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Nir Friedman

Nir Friedman is a computer scientist and biologist, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for applying probabilistic graphical models to gene regulation and chromatin.

Norman R. Pace

Norman R. Pace is an American molecular biologist, emeritus professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for showing RNA acts as a catalyst and for sequencing-based surveys of microbial diversity.

Nouria Hernandez

Nouria Hernandez is a Swiss molecular biologist known for establishing how vertebrate snRNA genes are transcribed by two RNA polymerases and co-discovering SNAPc; she was rector of the University of Lausanne.

Oded Rechavi

Oded Rechavi is an Israeli biologist and Full Professor at Tel Aviv University who studies transgenerational inheritance of acquired traits through small RNA molecules in C. elegans.

Olivier Voinnet

Olivier Voinnet is a French plant molecular biologist who studies RNA silencing in plants; he has been professor of RNA biology at ETH Zurich since 2010.

Paula J. Grabowski

Paula J. Grabowski is a molecular biologist and Professor Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh who helped identify the spliceosome and studied how RNA splicing is regulated in neurons.

Perry J. Blackshear

Perry J. Blackshear is an American biochemist and NIH Scientist Emeritus whose laboratory cloned tristetraprolin, a zinc finger protein that promotes decay of TNF-α mRNA.

Peter K. Wellauer

Peter K. Wellauer is a molecular biologist known for mapping the structural organization of ribosomal DNA in Drosophila and Xenopus by electron microscopy at the Carnegie Institution in Baltimore.

Péter Lengyel

Péter Lengyel, also known as Peter Lengyel, was a Hungarian-born American molecular biologist at Yale University whose laboratory discovered and named RNase L, the enzyme through which interferons block virus replication.

Peter William Jack Rigby

Peter William Jack Rigby, known as Peter Rigby, is a British molecular biologist who studies gene regulation in embryonic development and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2010.

Philip J. Santangelo

Philip J. Santangelo is a biomedical engineer and professor at Georgia Tech and Emory known for single-molecule RNA imaging probes and inhalable mRNA therapeutics and vaccines.

Phillip A. Sharp

Phillip A. Sharp, born 1944, is an American molecular biologist at MIT who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering split genes.

Phillip D. Zamore

Phillip D. Zamore is an American RNA biologist at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School whose 2000 work on RNA interference helped establish how small RNAs silence genes.

Piero Sanfilippo

Piero Sanfilippo is an Italian-born biologist who studies RNA regulation and Drosophila neurogenetics, and has been a postdoctoral associate in the Zipursky Lab at UCLA since 2017.

Ramesh Pillai

Ramesh S. Pillai is a Swiss-based RNA biologist, a full professor at the University of Geneva since 2016, known for work on piRNAs and RNA modifications.

Randolph Wall

Randolph Wall is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA who studied RNA processing and splicing and the control of immunoglobulin gene expression, including the B29 gene.

René F. Ketting

René F. Ketting is a Dutch RNA biologist who studies small RNAs and gene silencing, and has led the Institute of Molecular Biology in Mainz since 2012.

Rhonda Feinbaum

Rhonda Feinbaum is an American molecular biologist and genetic counselor who co-authored the 1993 lin-4 paper founding microRNA biology and later studied C. elegans immunity.

Richard A. Collins

Richard A. Collins is a Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto whose research on RNA and mitochondria discovered the VS ribozyme in Neurospora.

Richard J Maraia

Richard J Maraia is a molecular biologist and physician who heads the Section on Molecular and Cellular Biology at NIH's NICHD in Bethesda, Maryland, studying RNA biogenesis and metabolism.

Richard W. Carthew

Richard W. Carthew is a molecular biologist who studies small RNA gene silencing in fruit flies, is a professor at Northwestern University, and directs a Chicago biology institute founded in 2023.

Robert B. Darnell

Robert B. Darnell is an American physician-scientist at Rockefeller University known for developing CLIP, which maps RNA-protein interactions in living tissue, and for founding the New York Genome Center.

Robert G. Roeder

Robert G. Roeder (R.G. Roeder) is an American biochemist at The Rockefeller University who identified the three eukaryotic RNA polymerases and discovered general transcription factors like TFIID.

Robert H. Singer

Robert H. Singer is an American cell biologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine known for developing single-molecule RNA FISH and founding the field of RNA localization.

Robert J. White

Robert J. White is a molecular biologist and Chair of Biochemistry at the University of York, known for establishing TBP as a general transcription factor for RNA polymerase III.

Robert P. Perry

Robert P. Perry (1931–2013) was an American molecular biologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977.

Robert Palese Perry

Robert Palese Perry (1931–2013) was an American molecular biologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, known for defining the cellular sites of RNA synthesis and naming the CHD-1 protein.

Robin P. Wharton

Robin P. Wharton is an American molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor at Ohio State known for defining the Nanos and Pumilio machinery that patterns the Drosophila embryo.

Robin Reed (molecular biologist)

Robin Elizabeth Reed was an American molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School whose research defined pre-mRNA splicing and its coupling to mRNA export from the nucleus.

Ronald Breaker

Ronald R. Breaker is an American RNA biologist, Sterling Professor at Yale University, who discovered riboswitches, metabolite-sensing RNAs that control gene expression, and created the first catalytic DNAs.