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Rebecca Heald
Rebecca Heald is an American cell biologist at UC Berkeley who studies how the mitotic spindle forms and scales, using Xenopus frog egg extracts; she joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Rebecca Lancefield
Rebecca Lancefield was an American bacteriologist at Rockefeller University who created the Lancefield classification of streptococci into lettered groups, identified the M protein, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1970.
Rebecca M. Voorhees
Rebecca M. Voorhees, also known as Rebecca Maria Voorhees, is an American structural biologist and professor at Caltech who studies protein synthesis, targeting, and quality control.
Reed B. Wickner
Reed B. Wickner is an American biochemist and geneticist at the NIH who proposed in 1994 that the yeast elements [URE3] and [PSI+] are prions.
Reed C. Rollins
Reed C. Rollins (1911–1998) was an American systematic botanist and cytogeneticist who specialized in the mustard family and directed Harvard's Gray Herbarium from 1948 to 1978.
Reed E. Pyeritz
Reed E. Pyeritz was an American medical geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania whose work on Marfan syndrome extended patients' average lifespan from 40 to 70 years.
Regina M. Carelli
Regina M. Carelli is a behavioral neuroscientist at UNC Chapel Hill known for measuring subsecond dopamine signaling in the nucleus accumbens during reward seeking and cocaine addiction.
Reginald Crundall Punnett
Reginald Crundall Punnett was a British geneticist who codiscovered genetic linkage with William Bateson, wrote the first genetics textbook, Mendelism, and gave his name to the Punnett square.
Regine Kahmann
Regine Kahmann, born 1948, is a German microbiologist who studied bacteriophage Mu and the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis, directing a Max Planck Institute department in Marburg from 2000 to 2019.
Regis B. Kelly
Regis B. Kelly is a cell biologist and neurobiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for work on synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitter release.
Reid C. Johnson
Reid C. Johnson is an American molecular biologist and UCLA professor who defined the Salmonella Hin DNA inversion system and isolated Fis, a key DNA-bending protein.
Reid Gilmore
Reid Gilmore is an American biochemist and Professor Emeritus at UMass Chan Medical School whose laboratory helped identify the SRP receptor and define the oligosaccharyltransferase subunits.
Reinhard Fässler
Reinhard Fässler, also spelled Reinhard Fassler, is an Austrian cell biologist and physician born in 1956 who led integrin research as director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.
Reinhard Jahn
Reinhard Jahn is a German biochemist and neurobiologist known for work on synaptic vesicles and SNARE proteins; he led the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen.
Reinhard Lipowsky
Reinhard Lipowsky is a German theoretical physicist known for research on membranes and molecular motors, a founding director of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.
Reinhard Lührmann
Reinhard Lührmann, born 1949 in Osnabrück, is a German biochemist known for his work on the spliceosome, the machine that removes introns from messenger RNA precursors.
Reinhold Benesch
Reinhold Benesch (1919–1986) was a Polish-born American biochemist, professor at Columbia University, best known for identifying 2,3-diphosphoglycerate as the molecule that regulates hemoglobin's oxygen affinity, working with his wife and collaborator Ruth Erica Benesch.
Reinhold Förster
Reinhold Förster is a German immunologist, professor and director of the Institute of Immunology at Hannover Medical School, known for work on chemokine receptors CCR7 and CXCR5.
Reinhold Penner
Reinhold Penner is a German-born electrophysiologist who identified the CRAC calcium channel and several TRP channels, and leads ion-channel research at the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center.
Remington Kellogg
Remington Kellogg (1892–1969) was an American zoologist, director of the United States National Museum, and authority on fossil whales who shaped international whaling policy for three decades.
Remo Rohs
Remo Rohs is a computational structural biologist at the University of Southern California known for establishing DNA shape analysis as a framework for protein–DNA recognition.
Rémy Bosselut
Rémy Bosselut is a French-trained immunologist who leads the T-Cell Biology Group at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for work on ThPOK and CD4 T cell development.
Renato Baserga
Renato Baserga (1925–2023) was an Italian-born American cell biologist and cancer researcher in Philadelphia, known for work on cell proliferation and the insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor.
Renato Paro
Renato Paro is a molecular biologist regarded as a pioneer of epigenetics, known for work on Polycomb proteins and cellular memory, who founded ETH Zurich's biosystems department in Basel.
René Couteaux
René Couteaux (1909–1999) was a French histologist and neurobiologist who gave the synapse a morphological basis, naming the subneural apparatus, conceiving the presynaptic active zone, and winning the 1994 Balzan Prize for Biology.
René Dubos
René Dubos (1901–1982) was a French-born American microbiologist at Rockefeller University who discovered gramicidin, one of the first antibiotics, and later won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for his writing on disease and the environment.
René F. Ketting
René F. Ketting is a Dutch RNA biologist who studies small RNAs and gene silencing, and has led the Institute of Molecular Biology in Mainz since 2012.
René H. Medema
René H. Medema is a Dutch cell biologist known for research on cell cycle control and mitosis, and Chief Scientific Officer of the Princess Máxima Center since 2024.
Rene Hen
René Hen is a French-born neuroscientist at Columbia University who directs the Division of Systems Neuroscience and studies how new hippocampal neurons underlie antidepressant effects, mood, and anxiety.
René J.M. Bindels
René J.M. Bindels is a Dutch physiologist who held the chair of Physiology at Radboud University Medical Center, known for identifying the kidney's calcium channel TRPV5 and magnesium channel TRPM6.