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Roconkibart
Roconkibart (JS005, 偌考奇拜单抗) is Junshi Biosciences' recombinant humanized anti-IL-17A monoclonal antibody for plaque psoriasis and ankylosing spondylitis; NMPA accepted its psoriasis NDA in December 2025, and Fosun Wanbang licensed Greater China rights in July 2026.
Rocsi Diaz
Rocsi Diaz (Raquel Roxanne Diaz), Honduran-born American TV and radio host, born 1983 in Tegucigalpa. Co-hosted BET's 106 & Park (2006–2012) with Terrence J, was an Entertainment Tonight correspondent (2013–2021) on a Daytime Emmy-winning show, and hosts Tubi's We Got Time Today with Deion Sanders and the 2026 Prime Video American Gladiators reboot.
Rocuronium
Rocuronium is a nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking agent given intravenously to relax skeletal muscle during surgery and intubation, first approved in the United States in 1994.
Rod (Slavic religion)
Rod is a Slavic deity of kinship, birth, and fate, worshipped with the female Rozhanitsy; both are known only from medieval Christian sermons condemning their feasts.
Rod (unit)
The rod, also called the pole or perch, is a historical unit of length used in land measurement, equal to 16.5 feet, with 320 rods making a statute mile.
ROD 2-8-0
The ROD 2-8-0 was a class of British heavy freight steam locomotives based on Robinson's GCR 8K, built for the Railway Operating Division in France from 1916.
Rod Ansell
Rod Ansell (Rodney William Ansell, 1954–1999) was an Australian bushman and buffalo hunter in the Northern Territory whose 1977 outback survival ordeal inspired the film Crocodile Dundee.
Rod Argent
Rod Argent (Rodney Terence Argent, born 1945) is the English keyboardist-songwriter who founded the Zombies, wrote "She's Not There" and "Time of the Season", led the 1970s band Argent, and retired from touring in 2024 after a stroke.
Rod Blagojevich
Rod Blagojevich, full name Milorad Blagojevich, is an American Democrat who served as the 40th governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009 before his removal on corruption charges.
Rod Blagojevich corruption charges
Rod Blagojevich corruption charges: 2008 federal case against Illinois' 40th governor for allegedly selling Obama's U.S. Senate seat; impeachment, 2011 conviction, 14-year sentence, 2020 commutation, 2025 pardon.
Rod Bremner
Rod Bremner is a molecular biologist at Toronto's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute known for work on the RB tumor suppressor pathway in retinoblastoma and the YAPon/YAPoff cancer classification.
Rod Brind'Amour
Rod Brind'Amour, NHL center and Carolina Hurricanes head coach: 1,184 points, 2006 Cup captain, back-to-back Selke Trophies, Jack Adams 2021, 2026 Stanley Cup as coach.
Rod Carew
Rod Carew (Rodney Cline Carew, born 1945), Panamanian-born MLB second and first baseman for the Twins (1967–78) and Angels (1979–85); .328 average, 3,053 hits, seven AL batting titles, 1977 MVP, Hall of Fame 1991, number 29 retired by both teams.
Rod cell
Rod cell: retinal photoreceptor mediating scotopic (night) vision via rhodopsin; single-photon sensitivity, outer segment of 1000–2000 disks, absent from fovea, saturates in bright light, unlike cones.
Rod Davis
Rod Davis (Roderick Hopkins Davis, born 1955) is an American-born sailor who won 1984 Olympic Soling gold for the USA and 1992 Star silver for New Zealand, and took part in 11 America's Cup campaigns for four national teams.
Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher (b. 1967), American columnist and author of The Benedict Option, Live Not by Lies, and Crunchy Cons; former senior editor at The American Conservative, now in Budapest with the Danube Institute and Substack.
Rod Drury
Rod Drury is a New Zealand technology entrepreneur who co-founded cloud accounting software company Xero in 2006, led it as chief executive until 2018, and was knighted in 2026.
Rod Evans
Rod Evans (born 1947, Eton, England) is the original lead vocalist of Deep Purple (1968-1969, three albums including the Hush hit) and first singer of Captain Beyond; known for the 1980 bogus Deep Purple lawsuit.
Rod Ferrell
Rod Ferrell (Roderrick Justin Ferrell, born 1980, Murray, Kentucky) led the teenage "Vampire Clan" and murdered Richard and Naoma Wendorf in Eustis, Florida, in 1996 at age 16; death sentence commuted 2000 to life without parole.
Rod Hallett
Rod Hallett is a British actor known for Constantin in The Last Kingdom and Seven Kings Must Die, Dr. Malcolm Wallace in Terra Nova, and Sir Richard Rich in The Tudors, with film roles in Ant-Man and 5000 Blankets.
Rod Hull
Rod Hull (Rodney Stephen Hull, 1935–1999) was an English comedian and children's entertainer whose Emu puppet, found in an Australian props room in 1969, attacked celebrities and TV hosts; he died falling from a roof adjusting his TV aerial.
Rod Jackson (epidemiologist)
Rod Jackson (Rodney T. Jackson) is a New Zealand epidemiologist and professor at the University of Auckland who led the PREDICT cohort study and developed New Zealand's national cardiovascular risk prediction equations, endorsed in 2018.
Rod Laver
Rod Laver (born 9 August 1938, Rockhampton, Queensland), nicknamed 'Rocket', Australian left-handed tennis player; only player with two calendar Grand Slams (1962 amateur, 1969 Open era), 11 major singles titles, record 200 tournament titles.
Rod Laver Arena
Rod Laver Arena is the 15,000-seat retractable-roof centre court of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park, opened 1988 as the National Tennis Centre's Centre Court and renamed for Rod Laver on 16 January 2000.
Rod Liddle
Rod Liddle (Roderick Edwin Liddle, 1960–2026), British columnist and broadcaster; editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme 1998–2002, later Sunday Times, Sun, and Spectator associate editor; first blogger censured by the PCC.
Rod Marinelli
Rod Marinelli (Rodney Henry Marinelli, born 1949) is a retired NFL defensive coach, 1996-2021: Buccaneers DL coach, Lions head coach (10-38, 0-16 in 2008), Bears and Cowboys defensive coordinator, Raiders DL coach.
Rod Marsh
Rod Marsh (Rodney William Marsh, 1947–2022), Australian wicketkeeper-batsman nicknamed Iron Gloves and Bacchus; 355 Test dismissals in 96 Tests, first Australian keeper to score a Test century, famed for caught Marsh bowled Lillee.
Rod McKuen
Rod McKuen (Rodney Marvin McKuen, 1933–2015), American poet, songwriter, and singer; Brel translator behind "Seasons in the Sun" and "If You Go Away"; Grammy winner and best-selling yet critically dismissed poet.
Rod Milburn
Rod Milburn was an American hurdler from Opelousas, Louisiana, who won the 110 meters hurdles gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympics in a world record 13.24 seconds.
Rod of Asclepius
Rod of Asclepius: single serpent on a staff, attribute of the Greek god of medicine Asclepius and the true emblem of medicine, often confused with Hermes' two-snake winged caduceus, wrongly adopted by the US Army Medical Corps in 1902.