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Ronald Ross

Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932), British physician and Indian Medical Service officer, proved in 1897-1898 that mosquitoes transmit malaria, won the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and founded mathematical epidemiology of mosquito-borne disease.

Ronald S. Duman

Ronald S. Duman (1954–2020) was an American neuroscientist who spent over three decades at Yale School of Medicine studying stress, depression, and antidepressant action, proposing the neurotrophic hypothesis of depression.

Ronald S. Oremland

Ronald S. Oremland (1946–2021) was an American geomicrobiologist who spent 42 years at the U.S. Geological Survey, known for establishing microbial metabolism of arsenic, selenium, and methane.

Ronald Sederoff

Ronald Sederoff, born in 1939, is an American molecular geneticist who pioneered the molecular genetics of forest trees at North Carolina State University, winning the Marcus Wallenberg Prize in 2017.

Ronald T. Hay

Ronald T. Hay is a molecular biologist who holds the Chair of Molecular Biology at the University of Dundee, known for establishing SUMO conjugation as a regulatory mechanism in eukaryotes.

Ronald T. Raines

Ronald T. Raines is an American chemical biologist and protein chemist who has taught at MIT since 2017, after 28 years at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Ronald van Vollenhoven

Ronald F. van Vollenhoven (born 1960) is a Dutch rheumatologist, professor and chief of rheumatology at Amsterdam UMC since 2016, known for treat-to-target lupus recommendations and the 2025 telitacicept trial.

Ronald W. Busuttil

Ronald W. Busuttil is an American transplant surgeon and physician-scientist at UCLA, where he founded the liver transplant program in 1984 and led over 7,200 transplants.

Ronald W. Davis

Ronald W. Davis is an American geneticist and Stanford professor who directs the Stanford Genome Technology Center and helped make the Human Genome Project finish early and cheaply.

Ronald W. Estabrook

Ronald W. Estabrook (1926–2013) was an American biochemist best known for defining the enzymatic properties of cytochrome P450, central to drug metabolism, while chairing biochemistry at UT Southwestern in Dallas.

Ronald W. Oppenheim

Ronald W. Oppenheim (1938–2021) was an American developmental neuroscientist at Wake Forest University who showed how programmed cell death of spinal motoneurons is regulated in chick embryos.

Ronald Wetzel

Ronald Wetzel is an American structural biologist and protein aggregation researcher, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine known for work on amyloid and polyglutamine aggregation.

Ronald Worton

Ronald Worton, born in Winnipeg in 1942, is a Canadian geneticist who co-led the 1986 cloning of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene and later led the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.

Ronen Alon

Ronen Alon is an Israeli immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science who studies how white blood cells exit blood vessels at infection and cancer sites.

Ronen Marmorstein

Ronen Marmorstein is a structural biologist and George W. Raiziss Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the 1992 GAL4-DNA and 1999 GCN5 histone acetyltransferase structures.

Rong Fan

Rong Fan is a Yale biomedical engineer known for inventing spatial multi-omics sequencing technologies such as DBiT-seq and spatial-ATAC-seq, and for co-founding several biotech companies.

Rong Gong

Rong Gong is a Chinese systems neuroscientist who studies how hunger and thirst drive eating and drinking, and who leads a laboratory at the Chinese Institute for Brain Research in Beijing.

Rong Li

Rong Li (李榕) is a molecular and cell biologist known for showing that aneuploidy drives rapid cellular evolution; she directs the Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore.

Rong Tian

Rong Tian is a cardiac metabolism researcher who directs the Mitochondria and Metabolism Center at the University of Washington, studying energetic failure of the heart in heart failure.

Rong‐Fu Wang

Rong-Fu Wang is a cancer immunologist known for identifying the NY-ESO-1 cancer antigen and characterizing NLRC5, and a professor at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and USC since 2019.

Rongsheng Jin

Rongsheng Jin is a structural biologist who is Professor and Vice Chair of Physiology & Biophysics at UC Irvine, known for structural studies of botulinum neurotoxins.

Rongxin Fang

Rongxin Fang is a computational and single-cell genomics researcher and Stanford assistant professor of neurosurgery since 2025, known for SnapATAC, BRAIN Initiative brain cell atlases, and 3D MERFISH brain mapping.

Ronit Satchi‐Fainaro

Ronit Satchi-Fainaro (Hebrew: רונית סצ'י-פיינרו) is an Israeli nanomedicine professor at Tel Aviv University who heads its Cancer Research & Nanomedicine Laboratory and developed caplostatin for targeted cancer drug delivery.

Ronnie Coffman

Ronnie Coffman is an American plant breeder and agricultural scientist who bred rice at IRRI in the Philippines from 1971 to 1980, then led Cornell's international wheat-rust defense programs.

Rony Paz

Rony Paz (רוני פז, born 1971) is an Israeli systems neuroscientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science who studies the amygdala, aversive learning, and anxiety, and serves as a Vice President of the Institute.

Roop Mallik

Roop Mallik is an Indian biophysicist and IIT Bombay professor known for showing that cellular cargoes reverse direction through a tug-of-war between opposing molecular motors.

Rory Collins

Sir Rory Collins is a British epidemiologist at Oxford who led large statin trials and, from 2005, UK Biobank, a cohort of 500,000 people; he was knighted in 2011.

Rosa Cossart

Rosa Cossart is a French neuroscientist who studies how the neuronal circuits of memory develop, known for work on cortical attractor dynamics and GABAergic hub neurons.

Rosa Puertollano

Rosa Puertollano, full name Maria Rosa Puertollano Moro, is a Spanish-born cell biologist and Senior Investigator at NIH's NHLBI, known for work on GGA adaptors and TFEB regulation of lysosomes.

Rosa Rademakers

Rosa Rademakers is a Belgian-based neurogeneticist who directs the VIB-UAntwerp Center for Molecular Neurology and identified C9orf72 as the most common genetic cause of ALS and frontotemporal dementia.