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Robert Briggs (developmental biologist)
Robert Briggs (1911–1983) was an American developmental biologist who, with Thomas J. King, performed the first successful nuclear transplantation in an animal, in frogs in 1952.
Robert Brink
Robert Brink is an Australian immunologist who leads the Brink Lab at the Garvan Institute in Sydney, studying B cell regulation in immunity and autoantibody disease.
Robert C. Malenka
Robert C. Malenka, also known as Robert Malenka, is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist who studies synaptic plasticity and its roles in addiction, depression, and autism.
Robert C. Murphy
Robert C. Murphy is an American biochemist, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, whose 1979 work identified the leukotrienes behind allergic reactions like asthma.
Robert C. Nowinski
Robert C. Nowinski is an American virologist and immunologist who built the retrovirology program at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and founded the diagnostics company Genetic Systems.
Robert D. Burgoyne
Robert D. Burgoyne is a neuroscientist and Emeritus Professor of Physiology at the University of Liverpool, known for his work on calcium-regulated exocytosis and neuronal calcium sensor proteins.
Robert D. Goldman
Robert D. Goldman, also known as Robert Goldman, is an American cell biologist and Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University known for his work on intermediate filaments and nuclear lamins.
Robert D. Hawkins
Robert D. Hawkins is a Columbia University neuroscientist who studies the cellular mechanisms of learning and memory, known for work on nitric oxide in long-term potentiation.
Robert D. Nicholls
Robert D. Nicholls, born in 1960, is an Australian-born human geneticist and professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh, known for identifying genomic imprinting in human disease through Prader-Willi syndrome.
Robert D. Wells
Robert D. Wells is an American biochemist and molecular biologist who established that DNA contains alternative non-B structures and linked them to hereditary triplet-repeat diseases like Friedreich's ataxia.
Robert DeMars
Robert DeMars (1928–2023) was an American immunologist and human geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose mutant cell lines helped identify the TAP genes that supply peptides to MHC class I molecules.
Robert Desimone
Robert Desimone is a neuroscientist and director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, known for the biased-competition model of visual attention and work linking attention to gamma-band neural synchrony.
Robert E. Campbell
Robert E. Campbell is a biochemist and protein engineer known for the GECO series of fluorescent calcium indicators, including R-GECO1 and NIR-GECO1, and for PhoCl.
Robert E. Davis
Robert E. Davis was an American plant pathologist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland, known for discovering spiroplasma and pioneering phytoplasma research.
Robert E. Forster
Robert E. Forster (1919–2021) was an American respiratory physiologist at the University of Pennsylvania who coauthored the 1957 Roughton–Forster equation separating membrane diffusion from blood reaction rates in lung gas transfer.
Robert E. Hammer
Robert E. Hammer is a molecular geneticist and Professor of Biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for creating the first transgenic livestock and the HLA-B27 transgenic rat model of inflammatory disease.
Robert E. MacLaren
Robert E. MacLaren is a British ophthalmologist, Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford and surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital, known for pioneering retinal gene therapy for inherited blindness.
Robert E. Thach
Robert E. Thach is an American molecular biologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for work on translation initiation and translational control of gene expression.
Robert Emerson (plant physiologist)
Robert Emerson (1903–1959) was an American plant physiologist at the University of Illinois known for the red drop, the enhancement effect, and the photosynthetic unit.
Robert F. Chandler
Robert F. Chandler (Robert Flint Chandler Jr.) was an American agronomist who directed the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines from 1959 to 1972.
Robert F. Garry
Robert F. Garry is an American virologist and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Tulane University, known for Lassa fever and Ebola field research, diagnostics, and co-authoring the 2020 analysis of SARS-CoV-2's origin.
Robert F. Margolskee
Robert F. Margolskee is an American molecular biologist known for discovering gustducin, a taste-cell G protein, in 1992, and for showing that gut cells sense nutrients like taste cells.
Robert F. Siliciano
Robert F. Siliciano is an American immunologist and virologist at Johns Hopkins who identified the latent HIV reservoir, the major barrier to curing HIV infection.
Robert Fettiplace
Robert Fettiplace, born in 1946, is a British-born sensory neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies inner-ear hair cells and shared the 2018 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.
Robert Feulgen
Robert Joachim Wilhelm Feulgen (1884–1955) was a German physiological chemist at the University of Giessen who discovered the Feulgen stain, the first DNA-specific staining method, published in 1924.
ROBERT FINN
Robert D. Finn is a computational biologist at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute who led the Pfam protein families database and now leads the Microbiome Informatics team, running MGnify.
Robert Fletterick
Robert J. Fletterick is an American structural biologist at UCSF known for X-ray crystal structures of nuclear receptors and kinesin motors, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010.
Robert Fraley
Robert T. Fraley (born 1953) is an American plant biologist who led the Monsanto team producing the first genetically engineered plants and later became its chief technology officer.
Robert Franklin Pitts
Robert Franklin Pitts (1908–1977) was an American renal physiologist whose landmark 1945 work showed how the kidney acidifies urine and excretes ammonia; he joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1956.
Robert Froemke
Robert C. Froemke is an American systems neuroscientist and professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine whose lab studies cortical plasticity, oxytocin, maternal behavior, and cochlear implants.