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Roger R. Reddel

Roger R. Reddel is an Australian medical oncologist and cancer researcher known for discovering alternative lengthening of telomeres, and Executive Director of the Children's Medical Research Institute in Sydney since 2007.

Roger Ratcliff

Roger Ratcliff (born 1947) is an American cognitive psychologist at Ohio State, known for the diffusion model of two-choice decision making and his 1978 theory of memory retrieval.

Roger S. Blumenthal

Roger S. Blumenthal is an American cardiologist who directs the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and co-chaired the 2019 ACC/AHA primary prevention guideline.

Roger S. Lo

Roger S. Lo, also known as Roger Lo, is a UCLA physician-scientist who studies melanoma resistance to targeted therapies; his work provided the rationale for combining BRAF and MEK inhibitors.

Roger S. Rittmaster

Roger S. Rittmaster is an endocrinologist known for research on 5α-reductase inhibitors and prostate cancer chemoprevention, who worked at Dalhousie University from 1985 to 1999 and helped design the REDUCE trial at GlaxoSmithKline.

Roger Stupp

Roger Stupp is a Swiss neuro-oncologist and Chief of Neuro-oncology at Northwestern University, known for the Stupp protocol, the global standard glioblastoma treatment since 2005.

Roger T. Hanlon

Roger T. Hanlon is an ethologist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, who has spent over three decades studying cephalopod camouflage, classifying body patterns into uniform, mottle, and disruptive classes.

Roger W. Hendrix

Roger W. Hendrix was an American microbiologist at the University of Pittsburgh who studied the structure, assembly, genomics, and evolution of bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria.

Roger W. Innes

Roger W. Innes is an American plant molecular biologist at Indiana University Bloomington, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025 for work on plant immunity.

Roger W. Sperry

Roger W. Sperry, also known as Roger Sperry, was an American neurobiologist at Caltech who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize for split-brain research and proposed the chemoaffinity hypothesis.

Roger Y. Stanier

Roger Y. Stanier (1916–1982) was a Canadian microbiologist at the University of California, Berkeley and later the Institut Pasteur, known for the 1962 prokaryote concept and for reorganizing cyanobacteria.

Roger Y. Tsien

Roger Y. Tsien (1952–2016) was an American biochemist at UC San Diego who designed fluorescent molecules for imaging living cells and shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Rogier Versteeg

Rogier Versteeg (born 1955) is a Dutch cancer biologist who has led the Department of Oncogenomics at Amsterdam UMC since 2003, known for neuroblastoma research.

Rogier W. Sanders

Rogier W. Sanders, born 1975, is a virologist and full professor at Amsterdam UMC and Weill Cornell Medicine, known for pre-fusion protein stabilization built into COVID-19 vaccines.

Rohini Kuner

Rohini Kuner is a German-based neuroscientist and pharmacologist who directs the Institute of Pharmacology at Heidelberg University and studies the mechanisms by which acute pain becomes chronic, winning the 2024 Leibniz Prize.

Rohit Loomba

Rohit Loomba is an American hepatologist at UC San Diego who runs clinical trials of treatments for fatty liver disease and helped establish MRI-based measures of liver fat.

Rohit Pappu

Rohit Pappu, also known as Rohit V. Pappu, is a biophysicist at Washington University in St. Louis known for work on intrinsically disordered proteins and biomolecular condensates.

Rohit Varma

Rohit Varma is an American ophthalmologist and eye-disease epidemiologist who led the Los Angeles Latino Eye Study and became founding director of the Southern California Eye Institute.

Roland Baron

Roland Baron is a bone biologist and physician-scientist, professor at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for research on osteoclasts and Pyle's disease.

Roland C. Blantz

Roland C. Blantz (1940–2017) was an American nephrologist and physician-scientist at UCSD and the San Diego VA hospital, known for renal vascular physiology and tubuloglomerular feedback research.

Roland Douce

Roland Douce (1939–2018) was a French plant biochemist who established the chloroplast envelope as a subject of biochemical study and showed it is the site of galactolipid synthesis.

Roland E. Schmieder

Roland E. Schmieder, also known as Roland Schmieder, is a German physician-scientist and professor of hypertension at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen who led the SPYRAL HTN renal denervation trials.

Roland Kanaar

Roland Kanaar is a Dutch molecular biologist at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam who heads the Molecular Genetics department and showed that homologous recombination repairs radiation-induced DNA breaks in mammalian cells.

Roland Lill

Roland Lill (born 1955) is a German cell biologist at Philipps-Universität Marburg whose group discovered in 1999 that mitochondria's essential function is synthesizing iron–sulfur clusters.

Roland M. du Bois

Roland M. du Bois, often cited as Ron du Bois, is a British pulmonologist specializing in interstitial lung disease, especially idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and sarcoidosis.

Roland M. Schmid

Roland M. Schmid is a German internist and pancreatic cancer researcher, professor and director of the II. Medical Clinic at the Technical University of Munich since 2002.

Roland M. Tisch

Roland M. Tisch is an immunologist and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill known for research on immune tolerance and type 1 diabetes.

Roland Martinꝉ

Roland Martin is a neuroimmunologist and physician-scientist known for his work on the immunology of multiple sclerosis, and professor emeritus at the University of Zurich.

Roland R. Griffiths

Roland R. Griffiths (1946–2023) was an American psychopharmacologist at Johns Hopkins whose 2006 psilocybin study restarted modern psychedelic research; he founded its Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research in 2019.

Roland Rad

Roland Rad is a physician-scientist, professor of Molecular Oncology and Functional Genomics at the Technical University of Munich, known for genetic screening studies of cancer evolution, metastasis, and drug resistance.