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Rosalind A. Eeles

Rosalind A. Eeles, known as Ros Eeles, is a British clinical oncologist and cancer geneticist, Professor of Oncogenetics at the Institute of Cancer Research in London.

Rosalind A. Segal

Rosalind A. Segal, also known as Roz Segal, is an American neurobiologist and cancer researcher at Dana-Farber, known for work on Sonic Hedgehog signaling in medulloblastoma.

Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920–1958), British X-ray crystallographer; her Photo 51 and MRC data underpinned the 1953 DNA double helix model; also coal, carbon, and virus research.

Rosalind Lee

Rosalind (Candy) Lee is a biomedical scientist who co-discovered lin-4, the first microRNA described, and is a senior scientist in Victor Ambros's lab at UMass Chan Medical School.

Rosalind Raine

Rosalind Raine is a British applied health researcher who is Professor of Health Care Evaluation at University College London and directs the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North Thames.

Rosalind W. Picard

Rosalind W. Picard is an American scientist and engineer at the MIT Media Lab who founded the field of affective computing and co-founded the companies Affectiva and Empatica.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American medical physicist who, with Solomon A. Berson, developed radioimmunoassay for measuring hormones, winning the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Rosalynn M. Nazarian

Rosalynn M. Nazarian is an American dermatopathologist, formerly at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, now Professor of Dermatology and Pathology at Boston University School of Medicine.

Rosandra N. Kaplan

Rosandra N. Kaplan is a physician scientist in pediatric oncology and metastasis biology at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for originating the pre-metastatic niche concept in 2005.

Rosanna Ŵ. Peeling

Rosanna Ŵ. Peeling, also published as Rosanna W. Peeling, is a Canadian medical microbiologist who developed the ASSURED criteria and the evidence base for rapid syphilis testing.

Rosario Rizzuto

Rosario Rizzuto, born in Rome in 1962, is an Italian physician-scientist and professor of General Pathology at the University of Padua, known for mitochondrial calcium signaling research.

Roscoe O. Brady

Roscoe O. Brady (1923–2016) was an American physician-biochemist at NIH who identified the enzyme defects behind Gaucher, Fabry, and Tay-Sachs diseases and developed the first effective enzyme replacement therapy for Gaucher disease.

Rose E. Frisch

Rose E. Frisch, born Rose Epstein (1918–2015), was an American biologist at Harvard whose research showed that a woman's body fat governs the onset of female fertility.

Rose G. Schneider

Rose G. Schneider (1908–2003) was a Russian-born American medical researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, whose work on abnormal hemoglobins underpinned newborn screening.

Rose Marie Robertson

Rose Marie Robertson is an American cardiologist, a Vanderbilt professor who co-founded the first clinic devoted to autonomic disorders, and was American Heart Association president in 2000–2001.

Rose Zamoyska

Rose Zamoyska is an immunologist and Professor of Immune Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh, known for cloning the CD8 gene and work on T cell signaling and autoimmunity.

RoseJ. Randall

Rose J. Randall, known as Posey, was an American pharmacology researcher at Johns Hopkins and Washington University, and fourth co-author of the 1951 Lowry protein assay paper.

Roselinde Kaiser

Roselinde Henderson Kaiser is an American clinical psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies how depression emerges in adolescence and guides treatment.

Rosella Gallo

Rosella Gallo is an Italian dermatologist specializing in allergological dermatology and patch testing, who led the Allergology Outpatient Clinic in Genoa from 1995 to 2022.

Rosemary D. Higgins

Rosemary D. Higgins is an American neonatologist and perinatal researcher who has been Associate Vice President for Research at Florida Gulf Coast University since 2022.

Rosemary Grant

Rosemary Grant, born 1936, is a British evolutionary biologist at Princeton known for decades of research on Darwin's finches in the Galápagos with her husband Peter.

Rosemary J. Akhurst

Rosemary J. Akhurst is a cancer biologist and Professor In Residence at UCSF whose work showed TGFβ both suppresses and promotes tumors, informing Novartis and Pfizer trials.

Rosemary Tambouret

Rosemary Tambouret is a cytopathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, known for her work on cervical glandular lesions and screening in low-resource settings.

Roser Vento-Tormo

Roser Vento-Tormo is a computational biologist who has led a research group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge since 2019, known for CellPhoneDB and placenta atlases.

Ross Cagan

Ross L. Cagan is an American biologist at the University of Glasgow who models human cancers in fruit flies and helped bring the first FDA-approved drug for medullary thyroid carcinoma.

Ross E. Rocklin

Ross E. Rocklin is an immunologist who worked at Harvard hospitals, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and Tufts Medical Center, publishing in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Ross Granville Harrison

Ross Granville Harrison (1870–1959) was an American embryologist and zoologist at Yale who performed the first successful cultures of animal tissue in 1907, founding the technique of tissue culture.

Ross Hardison

Ross C. Hardison is an American biochemist and molecular biologist at Penn State known for work on gene regulation, comparative genomics, and the ENCODE project.

Ross J. Baldessarini

Ross J. Baldessarini (born 1937) is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, known for research on antipsychotic and mood-altering medicines and bipolar disorder.

Ross L. Levine

Ross L. Levine is an American physician-scientist who studies and treats myeloid malignancies, helped discover the JAK2 V617F mutation, and became Chief Scientific Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2025.