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Raj K. Goyal

Raj K. Goyal is a physician-scientist, Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a VA Boston staff physician, known for research on esophageal motility, Barrett's esophagus, and diabetic gastroparesis.

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.

Rajendra S. Apte

Rajendra S. Apte, also known as Rajendra Apte, is an Indian-born American physician-scientist at Washington University in St. Louis known for research on age-related macular degeneration.

Rajesh T. Gandhi

Rajesh T. Gandhi, also published as Rajesh Gandhi, is an American infectious-diseases physician-researcher in Boston, a Harvard Medical School professor known for HIV reservoir and cure research.

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.

Rajiv Agarwal

Rajiv Agarwal is a nephrologist and clinical trialist, Professor Emeritus at Indiana University School of Medicine, who studies hypertension in chronic kidney disease and hemodialysis.

Rajiv Jalan

Rajiv Jalan is a British hepatologist and Professor of Hepatology at University College London, known for describing acute-on-chronic liver failure and developing liver disease therapies.

Rajiv Kumar (nephrologist)

Rajiv Kumar is a nephrologist and mineral metabolism researcher at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for work on phosphate wasting by tumors, vitamin D metabolism, and bone disease in kidney failure.

Raju S. Kucherlapati

Raju S. Kucherlapati is an Indian-born American human geneticist, the Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School since 2001 and a 2008 National Academy of Medicine member.

Rakesh K. Jain

Rakesh K. Jain is a tumor biologist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for the vascular normalization hypothesis and the 2013 National Medal of Science.

Ralf Baron

Ralf Baron is a German neurologist and pain researcher who heads neurological pain research at University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel, known for work on neuropathic pain and CRPS.

Ralf Gold

Ralf Gold, born 1960, is a German neurologist and neuroimmunology researcher who has held the neurology chair at Ruhr University Bochum since 2006, known for multiple sclerosis therapy research including fumarates.

Ralf Küppers

Ralf Küppers is a German molecular geneticist and B-cell immunologist, professor at University Hospital Essen since 2004, known for establishing the B-cell origin of Hodgkin lymphoma.

Ralf Paus

Ralf Paus is a German dermatologist and hair follicle biologist, Research Professor of Dermatology at the University of Miami since 2018, known for research on hair follicle biology and alopecia areata.

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 A. Nixon

Ralph A. Nixon is an American physician-scientist studying Alzheimer's disease, professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and director of the Center for Dementia Research since 1997.

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 C. Williams

Ralph C. Williams Jr. (1928–2020) was an American rheumatologist known for work on rheumatoid factor and for founding rheumatology divisions at Minnesota and New Mexico.

Ralph Carmel

Ralph Carmel is an American hematologist affiliated with New York Methodist Hospital and Weill Cornell who defined food-cobalamin malabsorption and reported differing pernicious anemia patterns among black women in 1978.

Ralph D. Feigin

Ralph D. Feigin was an American pediatric infectious-diseases physician who led pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital from 1977 until his death in 2008.

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 Gonzales

Ralph Gonzales is an American physician-scientist in general internal medicine who serves as Associate Dean for Clinical Innovation and Chief Innovation Officer at UCSF Health, known for research on antibiotic prescribing and antimicrobial resistance.

Ralph H. Hruban

Ralph H. Hruban is a Johns Hopkins pathologist who directs the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center and characterized the precursor lesions of pancreatic cancer.

Ralph I. Horwitz

Ralph I. Horwitz is an American clinical epidemiologist and internist, a National Academy of Medicine member who led medicine at Yale, Case Western Reserve, Stanford, and GlaxoSmithKline.

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 L. Sacco

Ralph L. Sacco was an American neurologist and stroke epidemiologist who founded the Northern Manhattan Study and in 2010 became the first neurologist to serve as American Heart Association president.

Ralph M. Sussman

Ralph M. Sussman was a New York physician at Beth Israel Hospital whose 1956 New England Journal of Medicine paper coined the term "iodide mumps".

Ralph R. Weichselbaum

Ralph R. Weichselbaum is an American physician-scientist in radiation oncology who chairs radiation oncology at the University of Chicago and defined the oligometastasis stage of cancer spread.

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.