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Ross Zafonte

Ross Zafonte is an American rehabilitation physician-scientist known for traumatic brain injury research, the textbook Brain Injury Medicine, and as principal investigator of Harvard's Football Players Health Study on former NFL players.

Roswell W. Phillips

Roswell W. Phillips was an American internal-medicine physician-scientist with the Department of Veterans Affairs, known for 1953 to 1956 papers showing cortisone reverses the hypercalcemia and kidney damage of sarcoidosis.

Rotem Sorek

Rotem Sorek (רותם סורק) is an Israeli microbial genomicist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for discovering dozens of bacterial antiphage defense systems.

Rowan T. Chlebowski

Rowan T. Chlebowski is an American hematologist-oncologist and UCLA professor whose Women's Health Initiative analyses showed estrogen plus progestin raises breast cancer risk while estrogen alone lowers it.

Rowland Biffen

Rowland Harry Biffen was a British geneticist and agricultural botanist at Cambridge who showed in 1912 that wheat's yellow rust resistance was inherited as a recessive Mendelian character.

Roxana Mehran

Roxana Mehran is an interventional cardiologist and clinical trialist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for her bleeding and kidney-injury risk scores.

Roy A. Mariuzza

Roy A. Mariuzza is a structural immunologist and professor at the University of Maryland, known for crystal structures of immune receptors including a 1996 Nature superantigen study.

Roy A. Wise

Roy A. Wise, also published as Roy Wise, is a Canadian behavioral neuroscientist known for the psychomotor stimulant theory of addiction and dopamine's role in reward.

Roy Cameron (pathologist)

Sir Gordon Roy Cameron (1899–1966) was an Australian-born pathologist, professor of morbid anatomy at University College Hospital from 1937 to 1964 and Founder President of the College of Pathologists.

Roy Curtiss

Roy Curtiss III, born 1934, is an American microbiologist and geneticist known for bacterial plasmid nomenclature and live Salmonella vaccines, now a professor at the University of Florida.

Roy Elwood Clausen

Roy Elwood Clausen was an American plant geneticist and cytogeneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for studies of Nicotiana and the textbook Genetics in Relation to Agriculture.

Roy F. Baumeister

Roy F. Baumeister, often cited as Roy Baumeister, is a social psychologist known for research on self-control, self-esteem, and the ego depletion model of willpower.

Roy F. Feemster

Roy F. Feemster was an American epidemiologist with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health who led the investigation of the 1938 eastern equine encephalomyelitis outbreak.

Roy Fleischmann

Roy Fleischmann is an American rheumatologist and clinical trialist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for pivotal rheumatoid arthritis drug trials.

Roy Freeman

Roy Freeman is an American neurologist, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, who directs the autonomic nerve unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Roy G. Smith

Roy G. Smith is an American endocrinology and metabolism researcher known for discovering the growth hormone secretagogue receptor, the receptor for ghrelin, and held professorships at Baylor College of Medicine and Scripps Research.

Roy H. Doi

Roy H. Doi (1933–2017) was an American microbiologist at the University of California, Davis, known for showing how Bacillus subtilis controls spore formation through sigma factors.

Roy H. Perlis

Roy H. Perlis (Roy Perlis) is an American psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who studies mood disorders, psychiatric genetics, and predicting treatment response.

Roy Hertz

Roy Hertz was an American endocrinologist and cancer researcher at the National Cancer Institute. With his colleague, he reported the first cure of gestational choriocarcinoma in 1956.

Roy J. Britten

Roy J. Britten (1919–2012) was an American molecular biologist at Caltech who discovered repeated DNA sequences in animal genomes using DNA renaturation kinetics, and proposed the Britten–Davidson gene regulation model.

Roy Kishony

Roy Kishony (רוי קישוני) is an Israeli-born biologist at the Technion and Harvard Medical School known for the MEGA-plate experiment filming antibiotic resistance evolving in real time.

Roy L. Silverstein

Roy L. Silverstein, also known as Roy Silverstein, is an American hematologist and cell biologist known for his work on the receptor CD36 in atherosclerosis and thrombosis.

Roy M. Anderson

Sir Roy Anderson (born 1947) is a British mathematical epidemiologist and parasitologist at Imperial College London, known for the 20/80 rule in disease transmission and pandemic modeling.

Roy M. Gulick

Roy M. Gulick, also known as Roy Gulick, is an American infectious-disease physician and HIV researcher who is Chief of Infectious Diseases at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Roy Parker (biochemist)

Roy Parker is an American RNA biologist known for identifying the major mRNA decay pathways and discovering P-bodies, and an HHMI investigator at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Roy R. Lobb

Roy R. Lobb is an immunologist and biotechnology executive who identified the VCAM-1/VLA-4 adhesion pathway enabling Tysabri, led research at Biogen, and co-founded Aleta Biotherapeutics.

Roy S. Herbst

Roy S. Herbst is an American medical oncologist specializing in lung cancer, chief of medical oncology at Yale Cancer Center and, from 2026, director of Dartmouth Cancer Center.

Roy Taylor (diabetologist)

Roy Taylor is a British diabetologist and Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Metabolism at Newcastle University, known for the DiRECT trial showing weight loss puts type 2 diabetes into remission.

Roy Yorke Calne

Roy Yorke Calne (1930–2024) was a British transplant surgeon who performed Europe's first liver transplant in 1968, led the first clinical use of cyclosporin, and shared the 2012 Lasker Award.

Royal Alexander Brink

Royal Alexander Brink (1897–1984) was a Canadian-born American plant geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, best known for discovering paramutation in maize and breeding Vernal alfalfa.