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Reza Fazel

Reza Fazel is an American interventional cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, known for population studies of radiation exposure from medical imaging.

Rezső Bálint (Hungarian neurologist)

Rezső Bálint, also known as Rudolf Bálint, was a Hungarian neurologist at the University of Budapest whose 1909 case report gave the name to Bálint syndrome.

Rhetaugh Graves Dumas

Rhetaugh Graves Dumas was an American nurse and psychiatric nursing researcher who became the first woman, nurse, and African American deputy director of the National Institute of Mental Health.

Ric N. Price

Ric N. Price (Richard Price) is a clinician-scientist and professor at the Menzies School of Health Research and the University of Oxford, the world's leading clinical expert on vivax malaria.

Ricardo Araya Baltra

Ricardo Araya Baltra is a Chilean psychiatrist, Professor of Global Mental Health at King's College London, known for his 2003 Lancet trial on treating depression in primary care.

Riccardo Cortese

Riccardo Cortese (1944–2017) was an Italian molecular biologist who led EMBL's Gene Expression program, founded the IRBM institute in Pomezia, and pioneered chimpanzee-adenovirus vaccine vectors.

Riccardo Dalla-Favera

Riccardo Dalla-Favera, born 1951 in Legnano, Italy, is a cancer geneticist who identified the c-MYC and BCL6 oncogenes in B-cell lymphomas and directs Columbia University's Institute for Cancer Genetics.

Richard A. Cohen

Richard A. Cohen is an American physician-scientist in vascular physiology and redox biology, Emeritus Professor of Vascular Biology at Boston University, known for work on nitric oxide, the endothelium, and SERCA.

Richard A. Deyo

Richard A. Deyo is an American physician and health services researcher known for research on low back pain and the overuse of spine surgery and imaging.

Richard A. Finkelstein

Richard A. Finkelstein (Richard Alan Finkelstein, 1930–2023) was an American microbiologist who purified cholera toxin, choleragen, in 1969, enabling modern enterotoxin research and cholera vaccine candidates.

Richard A. Garibaldi

Richard A. Garibaldi (1942–2009) was an American physician-epidemiologist whose New England Journal of Medicine studies defined catheter-associated urinary-tract infections and nursing-home infections, and who led the University of Connecticut Department of Medicine.

Richard A. Kaslow

Richard A. Kaslow is an American epidemiologist whose research established how HLA genes shape HIV-1 progression, and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Richard A. Lange

Richard A. Lange is an American cardiologist and president of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso since 2014, formerly chief of cardiology at Johns Hopkins.

Richard A. Larson

Richard A. Larson is an American physician-scientist at the University of Chicago whose leukemia clinical trials include the long-term follow-up of imatinib for chronic myeloid leukemia.

Richard A. Lerner

Richard A. Lerner (1938–2021) was an American chemist and immunologist who led Scripps Research for two decades and created antibody technologies behind drugs like Humira.

Richard A. Rudick

Richard A. Rudick is an American neurologist specializing in multiple sclerosis, known for pivotal trials of AVONEX and TYSABRI and for directing the Cleveland Clinic's Mellen Center.

Richard A. Van Etten

Richard A. Van Etten is an American hematologist-oncologist who directs the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at UC Irvine and developed the first mouse model of chronic myeloid leukemia.

Richard A. Zager

Richard A. Zager is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist at Fred Hutch and the University of Washington known for research on acute kidney injury mechanisms.

Richard AC Hughes

Richard A. C. Hughes is a British neurologist and Emeritus Professor at King's College London known for research on Guillain–Barré syndrome and identifying Campylobacter jejuni infection as a trigger.

Richard B. Cattell

Richard B. Cattell (1900–1964) was an American surgeon, director of the Lahey Clinic in Boston, known for thyroid, pancreatic, and biliary surgery and the Cattell maneuver.

Richard B. Devereux

Richard B. Devereux is an American cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College whose echocardiography research transformed assessment of hypertensive heart disease.

Richard B. Johnston

Richard B. Johnston is an American pediatric allergist and immunologist known for complement and phagocyte research, a 1973 sickle-cell study, and leadership at National Jewish Health in Denver.

Richard B. Lipton

Richard B. Lipton is an American neurologist and neuroepidemiologist who studies migraine and cognitive aging, directs the Montefiore Headache Center, and has published more than 800 articles.

Richard B. Silverman

Richard B. Silverman, born 1946 in Philadelphia, is an American medicinal chemist at Northwestern University who invented pregabalin (Lyrica), described by IUPAC as one of the most successful university-originated drugs, and designs mechanism-based enzyme inactivators.

Richard Bruynoghe

Richard Bruynoghe (1881–1957) was a Belgian physician and bacteriologist at the University of Louvain who, with Joseph Maisin, published the first report on treating human infections with bacteriophages in 1921.

Richard C. Boucher

Richard C. Boucher is an American physician-scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whose research showed cystic fibrosis begins with dehydration of the airway surface.

Richard C. Talamo

Richard C. Talamo was an American pediatrician and pulmonary researcher, a Johns Hopkins professor and later Tufts pediatrics chairman, known for alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency and cystic fibrosis research.

Richard C. Trembath

Richard C. Trembath is a British physician-scientist and Professor of Medical Genetics at King's College London, known for identifying disease genes in pulmonary arterial hypertension and psoriasis.

Richard Casaburi

Richard Casaburi is an American physician-scientist in pulmonary medicine who directs the Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center at Harbor-UCLA and established exercise training and anabolic therapy as treatments for COPD.

Richard Chaisson

Richard E. Chaisson is an American infectious-disease physician and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, where he directs the Center for Tuberculosis Research, which he founded in 1998.