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Ralf Jungmann

Ralf Jungmann is a biophysicist best known as co-developer of DNA-PAINT, a nanometer-precision imaging method, and leads molecular imaging research at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Ralf Metzler

Ralf Metzler is a German theoretical physicist who has held a chair professorship at the University of Potsdam since 2011, known for anomalous diffusion and weak ergodicity breaking.

Ralf Schneggenburger

Ralf Schneggenburger, born 1964, is a neuroscientist and full professor at EPFL in Lausanne, where he heads the Laboratory of Synaptic Mechanisms in the Brain Mind Institute.

Ralf Seidel

Ralf Seidel (1973–2026) was a German molecular biophysicist at Leipzig University who used magnetic and optical tweezers to study single DNA molecules, including CRISPR-Cas enzymes.

Ralph Adolphs

Ralph Adolphs is a German-born, Canadian-raised cognitive neuroscientist, the Bren Professor at Caltech known for lesion studies of the amygdala and a cross-species framework for the neuroscience of emotion.

Ralph Bock

Ralph Bock is a German plant molecular biologist known for chloroplast genetic engineering and discovering horizontal genome transfer between grafted plants, directing a Max Planck Institute in Potsdam since 2004.

Ralph Bradshaw

Ralph Bradshaw, also known as Ralph A. Bradshaw, is an American biochemist known for determining the amino-acid sequence of nerve growth factor and for later work in proteomics.

Ralph Emerson

Ralph Emerson (1912–1979) was an American mycologist and botanist who spent his career at UC Berkeley, known for experimental work on aquatic fungi, especially Allomyces, and thermophilic fungi.

Ralph Erskine Cleland

Ralph Erskine Cleland (1892–1971) was an American botanist and geneticist at Indiana University who proved that chromosome circles explain the evening primrose genus Oenothera's unusual genetics.

Ralph H. Wetmore

Ralph H. Wetmore (1892–1989) was a Canadian-born American botanist and Harvard professor who pioneered experimental plant morphogenesis and tissue culture, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1954.

Ralph Holman

Ralph Holman (1918–2012) was an American lipid biochemist at the Hormel Institute in Minnesota who introduced omega nomenclature and the Holman index for fatty acid deficiency.

Ralph J. Greenspan

Ralph J. Greenspan, also known as Ralph Greenspan, is a neuroscientist at UC San Diego who studies the genetic and neural basis of behavior in fruit flies.

Ralph L. Brinster

Ralph L. Brinster, born 1932, is an American geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania known for the first transgenic mice, the 1982 supermouse, and spermatogonial stem cell transplantation.

Ralph M. Steinman

Ralph Marvin Steinman (1943–2011) was a Canadian immunologist at The Rockefeller University who discovered the dendritic cell, winning the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Ralph R. Isberg

Ralph R. Isberg is an American microbial pathogenesis researcher at Tufts University, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator from 1990 to 2017, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2009.

Ralph Riley

Sir Ralph Riley (1924–1999) was a British wheat cytogeneticist who discovered the Ph gene controlling chromosome pairing, enabling transfer of useful traits from wild relatives into wheat.

Ralph S. Quatrano

Ralph S. Quatrano was an American plant biologist at Washington University in St. Louis, known for showing how abscisic acid regulates drought-response genes in plants.

Ralph S. Wolfe

Ralph S. Wolfe (1921–2019) was an American microbiologist and biochemist at the University of Illinois, an authority on methanogens who discovered coenzyme M and unique methanogenesis coenzymes.

Ralph Scully

Ralph Scully is a molecular biologist and Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, known for linking BRCA1 to DNA repair.

Ralph W. Gerard

Ralph W. Gerard (1900–1974) was an American neurophysiologist whose work on nerve metabolism helped establish the biochemical basis of nerve-impulse conduction; he coined the word "Neuroscience" in the 1950s.

Ram Sasisekharan

Ram Sasisekharan is an American biological engineer and MIT professor since 1996, known for glycan sequencing, the 2008 heparin contamination investigation, and founding Momenta Pharmaceuticals.

Rama Natarajan

Rama Natarajan is an American scientist at City of Hope who studies the epigenetics of diabetic vascular complications, including metabolic memory and microRNAs in diabetic kidney disease.

Rama Ranganathan

Rama Ranganathan is a biophysicist at the University of Chicago who studies protein structure, function, and evolution, and is known for the concept of protein sectors.

Rama Rao Amara

Rama Rao Amara, also known as Rama Amara, is an Indian immunologist and virologist at Emory University known for the DNA/MVA prime-boost HIV vaccine platform and PD-1 blockade studies toward a functional cure.

Ramanujan Hegde

Ramanujan S. Hegde, known as Manu Hegde, is a British-based biochemist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who studies protein translocation and quality control.

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.

Ramesh Shivdasani

Ramesh Shivdasani is a physician-scientist and Harvard Medical School professor at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, known for identifying NF-E2's role in platelet formation and studying colorectal cancer initiation.

Ramin Shiekhattar

Ramin Shiekhattar is an American molecular biologist at the University of Miami whose lab defined the human RISC complex in 2005 and enhancer-like long noncoding RNAs in 2010.

Ramnik J. Xavier

Ramnik J. Xavier is a gastroenterologist and molecular biologist at the Broad Institute and Harvard Medical School who studies the gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease.

Ramón Latorre

Ramón Latorre is a Chilean biophysicist who studies ion channels, founded Chile's Center for Scientific Studies, and won the National Prize in Natural Sciences in 2002.