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Reid Gilmore

Reid Gilmore is an American biochemist and Professor Emeritus at UMass Chan Medical School whose laboratory helped identify the SRP receptor and define the oligosaccharyltransferase subunits.

Reid Hunt

Reid Hunt (1870–1948) was an American pharmacologist who headed pharmacology at the Public Health Service's Hygienic Laboratory and later Harvard, known for his 1906 acetylcholine findings and the acetonitrile thyroid test.

Rein Saral

Rein Saral is an Estonian-born American oncologist and hematologist whose 1981 trial showed acyclovir prevents herpes infections in transplant patients, and who led bone-marrow transplant programs at Johns Hopkins and Emory.

Reinhard Dummer

Reinhard Dummer is a Swiss dermatologist and dermato-oncologist who built the skin cancer program at University Hospital Zurich and led major melanoma immunotherapy trials, including COMBI-AD.

Reinhard Fässler

Reinhard Fässler, also spelled Reinhard Fassler, is an Austrian cell biologist and physician born in 1956 who led integrin research as director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Reinhard Hohlfeld

Reinhard Hohlfeld is a German neurologist and neuroimmunologist, professor at Munich University Hospital, known for research on the immunological mechanisms and treatment of multiple sclerosis.

Reinhard Jahn

Reinhard Jahn is a German biochemist and neurobiologist known for work on synaptic vesicles and SNARE proteins; he led the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen.

Reinhard Lipowsky

Reinhard Lipowsky is a German theoretical physicist known for research on membranes and molecular motors, a founding director of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

Reinhard Lührmann

Reinhard Lührmann, born 1949 in Osnabrück, is a German biochemist known for his work on the spliceosome, the machine that removes introns from messenger RNA precursors.

Reinhold Benesch

Reinhold Benesch (1919–1986) was a Polish-born American biochemist, professor at Columbia University, best known for identifying 2,3-diphosphoglycerate as the molecule that regulates hemoglobin's oxygen affinity, working with his wife and collaborator Ruth Erica Benesch.

Reinhold Förster

Reinhold Förster is a German immunologist, professor and director of the Institute of Immunology at Hannover Medical School, known for work on chemokine receptors CCR7 and CXCR5.

Reinhold Penner

Reinhold Penner is a German-born electrophysiologist who identified the CRAC calcium channel and several TRP channels, and leads ion-channel research at the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center.

Reinoud E. Knops

Reinoud E. Knops (born 1971) is a Dutch cardiologist and professor of clinical electrophysiology at Amsterdam UMC, who led the PRAETORIAN trial of subcutaneous defibrillators.

Reisa Sperling

Reisa A. Sperling is an American neurologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital who chaired the 2011 guidelines defining preclinical Alzheimer's disease and led the A4 Study.

Remington Kellogg

Remington Kellogg (1892–1969) was an American zoologist, director of the United States National Museum, and authority on fossil whales who shaped international whaling policy for three decades.

Remo Rohs

Remo Rohs is a computational structural biologist at the University of Southern California known for establishing DNA shape analysis as a framework for protein–DNA recognition.

Rémy Bosselut

Rémy Bosselut is a French-trained immunologist who leads the T-Cell Biology Group at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for work on ThPOK and CD4 T cell development.

Rena Bizios

Rena Bizios is an American biomedical engineer at UT San Antonio who studies cell interactions with implant materials; she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.

Rena R. Wing

Rena R. Wing is a researcher in the behavioral treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes, professor at Brown University and co-founder of the National Weight Control Registry.

Renata Pasqualini

Renata Pasqualini is a Brazilian-born cancer biologist known for co-developing in vivo phage display, a method for finding peptides that home to tumors, at Rutgers.

Renato Baserga

Renato Baserga (1925–2023) was an Italian-born American cell biologist and cancer researcher in Philadelphia, known for work on cell proliferation and the insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor.

Renato D. Lópes

Renato D. Lópes (Renato Delascio Lopes) is a Brazilian-born cardiologist and clinical researcher, Professor of Medicine at Duke University and a Duke Clinical Research Institute member.

Renato Dulbecco

Renato Dulbecco (1914–2012) was an Italian-born American virologist and cancer researcher who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for showing that tumor virus DNA integrates into host cells.

Renato Paro

Renato Paro is a molecular biologist regarded as a pioneer of epigenetics, known for work on Polycomb proteins and cellular memory, who founded ETH Zurich's biosystems department in Basel.

Renato V. Iozzo

Renato V. Iozzo is an Italian-trained physician-scientist and cell biologist who holds an endowed pathology chair at Thomas Jefferson University and defined the biology of small leucine-rich proteoglycans.

René Adam

René Adam is a French hepatobiliary surgeon and head of the Centre Hépato-Biliaire at Hôpital Paul-Brousse, known for the TransMet trial published in The Lancet in 2024.

René Bernards

René Bernards (born 1953) is a Dutch molecular biologist and cancer geneticist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, known for pioneering functional genetic screens and the MammaPrint breast cancer prognosis test.

René Couteaux

René Couteaux (1909–1999) was a French histologist and neurobiologist who gave the synapse a morphological basis, naming the subneural apparatus, conceiving the presynaptic active zone, and winning the 1994 Balzan Prize for Biology.

René Dubos

René Dubos (1901–1982) was a French-born American microbiologist at Rockefeller University who discovered gramicidin, one of the first antibiotics, and later won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for his writing on disease and the environment.

René F. Ketting

René F. Ketting is a Dutch RNA biologist who studies small RNAs and gene silencing, and has led the Institute of Molecular Biology in Mainz since 2012.