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R. Neal Smith
R. Neal Smith, also known as Rex Neal Smith, is an American transplantation pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for linking C4d staining to alloantibodies in heart transplants.
R. Paul Robertson
R. Paul Robertson is an American endocrinologist and diabetes researcher known for islet transplantation research, who led the Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute in Seattle.
R. Rodney Howell
R. Rodney Howell is an American physician-scientist in biochemical genetics and pediatrics, known for uric acid and gout research and for shaping national newborn screening policy.
R. Sanders Williams
R. Sanders Williams, known as Sandy Williams, is an American cardiologist and molecular biologist who served as dean of Duke University School of Medicine and president of the Gladstone Institutes.
R. Scott Hawley
R. Scott Hawley (Robin Scott Hawley) was an American geneticist at the Stowers Institute known for dissecting meiosis in fruit flies and the cohesin explanation of the maternal age effect.
R. Scott Poethig
R. Scott Poethig is an American plant developmental biologist at the University of Pennsylvania who pioneered the genetic analysis of the juvenile-to-adult transition in plant shoots.
R. Scott Williams
R. Scott Williams (Robert S. Williams) is a structural biologist who leads the Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory at NIEHS, studying how cells recognize and repair DNA strand breaks.
R. Sean Morrison
R. Sean Morrison is an American geriatrician and palliative medicine researcher who chairs the Brookdale Department at Mount Sinai and founded the National Palliative Care Research Center in 2005.
R. Suzanne Zukin
R. Suzanne Zukin was an American cellular and molecular neuroscientist who spent her career at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, known for work on glutamate receptors, epigenetics, and neuronal death.
R. Wayne Alexander
R. Wayne Alexander (Robert Wayne Alexander) was an American cardiologist who directed cardiology and chaired medicine at Emory University, studying angiotensin II and vascular oxidative stress.
R.R. Race
Robert Russell Race (1907–1984) was a British geneticist who directed the MRC Blood Group Unit from 1946 to 1973 and devised the Fisher–Race CDE nomenclature for the Rhesus blood group system.
R.R.A. Coombs
R.R.A. Coombs, born Robert Royston Amos (Robin) Coombs, was a British immunologist at Cambridge, known for the 1945 Coombs test and the Gell–Coombs classification of hypersensitivity.
Rabih O. Darouiche
Rabih Darouiche is an infectious diseases physician and professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston who studies and works to prevent infections associated with medical devices and surgical implants.
Rachael L. Neve
Rachael L. Neve is a neuroscientist who studies Alzheimer's disease, co-directed the Gene Delivery Technology Core at Massachusetts General Hospital, and helped clone the APP gene in 1987.
Rachel A. McKendry
Rachel A. McKendry is a British nanotechnologist at University College London known for developing quantum biosensors and rapid diagnostics for infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance.
Rachel E. Klevit
Rachel E. Klevit is an American structural biochemist at the University of Washington, known for NMR studies of zinc fingers and ubiquitin ligases and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Rachel Green (American molecular biologist)
Rachel Green is an American molecular biologist and HHMI Investigator at Johns Hopkins known for work on translation termination, ribosome rescue, and ribosome profiling methods.
Rachel I. Wilson
Rachel I. Wilson is a neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School who studies how fruit fly brains turn sensory information and internal goals into action, and an HHMI investigator.
Rachel J. Perry
Rachel J. Perry is a physiologist and cancer researcher at Yale School of Medicine, where she leads a laboratory studying exercise physiology, tumor metabolism, and immunometabolism.
Rachel Karchin
Rachel Karchin is an American computational biologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University who builds machine-learning methods for interpreting cancer mutations, known for CHASM and OpenCRAVAT.
Rachel L. Batterham
Rachel L. Batterham is a British physician-scientist in obesity and endocrinology, known for peptide YY research and leadership of the semaglutide obesity trials at University College London.
Rachel Schneerson
Rachel Schneerson is a vaccinologist who, with John B. Robbins at NICHD, developed the Hib conjugate vaccine that nearly eliminated childhood Hib meningitis, winning the 1996 Lasker Award.
Rachel Wong
Rachel Wong is a neurobiologist known for her work on retinal waves and the assembly of neuronal circuits in the developing vertebrate retina, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Rachel Wu
Rachel Wu is an American developmental cognitive neuroscientist at UC Riverside who studies attention and learning across the lifespan and received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2025.
Rachel Yehuda
Rachel Yehuda is an American clinical neuroscientist who studies the neurobiology of PTSD. A professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, she leads mental health research at the Bronx VA.
Rachelle Buchbinder
Rachelle Buchbinder is an Australian rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist who has directed the Monash Department of Clinical Epidemiology since 2001 and led the 2018 Lancet Low Back Pain Series.
Rachelle S. Doody
Rachelle S. Doody is a neurologist and Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Baylor College of Medicine who led phase 3 trials of Alzheimer's drugs including solanezumab and gantenerumab.
Rachmiel Levine
Rachmiel Levine (1910–1998) was a Polish-born American diabetologist who showed in 1949 that insulin acts on the cell membrane, a finding known as the Levine effect.
Radek C. Skoda
Radek C. Skoda, also published as Radek Skoda, is a physician-scientist in experimental hematology whose laboratory identified the JAK2-V617F mutation, the most frequent cause of myeloproliferative neoplasms.
Radiation Oncologists
Radiation oncologists, also called radiotherapists or therapeutic radiologists, are physicians trained to treat cancer with radiation. They lead a team of physicists and dosimetrists, practice fractionation developed in the 1920s, and number over 5,300 in the US.