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Rudolph M. Navari

Rudolph M. Navari is an American medical oncologist and supportive-care researcher known for the 2016 New England Journal of Medicine trial showing olanzapine improves nausea control in chemotherapy.

Rudolph Peters

Sir Rudolph Albert Peters was a British biochemist who held the Whitley Chair at Oxford from 1923 and led the team that discovered the antidote British Anti-Lewisite.

Rudolph Schoenheimer

Rudolph Schoenheimer (1898–1941) was a German-born American biochemist who introduced stable-isotope tracers into metabolic research, establishing the dynamic state of body constituents, the foundation of quantitative metabolic studies.

Rudolph Tanzi

Rudolph Tanzi, born 1958, is an American neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard known for discovering Alzheimer's genes like APP and presenilins and for the Alzheimer's Genome Project.

Rueyling Lin (林瑞玲)

Rueyling Lin (林瑞玲) is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for her research on C. elegans developmental genetics.

Rufus Cole

Rufus Cole (1872–1966) was an American physician and the first director of the Rockefeller Institute Hospital, who developed the first effective serum treatment for lobar pneumonia.

Rugang Zhang

Rugang Zhang is a cancer biologist known for showing that EZH2 inhibition kills ARID1A-mutated ovarian cancer cells; since 2023 he has chaired Experimental Therapeutics at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Ruggero De Maria

Ruggero De Maria is an Italian oncology researcher and full professor of General Pathology at the Università Cattolica in Rome, known for identifying colon-cancer-initiating cells in 2007.

Ruggero Oddi

Ruggero Oddi (1864–1913) was an Italian physiologist who, as a medical student in Perugia, discovered the sphincter of Oddi and performed the first biliary manometry.

Ruhong Zhou

Ruhong Zhou (周如鸿) is a Chinese computational biologist and biophysicist, Qiushi Chair Professor and Dean at Zhejiang University, who shared the 2009 National Medal of Technology for the Blue Gene supercomputer.

Rui Benedito

Rui Benedito, born in Lisbon in 1979, is a Portuguese vascular biologist known for work on Notch and VEGF signaling in angiogenesis and genetic mosaic tools.

Rui-Ming Xu

Rui-Ming Xu (许瑞明) is a Chinese structural biologist who uses X-ray crystallography to study chromatin-modifying enzymes, and a professor at the Institute of Biophysics in Beijing.

Ruijiang Li

Ruijiang Li is a Stanford Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology who develops AI foundation models for precision oncology, including MUSK, published in Nature in 2025.

Ruma Banerjee

Ruma Banerjee is an American biochemist who has been Vincent Massey Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan since 2007, known for research on sulfur metabolism and vitamin B12 enzymes.

Rupal Patel (American speech scientist)

Rupal Patel is an American speech scientist and tenured professor at Northeastern University who pioneered personalized synthetic voices for people with severe speech impairment, founding VocaliD in 2014.

Rupert Seidl

Rupert Seidl (born 1979) is an Austrian forest ecologist and professor at the Technical University of Munich who studies forest disturbances like fire, wind, and bark beetles.

Rupert Timpl

Rupert Timpl (1936–2003) was a biochemist who spent his career at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry near Munich, known for isolating laminin and discovering nidogen and the fibulins.

Rupert Waterhouse

Rupert Waterhouse (1873–1958) was a British physician who spent his career in Bath and whose 1911 Lancet paper described Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, adrenal failure from bilateral adrenal hemorrhage.

Rury R. Holman

Rury R. Holman is a British diabetologist and Emeritus Professor of Diabetic Medicine at Oxford who designed the UKPDS trial and received the American Diabetes Association's 2024 Banting Medal.

Ruslan Medzhitov

Ruslan Medzhitov is an Uzbekistan-born American immunologist, Sterling Professor at Yale School of Medicine, whose 1997 work with Charles Janeway established Toll-like receptors as receptors of innate immunity.

Russ B. Altman

Russ B. Altman, known as Russ Altman, is an American biomedical data scientist and Stanford professor known for building the PharmGKB pharmacogenomics knowledge base and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Russell A. DeBose-Boyd

Russell A. DeBose-Boyd is an American biochemist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for defining how cells degrade HMG CoA reductase, the rate-limiting enzyme of cholesterol synthesis.

Russell D. Fernald

Russell D. Fernald is an American neurobiologist and Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor of Human Biology, Emeritus, at Stanford University, known for showing that social behavior changes neurons in the brain.

Russell D. Hull

Russell D. Hull is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Calgary who directs its Thrombosis Research Unit; his New England Journal trials shortened heparin treatment and established low-molecular-weight heparin.

Russell E. Vance

Russell E. Vance is an American immunologist, Professor at UC Berkeley and an HHMI Investigator since 2013, known for defining how innate immunity detects bacterial pathogens.

Russell E. Ware

Russell E. Ware is an American pediatric hematologist directing the Division of Hematology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital since 2013, known for hydroxyurea trials in children with sickle cell anemia.

Russell F. Doolittle

Russell F. Doolittle (1931–2019) was an American biochemist at the University of California, San Diego who explained how fibrin polymerizes to clot blood and built phylogenetic trees from protein sequences.

Russell G. Foster

Russell G. Foster is a British neuroscientist, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at Oxford, best known for discovering a third photoreceptor in the vertebrate eye regulating sleep and circadian rhythms.

Russell G. Jones

Russell G. Jones, also known as Russell Jones, is a cancer metabolism and immunometabolism researcher who chairs the Department of Metabolism and Nutritional Programming at Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Russell H. Wiesner

Russell H. Wiesner, also published as Russell Wiesner, is a hepatologist and retired Mayo Clinic professor of medicine known for liver transplantation and the MELD score.