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Rebecca Taub

Rebecca Taub is a physician-scientist in hepatology and molecular biology who founded Madrigal Pharmaceuticals and led development of resmetirom, the first FDA-approved MASH drug, approved in 2024.

Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa

Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa (Regina Salomea Rusiecka, born 1718) was a self-taught Polish healer famed for treating cataracts across Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire, and author of an early woman's memoir.

Reginald H. Smithwick

Reginald H. Smithwick (1899–1987) was an American surgeon who developed lumbodorsal splanchnicectomy, then the only effective treatment for hypertension, and chaired surgery at Boston University.

Reginald Hall

Reginald Hall (1931–1994) was a British physician-scientist in endocrinology who built thyroid research units in Newcastle upon Tyne and Cardiff and published over 400 papers.

Régis Peffault de Latour

Régis Peffault de Latour is a French hematologist and professor who heads the Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant Department at Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris since 2022.

Reid Hunt

Reid Hunt (1870–1948) was an American pharmacologist who headed pharmacology at the Public Health Service's Hygienic Laboratory and later Harvard, known for his 1906 acetylcholine findings and the acetonitrile thyroid test.

Rein Saral

Rein Saral is an Estonian-born American oncologist and hematologist whose 1981 trial showed acyclovir prevents herpes infections in transplant patients, and who led bone-marrow transplant programs at Johns Hopkins and Emory.

Reinhard Dummer

Reinhard Dummer is a Swiss dermatologist and dermato-oncologist who built the skin cancer program at University Hospital Zurich and led major melanoma immunotherapy trials, including COMBI-AD.

Reinhard Hohlfeld

Reinhard Hohlfeld is a German neurologist and neuroimmunologist, professor at Munich University Hospital, known for research on the immunological mechanisms and treatment of multiple sclerosis.

Reinoud E. Knops

Reinoud E. Knops (born 1971) is a Dutch cardiologist and professor of clinical electrophysiology at Amsterdam UMC, who led the PRAETORIAN trial of subcutaneous defibrillators.

Reisa Sperling

Reisa A. Sperling is an American neurologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital who chaired the 2011 guidelines defining preclinical Alzheimer's disease and led the A4 Study.

Rena Bizios

Rena Bizios is an American biomedical engineer at UT San Antonio who studies cell interactions with implant materials; she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.

Rena R. Wing

Rena R. Wing is a researcher in the behavioral treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes, professor at Brown University and co-founder of the National Weight Control Registry.

Renata Pasqualini

Renata Pasqualini is a Brazilian-born cancer biologist known for co-developing in vivo phage display, a method for finding peptides that home to tumors, at Rutgers.

Renato D. Lópes

Renato D. Lópes (Renato Delascio Lopes) is a Brazilian-born cardiologist and clinical researcher, Professor of Medicine at Duke University and a Duke Clinical Research Institute member.

Renato Dulbecco

Renato Dulbecco (1914–2012) was an Italian-born American virologist and cancer researcher who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for showing that tumor virus DNA integrates into host cells.

Renato V. Iozzo

Renato V. Iozzo is an Italian-trained physician-scientist and cell biologist who holds an endowed pathology chair at Thomas Jefferson University and defined the biology of small leucine-rich proteoglycans.

René Adam

René Adam is a French hepatobiliary surgeon and head of the Centre Hépato-Biliaire at Hôpital Paul-Brousse, known for the TransMet trial published in The Lancet in 2024.

René Bernards

René Bernards (born 1953) is a Dutch molecular biologist and cancer geneticist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, known for pioneering functional genetic screens and the MammaPrint breast cancer prognosis test.

Rene Juchli

Rene Juchli (Rene H. Juchli) was an American physician from Amsterdam, New York, and U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who was chief medical officer of the Nuremberg tribunal in 1945 and judged Rudolf Hess to be feigning amnesia.

René Leriche

René Leriche (1879–1955) was a French surgeon and physiologist, a pioneer of vascular surgery and the study of pain who gave his name to Leriche syndrome.

René Nyssen

René Nyssen (1891–1972) was a Belgian psychiatrist and university professor, trained at the Université libre de Bruxelles, who directed Ghent University's psychiatric clinic from 1934 to 1944.

Renée Fox

Renée Fox (1928–2020) was an American medical sociologist and founding figure of medical sociology and bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, known for Experiment Perilous and Doctors Without Borders.

Renee Jenkins

Renee Jenkins is an American pediatrician at Howard University and the first African American president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, serving 2007 to 2008.

Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan

Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan (1952–2025) was an Indian cancer epidemiologist at IARC in Lyon whose trials in India established low-cost cervical cancer screening and single-dose HPV vaccination.

Renu Virmani

Renu Virmani is a cardiovascular pathologist known for describing the vulnerable plaque and the autopsy pathology of drug-eluting stents; she founded the CVPath Institute in Gaithersburg, Maryland, in 2005.

Renzo Guerrini

Renzo Guerrini, born in 1956, is an Italian child neurologist and professor of child neuropsychiatry at the University of Florence, known for linking malformations of cortical development to genetic causes.

Reshma Jagsi

Reshma Jagsi is an American radiation oncologist and bioethics researcher who chairs radiation oncology at Emory University, known for studies of gender equity in academic medicine.

Reuel A. Stallones

Reuel A. Stallones was an American physician-epidemiologist, founding dean of the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston, the first public health school in Texas.

Rex N. MacAlpin

Rex MacAlpin is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at UCLA in Los Angeles known for defining variant angina and studying coronary arterial spasm and exercise testing.