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Ronald W. Busuttil

Ronald W. Busuttil is an American transplant surgeon and physician-scientist at UCLA, where he founded the liver transplant program in 1984 and led over 7,200 transplants.

Ronald Worton

Ronald Worton, born in Winnipeg in 1942, is a Canadian geneticist who co-led the 1986 cloning of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene and later led the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.

Rong Fan

Rong Fan is a Yale biomedical engineer known for inventing spatial multi-omics sequencing technologies such as DBiT-seq and spatial-ATAC-seq, and for co-founding several biotech companies.

Rong Tian

Rong Tian is a cardiac metabolism researcher who directs the Mitochondria and Metabolism Center at the University of Washington, studying energetic failure of the heart in heart failure.

Ronit Satchi‐Fainaro

Ronit Satchi-Fainaro (Hebrew: רונית סצ'י-פיינרו) is an Israeli nanomedicine professor at Tel Aviv University who heads its Cancer Research & Nanomedicine Laboratory and developed caplostatin for targeted cancer drug delivery.

Rory Collins

Sir Rory Collins is a British epidemiologist at Oxford who led large statin trials and, from 2005, UK Biobank, a cohort of 500,000 people; he was knighted in 2011.

Rosalind Raine

Rosalind Raine is a British applied health researcher who is Professor of Health Care Evaluation at University College London and directs the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North Thames.

Rosalind W. Picard

Rosalind W. Picard is an American scientist and engineer at the MIT Media Lab who founded the field of affective computing and co-founded the companies Affectiva and Empatica.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American medical physicist who, with Solomon A. Berson, developed radioimmunoassay for measuring hormones, winning the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Rosalynn M. Nazarian

Rosalynn M. Nazarian is an American dermatopathologist, formerly at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, now Professor of Dermatology and Pathology at Boston University School of Medicine.

Rosandra N. Kaplan

Rosandra N. Kaplan is a physician scientist in pediatric oncology and metastasis biology at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for originating the pre-metastatic niche concept in 2005.

Rosanna Ŵ. Peeling

Rosanna Ŵ. Peeling, also published as Rosanna W. Peeling, is a Canadian medical microbiologist who developed the ASSURED criteria and the evidence base for rapid syphilis testing.

Roscoe O. Brady

Roscoe O. Brady (1923–2016) was an American physician-biochemist at NIH who identified the enzyme defects behind Gaucher, Fabry, and Tay-Sachs diseases and developed the first effective enzyme replacement therapy for Gaucher disease.

Rose E. Frisch

Rose E. Frisch, born Rose Epstein (1918–2015), was an American biologist at Harvard whose research showed that a woman's body fat governs the onset of female fertility.

Rose G. Schneider

Rose G. Schneider (1908–2003) was a Russian-born American medical researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, whose work on abnormal hemoglobins underpinned newborn screening.

Rose Marie Robertson

Rose Marie Robertson is an American cardiologist, a Vanderbilt professor who co-founded the first clinic devoted to autonomic disorders, and was American Heart Association president in 2000–2001.

RoseJ. Randall

Rose J. Randall, known as Posey, was an American pharmacology researcher at Johns Hopkins and Washington University, and fourth co-author of the 1951 Lowry protein assay paper.

Roselinde Kaiser

Roselinde Henderson Kaiser is an American clinical psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies how depression emerges in adolescence and guides treatment.

Rosella Gallo

Rosella Gallo is an Italian dermatologist specializing in allergological dermatology and patch testing, who led the Allergology Outpatient Clinic in Genoa from 1995 to 2022.

Rosemary D. Higgins

Rosemary D. Higgins is an American neonatologist and perinatal researcher who has been Associate Vice President for Research at Florida Gulf Coast University since 2022.

Rosemary Tambouret

Rosemary Tambouret is a cytopathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, known for her work on cervical glandular lesions and screening in low-resource settings.

Ross J. Baldessarini

Ross J. Baldessarini (born 1937) is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, known for research on antipsychotic and mood-altering medicines and bipolar disorder.

Ross L. Levine

Ross L. Levine is an American physician-scientist who studies and treats myeloid malignancies, helped discover the JAK2 V617F mutation, and became Chief Scientific Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2025.

Ross Zafonte

Ross Zafonte is an American rehabilitation physician-scientist known for traumatic brain injury research, the textbook Brain Injury Medicine, and as principal investigator of Harvard's Football Players Health Study on former NFL players.

Roswell W. Phillips

Roswell W. Phillips was an American internal-medicine physician-scientist with the Department of Veterans Affairs, known for 1953 to 1956 papers showing cortisone reverses the hypercalcemia and kidney damage of sarcoidosis.

Rowan T. Chlebowski

Rowan T. Chlebowski is an American hematologist-oncologist and UCLA professor whose Women's Health Initiative analyses showed estrogen plus progestin raises breast cancer risk while estrogen alone lowers it.

Roxana Mehran

Roxana Mehran is an interventional cardiologist and clinical trialist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for her bleeding and kidney-injury risk scores.

Roy Cameron (pathologist)

Sir Gordon Roy Cameron (1899–1966) was an Australian-born pathologist, professor of morbid anatomy at University College Hospital from 1937 to 1964 and Founder President of the College of Pathologists.

Roy F. Feemster

Roy F. Feemster was an American epidemiologist with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health who led the investigation of the 1938 eastern equine encephalomyelitis outbreak.

Roy Fleischmann

Roy Fleischmann is an American rheumatologist and clinical trialist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for pivotal rheumatoid arthritis drug trials.