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Ralph Wedgwood (pediatric immunologist)

Ralph Wedgwood, or Ralph J. Wedgwood, was an English-born American pediatric immunologist who co-founded pediatric immunology, chairing Pediatrics at the University of Washington from 1963 to 1972.

Ralph Wright

Ralph Wright (1930–1990) was a South African-born British hepatologist and clinical immunologist, professor at Southampton, best known for linking the Australia antigen to chronic liver disease.

Ram Sasisekharan

Ram Sasisekharan is an American biological engineer and MIT professor since 1996, known for glycan sequencing, the 2008 heparin contamination investigation, and founding Momenta Pharmaceuticals.

Rama Khokha

Rama Khokha is a Canadian cancer biologist, Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and University of Toronto professor, known for work on the tumor microenvironment and TIMP genes.

Rama Natarajan

Rama Natarajan is an American scientist at City of Hope who studies the epigenetics of diabetic vascular complications, including metabolic memory and microRNAs in diabetic kidney disease.

Rama Ranganathan

Rama Ranganathan is a biophysicist at the University of Chicago who studies protein structure, function, and evolution, and is known for the concept of protein sectors.

Rama Rao Amara

Rama Rao Amara, also known as Rama Amara, is an Indian immunologist and virologist at Emory University known for the DNA/MVA prime-boost HIV vaccine platform and PD-1 blockade studies toward a functional cure.

Ramachandran S. Vasan

Ramachandran S. Vasan, also published as Vasan S. Ramachandran, is an Indian-born American cardiologist and Founding Dean of the School of Public Health at UT Health San Antonio.

Ramanan Laxminarayan

Ramanan Laxminarayan is an American health economist who studies antimicrobial resistance as an economics problem, leads the One Health Trust, and serves as a senior research scholar at Princeton University.

Ramani Durvasula

Ramani Durvasula, known online as "Doctor Ramani," is an American clinical psychologist, professor emerita at California State University, Los Angeles, and author of books on narcissism.

Ramanujan Hegde

Ramanujan S. Hegde, known as Manu Hegde, is a British-based biochemist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who studies protein translocation and quality control.

Ramaswamy Govindan

Ramaswamy Govindan is an Indian-born American medical oncologist at Washington University in St. Louis, known for lung cancer genomics research and as senior author of the sotorasib trial.

Rameen Beroukhim

Rameen Beroukhim is a cancer geneticist and neuro-oncologist at Dana-Farber, Harvard, and the Broad Institute, known for the 2010 pan-cancer copy-number survey and the GISTIC algorithm.

Ramesh Pillai

Ramesh S. Pillai is a Swiss-based RNA biologist, a full professor at the University of Geneva since 2016, known for work on piRNAs and RNA modifications.

Ramesh Shivdasani

Ramesh Shivdasani is a physician-scientist and Harvard Medical School professor at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, known for identifying NF-E2's role in platelet formation and studying colorectal cancer initiation.

Rami Burstein

Rami Burstein is a neuroscientist and headache researcher who is the John Hedley-Whyte Professor at Harvard Medical School, known for work on migraine pain and light sensitivity.

Ramin Shiekhattar

Ramin Shiekhattar is an American molecular biologist at the University of Miami whose lab defined the human RISC complex in 2005 and enhancer-like long noncoding RNAs in 2010.

Ramnik J. Xavier

Ramnik J. Xavier is a gastroenterologist and molecular biologist at the Broad Institute and Harvard Medical School who studies the gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease.

Ramón Bataller

Ramón Bataller is a Spanish hepatologist known for work on liver fibrosis and alcohol-associated liver disease, leading the Steatohepatitis and liver transplantation group at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.

Ramón Latorre

Ramón Latorre is a Chilean biophysicist who studies ion channels, founded Chile's Center for Scientific Studies, and won the National Prize in Natural Sciences in 2002.

Ramon Margalef

Ramon Margalef (1919–2004) was a Spanish ecologist and limnologist who held Spain's first chair of ecology, at the University of Barcelona in 1967, and pioneered applying information theory to species diversity.

Ramon Parsons

Ramon Parsons is an American physician-scientist in cancer genetics known for discovering the PTEN tumor suppressor gene and directing the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center since 2017.

Ramsay Traquair

Ramsay Heatley Traquair (1840–1912) was a Scottish palaeoichthyologist whose anatomical studies of Palaeozoic fishes overturned Agassiz's classification; he was Keeper of Natural History at Edinburgh's Museum of Science and Art.

Ramzi S. Cotran

Ramzi S. Cotran (1932–2000) was an American pathologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital who coined "endothelial activation" and led Robbins' pathology textbook.

Ran D. Balicer

Ran D. Balicer, also known as Ran Balicer, is an Israeli physician and epidemiologist, Chief Innovation Officer of Clalit Health Services, known for 2021 nationwide COVID-19 vaccine studies.

Rana K. Gupta

Rana K. Gupta is an American adipocyte biologist who studies how fat-cell precursors are determined and how white adipose tissue expands in obesity, based at Duke's Molecular Physiology Institute.

Randal J. Kaufman

Randal J. Kaufman is an American biochemist known for work on protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum and the unfolded protein response, linked to many diseases.

Randall Engle

Randall Engle is a cognitive psychologist who joined Georgia Tech in 1995 and showed working memory capacity is a domain-general limit on attention control tied to fluid intelligence.

Randall John Bateman

Randall J. Bateman is an American neurologist at Washington University in St. Louis who pioneered Alzheimer's blood tests and led the first Alzheimer's prevention trial.

Randall K. Saiki

Randall K. Saiki is an American molecular biologist at Cetus Corporation who was first author of the 1985 and 1988 Science papers establishing PCR as a laboratory method.