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Robin Lovell‐Badge
Robin Lovell-Badge, born 1953, is a British developmental geneticist at the Francis Crick Institute known for discovering that the Y-chromosome gene Sry triggers testis development, and for work on embryo research policy.
Roel Nusse
Roel Nusse, also known as Roeland Nusse, is a Dutch-born developmental biologist at Stanford University who discovered the first Wnt gene and won the 2017 Breakthrough Prize.
Roger A. Pedersen
Roger A. Pedersen (1944–2025) was an American stem cell biologist who discovered epiblast stem cells and pioneered human embryonic stem cell research at UCSF, Cambridge, and Stanford.
Roger Gautheret
Roger Gautheret was a French biologist and botanist who developed plant tissue culture techniques, achieving continuous growth of plant cells outside the organism in 1939.
Roger N. Beachy
Roger N. Beachy is an American plant virologist and biotechnologist at Washington University in St. Louis, known for creating the first virus-resistant transgenic food crops.
Roger Patient
Roger K. Patient is a molecular biologist and Visiting Professor of Developmental Genetics at Oxford, known for work on globin genes and blood origins in Xenopus frogs.
Roger W. Innes
Roger W. Innes is an American plant molecular biologist at Indiana University Bloomington, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025 for work on plant immunity.
Roland Douce
Roland Douce (1939–2018) was a French plant biochemist who established the chloroplast envelope as a subject of biochemical study and showed it is the site of galactolipid synthesis.
Rolf Nöthiger
Rolf Nöthiger (1934–2019) was a Swiss developmental geneticist at the University of Zurich who ordered the sex-determining genes of the fruit fly Drosophila into a cascade.
Rolf Zeller
Rolf Zeller, born in Basel in 1957, is a Swiss molecular developmental biologist and University of Basel professor known for work on vertebrate limb development.
Ron McKay
Ron McKay, also known as Ronald D. G. McKay, is a stem cell neurobiologist who was Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at NINDS from 1993.
Ron Mittler
Ron Mittler, a distinguished plant biologist and professor at the University of Missouri, is recognized for his work on abiotic stress combination and reactive oxygen species signaling.
Ronald D.G. McKay
Ronald D.G. McKay, also known as Ronald D. McKay, is a stem cell biologist and neuroscientist who identified stem cells in the mammalian central nervous system.
Ronnie Coffman
Ronnie Coffman is an American plant breeder and agricultural scientist who bred rice at IRRI in the Philippines from 1971 to 1980, then led Cornell's international wheat-rust defense programs.
Ross Granville Harrison
Ross Granville Harrison (1870–1959) was an American embryologist and zoologist at Yale who performed the first successful cultures of animal tissue in 1907, founding the technique of tissue culture.
Rowland Biffen
Rowland Harry Biffen was a British geneticist and agricultural botanist at Cambridge who showed in 1912 that wheat's yellow rust resistance was inherited as a recessive Mendelian character.
Ruben Rellan-Alvarez
Rubén Rellán-Álvarez is a Spanish-born plant biologist at North Carolina State University who studies how roots and mineral nutrition adapt to stress, and a 2025 PECASE recipient.
Rüdiger Simon
Rüdiger Simon (born 1962) is a German plant developmental biologist and professor at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, known for work on the CLAVATA–WUSCHEL stem cell signaling loop.
Rudolf Jaenisch
Rudolf Jaenisch (רודולף ייניש), born 1942, is a German-born American geneticist at MIT's Whitehead Institute who created the first transgenic mice and pioneered stem cell research.
Rudolf Weber (Swiss biologist)
Rudolf Heinrich Weber (1922–2015) was a Swiss developmental and molecular biologist at the University of Bern whose group made Xenopus laevis a leading model for estrogen-controlled gene expression.
Rueyling Lin (林瑞玲)
Rueyling Lin (林瑞玲) is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for her research on C. elegans developmental genetics.
Rui Benedito
Rui Benedito, born in Lisbon in 1979, is a Portuguese vascular biologist known for work on Notch and VEGF signaling in angiogenesis and genetic mosaic tools.
Ruth Lehmann
Ruth Lehmann is a German-born developmental biologist known for defining how germ cells form in fruit flies, and president and director of the Whitehead Institute since 2020.
Ryan S Nett
Ryan S Nett is an American plant biochemist and Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, known for elucidating and engineering biosynthetic pathways of medicinal plant alkaloids.
S. Steven Potter
S. Steven Potter, also known as Steven Potter, was an American molecular biologist (1949–2024) at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, known for work on transposable elements and fetal blood formation.
Sally Temple
Sally Temple is a British-born developmental neuroscientist who showed in 1989 that the embryonic brain contains stem cells, and co-founded the Neural Stem Cell Institute in New York.
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch (1907–2007) was a German-born American developmental geneticist who established mammalian developmental genetics, showing that Mendelian genes direct mouse development, and won the 1993 National Medal of Science.
Salvador Aznar Benitah
Salvador Aznar Benitah, born 1975 in Montreal, is a Spanish-Canadian stem-cell biologist who leads a lab at IRB Barcelona, studying circadian clocks, aging, and metastasis.
Samantha Morris
Samantha A. Morris is a developmental biologist and stem cell researcher known for CellNet, CellTag lineage indexing, and CellOracle, tools for reading and reprogramming cell identity.
Samuel Randall Detwiler
Samuel Randall Detwiler (1890–1957) was an American experimental embryologist, professor of anatomy at Columbia University, who worked out how the vertebrate nervous system and eye develop through transplantation experiments on salamander embryos.