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Qutayba Hamid
Qutayba Hamid (1953–2026) was an Iraqi-born respiratory immunologist at McGill University best known for showing that Th2 cytokines are associated with asthma, work credited as the basis for the accepted hypothesis of allergic disease.
R Dyche Mullins
R. Dyche Mullins is an American cell biologist at UCSF and an HHMI investigator known for working out how branched actin networks assemble and generate force.
R. Alan B. Ezekowitz
R. Alan B. Ezekowitz is a South African-born immunologist known for innate immunity research who served as chief of pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital and later co-founded Abide Therapeutics.
R. Angus Silver
R. Angus Silver (Robin Angus Silver) is a British neuroscientist at University College London who studies synaptic transmission and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017.
R. Bruce Wallace
R. Bruce Wallace is an American molecular biologist who developed synthetic oligonucleotide probes that distinguish normal genes from disease-causing point mutations, demonstrated for sickle cell anemia in 1983.
R. Charles Coombes
R. Charles Coombes, born 1949, is a British medical oncologist and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, known for the Intergroup Exemestane Study and devising CDK7 inhibition for breast cancer.
R. Clay Reid
R. Clay Reid is an American systems neuroscientist and Senior Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, leading functional connectomics research on the visual system.
R. Daniel Camerini-Otero
R. Daniel Camerini-Otero, born Rafael Camerini-Otero, is an Argentine-born NIH physician-scientist known for mapping meiotic recombination hotspots in mice and humans, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.
R. David Britt
R. David Britt is an American bioinorganic chemist and EPR spectroscopist at the University of California, Davis, known for studies of photosystem II and hydrogenase enzymes.
R. David Cole
R. David Cole, also known as Roger David Cole, was an American biochemist at UC Berkeley from 1958 to 1992, known for recognizing the biological importance of histone variation.
R. Douglas Fields
R. Douglas Fields is an American cellular neuroscientist who showed that myelin responds to neural impulse activity, a form of plasticity contributing to learning, during a long NIH career.
R. Jacob Vogelstein
R. Jacob Vogelstein is an American neural engineer and neuroscientist who designed and led IARPA's MICrONS and KRNS programs and received a 2014 Presidential Early Career Award.
R. James Cook
R. James Cook, born in 1937, is an American phytopathologist at Pullman, Washington, whose work on take-all decline in wheat earned the 2011 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.
R. John Collier
R. John Collier is an American microbiologist and biochemist, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, who showed that diphtheria toxin blocks protein synthesis and developed dominant-negative mutants as a therapy for anthrax.
R. John Ellis
R. John Ellis (1935–2025) was a British biochemist at the University of Warwick who discovered the first molecular chaperone and named the chaperone concept in 1987.
R. Jude Samulski
R. Jude Samulski, born Richard Jude Samulski, is an American gene therapy researcher whose 1980s AAV work underlies most approved gene therapies; he founded AskBio and Bamboo Therapeutics.
R. Kelly Dawe
R. Kelly Dawe is an American plant geneticist at the University of Georgia known for work on maize centromeres, meiotic drive, and patented haploid-induction technology.
R. Luke Wiseman
R. Luke Wiseman is a molecular biologist and professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for research on proteostasis and stress-responsive signaling pathways.
R. Mark Wightman
R. Mark Wightman, full name Robert Mark Wightman, is an American analytical chemist and neurochemist who developed fast-scan cyclic voltammetry, tracking subsecond dopamine fluctuations in the brain of behaving animals.
R. Michael Blaese
R. Michael Blaese (1939–2025) was an American immunologist at the NIH who co-led the first approved human gene therapy trial, treating ADA-deficient SCID in 1990.
R. Michael Liskay
R. Michael Liskay is an American geneticist at Oregon Health & Science University who studies DNA mismatch repair and created knockout mice showing how its failure drives mutation and cancer.
R. Michael Roberts
R. Michael Roberts, born 1940, is an American reproductive biologist and biochemist at the University of Missouri known for identifying interferon tau, the pregnancy signal of ruminant embryos.
R. Rodney Howell
R. Rodney Howell is an American physician-scientist in biochemical genetics and pediatrics, known for uric acid and gout research and for shaping national newborn screening policy.
R. Sanders Williams
R. Sanders Williams, known as Sandy Williams, is an American cardiologist and molecular biologist who served as dean of Duke University School of Medicine and president of the Gladstone Institutes.
R. Scott Hawley
R. Scott Hawley (Robin Scott Hawley) was an American geneticist at the Stowers Institute known for dissecting meiosis in fruit flies and the cohesin explanation of the maternal age effect.
R. Scott Poethig
R. Scott Poethig is an American plant developmental biologist at the University of Pennsylvania who pioneered the genetic analysis of the juvenile-to-adult transition in plant shoots.
R. Scott Williams
R. Scott Williams (Robert S. Williams) is a structural biologist who leads the Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory at NIEHS, studying how cells recognize and repair DNA strand breaks.
R. Suzanne Zukin
R. Suzanne Zukin was an American cellular and molecular neuroscientist who spent her career at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, known for work on glutamate receptors, epigenetics, and neuronal death.
Rachael L. Neve
Rachael L. Neve is a neuroscientist who studies Alzheimer's disease, co-directed the Gene Delivery Technology Core at Massachusetts General Hospital, and helped clone the APP gene in 1987.
Rachel E. Klevit
Rachel E. Klevit is an American structural biochemist at the University of Washington, known for NMR studies of zinc fingers and ubiquitin ligases and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.