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Ruth Sager
Ruth Sager (1918–1997) was an American geneticist who established non-nuclear cytoplasmic inheritance in the alga Chlamydomonas, then pioneered cancer genetics and discovered the tumor suppressor maspin.
Ruth Sanger
Ruth Sanger (1918–2001) was an Australian-born British hematologist who co-authored Blood Groups in Man, the standard blood group reference, and directed the MRC Blood Group Unit from 1973 to 1983.
Ruth Steward
Ruth Steward (1944–2025) was a Swiss-born molecular biologist, a professor at Rutgers's Waksman Institute from 1994, known for her work on the Dorsal protein and stem cells.
Ruth T Yu
Ruth T. Yu is a molecular biologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies who has studied how nuclear receptors control fat metabolism, endurance, and pancreatic cancer since 1995.
Rutherford Ness Robertson
Sir Rutherford Ness Robertson, known as Bob, was an Australian plant physiologist who studied the link between respiration and salt transport in plant cells, and presided over the Australian Academy of Science.
Ruud Delwel
Ruud Delwel (Hendrik Rudolf Delwel) is a Dutch hematologist and professor of molecular leukemogenesis at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, known for AML gene-expression prognostics and the EVI1 oncogene.
Ryan B. Corcoran
Ryan B. Corcoran is an American physician-scientist in gastrointestinal oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for targeted-therapy resistance in colorectal cancer and liquid biopsy.
Ryan Freedman
Ryan Freedman is a marine ecologist and Research Operations Specialist at NOAA's Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, studying how climate change and marine protected areas affect fish communities; he received a 2025 PECASE award.
Ryan G Gaudet
Ryan G Gaudet is a Canadian innate-immunity researcher who discovered the bacterial metabolite HBP as a PAMP sensed by TIFA and now leads a lab at Columbia University.
Ryan Hibbs
Ryan Hibbs is an American structural neuroscientist using cryo-EM to determine structures of nicotinic acetylcholine and GABAA receptors, and Chair of Neurobiology at UC San Diego.
Ryan J. Sullivan
Ryan J. Sullivan is a medical oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for melanoma trials testing immunotherapy against cancer that spreads to the brain.
Ryan Lister
Ryan Lister is an Australian genome biologist and professor at the University of Western Australia who produced the first single-base-resolution maps of DNA methylation in plants and humans.
Ryan S Nett
Ryan S Nett is an American plant biochemist and Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, known for elucidating and engineering biosynthetic pathways of medicinal plant alkaloids.
Ryohei Yasuda
Ryohei Yasuda is a Japanese biophysicist and neuroscientist who studies biochemical signaling in single dendritic spines, and is Scientific Director at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience.
Ryoichiro Kageyama
Ryoichiro Kageyama is a Japanese developmental neuroscientist who directs the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Kobe, known for work on Hes oscillators and the segmentation clock.
Ryozo Nagai
Ryozo Nagai (永井 良三), born 1949, is a Japanese cardiovascular physician-scientist known for identifying the transcription factor KLF5 and for leading the University of Tokyo's cardiovascular medicine department.
Ryszard Kole
Ryszard Kole is a Polish American pharmacologist who showed pre-mRNA splicing can be a drug target, inventing splice-switching oligonucleotides that underlie approved drugs for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Ryūzō Torigata
Ryūzō Torigata (鳥潟隆三) was a Japanese surgeon, professor emeritus of Kyoto Imperial University, and president of the Japan Surgical Society who advocated the normal-pressure thoracotomy in 1925.
Ryuzo Yanagimachi
Ryuzo Yanagimachi (柳町隆造, 1928–2023) was a Japanese-born reproductive biologist at the University of Hawaii whose work established mammalian IVF, ICSI, and the first reproducible cloning of mice from adult cells.
S Lawrence Zipursky
S. Lawrence Zipursky (Stephen Lawrence Zipursky) is an American neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor of Biological Chemistry at UCLA, known for discovering how developing neurons recognize their correct synaptic partners.
S. Ananth Karumanchi
S. Ananth Karumanchi, also known as Ananth Karumanchi, is an American nephrologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center known for discovering that excess placental sFlt1 and soluble endoglin cause preeclampsia.
S. Barak Caine
S. Barak Caine (Simon Barak Caine) is an Israeli-born behavioral neuroscientist, Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, whose research identifies dopamine receptors and transporters mediating cocaine's effects.
S. Blair Hedges
S. Blair Hedges is an evolutionary biologist and Laura H. Carnell Professor at Temple University, known for molecular clock dating of evolution, Caribbean biogeography, and co-directing the TimeTree database.
S. Claiborne Johnston
S. Claiborne "Clay" Johnston is an American neurologist and epidemiologist known for stroke prevention research, the CHANCE and POINT trials, and serving as inaugural dean of Dell Medical School.
S. Edward Sulkin
S. Edward Sulkin (S. E. Sulkin, 1908–1972) was an American virologist who led microbiology at UT Southwestern for 27 years and established bats as a rabies reservoir.
S. Goya Wannamethee
S. Goya Wannamethee, also known as Goya Wannamethee, is a British cardiovascular epidemiologist, Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, and Study Director of the British Regional Heart Study since 1999.
S. Harvey Mudd
S. Harvey Mudd is a medical genetics researcher who earned his M.D. from Harvard in 1953 and defined the enzymatic defects behind homocystinuria and sulfite oxidase deficiency.
S. James Adelstein
S. James Adelstein (1928–2026) was an American physician-scientist in nuclear medicine and radiobiology at Harvard Medical School, where he was Executive Dean for Academic Programs from 1978 to 1997.
S. Leonard Syme
S. Leonard Syme (1932–2025) was a Canadian-born American social epidemiologist and UC Berkeley professor who pioneered the study of social determinants of health through his NI-HON-SAN migration study.
S. Marsh Tenney
Stephen Marsh Tenney (1922–2000) was an American respiratory and comparative physiologist at Dartmouth who founded and chaired its physiology department and served as Dean of Dartmouth Medical School.