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Roy Freeman
Roy Freeman is an American neurologist, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, who directs the autonomic nerve unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
Roy G. Smith
Roy G. Smith is an American endocrinology and metabolism researcher known for discovering the growth hormone secretagogue receptor, the receptor for ghrelin, and held professorships at Baylor College of Medicine and Scripps Research.
Roy H. Perlis
Roy H. Perlis (Roy Perlis) is an American psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who studies mood disorders, psychiatric genetics, and predicting treatment response.
Roy Hertz
Roy Hertz was an American endocrinologist and cancer researcher at the National Cancer Institute. With his colleague, he reported the first cure of gestational choriocarcinoma in 1956.
Roy L. Silverstein
Roy L. Silverstein, also known as Roy Silverstein, is an American hematologist and cell biologist known for his work on the receptor CD36 in atherosclerosis and thrombosis.
Roy M. Anderson
Sir Roy Anderson (born 1947) is a British mathematical epidemiologist and parasitologist at Imperial College London, known for the 20/80 rule in disease transmission and pandemic modeling.
Roy M. Gulick
Roy M. Gulick, also known as Roy Gulick, is an American infectious-disease physician and HIV researcher who is Chief of Infectious Diseases at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Roy R. Lobb
Roy R. Lobb is an immunologist and biotechnology executive who identified the VCAM-1/VLA-4 adhesion pathway enabling Tysabri, led research at Biogen, and co-founded Aleta Biotherapeutics.
Roy S. Herbst
Roy S. Herbst is an American medical oncologist specializing in lung cancer, chief of medical oncology at Yale Cancer Center and, from 2026, director of Dartmouth Cancer Center.
Roy Taylor (diabetologist)
Roy Taylor is a British diabetologist and Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Metabolism at Newcastle University, known for the DiRECT trial showing weight loss puts type 2 diabetes into remission.
Roy Yorke Calne
Roy Yorke Calne (1930–2024) was a British transplant surgeon who performed Europe's first liver transplant in 1968, led the first clinical use of cyclosporin, and shared the 2012 Lasker Award.
Ru‐Rong Ji
Ru-Rong Ji is a neuroscientist and pain researcher who directs the Center for Translational Pain Medicine at Duke University and studies neuroimmune mechanisms of chronic pain.
Rubin M. Tuder
Rubin M. Tuder, a Brazilian-trained physician-scientist, is Hart Family Professor at the University of Colorado Denver, known for the ceramide model of emphysema and pulmonary hypertension research.
Rudi Schmid
Rudi Schmid (1922–2007) was a Swiss-born American hepatologist at UCSF, chief of gastroenterology from 1966 and dean of its medical school from 1983 to 1989.
Rudolf Emmerich
Rudolf Emmerich (1852–1914) was a German bacteriologist and professor of hygiene at Munich who, with Oscar Löw, prepared pyocyanase in 1899, the first antibiotic used in hospitals.
Rudolf Rigler
Rudolf Rigler (1936–2022) was a professor of medical physics at Karolinska Institutet whose fluorescence fluctuation and single-molecule detection work is credited in the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry background.
Rudolf Rott
Rudolf Rott (1926–2003) was a German virologist who held Germany's first university chair of virology, at Gießen, and showed that influenza pathogenicity depends on hemagglutinin cleavage and gene exchange.
Rudolf Spanner
Rudolf Maria Spanner (1895–1960) was a German physician, anatomist, and pathologist who directed the Danzig Anatomical Institute from 1940 to 1945, where soap was experimentally produced from human fat.
Rudolf Valenta
Rudolf Valenta is an Austrian allergist and immunologist, Professor of Allergology at the Medical University of Vienna, known for identifying profilin as a pollen allergen in 1991.
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow (Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow, 1821–1902), German pathologist called the father of modern pathology; founder of cellular pathology and omnis cellula e cellula, author of Die Cellularpathologie (1858), founder of Virchow's Archiv, and social-medicine reformer.
Rudolf Weigl
Rudolf Weigl (1883–1957), Polish biologist at the University of Lwów, developed the first effective typhus vaccine from infected lice guts, vaccinated ~8 million people in WWII, sabotaged German doses, and was named Righteous Among the Nations.
Rudolph Leibel
Rudolph L. Leibel is an American physician-scientist at Columbia University whose work led to the cloning of the leptin gene and quantified how the body defends its weight.
Rudolph M. Navari
Rudolph M. Navari is an American medical oncologist and supportive-care researcher known for the 2016 New England Journal of Medicine trial showing olanzapine improves nausea control in chemotherapy.
Rudolph Tanzi
Rudolph Tanzi, born 1958, is an American neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard known for discovering Alzheimer's genes like APP and presenilins and for the Alzheimer's Genome Project.
Rufus Cole
Rufus Cole (1872–1966) was an American physician and the first director of the Rockefeller Institute Hospital, who developed the first effective serum treatment for lobar pneumonia.
Ruggero De Maria
Ruggero De Maria is an Italian oncology researcher and full professor of General Pathology at the Università Cattolica in Rome, known for identifying colon-cancer-initiating cells in 2007.
Ruggero Oddi
Ruggero Oddi (1864–1913) was an Italian physiologist who, as a medical student in Perugia, discovered the sphincter of Oddi and performed the first biliary manometry.
Ruijiang Li
Ruijiang Li is a Stanford Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology who develops AI foundation models for precision oncology, including MUSK, published in Nature in 2025.
Rupal Patel (American speech scientist)
Rupal Patel is an American speech scientist and tenured professor at Northeastern University who pioneered personalized synthetic voices for people with severe speech impairment, founding VocaliD in 2014.
Rupert Waterhouse
Rupert Waterhouse (1873–1958) was a British physician who spent his career in Bath and whose 1911 Lancet paper described Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, adrenal failure from bilateral adrenal hemorrhage.