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Richard FitzHugh

Richard FitzHugh (1922–2007) was an American biophysicist at the National Institutes of Health who created the FitzHugh–Nagumo model, a two-variable simplification of the Hodgkin–Huxley nerve equations widely used in computational neuroscience.

Richard Flavell

Richard A. Flavell is a British-born American immunologist, Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale, who co-discovered introns, pioneered reverse genetics, and developed widely used humanized mouse models.

Richard Furie

Richard Alan Furie is an American rheumatologist and physician-scientist, chief of rheumatology at Northwell Health, known for leading clinical trials of lupus nephritis therapies including belimumab, litifilimab, and obinutuzumab.

Richard G. Brennan

Richard G. Brennan is a structural biologist and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University, known for the winged-helix DNA-binding motif and structures of multidrug-binding regulators such as BmrR and QacR.

Richard G. Pestell

Richard G. Pestell is an Australian-born medical oncologist who immigrated to the United States in 1993, directed the Lombardi and Sidney Kimmel cancer centers, and founded six biotechnology companies.

Richard G. Vile

Richard G. Vile, also published as Richard Vile, is a British-born cancer immunotherapy researcher and Professor of Immunology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, working on oncolytic virotherapy.

Richard Giegé

Richard Giegé is a French biochemist who spent his career at CNRS in Strasbourg, known for the crystal structure of yeast tRNA and for tRNA identity elements.

Richard Gilbertson

Richard J. Gilbertson is a British cancer biologist and pediatric oncologist, Li Ka Shing Chair of Oncology at Cambridge, known for showing medulloblastoma comprises distinct molecular subtypes.

Richard Goldschmidt

Richard Benedict Goldschmidt (1878–1958) was a German-born American geneticist who worked on sex determination, proposed the "hopeful monster" concept, and dissented from classical gene theory.

Richard Gorlin

Richard Gorlin was an American cardiologist who devised the Gorlin formula, still the standard for measuring stenotic heart valves, and chaired medicine at Mount Sinai from 1974 to 1992.

Richard Greil

Richard Greil (born 1957 in Salzburg) is an Austrian oncologist and hematologist, professor emeritus at Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, best known for the KEYNOTE-048 immunotherapy trial.

Richard H. Aster

Richard H. Aster (1930–2026) was an American hematologist who led the Milwaukee Blood Center for decades, published about 400 papers on platelet immunology, and won the Wallace H. Coulter Award.

Richard H. Ebright

Richard H. Ebright is an American molecular biologist and biochemist, Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University, known for work on bacterial transcription and RNA polymerase inhibitors as antibiotics.

Richard H. Goodman

Richard H. Goodman is an American physician-scientist who co-discovered the hormone GLP-1, identified the coactivator CBP, and directed the Vollum Institute at OHSU from 1990 to 2016.

Richard H. Helfant

Richard H. Helfant is an American cardiologist known for his 1971 study of the coronary collateral circulation and a nitroglycerin ventriculography technique used before bypass surgery.

Richard H. Karas

Richard H. Karas is a Boston-based cardiologist and physician-scientist at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for reviews on estrogen's cardiovascular effects and statin-associated muscle injury.

Richard H. Masland

Richard H. Masland (1942–2019) was an American retinal neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for counting retinal cell types and starburst amacrine cells.

Richard H. Mattson

Richard H. Mattson, born in 1931, is an American neurologist and epileptologist at Yale School of Medicine who directed the two largest VA antiepileptic drug trials.

Richard H. Scheller

Richard H. Scheller, born 1953 in Milwaukee, is an American neurobiologist who discovered the SNARE proteins mediating neurotransmitter release, winning the Kavli Prize and the 2013 Lasker Award.

Richard H. Sterns

Richard H. Sterns is an American nephrologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester and former Chief of Medicine at Rochester General Hospital, known for research on sodium disorders.

Richard Hayes (statistical epidemiologist)

Richard Hayes, also known as Richard J Hayes, is a British statistical epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine known for HIV and tuberculosis trials in Africa.

Richard Held

Richard Held (1922–2016) was an American experimental psychologist and neuroscientist at MIT and Brandeis University whose 1963 kitten-carousel study showed that perception is built from self-produced movement.

Richard Henderson (structural biologist)

Richard Henderson, born 1945, is a Scottish structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for cryo-electron microscopy.

Richard Hertwig

Richard Hertwig (1850–1937) was a German zoologist and founder of experimental zoology who held the Munich zoology chair for forty years and studied sea urchin fertilization with his brother Oscar.

Richard Hesse

Richard Hesse (1868–1944) was a German zoologist, professor at Berlin, who demonstrated fibrils in visual cells later confirmed as microvilli and pioneered ecological zoogeography with his 1924 book.

Richard Hilleary

Richard Hilleary is an American plant biologist at Duke University who studies long-distance calcium signaling and how heat stress weakens plant immunity, co-authoring the 2014 calcium-wave discovery.

Richard Ho

Richard Ho is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist and stem cell transplant physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2013 for his drug transporter research.

Richard Hobbs (medical researcher)

Richard Hobbs, born 1953, is a British primary care and cardiovascular researcher, Mercian Professor at Oxford and formerly a Birmingham general practitioner, whose large trials changed international guidelines.

Richard Hong

Richard Hong (1929–2023) was an American pediatric immunologist at Wisconsin and Vermont known for thymus transplantation for immunodeficiency and early human bone marrow transplantation at Minnesota.

Richard I. Fisher

Richard I. Fisher is an American medical oncologist specializing in lymphoma who led the 1993 trial that kept CHOP the standard treatment for advanced non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.