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Raj Makkar

Raj Makkar, born Rajendra R. Makkar, is an American interventional cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles who led the PARTNER trials of transcatheter aortic-valve replacement.

Rajat Rohatgi

Rajat Rohatgi is an American physician-scientist who is Professor of Biochemistry and of Medicine (Oncology) at Stanford, best known for work on Hedgehog signaling at the primary cilium.

Rajat Singh

Rajat Singh is a physician-scientist who discovered lipophagy, the autophagic degradation of lipid droplets, reported in Nature in 2009, and since 2023 has directed the UCLA Comprehensive Liver Research Center.

Rajendra H. Mehta

Rajendra H. Mehta is an interventional cardiologist, a Duke Clinical Research Institute member since 2004, and adjunct professor at Duke University known for leading the 2017 LEVO-CTS levosimendan trial.

Rajendra K. Agrawal

Rajendra K. Agrawal (R.K. Agrawal) is a structural biologist who uses cryo-electron microscopy to determine ribosome structures, and is Chief of a research division at the Wadsworth Center in New York.

Rajendra S. Apte

Rajendra S. Apte, also known as Rajendra Apte, is an Indian-born American physician-scientist at Washington University in St. Louis known for research on age-related macular degeneration.

Rajesh T. Gandhi

Rajesh T. Gandhi, also published as Rajesh Gandhi, is an American infectious-diseases physician-researcher in Boston, a Harvard Medical School professor known for HIV reservoir and cure research.

Rajesh Thakker

Rajesh V. Thakker is a British endocrinologist known for defining the molecular basis of calcium homeostasis disorders and MEN1; he was May Professor of Medicine at Oxford from 1999 to 2023.

Rajindar S. Sohal

Rajindar S. Sohal is a biologist studying oxidative stress and aging who holds a professorship at the University of Southern California, where he has taught since 2000.

Rajiv Agarwal

Rajiv Agarwal is a nephrologist and clinical trialist, Professor Emeritus at Indiana University School of Medicine, who studies hypertension in chronic kidney disease and hemodialysis.

Rajiv Jalan

Rajiv Jalan is a British hepatologist and Professor of Hepatology at University College London, known for describing acute-on-chronic liver failure and developing liver disease therapies.

Rajiv Kumar (nephrologist)

Rajiv Kumar is a nephrologist and mineral metabolism researcher at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for work on phosphate wasting by tumors, vitamin D metabolism, and bone disease in kidney failure.

Rajiv R. Ratan

Rajiv R. Ratan is a physician-scientist in neurology and redox biology who leads the Burke Neurological Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine, known for showing that selenium can block ferroptosis, an iron-driven cell death, in stroke.

Raju S. Kucherlapati

Raju S. Kucherlapati is an Indian-born American human geneticist, the Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School since 2001 and a 2008 National Academy of Medicine member.

Rakesh K. Jain

Rakesh K. Jain is a tumor biologist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for the vascular normalization hypothesis and the 2013 National Medal of Science.

Rakesh Kumar (cancer biologist)

Rakesh Kumar is a cancer biologist known for research on the MTA1 and PAK1 signaling proteins in metastasis, holding tenured professorships at MD Anderson and George Washington University.

Ralf Baron

Ralf Baron is a German neurologist and pain researcher who heads neurological pain research at University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel, known for work on neuropathic pain and CRPS.

Ralf Bartenschlager

Ralf Bartenschlager is a German virologist known for developing the hepatitis C virus replicon system, which opened the route to drugs that cure hepatitis C.

Ralf Gold

Ralf Gold, born 1960, is a German neurologist and neuroimmunology researcher who has held the neurology chair at Ruhr University Bochum since 2006, known for multiple sclerosis therapy research including fumarates.

Ralf J. Adams

Ralf J. Adams (born 1966) is a German vascular biologist who directs the Department of Tissue Morphogenesis at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster.

Ralf Jungmann

Ralf Jungmann is a biophysicist best known as co-developer of DNA-PAINT, a nanometer-precision imaging method, and leads molecular imaging research at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Ralf Küppers

Ralf Küppers is a German molecular geneticist and B-cell immunologist, professor at University Hospital Essen since 2004, known for establishing the B-cell origin of Hodgkin lymphoma.

Ralf Metzler

Ralf Metzler is a German theoretical physicist who has held a chair professorship at the University of Potsdam since 2011, known for anomalous diffusion and weak ergodicity breaking.

Ralf Paus

Ralf Paus is a German dermatologist and hair follicle biologist, Research Professor of Dermatology at the University of Miami since 2018, known for research on hair follicle biology and alopecia areata.

Ralf Schneggenburger

Ralf Schneggenburger, born 1964, is a neuroscientist and full professor at EPFL in Lausanne, where he heads the Laboratory of Synaptic Mechanisms in the Brain Mind Institute.

Ralf Seidel

Ralf Seidel (1973–2026) was a German molecular biophysicist at Leipzig University who used magnetic and optical tweezers to study single DNA molecules, including CRISPR-Cas enzymes.

Ralph A. DeFronzo

Ralph A. DeFronzo is an American physician-scientist who proved insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes, invented the euglycemic insulin clamp, and led U.S. development of metformin.

Ralph A. Nixon

Ralph A. Nixon is an American physician-scientist studying Alzheimer's disease, professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and director of the Center for Dementia Research since 1997.

Ralph Adolphs

Ralph Adolphs is a German-born, Canadian-raised cognitive neuroscientist, the Bren Professor at Caltech known for lesion studies of the amygdala and a cross-species framework for the neuroscience of emotion.

Ralph B. D’Agostino

Ralph B. D'Agostino, also known as Ralph D'Agostino, was an American biostatistician at Boston University who led the Framingham Heart Study's statistical analysis and co-developed its risk scores.