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Robert H. Purcell

Robert H. Purcell, born 1935 in Keokuk, Iowa, is an American virologist who spent his career at NIAID studying the hepatitis viruses and developing the first licensed hepatitis A vaccines.

Robert H. Vonderheide

Robert H. Vonderheide is an American oncologist and cancer immunologist who directs the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn, known for CD40 immunotherapy and pancreatic cancer research.

Robert Howard (psychiatrist)

Robert Howard, also published as Robert J. Howard, is an old-age psychiatrist, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at University College London since 2015, previously at King's College London.

Robert I. Haddad

Robert I. Haddad, also published as Robert Haddad, is a medical oncologist specializing in head and neck cancer who leads Dana-Farber's head and neck oncology division.

Robert I. Handin

Robert I. Handin, also known as Robert Handin, is an American hematologist at Harvard Medical School known for work on platelet biology and transfusion medicine.

Robert I. Levy

Robert I. Levy (1937–2000) was an American preventive cardiologist and lipid researcher who directed the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and co-created the standard classification of inherited cholesterol disorders.

Robert J. Blendon

Robert J. Blendon, also published as Robert Blendon, was an American health policy researcher at Harvard known for studies of public opinion on health care; he died in 2026.

Robert J. Coffey

Robert J. Coffey is an American physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, known for work on EGFR signaling and colorectal cancer.

Robert J. Desnick

Robert J. Desnick is an American physician-scientist in human genetics, Professor and Chair Emeritus at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for developing therapies for Fabry disease.

Robert J. Genco

Robert J. Genco (1938–2019) was an American dental researcher who spent five decades at the University at Buffalo and helped establish links between gum disease and systemic conditions like diabetes.

Robert J. Gillies

Robert J. Gillies was an American cancer imaging scientist known as the "Father of Radiomics," who led cancer imaging research at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.

Robert J. Glynn

Robert J. Glynn is a biostatistician and epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known as the study statistician of the JUPITER trial.

Robert J. Goldberg

Robert J. Goldberg is an American cardiovascular epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus at UMass Chan Medical School, known for the Worcester Heart Attack Study and NEJM studies of cardiogenic shock.

Robert J. Motzer

Robert J. Motzer, also known as R.J. Motzer, is a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who created the MSKCC kidney cancer prognostic model and led pivotal kidney cancer drug trials.

Robert J. Myerburg

Robert J. Myerburg is an American cardiologist and professor at the University of Miami whose research centers on sudden cardiac death, from risk prediction to prevention.

Robert J. Schneider

Robert J. Schneider is an American cancer researcher and Albert B. Sabin Professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies breast cancer translation control.

Robert J. Siegel

Robert J. Siegel is an American cardiologist known for cardiovascular ultrasound and echocardiography at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he has practiced since 1982.

Robert J. Volpe

Robert J. Volpe, also known as Robert Volpé, was a Canadian endocrinologist and University of Toronto professor, a leading authority on the immunology of Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis.

Robert J. Waldinger

Robert J. Waldinger is an American psychiatrist and Zen teacher who directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest-running study of adult life, since 2003.

Robert J. Winchester

Robert J. Winchester is a physician and immunologist at Columbia University who proposed the shared epitope hypothesis of rheumatoid arthritis in 1987 and shared the 2013 Crafoord Prize.

Robert J.O. Davies

Robert J.O. Davies (1961–2010) was a British respiratory physician and professor at Oxford's Churchill Hospital whose MIST trials defined the modern drug treatment of pleural infection.

Robert Janker

Robert Janker (1894–1964) was a German physician and radiologist in Bonn, a pioneer of X-ray cinematography who built an experimental cineradiography system from 1926 to 1937 that Siemens made commercial.

Robert Katzman

Robert Katzman (1925–2008) was an American neurologist and Alzheimer's researcher at UCSD, best known for his 1976 editorial redefining senile dementia as a disease, not normal aging.

Robert Kleta

Robert Kleta is a British-based nephrologist and biochemical geneticist, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at University College London, known for identifying genetic causes of rare kidney tubular disorders including EAST syndrome.

Róbert Královics

Robert Kralovics (born 1970) is a geneticist who studies myeloproliferative neoplasms; based in Vienna since 2006, he identified the JAK2 mutation in 2005 and CALR mutations in 2013.

Robert L. Baehner

Robert L. Baehner is an American pediatric hematologist who developed the nitroblue tetrazolium test for chronic granulomatous disease and led children's hospitals in Indianapolis and Los Angeles.

Robert L. Berger

Robert Laszlo Berger (1930–2016) was a Hungarian-born American cardiothoracic surgeon and Holocaust survivor who led Boston hospitals and showed in 1990 that the Nazi Dachau hypothermia experiments were scientifically worthless.

Robert L. Coleman

Robert L. Coleman is an American gynecologic oncologist at Texas Oncology in The Woodlands, Texas, formerly of MD Anderson, known for leading the ovarian cancer trials ARIEL3 and VELIA.

Robert L. Ferrer

Robert L. Ferrer is an American family physician at UT Health San Antonio, elected to the National Academy of Medicine for measuring opportunities for healthy behaviors.

Robert L. Frye

Robert L. Frye (1932–2026) was an American cardiologist at Mayo Clinic who chaired the BARI trial and served as president of the American College of Cardiology.