Life and health scientists

Raymund J. Wellinger

Raymund J. Wellinger is a Swiss-trained molecular geneticist at the Université de Sherbrooke who studies telomeres and telomerase, with landmark papers in Cell in 1993 and 1996.

Razelle Kurzrock

Razelle Kurzrock is an oncologist and precision-medicine researcher who directs the Center for Precision Oncology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and led the I-PREDICT and WINTHER trials.

Razqallah Hakem

Razqallah Hakem, also published as Razq Hakem, is a molecular biologist and cancer geneticist at the University of Toronto known for mouse-genetics studies of BRCA1, MUS81, and caspase 9.

P. Read Montague is a computational neuroscientist who directs the Center for Human Neuroscience Research at Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute and pioneered measuring dopamine in the awake human brain.

Rebeca Bat-Sheba Rosengaus-Nurko

Rebeca Bat-Sheba Rosengaus-Nurko is an entomologist and evolutionary biologist, Associate Professor Emerita at Northeastern University, who proposed that pathogens drove insect sociality and won a 2005 PECASE award.

Rebecca A Brachman

Rebecca A. Brachman is a neuroscientist who trained at Columbia University, known for prophylactic ketamine, a strategy to prevent depression and PTSD before stress occurs, and for co-founding IMPRINT.

Rebecca Anne Seguin-Fowler

Rebecca Anne Seguin-Fowler is an American registered dietitian and public health scientist at Texas A&M whose community nutrition and physical activity programs for rural populations earned her election to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.

Rebecca C. Fitzgerald

Rebecca C. Fitzgerald is a British clinician scientist and Professor of Cancer Prevention at the University of Cambridge, known for the Cytosponge test and the BEST3 trial for Barrett's esophagus.

Rebecca F. Grais

Rebecca F. Grais is an epidemiologist who has led the Pasteur Network since 2022; at Epicentre, MSF's research arm, she ran vaccine trials in Niger, including a rotavirus vaccine study.

Rebecca H. Buckley

Rebecca Hatcher Buckley is an American immunologist and pediatrician at Duke University who developed the treatment that made SCID, once universally fatal, curable, and whose name is attached to hyper-IgE syndrome.

Rebecca Heald

Rebecca Heald is an American cell biologist at UC Berkeley who studies how the mitotic spindle forms and scales, using Xenopus frog egg extracts; she joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Rebecca Lancefield

Rebecca Lancefield was an American bacteriologist at Rockefeller University who created the Lancefield classification of streptococci into lettered groups, identified the M protein, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1970.

Rebecca M. Voorhees

Rebecca M. Voorhees, also known as Rebecca Maria Voorhees, is an American structural biologist and professor at Caltech who studies protein synthesis, targeting, and quality control.

Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum

Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum is an American bioengineer at Rice University who develops low-cost medical technologies for low-resource settings, including neonatal devices for Africa, and received a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship.

Rebecca Saxe

Rebecca Saxe is a Canadian cognitive neuroscientist at MIT, best known for discovering a brain region specialized for theory of mind and showing that disrupting it changes moral judgment.

Rebecca Smith‐Bindman

Rebecca Smith-Bindman is a radiologist, epidemiologist, and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on radiation doses from medical imaging and cancer risk.

Rebecca T. Hahn

Rebecca T. Hahn is a cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, known for interventional echocardiography and for leading the TRISCEND II trial of transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement.

Rebecca Taub

Rebecca Taub is a physician-scientist in hepatology and molecular biology who founded Madrigal Pharmaceuticals and led development of resmetirom, the first FDA-approved MASH drug, approved in 2024.

Reed B. Wickner

Reed B. Wickner is an American biochemist and geneticist at the NIH who proposed in 1994 that the yeast elements [URE3] and [PSI+] are prions.

Reed C. Rollins

Reed C. Rollins (1911–1998) was an American systematic botanist and cytogeneticist who specialized in the mustard family and directed Harvard's Gray Herbarium from 1948 to 1978.

Reed E. Pyeritz

Reed E. Pyeritz was an American medical geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania whose work on Marfan syndrome extended patients' average lifespan from 40 to 70 years.

Regina M. Carelli

Regina M. Carelli is a behavioral neuroscientist at UNC Chapel Hill known for measuring subsecond dopamine signaling in the nucleus accumbens during reward seeking and cocaine addiction.

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Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa

Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa (Regina Salomea Rusiecka, born 1718) was a self-taught Polish healer famed for treating cataracts across Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire, and author of an early woman's memoir.

Reginald Crundall Punnett

Reginald Crundall Punnett was a British geneticist who codiscovered genetic linkage with William Bateson, wrote the first genetics textbook, Mendelism, and gave his name to the Punnett square.

Reginald H. Smithwick

Reginald H. Smithwick (1899–1987) was an American surgeon who developed lumbodorsal splanchnicectomy, then the only effective treatment for hypertension, and chaired surgery at Boston University.

Reginald Hall

Reginald Hall (1931–1994) was a British physician-scientist in endocrinology who built thyroid research units in Newcastle upon Tyne and Cardiff and published over 400 papers.

Regine Kahmann

Regine Kahmann, born 1948, is a German microbiologist who studied bacteriophage Mu and the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis, directing a Max Planck Institute department in Marburg from 2000 to 2019.

Regis B. Kelly

Regis B. Kelly is a cell biologist and neurobiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for work on synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitter release.

Régis Peffault de Latour

Régis Peffault de Latour is a French hematologist and professor who heads the Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant Department at Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris since 2022.