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Richard Flavell
Richard A. Flavell is a British-born American immunologist, Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale, who co-discovered introns, pioneered reverse genetics, and developed widely used humanized mouse models.
Richard G. Brennan
Richard G. Brennan is a structural biologist and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University, known for the winged-helix DNA-binding motif and structures of multidrug-binding regulators such as BmrR and QacR.
Richard G. Pestell
Richard G. Pestell is an Australian-born medical oncologist who immigrated to the United States in 1993, directed the Lombardi and Sidney Kimmel cancer centers, and founded six biotechnology companies.
Richard G. Vile
Richard G. Vile, also published as Richard Vile, is a British-born cancer immunotherapy researcher and Professor of Immunology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, working on oncolytic virotherapy.
Richard Giegé
Richard Giegé is a French biochemist who spent his career at CNRS in Strasbourg, known for the crystal structure of yeast tRNA and for tRNA identity elements.
Richard Goldschmidt
Richard Benedict Goldschmidt (1878–1958) was a German-born American geneticist who worked on sex determination, proposed the "hopeful monster" concept, and dissented from classical gene theory.
Richard H. Ebright
Richard H. Ebright is an American molecular biologist and biochemist, Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University, known for work on bacterial transcription and RNA polymerase inhibitors as antibiotics.
Richard H. Masland
Richard H. Masland (1942–2019) was an American retinal neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for counting retinal cell types and starburst amacrine cells.
Richard H. Scheller
Richard H. Scheller, born 1953 in Milwaukee, is an American neurobiologist who discovered the SNARE proteins mediating neurotransmitter release, winning the Kavli Prize and the 2013 Lasker Award.
Richard Held
Richard Held (1922–2016) was an American experimental psychologist and neuroscientist at MIT and Brandeis University whose 1963 kitten-carousel study showed that perception is built from self-produced movement.
Richard Henderson (structural biologist)
Richard Henderson, born 1945, is a Scottish structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for cryo-electron microscopy.
Richard Hertwig
Richard Hertwig (1850–1937) was a German zoologist and founder of experimental zoology who held the Munich zoology chair for forty years and studied sea urchin fertilization with his brother Oscar.
Richard Hesse
Richard Hesse (1868–1944) was a German zoologist, professor at Berlin, who demonstrated fibrils in visual cells later confirmed as microvilli and pioneered ecological zoogeography with his 1924 book.
Richard Hilleary
Richard Hilleary is an American plant biologist at Duke University who studies long-distance calcium signaling and how heat stress weakens plant immunity, co-authoring the 2014 calcium-wave discovery.
Richard I. Gregory
Richard I. Gregory is an RNA biologist and stem cell researcher known for discovering the Microprocessor complex and how microRNA production is blocked in cancer.
Richard I. Morimoto
Richard I. Morimoto is an American molecular biologist at Northwestern University known for work on the heat shock response, molecular chaperones, and proteostasis, a term he helped coin.
Richard J Maraia
Richard J Maraia is a molecular biologist and physician who heads the Section on Molecular and Cellular Biology at NIH's NICHD in Bethesda, Maryland, studying RNA biogenesis and metabolism.
Richard J. Hodes
Richard J. Hodes is an American immunologist who has directed the National Institute on Aging at NIH since 1993 while leading a National Cancer Institute laboratory studying telomeres and immune aging.
Richard J. Jackson
Richard J. Jackson (1940–2020) was a British molecular biologist at Cambridge who studied how protein synthesis is controlled and was elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2006.
Richard J. Krauzlis
Richard J. Krauzlis, also published as R. J. Krauzlis, is an American vision neuroscientist who leads the Visual Circuits Section at the National Eye Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.
Richard J. Roberts
Richard J. Roberts is a British biochemist who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Sharp for discovering split genes, and is known for restriction enzymes.
Richard J. Santen
Richard J. Santen is an endocrinologist and professor emeritus at the University of Virginia whose estrogen research led to aromatase inhibitors, now standard treatment for breast cancer.
Richard J. Ulevitch
Richard J. Ulevitch is an American immunologist who spent more than 50 years at Scripps Research, where he discovered lipopolysaccharide binding protein and helped define Toll-like receptor signaling.
Richard J. Whitley
Richard J. Whitley is an American pediatric infectious-disease physician-scientist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham whose clinical trials established modern antiviral treatment of herpes simplex encephalitis and neonatal herpes.
Richard J. Wurtman
Richard Jay Wurtman (1936–2022) was an American physician and neuroscientist who spent decades at MIT studying melatonin, nutrition and the brain, and developed Souvenaid for early Alzheimer's disease.
Richard J. Youle
Richard J. Youle is an NIH Distinguished Investigator at NINDS in Bethesda, Maryland, known for discovering the PINK1/Parkin mitophagy pathway and winning the 2021 Breakthrough Prize.
Richard J.H. Smith M.D.
Richard J.H. Smith, M.D., is an American physician-scientist in otolaryngology and genetics at the University of Iowa, known for work on hereditary hearing loss and complement-mediated kidney disease.
Richard Jed Wyatt
Richard Jed Wyatt (1937 or 1939 – 2002) was an American biological psychiatrist who spent his career at NIMH and championed a biological basis for schizophrenia.
Richard K. Assoian
Richard K. Assoian is an American cell biologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for work on peptide growth factors and adhesion-dependent cell cycle control, including matrix stiffness in arterial aging.
Richard K. Bruick
Richard K. Bruick is a biochemist and Professor of Biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center whose 2001 discovery of the HIF prolyl hydroxylases underpinned the 2019 Nobel Prize-honored oxygen-sensing pathway.