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Rafael Brüschweiler

Rafael Brüschweiler is an NMR spectroscopist, professor, and Ohio Research Scholar at Ohio State University since 2013, known for covariance NMR and deep-learning spectral analysis.

Rafael Casellas

Rafael Casellas, also published as Rafael C. Casellas, is a molecular biologist who studies B lymphocytes and genome architecture, now at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center after the NIH.

Rafael de Cabo

Rafael de Cabo is a Spanish-born physiologist who studies how caloric restriction and intermittent fasting affect aging, leading the Translational Gerontology Branch at the National Institute on Aging.

Rafael Esteban

Rafael Esteban (Rafael Esteban Mur) is a Spanish hepatologist who headed Internal Medicine and Hepatology at Barcelona's Vall d'Hebron Hospital from 1993 to 2023, then joined Hospital Quirónsalud Barcelona.

Rafael Lorente de No

Rafael Lorente de Nó (1902–1990) was a Spanish neurophysiologist who established the CA1–CA4 hippocampal nomenclature and studied the vestibular system and nerve impulse, working in the United States from 1931.

Rafael Lozano (Mexican epidemiologist)

Rafael Lozano is a Mexican physician and epidemiologist who led the 2012 Lancet analysis of global causes of death for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

Rafael Malach

Rafael (Rafi) Malach is a neuroscientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, who studies visual perception and awareness and won the 2022 EMET Prize.

Rafael Palacios de la Lama

Rafael Palacios de la Lama is a Mexican molecular biologist at UNAM who studies genome dynamics and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2006.

Rafael Radi

Rafael Radi, born 1963 in Montevideo, is a Uruguayan biochemist known for research on nitric oxide and peroxynitrite, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Rafael Rosell

Rafael Rosell is a Spanish medical oncologist who has specialized in lung cancer since 1982 and led Europe's implementation of routine EGFR mutation testing for first-line treatment.

Rafael Yuste

Rafael Yuste is a neuroscientist at Columbia University who develops optical methods to observe and control cortical circuits and led the group proposing the US BRAIN Initiative.

Raffaele De Caterina

Raffaele De Caterina is an Italian cardiologist, born in Benevento in 1954, formerly Full Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases at the University of Pisa and Executive Editor of European Heart Journal.

Rafi Ahmed

Rafi Ahmed is an Indian-born American immunologist and virologist at Emory University, known for defining memory T-cell formation and T-cell exhaustion, work that led to PD-1 checkpoint blockade cancer therapy.

Rafick‐Pierre Sékaly

Rafick-Pierre Sékaly, also published as Rafick-Pierre Sekaly, is an immunologist and professor at Emory University in Atlanta known for work on HIV reservoirs, T cell memory, and HIV vaccines.

Raghavendra Gadagkar

Raghavendra Gadagkar is an Indian behavioral ecologist at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, known for decades of research on the social wasp Ropalidia marginata.

Raghu Kalluri

Raghu Kalluri is a cancer biologist known for work on exosomes and the tumor microenvironment who chaired cancer biology at MD Anderson before leading the UTMB Cancer Center in 2026.

Ragnar Granit

Ragnar Granit was a Finnish-born Swedish physiologist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries about the eye's visual processes, especially retinal responses.

Ragnar Nilsson

Nils Ragnar Nilsson (1903–1981) was a Swedish chemist and microbiologist whose demonstration of phosphoglyceric acid in yeast was called the field's most important advance since 1905.

Rahmi Öklü

Rahmi Öklü, published as Rahmi Oklu, is an interventional radiologist and Professor of Radiology at Mayo Clinic in Arizona whose Patient Inspired Engineering Laboratory developed the FDA-cleared Obsidio embolic.

Raif S. Geha

Raif S. Geha, born 1945, is a pediatric immunologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School who identified genetic causes of primary immunodeficiency and advanced understanding of atopic dermatitis.

Raimund Dutzler

Raimund Dutzler is a structural biologist and Full Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Zurich, its Department head since 2024, known for structures of anion channels including TMEM16A.

Raimund Erbel

Raimund Erbel is a German cardiologist who directed the Clinic for Cardiology at University Hospital Essen from 1993 to 2015, known for echocardiographic diagnosis of aortic dissection and the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study.

Raina K. Plowright

Raina K. Plowright is a disease ecologist and veterinary scientist who is the Steffen Professor at Cornell University, known for her 25-year research on Hendra virus spillover from bats.

Rainer Friedrich

Rainer W. Friedrich is a Swiss-based systems neuroscientist, a Senior Group Leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel since 2007 who studies olfactory memory in zebrafish.

Rainer Hambrecht

Rainer Hambrecht (born 1961) is a German cardiologist who directs cardiology at Klinikum Links der Weser, Bremen, and led trials showing exercise training restores endothelial function.

Rainer Hedrich

Rainer Hedrich is a German plant biophysicist who introduced the patch-clamp technique into plant science and led the University of Würzburg's molecular plant physiology chair.

Rainer Renkawitz

Rainer Renkawitz is a molecular biologist known for work on gene regulation by nuclear receptors and chromatin insulators, holding the Genetics chair at Giessen from 1991 to 2016.

Rainer Storb

Rainer Storb is a hematologist who joined E. Donnall Thomas's Seattle transplant program in 1965 and helped establish allogeneic stem cell transplantation as a cure for leukemia and aplastic anemia.

Rainer Weber

Rainer Weber (born 1955) is a Swiss infectious-diseases physician-scientist who led the Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology at University Hospital Zurich from 1997 to 2020.

Raj K. Goyal

Raj K. Goyal is a physician-scientist, Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a VA Boston staff physician, known for research on esophageal motility, Barrett's esophagus, and diabetic gastroparesis.