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Rachel Green (American molecular biologist)

Rachel Green is an American molecular biologist and HHMI Investigator at Johns Hopkins known for work on translation termination, ribosome rescue, and ribosome profiling methods.

Rachel I. Wilson

Rachel I. Wilson is a neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School who studies how fruit fly brains turn sensory information and internal goals into action, and an HHMI investigator.

Rachel Karchin

Rachel Karchin is an American computational biologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University who builds machine-learning methods for interpreting cancer mutations, known for CHASM and OpenCRAVAT.

Rachel Wong

Rachel Wong is a neurobiologist known for her work on retinal waves and the assembly of neuronal circuits in the developing vertebrate retina, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Rachel Wu

Rachel Wu is an American developmental cognitive neuroscientist at UC Riverside who studies attention and learning across the lifespan and received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2025.

Rafael Brüschweiler

Rafael Brüschweiler is an NMR spectroscopist, professor, and Ohio Research Scholar at Ohio State University since 2013, known for covariance NMR and deep-learning spectral analysis.

Rafael Casellas

Rafael Casellas, also published as Rafael C. Casellas, is a molecular biologist who studies B lymphocytes and genome architecture, now at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center after the NIH.

Rafael Lorente de No

Rafael Lorente de Nó (1902–1990) was a Spanish neurophysiologist who established the CA1–CA4 hippocampal nomenclature and studied the vestibular system and nerve impulse, working in the United States from 1931.

Rafael Malach

Rafael (Rafi) Malach is a neuroscientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, who studies visual perception and awareness and won the 2022 EMET Prize.

Rafael Palacios de la Lama

Rafael Palacios de la Lama is a Mexican molecular biologist at UNAM who studies genome dynamics and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2006.

Rafael Radi

Rafael Radi, born 1963 in Montevideo, is a Uruguayan biochemist known for research on nitric oxide and peroxynitrite, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Rafael Yuste

Rafael Yuste is a neuroscientist at Columbia University who develops optical methods to observe and control cortical circuits and led the group proposing the US BRAIN Initiative.

Rafi Ahmed

Rafi Ahmed is an Indian-born American immunologist and virologist at Emory University, known for defining memory T-cell formation and T-cell exhaustion, work that led to PD-1 checkpoint blockade cancer therapy.

Rafick‐Pierre Sékaly

Rafick-Pierre Sékaly, also published as Rafick-Pierre Sekaly, is an immunologist and professor at Emory University in Atlanta known for work on HIV reservoirs, T cell memory, and HIV vaccines.

Raghavendra Gadagkar

Raghavendra Gadagkar is an Indian behavioral ecologist at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, known for decades of research on the social wasp Ropalidia marginata.

Ragnar Granit

Ragnar Granit was a Finnish-born Swedish physiologist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries about the eye's visual processes, especially retinal responses.

Ragnar Nilsson

Nils Ragnar Nilsson (1903–1981) was a Swedish chemist and microbiologist whose demonstration of phosphoglyceric acid in yeast was called the field's most important advance since 1905.

Raif S. Geha

Raif S. Geha, born 1945, is a pediatric immunologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School who identified genetic causes of primary immunodeficiency and advanced understanding of atopic dermatitis.

Raimund Dutzler

Raimund Dutzler is a structural biologist and Full Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Zurich, its Department head since 2024, known for structures of anion channels including TMEM16A.

Rainer Friedrich

Rainer W. Friedrich is a Swiss-based systems neuroscientist, a Senior Group Leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel since 2007 who studies olfactory memory in zebrafish.

Rainer Hedrich

Rainer Hedrich is a German plant biophysicist who introduced the patch-clamp technique into plant science and led the University of Würzburg's molecular plant physiology chair.

Rainer Renkawitz

Rainer Renkawitz is a molecular biologist known for work on gene regulation by nuclear receptors and chromatin insulators, holding the Genetics chair at Giessen from 1991 to 2016.

Rajat Rohatgi

Rajat Rohatgi is an American physician-scientist who is Professor of Biochemistry and of Medicine (Oncology) at Stanford, best known for work on Hedgehog signaling at the primary cilium.

Rajat Singh

Rajat Singh is a physician-scientist who discovered lipophagy, the autophagic degradation of lipid droplets, reported in Nature in 2009, and since 2023 has directed the UCLA Comprehensive Liver Research Center.

Rajendra K. Agrawal

Rajendra K. Agrawal (R.K. Agrawal) is a structural biologist who uses cryo-electron microscopy to determine ribosome structures, and is Chief of a research division at the Wadsworth Center in New York.

Rajindar S. Sohal

Rajindar S. Sohal is a biologist studying oxidative stress and aging who holds a professorship at the University of Southern California, where he has taught since 2000.

Rajiv R. Ratan

Rajiv R. Ratan is a physician-scientist in neurology and redox biology who leads the Burke Neurological Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine, known for showing that selenium can block ferroptosis, an iron-driven cell death, in stroke.

Rakesh Kumar (cancer biologist)

Rakesh Kumar is a cancer biologist known for research on the MTA1 and PAK1 signaling proteins in metastasis, holding tenured professorships at MD Anderson and George Washington University.

Ralf Bartenschlager

Ralf Bartenschlager is a German virologist known for developing the hepatitis C virus replicon system, which opened the route to drugs that cure hepatitis C.

Ralf J. Adams

Ralf J. Adams (born 1966) is a German vascular biologist who directs the Department of Tissue Morphogenesis at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster.