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R. Alan North
R. Alan North, born Richard Alan North, is a British physiologist and pharmacologist known for his work on P2X receptors, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Manchester.
R. Andrés Floto
R. Andrés Floto is a University Professor of Respiratory Biology at Cambridge, known for showing that the bacterium Mycobacterium abscessus spreads between cystic fibrosis patients.
R. Angus Silver
R. Angus Silver (Robin Angus Silver) is a British neuroscientist at University College London who studies synaptic transmission and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017.
R. Bradley Sack
R. Bradley Sack (1935–2017) was an American physician and public health researcher at Johns Hopkins who discovered enterotoxigenic E. coli and helped develop oral rehydration therapy, credited with saving over 50 million lives.
R. Brian Haynes
R. Brian Haynes, full name Robert Brian Haynes, is a Canadian clinical epidemiologist and internist at McMaster University who helped originate evidence-based medicine and co-founded the Cochrane Collaboration.
R. Bruce Aylward
R. Bruce Aylward is a Canadian physician and epidemiologist best known for leading the Global Polio Eradication Initiative from 1998 to 2014 and working at the World Health Organization.
R. Bruce Wallace
R. Bruce Wallace is an American molecular biologist who developed synthetic oligonucleotide probes that distinguish normal genes from disease-causing point mutations, demonstrated for sickle cell anemia in 1983.
R. Charles Coombes
R. Charles Coombes, born 1949, is a British medical oncologist and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, known for the Intergroup Exemestane Study and devising CDK7 inhibition for breast cancer.
R. Clay Reid
R. Clay Reid is an American systems neuroscientist and Senior Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, leading functional connectomics research on the visual system.
R. Craig MacLean
R. Craig MacLean, also known as Craig MacLean, is an evolutionary biologist and Professor of Evolution and Microbiology at the University of Oxford who studies antibiotic resistance.
R. Curtis Morris
R. Curtis Morris was an American nephrologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who studied renal tubular acidosis, dietary acid load, and salt-sensitive hypertension from 1964 until his death in 2021.
R. Daniel Camerini-Otero
R. Daniel Camerini-Otero, born Rafael Camerini-Otero, is an Argentine-born NIH physician-scientist known for mapping meiotic recombination hotspots in mice and humans, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.
R. David Britt
R. David Britt is an American bioinorganic chemist and EPR spectroscopist at the University of California, Davis, known for studies of photosystem II and hydrogenase enzymes.
R. David Cole
R. David Cole, also known as Roger David Cole, was an American biochemist at UC Berkeley from 1958 to 1992, known for recognizing the biological importance of histone variation.
R. Douglas Fields
R. Douglas Fields is an American cellular neuroscientist who showed that myelin responds to neural impulse activity, a form of plasticity contributing to learning, during a long NIH career.
R. Gordon Douglas
R. Gordon Douglas (1934–2025) was an American physician-scientist in infectious diseases known for human volunteer studies of respiratory viruses and for leading Merck's vaccine division from 1991 to 1999.
R. Graham Barr
R. Graham Barr is a Scottish-born respiratory epidemiologist at Columbia University, where he is Chief of General Medicine and leads the MESA Lung Study, a long-running CT study of emphysema.
R. Jacob Vogelstein
R. Jacob Vogelstein is an American neural engineer and neuroscientist who designed and led IARPA's MICrONS and KRNS programs and received a 2014 Presidential Early Career Award.
R. James Cook
R. James Cook, born in 1937, is an American phytopathologist at Pullman, Washington, whose work on take-all decline in wheat earned the 2011 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.
R. John Collier
R. John Collier is an American microbiologist and biochemist, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, who showed that diphtheria toxin blocks protein synthesis and developed dominant-negative mutants as a therapy for anthrax.
R. John Ellis
R. John Ellis (1935–2025) was a British biochemist at the University of Warwick who discovered the first molecular chaperone and named the chaperone concept in 1987.
R. John Solaro
R. John Solaro is an American cardiac physiologist at the University of Illinois Chicago who heads research on the cellular mechanisms controlling heart contraction and relaxation.
R. Jude Samulski
R. Jude Samulski, born Richard Jude Samulski, is an American gene therapy researcher whose 1980s AAV work underlies most approved gene therapies; he founded AskBio and Bamboo Therapeutics.
R. Keith Humphries
R. Keith Humphries is a Canadian hematology researcher and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, known for showing that the gene HOXB4 can expand blood-forming stem cells outside the body.
R. Kelly Dawe
R. Kelly Dawe is an American plant geneticist at the University of Georgia known for work on maize centromeres, meiotic drive, and patented haploid-induction technology.
R. Luke Wiseman
R. Luke Wiseman is a molecular biologist and professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for research on proteostasis and stress-responsive signaling pathways.
R. Mark Wightman
R. Mark Wightman, full name Robert Mark Wightman, is an American analytical chemist and neurochemist who developed fast-scan cyclic voltammetry, tracking subsecond dopamine fluctuations in the brain of behaving animals.
R. Michael Blaese
R. Michael Blaese (1939–2025) was an American immunologist at the NIH who co-led the first approved human gene therapy trial, treating ADA-deficient SCID in 1990.
R. Michael Liskay
R. Michael Liskay is an American geneticist at Oregon Health & Science University who studies DNA mismatch repair and created knockout mice showing how its failure drives mutation and cancer.
R. Michael Roberts
R. Michael Roberts, born 1940, is an American reproductive biologist and biochemist at the University of Missouri known for identifying interferon tau, the pregnancy signal of ruminant embryos.