Life scientists

Rui-Ming Xu

Rui-Ming Xu (许瑞明) is a Chinese structural biologist who uses X-ray crystallography to study chromatin-modifying enzymes, and a professor at the Institute of Biophysics in Beijing.

Ruma Banerjee

Ruma Banerjee is an American biochemist who has been Vincent Massey Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan since 2007, known for research on sulfur metabolism and vitamin B12 enzymes.

Rupert Timpl

Rupert Timpl (1936–2003) was a biochemist who spent his career at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry near Munich, known for isolating laminin and discovering nidogen and the fibulins.

Ruslan Medzhitov is an Uzbekistan-born American immunologist, Sterling Professor at Yale School of Medicine, whose 1997 work with Charles Janeway established Toll-like receptors as receptors of innate immunity.

Russ B. Altman

Russ B. Altman, known as Russ Altman, is an American biomedical data scientist and Stanford professor known for building the PharmGKB pharmacogenomics knowledge base and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Russell A. DeBose-Boyd

Russell A. DeBose-Boyd is an American biochemist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for defining how cells degrade HMG CoA reductase, the rate-limiting enzyme of cholesterol synthesis.

Russell D. Fernald

Russell D. Fernald is an American neurobiologist and Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor of Human Biology, Emeritus, at Stanford University, known for showing that social behavior changes neurons in the brain.

Russell E. Vance

Russell E. Vance is an American immunologist, Professor at UC Berkeley and an HHMI Investigator since 2013, known for defining how innate immunity detects bacterial pathogens.

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Russell G. Foster

Russell G. Foster is a British neuroscientist, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at Oxford, best known for discovering a third photoreceptor in the vertebrate eye regulating sleep and circadian rhythms.

Russell G. Jones

Russell G. Jones, also known as Russell Jones, is a cancer metabolism and immunometabolism researcher who chairs the Department of Metabolism and Nutritional Programming at Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Russell Henry Chittenden

Russell Henry Chittenden (1856–1943) was an American physiological chemist at Yale, professor there from 1882 to 1922, best known for low-protein diet experiments that challenged European protein standards.

Russell J. Barrnett

Russell J. Barrnett (1920–1989) was an American cell biologist and cytochemist who spent 1959 to 1989 at Yale School of Medicine, pioneering enzyme localization at the electron microscope level.

Russell Poldrack

Russell Poldrack, born 1967, is an American cognitive neuroscientist and Stanford psychology professor who uses brain imaging to study how the brain gives rise to the mind.

Russell S. Schwartz

Russell S. Schwartz is an American computational biologist, a Carnegie Mellon professor and ISCB Fellow who joined DARPA's Biological Technologies Office as a program manager in 2026.

Ruth Arnon

Ruth Arnon, born 1933 in Tel Aviv, is an Israeli immunologist at the Weizmann Institute who co-developed Copaxone for multiple sclerosis and won the Wolf and Israel Prizes.

Ruth Chiquet‐Ehrismann

Ruth Chiquet-Ehrismann (1954–2015) was a Swiss biochemist and cell biologist who discovered tenascin-C and led a research group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel.

Ruth E. Benesch

Ruth E. Benesch, also known as Ruth Benesch, was an American biochemist at Columbia University who, with her husband and co-author, showed in 1967 that DPG regulates hemoglobin's oxygen release.

Ruth E. Ley

Ruth E. Ley, also published as Ruth Ley, is an American microbial ecologist who directs the Department of Microbiome Science at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen.

Ruth Geyer Shaw

Ruth Geyer Shaw is an American evolutionary geneticist and University of Minnesota professor who studies adaptation in wild prairie plants, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Ruth Hubbard

Ruth Hubbard, born Ruth Hoffmann, was an Austrian-born American biochemist at Harvard who established the photochemistry of vision and in 1974 became Harvard biology's first tenured woman.

Ruth J. F. Loos

Ruth J. F. Loos is a Belgian human geneticist who studies the genetics of obesity, and is a professor at the University of Copenhagen and Mount Sinai in New York.

Ruth J. Muschel

Ruth J. Muschel, also known as Ruth Muschel, is a cancer researcher known for a 2000 study showing lung metastasis begins inside blood vessels, and an Emeritus Professor at Oxford.

Ruth Lehmann

Ruth Lehmann is a German-born developmental biologist known for defining how germ cells form in fruit flies, and president and director of the Whitehead Institute since 2020.

Ruth M. Ruprecht

Ruth M. Ruprecht is a virologist who directs the AIDS Research Program at Texas Biomed, known for pioneering AZT and primate-model studies of mother-to-child HIV transmission.

Ruth Nussinov

Ruth Nussinov is an Israeli computational structural biologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University, known for the Nussinov algorithm for RNA folding and the conformational selection model of allostery.

Ruth Sager

Ruth Sager (1918–1997) was an American geneticist who established non-nuclear cytoplasmic inheritance in the alga Chlamydomonas, then pioneered cancer genetics and discovered the tumor suppressor maspin.

Ruth Steward

Ruth Steward (1944–2025) was a Swiss-born molecular biologist, a professor at Rutgers's Waksman Institute from 1994, known for her work on the Dorsal protein and stem cells.

Ruth T Yu

Ruth T. Yu is a molecular biologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies who has studied how nuclear receptors control fat metabolism, endurance, and pancreatic cancer since 1995.

Rutherford Ness Robertson

Sir Rutherford Ness Robertson, known as Bob, was an Australian plant physiologist who studied the link between respiration and salt transport in plant cells, and presided over the Australian Academy of Science.