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Robert Landewé

Robert Landewé (Robert B M Landewé, born 1964) is a Dutch rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist who chairs rheumatology at Zuyderland in Heerlen and co-authored the 2022 ASAS-EULAR axial spondyloarthritis guidelines.

Robert Landick

Robert Landick is a molecular biologist and Dr. Laurens Anderson Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for defining how transcriptional pausing works in bacteria and humans.

Róbert Langer

Robert S. Langer Jr. (born 1948 in Albany, New York) is an American chemical engineer at MIT who built the foundations of controlled drug release and tissue engineering and co-founded Moderna.

Robert Levenson

Robert Levenson is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania, known for studies of cell differentiation and receptor signaling.

Robert Levis

Robert W. Levis is a molecular biologist at the Carnegie Institution for Science who showed that unstable Drosophila mutations come from FB elements and that retrotransposons rebuild chromosome ends.

Robert Liddington

Robert Liddington is a structural biologist known for crystal structures of integrins, vinculin, and the anthrax toxin, and a professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys in San Diego.

Robert Lim

Robert Kho-Seng Lim (林可胜), 1897 to 1969, was a Singapore-born physiologist who headed physiology at Peking Union Medical College and served as China's Surgeon General.

Robert Luke

Robert G. Luke (R. G. Luke) is a Scottish-born nephrologist who chaired internal medicine at the University of Cincinnati from 1988 to 2004 and studies acid-base and electrolyte metabolism.

Robert Luke Nussbaum

Robert Luke Nussbaum is an American physician-scientist in medical genetics, a UCSF professor and National Academy of Medicine member known for identifying alpha-synuclein in hereditary Parkinson disease.

Robert M. Bell

Robert M. Bell is a biochemist at Duke University, known for his groundbreaking work in the 1980s regarding lipid metabolism and the discovery of sphingolipid signaling.

Robert M. Benbow

Robert M. Benbow was a molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins and Iowa State University known for cell-free Xenopus frog egg systems for studying DNA replication and recombination.

Robert M. Berne

Robert M. Berne (1918–2001) was an American cardiovascular physiologist best known for the adenosine hypothesis of coronary blood flow regulation, and chaired physiology at the University of Virginia from 1966 to 1988.

Robert M. Blizzard

Robert M. Blizzard (1924–2018) was an American pediatric endocrinologist who directed the US human growth hormone supply and showed emotional deprivation can mimic hormone deficiency.

ROBERT M. BOYAR

Robert M. Boyar was an American endocrinologist whose 1972 study showed that luteinizing hormone secretion rises during sleep at puberty, giving a biologic index for identifying puberty.

Robert M. Carey

Robert M. Carey is an American hypertension researcher and cardiovascular endocrinologist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, known for his work on the renin-angiotensin system.

Robert M. Chanock

Robert M. Chanock (1924–2010) was an American virologist who discovered respiratory syncytial virus, proved Mycoplasma pneumoniae causes walking pneumonia, and led NIAID's Laboratory of Infectious Diseases from 1967 to 2001.

Robert M. Donaldson

Robert M. Donaldson, Jr. (1927–2003) was an American gastroenterologist and Yale professor whose research defined how intestinal bacteria cause malabsorption and how the gut absorbs vitamin B12.

Robert M. Friedman

Robert M. Friedman (R. M. Friedman) is a virologist known for work on how interferon inhibits virus growth, at the National Institutes of Health and USUHS in Bethesda, Maryland.

Robert M. Grant

Robert M. Grant is an American physician-scientist, professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, who led the iPrEx trial, the first major demonstration that daily antiretroviral pills prevent HIV infection.

Robert M. Judd

Robert M. Judd is a cardiac imaging scientist at Duke University, Professor Emeritus of Medicine in Cardiology, known for developing delayed contrast-enhanced MRI that distinguishes living from scarred heart muscle.

Robert M. Kaplan

Robert M. Kaplan is an American health services researcher and psychologist at Stanford's Clinical Excellence Research Center, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2005.

Robert M. Krug

Robert M. Krug is a virologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, known for discovering the influenza cap-snatching mechanism and studying the viral NS1 protein.

Robert M. Lavker

Robert M. Lavker is a dermatologist and epithelial stem cell researcher, Professor Emeritus at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine, known for locating corneal and hair follicle stem cells.

Robert M. May

Robert M. May (1936–2020) was an Australian-born theoretical physicist who became a founder of modern theoretical ecology, UK chief scientific adviser, and President of the Royal Society.

Robert M. Neer

Robert M. Neer, also known as Robert Neer, is an American physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who founded its Bone Density Center.

Robert M. Plenge

Robert M. Plenge is an American rheumatologist and human geneticist who serves as chief research officer at Bristol Myers Squibb and is known for connecting rheumatoid arthritis genetics to drug discovery.

Robert M. Post

Robert M. Post is an American psychiatrist known for applying the kindling hypothesis to mood disorders and for carbamazepine trials in bipolar illness, after 35 years at the NIMH.

Robert M. Pringle

Robert M. Pringle is an ecologist and professor at Princeton University known for studies of African savanna restoration at Mpala, Kenya, and Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.

Robert M. Strieter

Robert M. Strieter is an American physician-scientist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia, known for showing that the CXC chemokine family divides into promoters and inhibitors of angiogenesis.

Robert M. Wachter

Robert M. Wachter is an American physician and UCSF medicine chair who coined the term "hospitalist" in 1996 and researches patient safety and health AI.