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Roman Kozłowski

Roman Kozłowski (1889–1977) was a Polish paleontologist, professor at the University of Warsaw and founder of Polish paleontology, who established graptolites as pterobranchs within the phylum Hemichordata.

Romina Libster

Romina Libster is an Argentine pediatrician and researcher at Fundación INFANT in Buenos Aires who led major trials of maternal RSV vaccination and COVID-19 convalescent plasma therapy.

Ron Do

Ron Do is a Canadian-trained computational geneticist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for the ISCAD coronary artery disease score and the MR-PRESSO method.

Ron Fouchier

Ron Fouchier is a Dutch virologist, professor of Molecular Virology at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, known for H5N1 airborne-transmission experiments in ferrets and identifying the MERS coronavirus.

Ron McKay

Ron McKay, also known as Ronald D. G. McKay, is a stem cell neurobiologist who was Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at NINDS from 1993.

Ron Milo

Ron Milo is an Israeli systems biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for the BioNumbers database, the global biomass census, and CO₂-growing E. coli.

Ron Mittler

Ron Mittler, a distinguished plant biologist and professor at the University of Missouri, is recognized for his work on abiotic stress combination and reactive oxygen species signaling.

Ron O. Dror

Ron O. Dror is a computational biologist and computer scientist, the Cheriton Family Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University since 2014, known for molecular dynamics simulations of G protein-coupled receptors.

Ron R. Kopito

Ron R. Kopito is an American cell biologist and Stanford professor known for work on protein quality control and for introducing the concept of the aggresome.

Ron Shamir

Ron Shamir (born 1953) is an Israeli computer scientist and computational biologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University, known for the SAMBA biclustering algorithm and the Expander platform.

Ron T. Gansevoort

Ron T. Gansevoort is a Dutch nephrologist and professor at the University of Groningen known for chronic kidney disease screening and polycystic kidney disease research.

Ron Waksman

Ron Waksman is an interventional cardiologist and researcher at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC, known for developing vascular brachytherapy to treat restenosis in stented arteries.

Ronald A. Arky

Ronald A. Arky is an American endocrinologist specializing in diabetes and metabolism who holds a distinguished professorship at Harvard Medical School and practices in Boston.

Ronald A. Butow

Ronald A. Butow is a molecular biologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center known for discovering retrograde signaling from yeast mitochondria to the nucleus.

Ronald A. DePinho

Ronald A. DePinho is an American cancer biologist known for telomere and telomerase research who served as president of MD Anderson Cancer Center from 2011 to 2017.

Ronald A. Laskey

Ronald A. Laskey, born 1945, is a British cell biologist and Emeritus Charles Darwin Professor at Cambridge, known for work on DNA replication control and cancer screening.

Ronald A. Malt

Ronald A. Malt (1931–2002) was an American surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard professor who led the first successful reattachment of a completely severed human limb, in 1962.

Ronald A. Milligan

Ronald A. Milligan, born 1954, is a Northern Ireland-born structural biologist at Scripps Research known for cryo-electron microscopy of molecular motors and the nuclear pore complex.

Ronald A. Yankee

Ronald A. Yankee was a physician-scientist in hematology and transfusion medicine who pioneered selecting platelet donors by HL-A matching, showing matched platelets restore responses in refractory patients.

Ronald B. Herberman

Ronald B. Herberman was an American immunologist credited with the discovery of natural killer cells and founding director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.

Ronald Benner

Ronald Benner is an oceanographer and biogeochemist, Carolina Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina, known for the size-reactivity continuum hypothesis of oceanic dissolved organic matter.

Ronald Breaker

Ronald R. Breaker is an American RNA biologist, Sterling Professor at Yale University, who discovered riboswitches, metabolite-sensing RNAs that control gene expression, and created the first catalytic DNAs.

Ronald C. Desrosiers

Ronald C. Desrosiers is an American virologist who led the team that discovered simian immunodeficiency virus in 1984, the monkey virus closely related to HIV.

Ronald C. Kennedy

Ronald C. Kennedy, also known as Ronald Kennedy, was an American virus immunologist whose 1986 Science paper showed an anti-idiotypic antibody vaccine protected chimpanzees from hepatitis B.

Ronald C. Kessler

Ronald C. Kessler is an American psychiatric epidemiologist, McNeil Family Professor at Harvard Medical School, who led the US National Comorbidity Survey of mental disorders.

Ronald C. Petersen

Ronald C. Petersen is an American neurologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, best known for establishing mild cognitive impairment as a recognized diagnostic category.

Ronald Conaway

Ronald Conaway is an American biochemist and molecular biologist who discovered transcription factors controlling RNA polymerase II and the elongation factor elongin, working at the Stowers Institute from 2001 to 2021.

Ronald D. Vale

Ronald D. Vale is an American cell biologist and biochemist who co-discovered the motor protein kinesin as a graduate student and won the 2012 Lasker Award.

Ronald D.G. McKay

Ronald D.G. McKay, also known as Ronald D. McKay, is a stem cell biologist and neuroscientist who identified stem cells in the mammalian central nervous system.

Ronald de Wit

Ronald de Wit is a Dutch genitourinary medical oncologist and professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, known for trials establishing docetaxel, cabazitaxel, and pembrolizumab in urologic cancers.