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Ravi Iyengar

Ravi Iyengar is an American biochemist and systems biologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for his work on cell signaling networks.

Ravindra Gupta

Ravindra K. Gupta is a University of Cambridge virologist who led the team reporting the London patient HIV cure in 2019 and identified the Alpha SARS-CoV-2 variant.

Ray David Owen

Ray David Owen (1915–2014) was an American geneticist and immunologist at Caltech who discovered in 1945 that twin cattle carry mixtures of each other's red blood cells, founding the concept of immunological tolerance.

Ray Dixon

Ray Dixon (Raymond Alan Dixon) is a British molecular microbiologist and Royal Society Fellow at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, who studies biological nitrogen fixation in bacteria.

Ray F. Smith

Ray F. Smith (1919–1999) was an American entomologist at UC Berkeley known as the father of integrated pest management and a 1997 World Food Prize winner.

Ray Lankester

Ray Lankester, full name Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, was a British zoologist who held zoology chairs at London and Oxford and directed the British Museum's Natural History departments.

Ray Ming

Ray Ming is a plant geneticist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for work on papaya sex chromosomes and tropical crop genomes.

Ray Wü

Ray Wu (吴瑞) was a Chinese-American molecular biologist at Cornell University who developed a 1970 DNA sequencing method and produced the first transgenic rice plants.

Raymond C. Bushland

Raymond C. Bushland (1910–1995) was an American entomologist with the USDA who, with Edward F. Knipling, created the sterile insect technique and eradicated the screwworm fly from the United States.

Raymond C. Stevens

Raymond C. Stevens, also known as Raymond Stevens, is an American structural biologist and protein crystallographer known for GPCR structures, professor at USC and CEO of Structure Therapeutics.

Raymond E. Keller

Raymond E. Keller is an American developmental biologist at the University of Virginia known for working out the cellular mechanisms of convergent extension in embryos.

Raymond G. Goodwin

Raymond G. Goodwin is a molecular biologist who worked on tumor necrosis factor receptors at Immunex in Seattle and Amgen, work that led to the arthritis drug Enbrel.

Raymond Gosling

Raymond Gosling (1926–2015) was a British biophysicist who, as a research student at King's College London, took the first X-ray photographs of crystalline DNA and produced Photograph 51.

Raymond Habas

Raymond Habas is an American cell and developmental biologist known for his work on Wnt signaling in embryogenesis, who received the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Raymond J. Dattwyler

Raymond J. Dattwyler is an American physician-scientist known for Lyme disease research, formerly directing Stony Brook's Lyme Disease Center and now a professor at New York Medical College.

Raymond J. Deshaies

Raymond J. Deshaies is an American biochemist and cell biologist at Caltech who discovered cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases and co-invented PROTACs, drug molecules that recruit target proteins to the cell's degradation machinery.

Raymond J. Lasek

Raymond J. Lasek (R. J. Lasek) is a cell biologist and neuroscientist at Case Western Reserve University known for working out the rate components of axonal transport.

Raymond Kaempfer

Raymond Kaempfer is an Israeli molecular biologist, emeritus professor at Hebrew University's IMRIC, known for cytokine mRNA self-regulation through PKR and superantigen antagonists against toxic shock.

Raymond L. Erikson

Raymond L. Erikson (1936–2020) was an American molecular biologist who showed that the Rous sarcoma virus src gene encodes a protein kinase, the first isolated oncogene enzyme product.

Raymond Leslie White

Raymond Leslie White (1943–2018) was an American human geneticist who built the first genome-wide linkage maps of human chromosomes, making it possible to localize and clone disease genes.

Raymond M. Welsh

Raymond M. Welsh, Jr. (1945–2024) was an American viral immunologist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, known for research on natural killer cells and heterologous immunity.

Raymond P. Warrell

Raymond P. Warrell is an American physician-scientist who led the Memorial Sloan-Kettering studies establishing retinoic acid and arsenic trioxide therapy for acute promyelocytic leukemia, then co-founded PolaRx Biopharmaceuticals.

Raymond Pearl

Raymond Pearl (1879–1940) was an American zoologist and biometrician, a founder of biometry who organized biostatistics at Johns Hopkins and founded the journals Human Biology and Quarterly Review of Biology.

Raymond V. Gilden

Raymond V. Gilden is an American virologist at Flow Laboratories in Rockville, Maryland, known for work on adenovirus tumor antigens and C-type RNA tumor virus antigens.

Raymond W. Sweet

Raymond W. Sweet is an American molecular biologist known for his work on the CD4 receptor and HIV, co-authoring the 1998 Nature structure of gp120 bound to CD4.

Raymund J. Wellinger

Raymund J. Wellinger is a Swiss-trained molecular geneticist at the Université de Sherbrooke who studies telomeres and telomerase, with landmark papers in Cell in 1993 and 1996.

Razqallah Hakem

Razqallah Hakem, also published as Razq Hakem, is a molecular biologist and cancer geneticist at the University of Toronto known for mouse-genetics studies of BRCA1, MUS81, and caspase 9.

Read Montague

P. Read Montague is a computational neuroscientist who directs the Center for Human Neuroscience Research at Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute and pioneered measuring dopamine in the awake human brain.

Rebecca A Brachman

Rebecca A. Brachman is a neuroscientist who trained at Columbia University, known for prophylactic ketamine, a strategy to prevent depression and PTSD before stress occurs, and for co-founding IMPRINT.

Rebecca H. Buckley

Rebecca Hatcher Buckley is an American immunologist and pediatrician at Duke University who developed the treatment that made SCID, once universally fatal, curable, and whose name is attached to hyper-IgE syndrome.