Life scientists

Renee Otten

Renee Otten is a Dutch-trained biophysicist known for co-creating AF-Cluster, which makes AlphaFold2 predict multiple protein conformations, and for showing how directed evolution reshapes enzyme energy landscapes.

Renier Brentjens

Renier J. Brentjens is a Dutch-born American physician-scientist who pioneered CD19-targeted CAR T-cell therapy for leukemia and received the 2024 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize for discoveries leading to CAR T cells.

Renzhi Han

Renzhi Han is a Chinese-born American muscle biologist and gene-therapy researcher, professor of pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine, known for muscle membrane repair and Duchenne gene therapies.

Oct 21, 2026

Reproductive biology

Reproductive Biology (ISSN 1642-431X) is a quarterly Elsevier peer-reviewed journal founded in 2001 in Olsztyn, Poland, covering all aspects of vertebrate reproduction, indexed in MEDLINE and Scopus, SJR 0.684 (Q1), JIF 2.5.

Reto Fiolka

Reto Fiolka, born 1980, is a Swiss and German researcher who develops light-sheet microscopy methods and is an associate professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Reuben J. Shaw

Reuben J. Shaw, born 1972, is an American molecular biologist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, known for work on the LKB1–AMPK pathway in cancer.

Oct 10, 2026

Reuben Lovell

Reuben Lovell was an English biochemist who, with P. W. Clutterbuck and Harold Raistrick, tried in 1932 to purify penicillin and failed, concluding it was too unstable for medicine.

Reuben S Harris

Reuben S Harris, also known as Reuben Stewart Harris, is an American molecular geneticist and HHMI Investigator who chairs Biochemistry at UT Health San Antonio and studies APOBEC-driven cancer mutagenesis.

Reuven Agami

Reuven Agami is a molecular biologist who heads the Division of Oncogenomics at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, known for identifying miR-372/373 oncogenes and developing the pSUPER RNAi vector.

Reza Shadmehr

Reza Shadmehr is an Iranian-American computational neuroscientist and professor at Johns Hopkins University, known since 1995 for research on how the brain learns and controls movement.

Rhiju Das

Rhiju Das (born 1978) is an American biochemist, professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and HHMI investigator, who predicts and designs RNA structures and leads the Eterna platform.

Oct 10, 2026

Rhonda Feinbaum

Rhonda Feinbaum is an American molecular biologist and genetic counselor who co-authored the 1993 lin-4 paper founding microRNA biology and later studied C. elegans immunity.

Oct 10, 2026

Rhonda L. Feinbaum

Rhonda L. Feinbaum is a molecular biologist who was co-equal first author, with Rosalind C. Lee, of the 1993 Cell paper reporting lin-4, the first microRNA discovered.

Ricardo Bressani

Ricardo Bressani (1926–2015) was a Guatemalan food scientist and nutritionist who spent 39 years at INCAP in Guatemala City and developed Incaparina, an all-vegetable protein mixture.

Ricardo Dolmetsch

Ricardo E. Dolmetsch is a neuroscientist who studies autism and calcium signaling, known for building stem-cell models of Timothy syndrome; he led neuroscience at Novartis and later uniQure.

Ricardo Miledi

Ricardo Miledi (1927 to 2017) was a Mexican-born neuroscientist who established that calcium entering the nerve terminal triggers neurotransmitter release and pioneered expressing foreign receptors in Xenopus oocytes.

Riccardo Wittek

Riccardo Wittek (1944–2008) was a Swiss virologist and professor of general and molecular virology at the University of Lausanne, known for work on vaccinia virus and WHO biosafety guidelines.

Richard A. Andersen

Richard A. Andersen is an American neuroscientist at Caltech who showed how the posterior parietal cortex plans movement and built brain–machine interfaces letting paralyzed patients control robotic limbs.

Richard A. Collins

Richard A. Collins is a Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto whose research on RNA and mitochondria discovered the VS ribozyme in Neurospora.

Richard A. Cone

Richard A. Cone is an American biophysicist and Johns Hopkins professor emeritus known for measuring rhodopsin diffusion and studying mucus barriers in the female reproductive tract.

Richard A. Koup

Richard A. Koup is an American virologist and immunologist who studies HIV-specific T-cell immunity and serves as Deputy Director of NIAID's Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

Richard A. Lang

Richard A. Lang is an Australian-born molecular biologist who studies eye development and light sensing, and directs the Visual Systems Group at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Richard A. Roth

Richard A. Roth is an emeritus member of Stanford's Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, known for showing in 1983 that the insulin receptor is itself a protein kinase.

Richard A. Spritz

Richard A. Spritz is an American medical geneticist, emeritus professor at the University of Colorado, who identified the tyrosinase gene in albinism and mapped vitiligo genetics.

Richard A. Steinhardt

Richard A. Steinhardt (1939–2014) was an American cell biologist at UC Berkeley who showed that a rise in intracellular calcium activates the egg at fertilization.

Richard A. Young

Richard A. Young is an American molecular biologist, a Member of the Whitehead Institute and Professor of Biology at MIT, known for super-enhancers and genome regulatory mapping.

Richard Alexander Gibbs

Richard Alexander Gibbs, known as Richard A. Gibbs, is an Australian-born geneticist who founded Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center, a Human Genome Project site.

Richard Axel

Richard Axel, born 1946 in New York, is an American molecular biologist and neuroscientist at Columbia University, best known for discovering the odorant receptor gene family.

Richard B. Gaynor

Richard B. Gaynor is an American virologist who studied how HIV and HTLV-I hijack cell transcription, later leading oncology drug development at Eli Lilly and BioNTech US.