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Robley Cook Williams
Robley Cook Williams (1908–1995) was an American biophysicist and virologist who pioneered electron microscopy of viruses and in 1955 took part in the first reconstitution of an infectious virus from its purified components.
Robyn J. Barst
Robyn J. Barst was an American pediatric cardiologist at Columbia University who pioneered drug treatment and registry-based research for pulmonary arterial hypertension in children, directing its center from 1987.
Robyn L. Ward
Robyn L. Ward is an Australian oncology researcher who showed some hereditary colorectal cancer is caused by inherited MLH1 epimutations, and later served as a senior university research leader.
Robyn Norton
Robyn Norton is an Australian epidemiologist who co-founded The George Institute for Global Health in Sydney in 1999, known for work on injury prevention, road deaths, and women's health.
Rocco Vergallo
Rocco Vergallo is an Italian interventional cardiologist at the University of Genoa known for coronary imaging research and his 2020 NEJM review Atherosclerotic Plaque Healing.
Rochelle Walensky
Rochelle Walensky, American infectious disease physician, 19th CDC Director (January 2021–June 2023) and ninth ATSDR administrator; Harvard Medical School professor and MGH infectious diseases chief known for HIV cost-effectiveness research.
Rod Bremner
Rod Bremner is a molecular biologist at Toronto's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute known for work on the RB tumor suppressor pathway in retinoblastoma and the YAPon/YAPoff cancer classification.
Rod Jackson (epidemiologist)
Rod Jackson (Rodney T. Jackson) is a New Zealand epidemiologist and professor at the University of Auckland who led the PREDICT cohort study and developed New Zealand's national cardiovascular risk prediction equations, endorsed in 2018.
Roderic Alfred Gregory
Roderic Alfred Gregory was a British physiologist who isolated gastrin, the hormone stimulating gastric acid secretion, at the University of Liverpool, earning election as FRS in 1965.
Roderic Guigó
Roderic Guigó is a Spanish computational biologist who leads an RNA processing lab at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona and took part in the human genome project and ENCODE.
Roderich D. Süßmuth
Roderich D. Süßmuth is a German chemist and professor of biological chemistry at TU Berlin, known for peptide antibiotics and solving the structure of albicidin.
Roderick K. Clayton
Roderick K. Clayton (1922–2011) was an American biophysicist at Cornell University who first isolated the bacterial photosynthetic reaction center in 1968, work that underpinned the 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Roderick MacKinnon
Roderick MacKinnon (born 1956) is an American structural biologist at Rockefeller University who won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining ion channel structures.
Roderick R. McInnes
Roderick R. McInnes is a Canadian human geneticist, the Alva Chair in Human Genetics at McGill University, known for work on eye development genes and inherited retinal degeneration.
Rodger P. McEver
Rodger P. McEver, born 1948 in New Orleans, is an American hematologist known for discovering P-selectin and PSGL-1 during 36 years at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.
Rodney A. Hayward
Rodney A. Hayward is an American physician and health services researcher, professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, known for the VA Diabetes Trial follow-ups and quality measurement research.
Rodney B. Croteau
Rodney B. Croteau is a biochemist at Washington State University's Institute of Biological Chemistry, known for working out how plants make terpenoids and for isolating the first taxol gene.
Rodney Craig Scott
Rodney Craig Scott (Rod C. Scott) is a pediatric epileptologist and physician-scientist who leads the NLSTEPSS childhood status epilepticus study and a 2025 NIH neurostimulation award.
Rodney E. Phillips
Rodney E. Phillips is an Australian immunologist who spent 35 years at Oxford, where his group first described how HIV evades cytotoxic T cells, before becoming Dean of UNSW Medicine.
Rodney H. Falk
Rodney H. Falk is a British-trained cardiologist who directed the Cardiac Amyloidosis Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and is known for his research on cardiac amyloidosis.
Rodney K. Tweten
Rodney K. Tweten is an American microbiologist at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center who studies bacterial pore-forming toxins and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.
Rodney R. Porter
Rodney R. Porter, also known as Rodney Robert Porter, was a British biochemist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for determining the chemical structure of antibodies.
Rodney Rothstein
Rodney Rothstein is an American geneticist at Columbia University known for work on DNA repair and genome stability, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Rodolfo Dirzo
Rodolfo Dirzo is a Mexican-born ecologist, the Bing Professor at Stanford University, best known for the concept of defaunation, the loss of animal populations from ecosystems.
Rodolfo Llinás
Rodolfo Llinás, born 1934 in Bogotá, Colombia, is a Colombian-American neuroscientist at NYU School of Medicine known for work on intrinsic neuron electrophysiology, the thalamocortical system, and magnetoencephalography.
Rodolphe Barrangou
Rodolphe Barrangou is a French-born food scientist at North Carolina State University who established CRISPR as bacteria's adaptive immune system, leading the 2007 Science paper proving it.
Rodrigo Bravo
Rodrigo Bravo is a molecular biologist known for work on actin isoforms, PCNA, c-fos induction, and the 1995 RelB knockout mouse study, done at Aarhus University, EMBL, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Rodrigo López
Rodrigo López is a veterinarian-turned-bioinformatician who worked at EMBL-EBI from 1995 to 2022, leading the External Service Team and helping build EBI Search and InterProScan.
Roel Nusse
Roel Nusse, also known as Roeland Nusse, is a Dutch-born developmental biologist at Stanford University who discovered the first Wnt gene and won the 2017 Breakthrough Prize.
Roel Verhaak
Roel Verhaak, born 1976, is a Dutch cancer genomics researcher and Professor of Neurosurgery at Yale known for defining the gene expression subtypes of glioblastoma, called the Verhaak subtypes.