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Roberto Kolter
Roberto Kolter, born 1953, is a microbiologist who was a professor at Harvard Medical School from 1983 until 2018, known for work on bacterial biofilms, stationary-phase physiology, and interspecies interactions.
Roberto Malinow
Roberto Malinow, born 1956 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine-born American neuroscientist at UC San Diego known for showing that AMPA receptor movement underlies synaptic plasticity and memory.
Roberto Mantovani
Roberto Mantovani is an Italian molecular biologist, full professor of genetics at the University of Milan, whose career has centered on the CCAAT-binding transcription factor NF-Y.
Roberto Mayor
Roberto Mayor is a Chilean-born developmental biologist, professor at University College London, known for work on embryonic cell migration and the mechanical forces guiding it.
Roberto Montesano
Roberto Montesano (born 1948) is an Italian cell biologist who spent over three decades at the University of Geneva, where his 1990 and 1991 Cell papers identified hepatocyte growth factor as an epithelial morphogen.
Roberto Pacifici
Roberto Pacifici is an endocrinologist at Emory University School of Medicine and a founder of osteoimmunology, known for showing that T cells mediate estrogen and parathyroid hormone effects on bone.
Roberto Romero
Roberto Jose Romero-Galue is a Venezuelan-born physician-scientist who has led the NICHD Perinatology Research Branch since 1992 and showed vaginal progesterone cuts preterm birth by 45%.
Roberto Sitia
Roberto Sitia is an Italian cell biologist and professor emeritus at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, known for research on endoplasmic reticulum quality control and antibody secretion.
Roberto Solano
Roberto Solano (Roberto Solano Tavira) is a Spanish plant molecular biologist and CSIC Research Professor in Madrid, known for defining the jasmonate signaling pathway, including the JAZ repressors reported in Nature in 2007.
Roberto Zoncu
Roberto Zoncu is a cell biologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for establishing the lysosome as the signaling hub where mTORC1 senses nutrients.
Robertson Parkman
Robertson Parkman is a pediatric immunologist and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for his 1978 report that bone-marrow transplantation could correct the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.
Robin A. Weiss
Robin A. Weiss, also known as Robin Weiss, was a British virologist and Emeritus Professor of Viral Oncology at University College London, known for discovering endogenous retroviruses and identifying CD4 as the HIV receptor.
Robin C. Allshire
Robin C. Allshire is a molecular biologist and Professor of Chromosome Biology at the University of Edinburgh who studies how centromeres and heterochromatin are established and inherited.
Robin Carhart‐Harris
Robin Carhart-Harris is a British psychopharmacologist who studies psychedelic drugs and psilocybin therapy for depression, and has led psychedelic research centers at Imperial College London and UCSF.
Robin Dunbar
Robin Dunbar (R. I. M. Dunbar), British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist at Oxford, originator of the social brain hypothesis and Dunbar's number, the ~150 limit on stable human social relationships.
Robin F. Irvine
Robin F. Irvine (Robin Francis Irvine) is a biochemist who helped establish inositol trisphosphate as a calcium-mobilizing second messenger, working at the Babraham Institute and Cambridge.
Robin F. Krimm
Robin F. Krimm is an American neuroscientist at the University of Louisville known for research on the neurons that carry taste information to the brain.
Robin Fåhræus
Robin Fåhræus (1888–1968) was a Swedish pathologist and hematologist, professor at Uppsala, whose 1921 thesis established the ESR test and whose 1931 paper with Torsten Lindqvist identified the Fåhræus–Lindqvist effect.
Robin Foà
Robin Foà (born 1948) is an Italian hematologist and professor emeritus at Sapienza University of Rome who led chemotherapy-free protocols that changed the prognosis of Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Robin Franklin
Robin James Milroy Franklin, born in 1962, is a British stem cell biologist known for remyelination research, formerly a Cambridge professor and now at Altos Labs.
Robin Holliday
Robin Holliday (1932–2014) was a British molecular biologist who proposed the Holliday junction of genetic recombination in 1964 and later studied DNA methylation and aging.
Robin L. Bailey
Robin L. Bailey is a clinician-scientist and Professor of Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine whose 1993 trial showed single-dose azithromycin treats trachoma.
Robin Lester Carhart-Harris
Robin Lester Carhart-Harris is a British psychopharmacologist known for the entropic brain hypothesis, early brain-imaging studies of psychedelics, and psilocybin therapy trials for depression at Imperial College London and UCSF.
Robin Lovell‐Badge
Robin Lovell-Badge, born 1953, is a British developmental geneticist at the Francis Crick Institute known for discovering that the Y-chromosome gene Sry triggers testis development, and for work on embryo research policy.
Robin P. Wharton
Robin P. Wharton is an American molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor at Ohio State known for defining the Nanos and Pumilio machinery that patterns the Drosophila embryo.
Robin R. Ali
Robin R. Ali is a molecular geneticist who develops gene and cell therapies for inherited retinal disorders, leading the world's first retinal gene therapy trial in 2007.
Robin Reed (molecular biologist)
Robin Elizabeth Reed was an American molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School whose research defined pre-mRNA splicing and its coupling to mRNA export from the nucleus.
Robin Russell (Scottish gastroenterologist)
Robin Russell (1936–2018) was a Scottish consultant physician and gastroenterologist, head of gastroenterology at Glasgow Royal Infirmary from 1970, known for research on NSAID-induced gut damage, coeliac disease, and nutrition.
Robin S. Reid
Robin S. Reid is a Colorado State University professor and rangeland ecologist who studies pastoral social-ecological systems in East Africa and Mongolia, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Robin W. Carrell
Robin W. Carrell, born 1936, is a New Zealand haematologist who defined and named the serpins, proteins controlling blood coagulation, and founded the concept of conformational disease.