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Researchers in cardiovascular, metabolic, and endocrine research

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Piotr Ponikowski

Piotr Ponikowski is a Polish cardiologist and rector of Wroclaw Medical University known for intravenous iron trials in heart failure and chairing the 2016 ESC heart failure guidelines.

Pirjo Nuutila

Pirjo Nuutila is a Finnish physician-scientist and professor who leads diabetes and obesity research at the Turku PET Centre, working in metabolic PET imaging since the early 1990s.

Pradeep Natarajan

Pradeep Natarajan is an American preventive cardiologist and cardiovascular geneticist who directs Preventive Cardiology at Mass General Hospital and studies how genetic variation shapes heart disease risk.

Prashanthan Sanders

Prashanthan Sanders is an Australian cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist who directs the Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders at the University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Qi Sun

Qi Sun is a physician-scientist at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital known for research linking diet, environmental exposures, and biomarkers to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

R. John Solaro

R. John Solaro is an American cardiac physiologist at the University of Illinois Chicago who heads research on the cellular mechanisms controlling heart contraction and relaxation.

R. Paul Robertson

R. Paul Robertson is an American endocrinologist and diabetes researcher known for islet transplantation research, who led the Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute in Seattle.

R. Wayne Alexander

R. Wayne Alexander (Robert Wayne Alexander) was an American cardiologist who directed cardiology and chaired medicine at Emory University, studying angiotensin II and vascular oxidative stress.

Rachel L. Batterham

Rachel L. Batterham is a British physician-scientist in obesity and endocrinology, known for peptide YY research and leadership of the semaglutide obesity trials at University College London.

Rachmiel Levine

Rachmiel Levine (1910–1998) was a Polish-born American diabetologist who showed in 1949 that insulin acts on the cell membrane, a finding known as the Levine effect.

Raffaele De Caterina

Raffaele De Caterina is an Italian cardiologist, born in Benevento in 1954, formerly Full Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases at the University of Pisa and Executive Editor of European Heart Journal.

Raimund Erbel

Raimund Erbel is a German cardiologist who directed the Clinic for Cardiology at University Hospital Essen from 1993 to 2015, known for echocardiographic diagnosis of aortic dissection and the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study.

Rainer Hambrecht

Rainer Hambrecht (born 1961) is a German cardiologist who directs cardiology at Klinikum Links der Weser, Bremen, and led trials showing exercise training restores endothelial function.

Raj Makkar

Raj Makkar, born Rajendra R. Makkar, is an American interventional cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles who led the PARTNER trials of transcatheter aortic-valve replacement.

Rajendra H. Mehta

Rajendra H. Mehta is an interventional cardiologist, a Duke Clinical Research Institute member since 2004, and adjunct professor at Duke University known for leading the 2017 LEVO-CTS levosimendan trial.

Rajesh Thakker

Rajesh V. Thakker is a British endocrinologist known for defining the molecular basis of calcium homeostasis disorders and MEN1; he was May Professor of Medicine at Oxford from 1999 to 2023.

Ralph A. DeFronzo

Ralph A. DeFronzo is an American physician-scientist who proved insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes, invented the euglycemic insulin clamp, and led U.S. development of metformin.

Ralph B. D’Agostino

Ralph B. D'Agostino, also known as Ralph D'Agostino, was an American biostatistician at Boston University who led the Framingham Heart Study's statistical analysis and co-developed its risk scores.

Ralph DeBerardinis

Ralph J. DeBerardinis is an American physician-scientist at UT Southwestern in Dallas who studies nutrient use in tumors and inherited metabolic diseases, showing in 2017 that human lung tumors consume lactate as fuel.

Ralph L. Nachman

Ralph L. Nachman is an American hematologist, professor emeritus of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, and National Academy of Medicine member whose platelet research helped launch modern vascular biology.

Ralph S. Goldsmith

Ralph S. Goldsmith was an American endocrinologist and authority on bone metabolism, known for two 1966 New England Journal of Medicine papers on hypercalcemia, who later led the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

Ramachandran S. Vasan

Ramachandran S. Vasan, also published as Vasan S. Ramachandran, is an Indian-born American cardiologist and Founding Dean of the School of Public Health at UT Health San Antonio.

Rana K. Gupta

Rana K. Gupta is an American adipocyte biologist who studies how fat-cell precursors are determined and how white adipose tissue expands in obesity, based at Duke's Molecular Physiology Institute.

Randy J. Seeley

Randy J. Seeley, also known as Randy Seeley, is an American obesity researcher who studies gut hormones and the brain, and directs the Michigan Nutrition Obesity Research Center.

Raphaël Lépine

Raphaël Lépine (1840–1919) was a French physician and physiologist who held the chair of clinical medicine at Lyon from 1877 to 1910 and studied glycolysis and diabetes.

Rasha Al‐Lamee

Rasha Al-Lamee, also known as Rasha K. Al-Lamee, is an interventional cardiologist and clinical professor at Imperial College London who led the placebo-controlled ORBITA trials of coronary angioplasty.

Ravi Retnakaran

Ravi Retnakaran is a Canadian endocrinologist and clinician-scientist at the University of Toronto and Mount Sinai Hospital, known for research on reversing early type 2 diabetes.

Raymond E. Ideker

Raymond E. Ideker is an American cardiac electrophysiologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, known for research on the mechanisms of ventricular fibrillation and defibrillation.

Raymond J. Gibbons

Raymond J. Gibbons (born 1949) is an American cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic, a nuclear cardiology specialist and president of the American Heart Association in 2006–07.

Raymond J. Kim

Raymond J. Kim is a cardiologist and radiologist at Duke University School of Medicine who co-developed late gadolinium enhancement cardiac MRI and leads its cardiovascular MR center.