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Robert Sekuler
Robert Sekuler, born in 1939, is an American cognitive neuroscientist, the Louis and Frances Salvage Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, at Brandeis University, known for research on visual perception, memory, and aging.
Robert Shapley
Robert M. Shapley is an American visual neurophysiologist at New York University known for work on retinal gain control and orientation tuning in visual cortex.
Robert Stickgold
Robert Stickgold is a Harvard Medical School cognitive neuroscientist whose work shows sleep is required for memory, and who studies dreaming as offline memory processing.
Robert Straus
Robert Straus (1923–2020) was an American medical sociologist and alcohol studies researcher who founded the first behavioral science department at an American medical school, at the University of Kentucky.
Robert Stuart Edgar
Robert Stuart Edgar (1930–2016) was an American geneticist who worked out how bacteriophage T4 assembles and helped establish the worm C. elegans as a model organism.
Robert T. Abraham
Robert T. Abraham, known as Bob Abraham, is an American cancer biologist and Chief Scientific Officer of Engine Biosciences, known for work on PI3K and mTOR signaling.
Robert T. Knight
Robert T. Knight is an American cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist at UC Berkeley, known for work on the prefrontal cortex, attention, and memory, and for developing electrocorticography.
Robert T. Sauer
Robert T. Sauer is an American biochemist and MIT professor emeritus who studies how cells select, unfold, and destroy proteins, known for work on ATP-dependent proteases like ClpXP.
Robert T. Simpson
Robert T. Simpson (1938–2004) was a molecular biologist known for his work on chromatin at the NIH and Penn State, including nucleosome positioning and defining the chromatosome.
Robert Tampé
Robert Tampé is a German biochemist and structural biologist who has been professor and director of the Institute of Biochemistry at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2001.
Robert Thomson Leiper
Robert Thomson Leiper (1881–1969) was a British parasitologist and helminthologist who solved the life cycles of the guinea worm and the two African human schistosomes.
Robert Tigerstedt
Robert Tigerstedt (1853–1923) was a Finnish physiologist who, with his student Per Bergman at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, discovered renin in 1898, the kidney enzyme behind modern hypertension drugs.
Robert Tjian
Robert Tjian is a biochemist at UC Berkeley who studies transcription control, identified the first human gene-specific transcription factor, and led the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 2009 to 2016.
Robert W. Baloh
Robert W. Baloh, also published as R. W. Baloh, is an American neurologist and neuro-otologist at UCLA whose vestibular tests and textbooks became the field standard.
Robert W. Doms
Robert W. Doms is a virologist and physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, known for identifying HIV's entry coreceptors in the mid-1990s.
Robert W. Holley
Robert W. Holley (1922–1993) was an American biochemist who determined the first complete nucleotide sequence of a nucleic acid and shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Robert W. McCarley
Robert W. McCarley, also known as R.W. McCarley, was an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and VA Boston who studied REM sleep and schizophrenia.
Robert Wayne Allard
Robert Wayne Allard (1919–2003) was an American plant geneticist at UC Davis, a founder of plant population genetics, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973.
Roberta Croce
Roberta Croce is an Italian biophysicist studying light harvesting in photosynthesis, professor at VU Amsterdam since 2011 and president of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research.
Roberto Bassi
Roberto Bassi, born in Vicenza in 1955, is an Italian plant biochemist and professor at the University of Verona known for work on photosynthesis and photoprotection.
Roberto Bonasio
Roberto Bonasio is an Italian molecular biologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine who studies epigenetic memory, noncoding RNAs, and the social behavior of ants.
Roberto Cattaneo
Roberto Cattaneo is a Swiss-born virologist and professor at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for research on measles virus, including the host-exit receptor nectin-4.
Roberto Docampo
Roberto Docampo is an Argentine-trained parasitologist at the University of Georgia, recruited in 2005, known for discovering the acidocalcisome and for work on chemotherapy of parasitic diseases.
Roberto Kolter
Roberto Kolter, born 1953, is a microbiologist who was a professor at Harvard Medical School from 1983 until 2018, known for work on bacterial biofilms, stationary-phase physiology, and interspecies interactions.
Roberto Malinow
Roberto Malinow, born 1956 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine-born American neuroscientist at UC San Diego known for showing that AMPA receptor movement underlies synaptic plasticity and memory.
Roberto Mantovani
Roberto Mantovani is an Italian molecular biologist, full professor of genetics at the University of Milan, whose career has centered on the CCAAT-binding transcription factor NF-Y.
Roberto Mayor
Roberto Mayor is a Chilean-born developmental biologist, professor at University College London, known for work on embryonic cell migration and the mechanical forces guiding it.
Roberto Montesano
Roberto Montesano (born 1948) is an Italian cell biologist who spent over three decades at the University of Geneva, where his 1990 and 1991 Cell papers identified hepatocyte growth factor as an epithelial morphogen.
Roberto Pacifici
Roberto Pacifici is an endocrinologist at Emory University School of Medicine and a founder of osteoimmunology, known for showing that T cells mediate estrogen and parathyroid hormone effects on bone.
Roberto Sitia
Roberto Sitia is an Italian cell biologist and professor emeritus at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, known for research on endoplasmic reticulum quality control and antibody secretion.