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Rasmus Nielsen (geneticist)

Rasmus Nielsen is a Danish population and evolutionary geneticist at UC Berkeley and the University of Copenhagen known for methods to detect natural selection in genomes.

Ratko Djukanović

Ratko Djukanović is a British-based respiratory physician who holds the Chair of Medicine at the University of Southampton and studies airway inflammation in asthma and COPD.

Rattan Lal

Rattan Lal, born 1944, is an Indian-born American soil scientist at Ohio State University whose research shows restoring soil carbon raises crop yields and mitigates climate change.

Raul Andino

Raul Andino, also known as Raul Andino-Pavlovsky, is an Argentine-American virologist and professor at UC San Francisco, known for co-developing the novel oral poliovirus vaccines and studying RNA virus evolution.

Raul G. Nogueira

Raul G. Nogueira is a Brazilian-born American neurologist who directs the UPMC Stroke Institute in Pittsburgh and led the DAWN trial of late-window stroke thrombectomy.

Raúl Méndez

Raúl Méndez is a Spanish RNA biologist and ICREA research professor at IRB Barcelona who studies translational control of messenger RNAs by CPEB proteins in oocytes and cancer.

Raúl Mostoslavsky

Raúl Mostoslavsky is an Argentine-born physician-scientist who studies how SIRT6 links DNA repair, metabolism, and cancer, and who leads the Mass General Cancer Center's research as Scientific Director.

Ravi Allada

Ravi Allada is an American chronobiologist and sleep researcher known for identifying core molecular gears of the circadian clock in fruit flies; he directs the Michigan Neuroscience Institute.

Ravi Bhatia

Ravi Bhatia is a hematologist-oncologist and leukemia stem cell researcher from New Delhi, India, who served as Deputy Director of the UAB O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Ravi Dhar

Ravi Dhar is a molecular biologist who helped determine the complete DNA sequence of human BK virus at the National Cancer Institute in 1979, after early SV40 sequencing at Yale.

Ravi Iyengar

Ravi Iyengar is an American biochemist and systems biologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for his work on cell signaling networks.

Ravi Retnakaran

Ravi Retnakaran is a Canadian endocrinologist and clinician-scientist at the University of Toronto and Mount Sinai Hospital, known for research on reversing early type 2 diabetes.

Ravinder K. Mittal

Ravinder K. Mittal is a gastroenterologist and Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego who directs the GI Motility Laboratory and studies esophageal motility and reflux disease.

Ravinder N. Maini

Ravinder N. Maini is a British rheumatologist who discovered that blocking TNF-alpha treats rheumatoid arthritis, creating the anti-TNF drug class, and won the 2003 Lasker Award.

Ravindra Gupta

Ravindra K. Gupta is a University of Cambridge virologist who led the team reporting the London patient HIV cure in 2019 and identified the Alpha SARS-CoV-2 variant.

Ravindra L. Mehta

Ravindra L. Mehta is an Indian-born American nephrologist and Professor Emeritus at UC San Diego, a founding member of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative and the Acute Kidney Injury Network.

Ravindra Majeti

Ravindra (Ravi) Majeti is a hematologist and physician-scientist at Stanford School of Medicine who studies leukemia stem cells and developed the anti-CD47 antibody magrolimab, which entered clinical trials.

Ray David Owen

Ray David Owen (1915–2014) was an American geneticist and immunologist at Caltech who discovered in 1945 that twin cattle carry mixtures of each other's red blood cells, founding the concept of immunological tolerance.

Ray Dixon

Ray Dixon (Raymond Alan Dixon) is a British molecular microbiologist and Royal Society Fellow at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, who studies biological nitrogen fixation in bacteria.

Ray Dolan

Ray Dolan, also known as Raymond J. Dolan, is an Irish neuroscientist and psychiatrist, the Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry at University College London and winner of the 2017 Brain Prize.

Ray F. Smith

Ray F. Smith (1919–1999) was an American entomologist at UC Berkeley known as the father of integrated pest management and a 1997 World Food Prize winner.

Ray Lankester

Ray Lankester, full name Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, was a British zoologist who held zoology chairs at London and Oxford and directed the British Museum's Natural History departments.

Ray Ming

Ray Ming is a plant geneticist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for work on papaya sex chromosomes and tropical crop genomes.

Ray Wü

Ray Wu (吴瑞) was a Chinese-American molecular biologist at Cornell University who developed a 1970 DNA sequencing method and produced the first transgenic rice plants.

Raymond A. Frizzell

Raymond A. Frizzell is a physiologist at the University of Pittsburgh whose 1986 Science study showed defective chloride channel regulation in cystic fibrosis airway cells.

Raymond A. Sobel

Raymond A. Sobel, also published as Raymond Sobel, is a neuropathologist and Stanford professor whose research on multiple sclerosis includes widely used mouse EAE models.

Raymond Alexander Kelser

Raymond Alexander Kelser (1892–1952) was an American veterinarian, bacteriologist, and immunologist who developed the first chloroform-inactivated killed-virus vaccine, first showed a mosquito transmitting a neurotropic virus, and served as dean at the University of Pennsylvania.

Raymond B. Huey

Raymond B. Huey is an American evolutionary physiologist and ecologist at the University of Washington, a primary founder of evolutionary physiology known for thermal ecology of ectotherms and climate-change research.

Raymond C. Bushland

Raymond C. Bushland (1910–1995) was an American entomologist with the USDA who, with Edward F. Knipling, created the sterile insect technique and eradicated the screwworm fly from the United States.

Raymond C. Harris

Raymond C. Harris is an American nephrologist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, known for the 1994 discovery of COX-2 in the kidney's macula densa and EGFR's role in kidney fibrosis.