Medical and health researchers

Robert B. Innis

Robert B. Innis, born 1952, is an American physician-scientist who has led the Molecular Imaging Branch at NIMH since 2001, developing PET radioligands for brain imaging.

Robert B. Jenkins

Robert B. Jenkins is an American medical geneticist and pathologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for molecular classification of brain tumors, especially gliomas.

Robert B. Nadelman

Robert B. Nadelman (R. B. Nadelman) was an infectious-diseases physician and professor of medicine at New York Medical College for 31 years, known for Lyme disease research.

Robert B. Nussenblatt (1948–2016) was an American ophthalmologist who spent his career at the National Eye Institute, first used cyclosporine to treat uveitis, and founded its Laboratory of Immunology.

Robert B. Wallace

Robert B. Wallace is an American physician and epidemiologist at the University of Iowa known for research on aging, elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2001.

Robert Bayley Osgood

Robert Bayley Osgood (1873–1956) was an American orthopedic surgeon in Boston who in 1903 first described the adolescent knee disorder Osgood–Schlatter disease, and served as chief of orthopedics at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Robert Beaglehole

Robert Beaglehole is a New Zealand public health physician and emeritus professor at the University of Auckland, known for tobacco harm reduction advocacy and WHO chronic disease leadership.

Robert C. Bast

Robert C. Bast is an American oncologist best known for identifying the CA 125 biomarker for ovarian cancer, and a longtime translational research leader at MD Anderson in Houston.

Robert C. Brunham

Robert C. Brunham is a Canadian infectious disease physician and chlamydia vaccine researcher, professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia and former director of the BCCDC.

Robert C. Doebele

Robert C. Doebele is an American thoracic oncologist who identified oncogenic NTRK1 fusions in lung cancer, led entrectinib trials, and co-founded Rain Therapeutics before joining Boundless Bio in 2025.

Robert C. Griggs

Robert C. Griggs is an American neuromuscular neurologist and longtime University of Rochester professor who led federally funded trials in rare muscle diseases and edited the journal Neurology.

Robert C. Moellering

Robert C. Moellering (1936–2014) was an American infectious-diseases physician and researcher at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, known for work on antimicrobial resistance.

Robert C. Seeger

Robert C. Seeger was an American pediatric oncology researcher at Children's Hospital Los Angeles who established the prognostic importance of MYCN amplification in neuroblastoma and founded the NANT consortium.

Robert C. Strunk

Robert C. Strunk, also known as R.C. Strunk, was an American pediatric allergist at Washington University in St. Louis who led the Childhood Asthma Management Program for two decades.

Robert C. Tarazi

Robert C. Tarazi (1925–1986) was a cardiologist and hypertension researcher who led the Cleveland Clinic's Clinical Science Department and showed plasma volume is contracted in essential hypertension.

Robert Craigie (virologist)

Robert Craigie is a molecular biologist and virologist at the National Institutes of Health who studies how HIV integrates a DNA copy of its genome into host chromosomes.

Robert D. Abbott

Robert D. Abbott is an American biostatistician and cardiovascular epidemiologist known for large-cohort studies of smoking and stroke, unrecognized heart attack, and walking and mortality.

Robert D. Burk

Robert D. Burk is an American physician-scientist and epidemiologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine whose longitudinal studies of human papillomavirus infection have shaped cervical cancer prevention and screening.

Robert D. Safian

Robert D. Safian, also published as Robert Safian, is an American interventional cardiologist in Royal Oak, Michigan, known for a 1988 NEJM study defining balloon aortic valvuloplasty results.

Robert D. Schreiber

Robert D. Schreiber is an American tumor immunologist and Bursky Distinguished Professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known for originating the cancer immunoediting concept.

Robert D. Toto

Robert D. Toto is an American nephrologist and the Mary M. Conroy Professor of Kidney Disease at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for major chronic kidney disease trials.

Robert D. Truog

Robert D. Truog is a pediatric intensivist, anesthesiologist, and bioethicist who directs Harvard Medical School's Center for Bioethics and studies brain death and end-of-life care.

Robert D. Utiger

Robert D. Utiger (1931–2008) was an American endocrinologist who developed the radioimmunoassay of TSH and later served as deputy editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.

Robert Daniel Beauchamp

R. Daniel Beauchamp (1956–2022) was an American surgical oncologist and cancer biologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known for research on colorectal cancer invasion, metastasis, and biomarker discovery.

Robert Debré

Robert Debré (1882–1978) was a French physician regarded as the father of modern French pediatrics, who chaired the future INSERM and architected the 1958 CHU reform.

Robert Detrano

Robert C. Detrano is a physician-scientist and former UC Irvine professor of radiological sciences and public health, known for showing coronary calcium scores predict heart attacks across ethnic groups.

Robert Doerr

Robert Doerr was an Austrian-born immunologist and pathologist who proved pappataci fever is caused by a virus transmitted by sandflies, then directed Basel's Hygienic Institute from 1919 to 1943.

Robert Domenjoz

Robert Domenjoz (1908–2000) was a Swiss pharmacologist who led DDT trials at Geigy in Basel, cited in the 1948 Nobel speech, and helped rescue imipramine.

Robert E. Black

Robert E. Black is a physician and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health whose research on child survival and nutrition in low-income countries earned the Prince Mahidol and Gairdner awards.