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Roger A. Greenberg
Roger A. Greenberg, also published as Roger Greenberg, is an American cancer biologist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies DNA repair and telomere maintenance in cancer cells.
Roger A. Nicoll
Roger A. Nicoll is an American neuroscientist, professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, whose laboratory established that long-term potentiation, a basis of learning and memory, is expressed by delivering AMPA receptors to synapses.
Roger A. Pedersen
Roger A. Pedersen (1944–2025) was an American stem cell biologist who discovered epiblast stem cells and pioneered human embryonic stem cell research at UCSF, Cambridge, and Stanford.
Roger B. H. Tootell
Roger B. H. Tootell is a visual neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and the Martinos Center who maps the primate visual cortex with fMRI, in humans and monkeys.
Roger Barker
Roger A. Barker is Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, specializing in Parkinson's disease and leading the STEM-PD stem cell therapy trial.
Roger Brent
Roger Brent is an American molecular biologist, Professor Emeritus at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, known for work on gene regulation, two-hybrid methods, and quantitative cell signaling.
Roger Chalkley
Roger Chalkley is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Vanderbilt University, known for research on chromatin structure and histone deposition during DNA replication.
Roger D. Kornberg
Roger D. Kornberg, born 1947 in St. Louis, is an American biochemist and structural biologist at Stanford who won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of eukaryotic transcription.
Roger Eckert
Roger Eckert (1934–1986) was an American cellular neurobiologist and UCLA professor who showed that calcium ions entering a cell couple stimulation to the beating of cilia and flagella.
Roger Gautheret
Roger Gautheret was a French biologist and botanist who developed plant tissue culture techniques, achieving continuous growth of plant cells outside the organism in 1939.
Roger Goody
Roger S. Goody (born 1944) is a British biochemist who led physical biochemistry at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund from 1993 to 2013.
Roger Hardie
Roger Hardie is a Cambridge cellular neuroscientist who identified the Drosophila trp gene as encoding a light-activated calcium channel, founding the TRP ion channel family.
Roger J. Pomerantz
Roger J. Pomerantz is an American physician-scientist and virologist known for HIV-1 latency and reservoir research at Thomas Jefferson University, later an executive at Tibotec and Merck.
Roger N. Beachy
Roger N. Beachy is an American plant virologist and biotechnologist at Washington University in St. Louis, known for creating the first virus-resistant transgenic food crops.
Roger Patient
Roger K. Patient is a molecular biologist and Visiting Professor of Developmental Genetics at Oxford, known for work on globin genes and blood origins in Xenopus frogs.
Roger R. Reddel
Roger R. Reddel is an Australian medical oncologist and cancer researcher known for discovering alternative lengthening of telomeres, and Executive Director of the Children's Medical Research Institute in Sydney since 2007.
Roger Ratcliff
Roger Ratcliff (born 1947) is an American cognitive psychologist at Ohio State, known for the diffusion model of two-choice decision making and his 1978 theory of memory retrieval.
Roger S. Lo
Roger S. Lo, also known as Roger Lo, is a UCLA physician-scientist who studies melanoma resistance to targeted therapies; his work provided the rationale for combining BRAF and MEK inhibitors.
Roger T. Hanlon
Roger T. Hanlon is an ethologist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, who has spent over three decades studying cephalopod camouflage, classifying body patterns into uniform, mottle, and disruptive classes.
Roger W. Hendrix
Roger W. Hendrix was an American microbiologist at the University of Pittsburgh who studied the structure, assembly, genomics, and evolution of bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria.
Roger W. Innes
Roger W. Innes is an American plant molecular biologist at Indiana University Bloomington, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025 for work on plant immunity.
Roger W. Sperry
Roger W. Sperry, also known as Roger Sperry, was an American neurobiologist at Caltech who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize for split-brain research and proposed the chemoaffinity hypothesis.
Roger Y. Stanier
Roger Y. Stanier (1916–1982) was a Canadian microbiologist at the University of California, Berkeley and later the Institut Pasteur, known for the 1962 prokaryote concept and for reorganizing cyanobacteria.
Roger Y. Tsien
Roger Y. Tsien (1952–2016) was an American biochemist at UC San Diego who designed fluorescent molecules for imaging living cells and shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Rogier W. Sanders
Rogier W. Sanders, born 1975, is a virologist and full professor at Amsterdam UMC and Weill Cornell Medicine, known for pre-fusion protein stabilization built into COVID-19 vaccines.
Rohini Kuner
Rohini Kuner is a German-based neuroscientist and pharmacologist who directs the Institute of Pharmacology at Heidelberg University and studies the mechanisms by which acute pain becomes chronic, winning the 2024 Leibniz Prize.
Rohit Pappu
Rohit Pappu, also known as Rohit V. Pappu, is a biophysicist at Washington University in St. Louis known for work on intrinsically disordered proteins and biomolecular condensates.
Roland Baron
Roland Baron is a bone biologist and physician-scientist, professor at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for research on osteoclasts and Pyle's disease.
Roland Douce
Roland Douce (1939–2018) was a French plant biochemist who established the chloroplast envelope as a subject of biochemical study and showed it is the site of galactolipid synthesis.
Roland Kanaar
Roland Kanaar is a Dutch molecular biologist at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam who heads the Molecular Genetics department and showed that homologous recombination repairs radiation-induced DNA breaks in mammalian cells.