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Robert W. Doms

Robert W. Doms is a virologist and physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, known for identifying HIV's entry coreceptors in the mid-1990s.

Robert W. Finberg

Robert W. Finberg was an American infectious disease physician-scientist who researched viral receptors and innate immunity and chaired medicine at UMass Chan Medical School for two decades.

Robert W. Holley

Robert W. Holley (1922–1993) was an American biochemist who determined the first complete nucleotide sequence of a nucleic acid and shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Robert W. Mahley

Robert W. Mahley is an American physician-scientist who discovered apolipoprotein E, defined its three isoforms, founded the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, and studied apoE4's role in Alzheimer's disease.

Robert W. McCarley

Robert W. McCarley, also known as R.W. McCarley, was an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and VA Boston who studied REM sleep and schizophrenia.

Robert W. Miller

Robert W. Miller (1921–2006) was an American pediatrician and cancer epidemiologist who spent over 35 years at the National Cancer Institute and studied atomic-bomb radiation effects on children in Hiroshima.

Robert W. Schrier

Robert W. Schrier was an American nephrologist who led renal medicine at the University of Colorado and explained sodium and water retention in heart failure, cirrhosis, and pregnancy.

Robert W. Snow

Robert W. Snow is a malaria epidemiologist who is Professor at the University of Oxford and Principal Scientist at the KEMRI/Wellcome Trust program in Nairobi, Kenya.

Robert W. Wilkins

Robert W. Wilkins was an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular medicine who showed rauwolfia, reserpine, and chlorothiazide could lower high blood pressure, and whose step-care treatment strategy won the 1958 Lasker Award.

Robert W. Yeh

Robert W. Yeh is an interventional cardiologist who directs the Smith Center for Outcomes Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and created the DAPT score.

Robert Wayne Allard

Robert Wayne Allard (1919–2003) was an American plant geneticist at UC Davis, a founder of plant population genetics, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973.

Robert Whittaker

Robert Whittaker was an American community ecologist and Cornell professor known for the five-kingdom classification of organisms, gradient analysis, and alpha, beta, and gamma diversity.

Robert Wilkinson (clinician-scientist)

Robert J. Wilkinson is a British clinician-scientist studying tuberculosis and HIV co-infection, whose Cape Town trials changed World Health Organization policy and who was appointed OBE in 2025.

Robert Williamson (molecular geneticist)

Robert Williamson, born 1938, is a human molecular geneticist who cloned the globin genes and mapped the cystic fibrosis gene, leading the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne.

Robert Yarchoan

Robert Yarchoan is an American physician-scientist at the National Cancer Institute who led the first trials of AZT, co-developed ddI and ddC, and has headed its HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch since 1996.

Robert Z. Orlowski

Robert Z. Orlowski is a physician-scientist at MD Anderson Cancer Center who led the first clinical studies of bortezomib and the IMROZ trial of isatuximab for multiple myeloma.

Robert Zeiser

Robert Zeiser (born 1975) is a German hematology and oncology physician-scientist at the University of Freiburg known for developing ruxolitinib therapy for steroid-refractory graft-versus-host disease.

Robert Zelis

Robert Zelis (1939–2021) was an American cardiologist and physician-scientist who spent 40 years at Penn State's Hershey Medical Center, arriving in 1974 as its second chief of cardiology.

Roberta A. Ballard

Roberta A. Ballard is an American neonatologist, emeritus professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, who led major trials on chronic lung disease in premature infants.

Roberta B. Ness

Roberta B. Ness is an American physician-epidemiologist known for women's health research, her deanship of the University of Texas School of Public Health, and advocacy of creative thinking in science.

Roberta Croce

Roberta Croce is an Italian biophysicist studying light harvesting in photosynthesis, professor at VU Amsterdam since 2011 and president of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research.

RobertA. Good

Robert A. Good (1922–2003) was an American pediatrician and immunologist at the University of Minnesota, widely described as a founder of modern immunology.

Roberto Bassi

Roberto Bassi, born in Vicenza in 1955, is an Italian plant biochemist and professor at the University of Verona known for work on photosynthesis and photoprotection.

Roberto Bolli

Roberto Bolli is an Italian-born American cardiologist and professor at the University of Louisville, known for work on myocardial stunning, ischemic preconditioning, and cardiac stem cells.

Roberto Bonasio

Roberto Bonasio is an Italian molecular biologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine who studies epigenetic memory, noncoding RNAs, and the social behavior of ants.

Roberto Cattaneo

Roberto Cattaneo is a Swiss-born virologist and professor at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for research on measles virus, including the host-exit receptor nectin-4.

Roberto Chiarle

Roberto Chiarle is an Italian molecular pathologist, Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School since 2020, known for ALK cancer vaccines, translocation sequencing, and founding ALKemist Bio.

Roberto Docampo

Roberto Docampo is an Argentine-trained parasitologist at the University of Georgia, recruited in 2005, known for discovering the acidocalcisome and for work on chemotherapy of parasitic diseases.

Roberto Ferrari (Italian cardiologist)

Roberto Ferrari is an Italian cardiologist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Ferrara, known for leading large trials of ivabradine and trimetazidine and for leading the European Society of Cardiology.

Roberto J. Poljak

Roberto J. Poljak is an Argentine-born biophysicist and structural immunologist who determined the first three-dimensional structure of an antibody fragment and of an antigen–antibody complex.