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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.

Ravinder K. Mittal

Ravinder K. Mittal is a gastroenterologist and Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego who directs the GI Motility Laboratory and studies esophageal motility and reflux disease.

Ravinder N. Maini

Ravinder N. Maini is a British rheumatologist who discovered that blocking TNF-alpha treats rheumatoid arthritis, creating the anti-TNF drug class, and won the 2003 Lasker Award.

Ravindra L. Mehta

Ravindra L. Mehta is an Indian-born American nephrologist and Professor Emeritus at UC San Diego, a founding member of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative and the Acute Kidney Injury Network.

Ravindra Majeti

Ravindra (Ravi) Majeti is a hematologist and physician-scientist at Stanford School of Medicine who studies leukemia stem cells and developed the anti-CD47 antibody magrolimab, which entered clinical trials.

Ray Dolan

Ray Dolan, also known as Raymond J. Dolan, is an Irish neuroscientist and psychiatrist, the Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry at University College London and winner of the 2017 Brain Prize.

Raymond A. Frizzell

Raymond A. Frizzell is a physiologist at the University of Pittsburgh whose 1986 Science study showed defective chloride channel regulation in cystic fibrosis airway cells.

Raymond A. Sobel

Raymond A. Sobel, also published as Raymond Sobel, is a neuropathologist and Stanford professor whose research on multiple sclerosis includes widely used mouse EAE models.

Raymond Alexander Kelser

Raymond Alexander Kelser (1892–1952) was an American veterinarian, bacteriologist, and immunologist who developed the first chloroform-inactivated killed-virus vaccine, first showed a mosquito transmitting a neurotropic virus, and served as dean at the University of Pennsylvania.

Raymond C. Harris

Raymond C. Harris is an American nephrologist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, known for the 1994 discovery of COX-2 in the kidney's macula densa and EGFR's role in kidney fibrosis.

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.

Raymond J. Playford

Raymond J. Playford is a British gastroenterologist and Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of West London, known for epidermal growth factor enemas for ulcerative colitis and bovine colostrum research.

Raymond L. Hintz

Raymond L. Hintz was an American pediatric endocrinologist who founded and led Stanford's Division of Pediatric Endocrinology from 1975, published over 350 papers on growth, and died in 2014.

Raymond L. Woosley

Raymond L. Woosley (R L Woosley) is an American clinical pharmacologist and cardiologist known for research on drug-induced long QT syndrome, a rare heart-rhythm side effect.

Raymond M. Hakim

Raymond M. Hakim, also known as Raymond Hakim, is an American nephrologist at Vanderbilt University whose research on dialysis membrane biocompatibility and dialysis dose shaped hemodialysis practice.

Raymond N. DuBois

Raymond N. DuBois is an American physician-scientist known for defining the role of the enzyme COX-2 in colorectal cancer; he directs the Hollings Cancer Center in South Carolina.

Raymond P. Ahlquist

Raymond P. Ahlquist (1914–1983) was an American pharmacologist at the Medical College of Georgia who proposed in 1948 that adrenaline acts through alpha and beta receptors.

Raymond S. Koff

Raymond S. Koff, born in 1939, is an American physician and viral hepatitis researcher affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston University, and MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Raymond T. Chung

Raymond T. Chung, also known as Raymond Chung, is an American hepatologist, Chief of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Endoscopy at Mass General Brigham and a Harvard Medical School professor known for hepatitis C research.

Raymond Vahan Damadian

Raymond Vahan Damadian (1936–2022) was an American physician and inventor who discovered NMR differences in cancerous tissue, built the first whole-body MRI machine, and founded FONAR.

Raymond Vanholder

Raymond Vanholder is a Belgian nephrologist, professor emeritus at Ghent University Hospital, who led its nephrology division from 2005 to 2014, founded EUTox, and led the ISN's 0by25 initiative.

Razelle Kurzrock

Razelle Kurzrock is an oncologist and precision-medicine researcher who directs the Center for Precision Oncology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and led the I-PREDICT and WINTHER trials.

Rebecca Anne Seguin-Fowler

Rebecca Anne Seguin-Fowler is an American registered dietitian and public health scientist at Texas A&M whose community nutrition and physical activity programs for rural populations earned her election to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.

Rebecca C. Fitzgerald

Rebecca C. Fitzgerald is a British clinician scientist and Professor of Cancer Prevention at the University of Cambridge, known for the Cytosponge test and the BEST3 trial for Barrett's esophagus.

Rebecca F. Grais

Rebecca F. Grais is an epidemiologist who has led the Pasteur Network since 2022; at Epicentre, MSF's research arm, she ran vaccine trials in Niger, including a rotavirus vaccine study.

Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum

Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum is an American bioengineer at Rice University who develops low-cost medical technologies for low-resource settings, including neonatal devices for Africa, and received a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship.

Rebecca Smith‐Bindman

Rebecca Smith-Bindman is a radiologist, epidemiologist, and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on radiation doses from medical imaging and cancer risk.

Rebecca T. Hahn

Rebecca T. Hahn is a cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, known for interventional echocardiography and for leading the TRISCEND II trial of transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement.