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Ronen Marmorstein

Ronen Marmorstein is a structural biologist and George W. Raiziss Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the 1992 GAL4-DNA and 1999 GCN5 histone acetyltransferase structures.

Rong Gong

Rong Gong is a Chinese systems neuroscientist who studies how hunger and thirst drive eating and drinking, and who leads a laboratory at the Chinese Institute for Brain Research in Beijing.

Rong Li

Rong Li (李榕) is a molecular and cell biologist known for showing that aneuploidy drives rapid cellular evolution; she directs the Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore.

Rong‐Fu Wang

Rong-Fu Wang is a cancer immunologist known for identifying the NY-ESO-1 cancer antigen and characterizing NLRC5, and a professor at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and USC since 2019.

Rongsheng Jin

Rongsheng Jin is a structural biologist who is Professor and Vice Chair of Physiology & Biophysics at UC Irvine, known for structural studies of botulinum neurotoxins.

Rongxin Fang

Rongxin Fang is a computational and single-cell genomics researcher and Stanford assistant professor of neurosurgery since 2025, known for SnapATAC, BRAIN Initiative brain cell atlases, and 3D MERFISH brain mapping.

Ronnie Coffman

Ronnie Coffman is an American plant breeder and agricultural scientist who bred rice at IRRI in the Philippines from 1971 to 1980, then led Cornell's international wheat-rust defense programs.

Rony Paz

Rony Paz (רוני פז, born 1971) is an Israeli systems neuroscientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science who studies the amygdala, aversive learning, and anxiety, and serves as a Vice President of the Institute.

Roop Mallik

Roop Mallik is an Indian biophysicist and IIT Bombay professor known for showing that cellular cargoes reverse direction through a tug-of-war between opposing molecular motors.

Rosa Cossart

Rosa Cossart is a French neuroscientist who studies how the neuronal circuits of memory develop, known for work on cortical attractor dynamics and GABAergic hub neurons.

Rosa Puertollano

Rosa Puertollano, full name Maria Rosa Puertollano Moro, is a Spanish-born cell biologist and Senior Investigator at NIH's NHLBI, known for work on GGA adaptors and TFEB regulation of lysosomes.

Rosa Rademakers

Rosa Rademakers is a Belgian-based neurogeneticist who directs the VIB-UAntwerp Center for Molecular Neurology and identified C9orf72 as the most common genetic cause of ALS and frontotemporal dementia.

Rosalind A. Eeles

Rosalind A. Eeles, known as Ros Eeles, is a British clinical oncologist and cancer geneticist, Professor of Oncogenetics at the Institute of Cancer Research in London.

Rosalind A. Segal

Rosalind A. Segal, also known as Roz Segal, is an American neurobiologist and cancer researcher at Dana-Farber, known for work on Sonic Hedgehog signaling in medulloblastoma.

Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920–1958), British X-ray crystallographer; her Photo 51 and MRC data underpinned the 1953 DNA double helix model; also coal, carbon, and virus research.

Rosalind Lee

Rosalind (Candy) Lee is a biomedical scientist who co-discovered lin-4, the first microRNA described, and is a senior scientist in Victor Ambros's lab at UMass Chan Medical School.

Rosario Rizzuto

Rosario Rizzuto, born in Rome in 1962, is an Italian physician-scientist and professor of General Pathology at the University of Padua, known for mitochondrial calcium signaling research.

Rose Zamoyska

Rose Zamoyska is an immunologist and Professor of Immune Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh, known for cloning the CD8 gene and work on T cell signaling and autoimmunity.

Rosemary J. Akhurst

Rosemary J. Akhurst is a cancer biologist and Professor In Residence at UCSF whose work showed TGFβ both suppresses and promotes tumors, informing Novartis and Pfizer trials.

Roser Vento-Tormo

Roser Vento-Tormo is a computational biologist who has led a research group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge since 2019, known for CellPhoneDB and placenta atlases.

Ross Cagan

Ross L. Cagan is an American biologist at the University of Glasgow who models human cancers in fruit flies and helped bring the first FDA-approved drug for medullary thyroid carcinoma.

Ross E. Rocklin

Ross E. Rocklin is an immunologist who worked at Harvard hospitals, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and Tufts Medical Center, publishing in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Ross Granville Harrison

Ross Granville Harrison (1870–1959) was an American embryologist and zoologist at Yale who performed the first successful cultures of animal tissue in 1907, founding the technique of tissue culture.

Ross Hardison

Ross C. Hardison is an American biochemist and molecular biologist at Penn State known for work on gene regulation, comparative genomics, and the ENCODE project.

Rotem Sorek

Rotem Sorek (רותם סורק) is an Israeli microbial genomicist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for discovering dozens of bacterial antiphage defense systems.

Rowland Biffen

Rowland Harry Biffen was a British geneticist and agricultural botanist at Cambridge who showed in 1912 that wheat's yellow rust resistance was inherited as a recessive Mendelian character.

Roy A. Mariuzza

Roy A. Mariuzza is a structural immunologist and professor at the University of Maryland, known for crystal structures of immune receptors including a 1996 Nature superantigen study.

Roy A. Wise

Roy A. Wise, also published as Roy Wise, is a Canadian behavioral neuroscientist known for the psychomotor stimulant theory of addiction and dopamine's role in reward.

Roy Curtiss

Roy Curtiss III, born 1934, is an American microbiologist and geneticist known for bacterial plasmid nomenclature and live Salmonella vaccines, now a professor at the University of Florida.

Roy Elwood Clausen

Roy Elwood Clausen was an American plant geneticist and cytogeneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for studies of Nicotiana and the textbook Genetics in Relation to Agriculture.