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Rinaldo Dohrn

Rinaldo Dohrn, the Italianized name of Reinhard Dohrn (1880–1962), was a German zoologist who directed the Stazione Zoologica di Napoli from 1909 to 1954, succeeding his father.

Rino Rappuoli

Rino Rappuoli, born 1952 at Radicofani near Siena, is an Italian microbiologist and vaccinologist who introduced reverse vaccinology and developed licensed vaccines against pertussis, meningococcus, and influenza.

Rinse K. Weersma

Rinse K. Weersma is a Dutch gastroenterologist and professor at the University of Groningen who studies the genetics of inflammatory bowel disease and the gut microbiome.

Rita Casadio

Rita Casadio is an Italian computational biologist at the University of Bologna, founder of its Biocomputing Group in 1990, known for PhD-SNP, BENZ WS, and MultifacetedProtDB.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012) was an Italian neurobiologist who discovered nerve growth factor, the first known neurotrophic factor, and shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Rita R. Colwell

Rita R. Colwell, born Rita Rossi in 1934, is an American environmental microbiologist known for cholera research and as the first woman to lead the National Science Foundation.

Rivka Dikstein

Rivka Dikstein is an Israeli molecular biologist, a full professor and Dean of the Faculty of Biochemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for showing that the TFIID subunit TAFII250 is a protein kinase.

Rob Knight

Rob Knight is a New Zealand-born computational microbiologist at UC San Diego, founding Director of its Center for Microbiome Innovation, known for the QIIME software pipeline and UniFrac distance measure.

Rob Martienssen

Rob Martienssen is a plant biologist and epigeneticist who leads genomics and plant genetics research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, known for small-RNA silencing of transposable elements.

Rob Phillips

Rob Phillips is a biophysicist who holds the Fred and Nancy Morris Professorship at Caltech, known for quantitative gene regulation research and widely used physical biology textbooks.

Rob Pieters

Rob Pieters is a Dutch pediatric oncologist at the Princess Máxima Center in Utrecht, known for drug resistance research and Interfant trials in infant leukemia.

Robb Krumlauf

Robb Krumlauf is a developmental biologist known for seminal work on Hox genes, the genes that pattern the animal body plan, and for establishing the principle of colinearity.

Robbie G. Majzner

Robbie G. Majzner is a physician-scientist in pediatric oncology and cancer immunotherapy who directs the Pediatric and Young Adult Cancer Cell Therapy Program at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Hospital.

Robert A. Bambara

Robert A. Bambara is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, known for work on Okazaki fragment maturation and HIV reverse transcription.

Robert A. Berg

Robert A. Berg is a pediatric critical care physician and resuscitation scientist who was Chief of Critical Care Medicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia from 2008 to 2022.

Robert A. Brodsky

Robert A. Brodsky is an American hematologist at Johns Hopkins who developed the FLAER assay for paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, pioneered high-dose cyclophosphamide therapy, and served as president of the American Society of Hematology in 2023.

Robert A. Bruce

Robert A. Bruce was an American cardiologist at the University of Washington who created the multistage treadmill test known as the Bruce protocol, and is called the father of exercise cardiology.

Robert A. Byrne

Robert A. Byrne is an Irish interventional cardiologist at Mater Private, Dublin, known for research on why coronary stents fail and for chairing the 2023 ESC acute coronary syndrome guidelines.

Robert A. Figlin

Robert A. Figlin is an American medical oncologist specializing in kidney and thoracic cancers who led the 2007 phase 3 trial establishing sunitinib as first-line therapy for metastatic kidney cancer.

Robert A. Good

Robert A. Good (1922–2003) was an American pediatrician and immunologist who, at the University of Minnesota, performed the first successful human bone marrow transplant in 1968.

Robert A. Harrington

Robert A. Harrington is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist, dean of Weill Cornell Medicine since 2023, who previously chaired medicine at Stanford and directed the Duke Clinical Research Institute.

Robert A. Hegele

Robert A. Hegele is a Canadian endocrinologist and human geneticist at Western University in London, Ontario, known for discovering the genetic basis of many cholesterol and triglyceride disorders.

Robert A. Kloner

Robert A. Kloner is an American cardiologist and experimental pathologist, Chief Science Officer at Huntington Medical Research Institutes in Pasadena, known for defining myocardial stunning and the no-reflow phenomenon.

Robert A. Lamb

Robert A. Lamb (1950–2023) was a British-born American virologist at Northwestern University and an HHMI Investigator known for defining the influenza M2 protein as an ion channel.

Robert A. Lazzarini

Robert A. Lazzarini is an American molecular biologist known for work on vesicular stomatitis virus RNA and myelin protein genetics, and for showing myelin basic protein arises by alternative splicing.

Robert A. Levine

Robert A. Levine (1953–2026) was an American cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for applying three-dimensional echocardiography to the mitral valve.

Robert A. Martienssen

Robert A. Martienssen is a plant biologist and geneticist who leads a laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, known for work on epigenetic inheritance in plants.

Robert A. O’Reilly

Robert A. O'Reilly was an American clinical pharmacologist whose work at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and UCSF established the genetics of hereditary resistance to coumarin anticoagulants.

Robert A. O’Rourke

Robert A. O'Rourke (1936–2011) was an American cardiologist who spent over 30 years at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and edited Hurst's The Heart.

Robert A. Rizza

Robert A. Rizza is an American endocrinologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for clinical research on insulin action and glucose metabolism in diabetes.