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Roger A. Garrett

Roger A. Garrett is a molecular biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Copenhagen who led the Danish Archaea Center and co-edited the 2006 volume Archaea: Evolution, Physiology, and Molecular Biology.

Roger A. Greenberg

Roger A. Greenberg, also published as Roger Greenberg, is an American cancer biologist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies DNA repair and telomere maintenance in cancer cells.

Roger A. Nicoll

Roger A. Nicoll is an American neuroscientist, professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, whose laboratory established that long-term potentiation, a basis of learning and memory, is expressed by delivering AMPA receptors to synapses.

Roger A. Pedersen

Roger A. Pedersen (1944–2025) was an American stem cell biologist who discovered epiblast stem cells and pioneered human embryonic stem cell research at UCSF, Cambridge, and Stanford.

Roger A. Warnke

Roger A. Warnke, also published as Roger Warnke, is a Stanford hematopathologist, Ronald F. Dorfman Professor Emeritus, known for diagnosing lymphomas with immunologic markers and monoclonal antibodies.

Roger B. H. Tootell

Roger B. H. Tootell is a visual neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and the Martinos Center who maps the primate visual cortex with fMRI, in humans and monkeys.

Roger Barker

Roger A. Barker is Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, specializing in Parkinson's disease and leading the STEM-PD stem cell therapy trial.

Roger Bouillon

Roger Bouillon is a Belgian endocrinologist who spent his career at KU Leuven studying vitamin D and bone metabolism, and led the 2001 Leuven intensive insulin therapy trials.

Roger Brent

Roger Brent is an American molecular biologist, Professor Emeritus at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, known for work on gene regulation, two-hybrid methods, and quantitative cell signaling.

Roger Chalkley

Roger Chalkley is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Vanderbilt University, known for research on chromatin structure and histone deposition during DNA replication.

Roger Chou

Roger Chou is a physician-researcher in evidence-based medicine and pain management at Oregon Health & Science University, director of its Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center since 2012.

Roger D. Cone

Roger D. Cone is an American molecular physiologist and neuroscientist known for cloning the melanocortin receptors and showing how the brain's central melanocortin system regulates body weight, work that led to obesity drugs.

Roger D. Kamm

Roger D. Kamm, also published as R. D. Kamm, is an American biomedical engineer at MIT who pioneered mechanobiology and microfluidic devices modeling tumor vessels and the blood-brain barrier.

Roger D. Kornberg

Roger D. Kornberg, born 1947 in St. Louis, is an American biochemist and structural biologist at Stanford who won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of eukaryotic transcription.

Roger Eckert

Roger Eckert (1934–1986) was an American cellular neurobiologist and UCLA professor who showed that calcium ions entering a cell couple stimulation to the beating of cilia and flagella.

Roger Gautheret

Roger Gautheret was a French biologist and botanist who developed plant tissue culture techniques, achieving continuous growth of plant cells outside the organism in 1939.

Roger Goldstein

Roger S. Goldstein is a respirologist at West Park Healthcare Centre and professor at the University of Toronto whose trials and 1996 Lancet meta-analysis established pulmonary rehabilitation as evidence-based care in COPD.

Roger Goody

Roger S. Goody (born 1944) is a British biochemist who led physical biochemistry at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund from 1993 to 2013.

Roger Guillemin

Roger Guillemin was a French-born American neuroendocrinologist at the Salk Institute who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize for identifying hypothalamic hormones, isolating thyrotropin-releasing hormone, somatostatin, and endorphins.

Roger H. Unger

Roger H. Unger (1924–2020) was an American endocrinologist and diabetes researcher at UT Southwestern in Dallas, known for the first glucagon radioimmunoassay and the bihormonal hypothesis.

Roger Hällgren

Roger Hällgren is a Swedish physician-scientist and professor of rheumatology at Akademiska sjukhuset in Uppsala, known for a 1990 New England Journal of Medicine study on complement proteins in Crohn's disease.

Roger Hardie

Roger Hardie is a Cambridge cellular neuroscientist who identified the Drosophila trp gene as encoding a light-activated calcium channel, founding the TRP ion channel family.

Roger I. Glass

Roger I. Glass is an American infectious disease epidemiologist known for rotavirus vaccine research and for directing the NIH's Fogarty International Center from 2006 to 2023.

Roger J. Hajjar

Roger J. Hajjar, also known as Roger Hajjar, is an American cardiologist and gene therapy researcher who directs the Gene and Cell Therapy Institute at Mass General Brigham in Boston.

Roger J. Pomerantz

Roger J. Pomerantz is an American physician-scientist and virologist known for HIV-1 latency and reservoir research at Thomas Jefferson University, later an executive at Tibotec and Merck.

Roger Lester

Roger Lester is a physician-scientist in pediatrics and hepatology who established how newborns handle bilirubin and bile salts, and how alcohol affects male sexual function.

Roger M. Perlmutter

Roger M. Perlmutter is an American immunologist and physician-scientist who defined tyrosine kinase signaling in lymphocytes and led research and development at Amgen and Merck, overseeing Keytruda.

Roger N. Beachy

Roger N. Beachy is an American plant virologist and biotechnologist at Washington University in St. Louis, known for creating the first virus-resistant transgenic food crops.

Roger O. McClellan

Roger O. McClellan is an American inhalation toxicologist who led the Lovelace institute in Albuquerque and the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1990.

Roger Patient

Roger K. Patient is a molecular biologist and Visiting Professor of Developmental Genetics at Oxford, known for work on globin genes and blood origins in Xenopus frogs.