatory nework analyses
Dr. Stephen Buratowski	Ph.D.	Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology	HMS	BBS		Biochemical and genetic analysis of eukaryotic gene expression
Dr. Rami Burstein	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Anaesthesia	BIDMC	NSCI		Anatomy and physiology of central pain pathway mediating autonomic, endocrine and affective responses to pain