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Riitta Hari
Riitta Hari, born 1948 in Mikkeli, Finland, is a Finnish cognitive neuroscientist who developed magnetoencephalography, a brain-imaging method tracking brain activity with millisecond timing, and pioneered two-person neuroscience.
Rik Derynck
Rik Derynck is a Belgian-born molecular biologist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, known for cloning the TGF-α and TGF-β1 genes at Genentech and for defining how Smad proteins transmit TGF-β signals.
Rinaldo Dohrn
Rinaldo Dohrn, the Italianized name of Reinhard Dohrn (1880–1962), was a German zoologist who directed the Stazione Zoologica di Napoli from 1909 to 1954, succeeding his father.
Rinse K. Weersma
Rinse K. Weersma is a Dutch gastroenterologist and professor at the University of Groningen who studies the genetics of inflammatory bowel disease and the gut microbiome.
Rita Casadio
Rita Casadio is an Italian computational biologist at the University of Bologna, founder of its Biocomputing Group in 1990, known for PhD-SNP, BENZ WS, and MultifacetedProtDB.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012) was an Italian neurobiologist who discovered nerve growth factor, the first known neurotrophic factor, and shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell, born Rita Rossi in 1934, is an American environmental microbiologist known for cholera research and as the first woman to lead the National Science Foundation.
Rivka Dikstein
Rivka Dikstein is an Israeli molecular biologist, a full professor and Dean of the Faculty of Biochemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for showing that the TFIID subunit TAFII250 is a protein kinase.
Rob Knight
Rob Knight is a New Zealand-born computational microbiologist at UC San Diego, founding Director of its Center for Microbiome Innovation, known for the QIIME software pipeline and UniFrac distance measure.
Rob Martienssen
Rob Martienssen is a plant biologist and epigeneticist who leads genomics and plant genetics research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, known for small-RNA silencing of transposable elements.
Rob Phillips
Rob Phillips is a biophysicist who holds the Fred and Nancy Morris Professorship at Caltech, known for quantitative gene regulation research and widely used physical biology textbooks.
Robb Krumlauf
Robb Krumlauf is a developmental biologist known for seminal work on Hox genes, the genes that pattern the animal body plan, and for establishing the principle of colinearity.
Robert A. Bambara
Robert A. Bambara is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, known for work on Okazaki fragment maturation and HIV reverse transcription.
Robert A. Lamb
Robert A. Lamb (1950–2023) was a British-born American virologist at Northwestern University and an HHMI Investigator known for defining the influenza M2 protein as an ion channel.
Robert A. Lazzarini
Robert A. Lazzarini is an American molecular biologist known for work on vesicular stomatitis virus RNA and myelin protein genetics, and for showing myelin basic protein arises by alternative splicing.
Robert A. Martienssen
Robert A. Martienssen is a plant biologist and geneticist who leads a laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, known for work on epigenetic inheritance in plants.
Robert A. Steinberg
Robert A. Steinberg is a molecular biologist who used somatic-cell genetics of cultured S49 mouse lymphoma cells to determine how cAMP-dependent protein kinase is structured, regulated, and expressed.
Robert A. White
Robert A. White, also published as Robert A. H. White, is a Cambridge developmental geneticist known for work on the bithorax complex and Hox gene regulation in Drosophila.
Robert Adelstein
Robert S. Adelstein (1934–2024) was an American physician-scientist who spent about sixty years at NIH, established phosphorylation as the regulator of smooth muscle and nonmuscle myosin, and defined the three nonmuscle myosin II genes.
Robert Almer Harper
Robert Almer Harper (1862–1946) was an American botanist and cytologist who worked out the details of reproduction in the fungus ascospore, teaching at Columbia University.
Robert Aubrey Hinde
Robert Aubrey Hinde (1923–2016) was a British ethologist and zoologist at Cambridge whose quantitative rhesus monkey mother–infant separation studies became experimental foundations for attachment theory.
Robert B. Darnell
Robert B. Darnell is an American physician-scientist at Rockefeller University known for developing CLIP, which maps RNA-protein interactions in living tissue, and for founding the New York Genome Center.
Robert B. Gennis
Robert B. Gennis is an American biochemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for his work on membrane-bound respiratory enzymes and proton pumping.
Robert B. Goldberg
Robert B. Goldberg (1944–2025) was an American plant molecular biologist at UCLA known for studies of gene regulation during plant embryogenesis and seed development, and for the barnase–barstar system used in hybrid canola production.
Robert B. Zajonc
Robert B. Zajonc (1923–2008) was a Polish-born American social psychologist, best known for the mere exposure effect, who spent most of his career at the University of Michigan.
Robert Bárány
Robert Bárány (1876–1936) was an Austrian otologist who won the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on the inner ear's organ of balance.
Robert Batey
Robert T. Batey, known as R.T. Batey, is an American structural biologist and professor of biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies riboswitches and RNA.
Robert Benezra
Robert Benezra, also published as R. Benezra, is a molecular and cancer biologist who discovered the Id proteins and co-discovered hsMAD2, the first human mitotic checkpoint gene.
Robert Best (computational biophysicist)
Robert B. Best is a South African-British computational biophysical chemist leading the Computational Biophysics Section of NIH's NIDDK, studying protein folding and intrinsically disordered proteins.
Robert Blelloch
Robert Blelloch is a physician-scientist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, known for work on microRNAs in stem cells and exosomal PD-L1 in cancer.