Barbara Mary Frances Pearse FRS (born 24 March 1948, Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, England) is a British biological scientist.
She works at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
She was appointed to the scientific staff of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 1982.
[7] Coated pits and vesicles were first seen in thin sections of tissue in the electron microscope by Thomas Roth and Keith Porter in 1964.
The importance of them for the clearance of LDL from blood was discovered by R. G. Anderson, Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein in 1976.