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Robert Schimke
Robert Schimke (1932–2014) was an American biochemist and cancer researcher at Stanford University, best known for discovering that mammalian cells gain drug resistance by amplifying genes.
Robert Schlegel
Robert A. Schlegel is a professor emeritus of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State, known for work on membrane lipids and the clearance of dying cells.
Robert Schleif
Robert F. Schleif is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University whose research on the arabinose operon revealed DNA looping in gene regulation.
Robert Schmitz (plant epigeneticist)
Robert J. Schmitz (born 1980) is an American plant epigeneticist and professor of genetics at the University of Georgia, known for DNA methylation studies in Arabidopsis and crop regulatory atlases.
Robert Schwartz (pediatric endocrinologist)
Robert Schwartz is an American physician-scientist in pediatric endocrinology at Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital whose research established how insulin acts in the human fetus and newborn.
Robert Sekuler
Robert Sekuler, born in 1939, is an American cognitive neuroscientist, the Louis and Frances Salvage Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, at Brandeis University, known for research on visual perception, memory, and aging.
Robert Shapley
Robert M. Shapley is an American visual neurophysiologist at New York University known for work on retinal gain control and orientation tuning in visual cortex.
Robert Stickgold
Robert Stickgold is a Harvard Medical School cognitive neuroscientist whose work shows sleep is required for memory, and who studies dreaming as offline memory processing.
Robert Straus
Robert Straus (1923–2020) was an American medical sociologist and alcohol studies researcher who founded the first behavioral science department at an American medical school, at the University of Kentucky.
Robert Stuart Edgar
Robert Stuart Edgar (1930–2016) was an American geneticist who worked out how bacteriophage T4 assembles and helped establish the worm C. elegans as a model organism.
Robert T. Abraham
Robert T. Abraham, known as Bob Abraham, is an American cancer biologist and Chief Scientific Officer of Engine Biosciences, known for work on PI3K and mTOR signaling.
Robert T. Bakker
Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist of the Dinosaur Renaissance, author of The Dinosaur Heresies and Raptor Red; argued dinosaurs were warm-blooded, active ancestors of birds, and rejected the asteroid-impact extinction theory.
Robert T. Jensen
Robert T. Jensen is an American gastroenterologist who leads the Gastrointestinal Cell Biology Section at NIDDK, NIH, known for decades of research on gastrointestinal hormones and Zollinger-Ellison syndrome.
Robert T. Knight
Robert T. Knight is an American cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist at UC Berkeley, known for work on the prefrontal cortex, attention, and memory, and for developing electrocorticography.
Robert T. Paine
Robert T. Paine (1933–2016) was an American ecologist and University of Washington professor who coined the keystone species concept through his 1960s sea star removal experiments on the Washington coast.
Robert T. Sauer
Robert T. Sauer is an American biochemist and MIT professor emeritus who studies how cells select, unfold, and destroy proteins, known for work on ATP-dependent proteases like ClpXP.
Robert T. Schooley
Robert T. Schooley is an American infectious disease physician and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC San Diego, who chaired the NIH AIDS Clinical Trials Group from 1995 to 2002.
Robert T. Simpson
Robert T. Simpson (1938–2004) was a molecular biologist known for his work on chromatin at the NIH and Penn State, including nucleosome positioning and defining the chromatosome.
Robert Tampé
Robert Tampé is a German biochemist and structural biologist who has been professor and director of the Institute of Biochemistry at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2001.
Robert Thomson Leiper
Robert Thomson Leiper (1881–1969) was a British parasitologist and helminthologist who solved the life cycles of the guinea worm and the two African human schistosomes.
Robert Tigerstedt
Robert Tigerstedt (1853–1923) was a Finnish physiologist who, with his student Per Bergman at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, discovered renin in 1898, the kidney enzyme behind modern hypertension drugs.
Robert Tjian
Robert Tjian is a biochemist at UC Berkeley who studies transcription control, identified the first human gene-specific transcription factor, and led the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 2009 to 2016.
Robert Trivers
Robert Trivers (1943–2026) was an American evolutionary biologist whose 1971–1974 papers on reciprocal altruism, parental investment, and parent–offspring conflict laid sociobiology's foundations, earning the 2007 Crafoord Prize.
Robert V Blanden
Robert V Blanden, full name Robert Vincent Blanden, is an Australian immunologist who led the Immunology Group at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU.
Robert V. Farese
Robert V. Farese Jr. is an American biochemist and physician who identified the DGAT enzymes that synthesize triglycerides and helped establish lipid droplets as dynamic organelles.
Robert Vassar
Robert Vassar is a neuroscientist at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine who co-discovered BACE1, the β-secretase enzyme initiating β-amyloid production in Alzheimer's disease, in 1999.
Robert W Aldridge
Robert W Aldridge is a British physician-epidemiologist known for research on the health of migrants and socially excluded groups, leading the Virus Watch COVID-19 study and joining IHME in 2023.
Robert W. Baloh
Robert W. Baloh, also published as R. W. Baloh, is an American neurologist and neuro-otologist at UCLA whose vestibular tests and textbooks became the field standard.
Robert W. Berliner
Robert W. Berliner (1915–2002) was an American renal physiologist who defined how the kidney handles potassium and later served as dean of the Yale School of Medicine.
Robert W. Colman
Robert W. Colman is an American hematologist and physician-scientist at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, known for defining the plasma kallikrein-kinin contact activation system.