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Ronald Dubner

Ronald Dubner (1934–2023) was an American pain researcher who led NIH's first pain research laboratory and later chaired pain sciences at the University of Maryland.

Ronald F. Dorfman

Ronald F. Dorfman was a South African-born American pathologist, an emeritus Stanford professor who helped establish hematopathology as a field, described Rosai-Dorfman disease, and died in 2012 aged 89.

Ronald Finn

Ronald Finn (1930–2004) was a British physician and researcher in Liverpool who, with Sir Cyril Clarke, developed anti-D prophylaxis, the "Liverpool shot" preventing Rhesus disease in newborns, sharing the 1980 Lasker Award.

Ronald G. Crystal

Ronald G. Crystal is an American physician-scientist in pulmonary medicine and gene therapy who developed the FDA-approved therapy for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and pioneered human adenovirus gene transfer.

Ronald G. Haller

Ronald G. Haller is a neurologist and professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who directs a neuromuscular center and studies metabolic myopathies, including McArdle disease.

Ronald G. Strauss

Ronald G. Strauss was an American transfusion medicine physician and pediatric hematologist at the University of Iowa known for trials reshaping transfusion practice in premature infants.

Ronald G. Victor

Ronald G. Victor, also known as Ronald Victor, was an American cardiologist and hypertension researcher whose barbershop trials brought blood pressure in Black men under control.

Ronald H. Gray

Ronald H. Gray is an Australian-born reproductive epidemiologist, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health known for HIV research in Rakai, Uganda.

Ronald H. Reeder

Ronald H. Reeder (1939–2019) was an American molecular biologist who studied ribosomal RNA gene transcription, working at Carnegie and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

Ronald H. Schwartz

Ronald H. Schwartz is an American immunologist at NIH known for the 1986 ternary complex model of T-cell recognition and for defining T cell anergy.

Ronald H.A. Plasterk

Ronald Plasterk (born 1957) is a Dutch molecular biologist known for work on transposons and RNA interference in C. elegans, who later served twice as a Dutch minister.

Ronald J. Falk

Ronald J. Falk is an American nephrologist at the UNC School of Medicine whose 1988 identification of MPO-ANCAs reshaped diagnosis of small-vessel vasculitis; he chaired UNC's Department of Medicine until 2025.

Ronald J. Konopka

Ronald J. Konopka (1947–2015) was an American geneticist who, as a graduate student in Seymour Benzer's Caltech laboratory, isolated the first circadian clock mutants in fruit flies and named the period gene.

Ronald J. Sokol

Ronald J. Sokol is an American pediatric gastroenterologist and hepatologist at the University of Colorado whose research established vitamin E deficiency as a treatable cause of neurologic disease.

Ronald J. Wapner

Ronald J. Wapner is an American maternal-fetal medicine specialist and reproductive geneticist who directs reproductive genetics at Columbia University, pioneered chorionic villus sampling, and led landmark prenatal diagnosis trials.

Ronald John Weigel

Ronald John Weigel is an American surgeon-scientist known for research on hormone response in breast cancer and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018.

Ronald Klein

Ronald Klein was an American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who led the Beaver Dam Eye Study and the Wisconsin Epidemiologic Study of Diabetic Retinopathy.

Ronald Kluger

Ronald Kluger is a chemist and professor at the University of Toronto known for research on thiamin diphosphate enzymes and hemoglobin-based red blood cell substitutes.

Ronald L. Davis

Ronald L. Davis is an American neuroscientist known for five decades of research on learning and memory in the fruit fly, including the dopamine-based mechanism of active forgetting.

Ronald L. Nagel

Ronald L. Nagel (1936–2016) was a hematologist and geneticist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx who published over 300 papers on sickle cell disease and hemoglobin.

Ronald L. Phillips

Ronald L. Phillips (1940–2023) was an American maize geneticist at the University of Minnesota who first regenerated fertile corn plants from tissue culture in 1975.

Ronald Levy (oncologist)

Ronald Levy, born in 1941, is an American medical oncologist and Stanford professor who pioneered monoclonal antibody therapy for lymphoma and helped develop rituximab, the first FDA-approved antibody cancer drug.

Ronald M. Bukowski

Ronald M. Bukowski is an American medical oncologist who specialized in genitourinary cancers at the Cleveland Clinic and co-led the TARGET trial, which established sorafenib for advanced kidney cancer.

Ronald M. Evans

Ronald M. Evans is an American molecular biologist at the Salk Institute known for discovering the nuclear hormone receptor superfamily, gene-regulating proteins targeted by many drugs.

Ronald M. Summers

Ronald M. Summers is an American radiologist and tenured Senior Investigator at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he directs the Imaging Biomarkers and Computer-Aided Diagnosis Laboratory.

Ronald N. Germain

Ronald N. Germain is an American immunologist who leads the Laboratory of Immune System Biology at NIAID, NIH, and studies how MHC presents antigen to T cells.

Ronald N. Zuckermann

Ronald N. Zuckermann is a bioorganic and biomimetic polymer chemist, a Researcher Emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Molecular Foundry, known for inventing peptoids and building them into two-dimensional nanosheets.

Ronald P. DeMatteo

Ronald P. DeMatteo is an American surgical oncologist who chairs surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and led the ACOSOG Z9001 imatinib trial for GIST.

Ronald P. Mason

Ronald P. Mason is an American physical chemist who spent his career at NIEHS in North Carolina, detecting free radicals in biological systems and inventing immuno-spin trapping.

Ronald R. Hoy

Ronald R. Hoy is an American biologist and emeritus Cornell University professor known for discovering the praying mantis's single midline ear and for research on insect hearing.