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Ray Dolan

Ray Dolan, also known as Raymond J. Dolan, is an Irish neuroscientist and psychiatrist, the Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry at University College London and winner of the 2017 Brain Prize.

Ray F. Smith

Ray F. Smith (1919–1999) was an American entomologist at UC Berkeley known as the father of integrated pest management and a 1997 World Food Prize winner.

Ray Lankester

Ray Lankester, full name Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, was a British zoologist who held zoology chairs at London and Oxford and directed the British Museum's Natural History departments.

Ray Ming

Ray Ming is a plant geneticist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for work on papaya sex chromosomes and tropical crop genomes.

Ray Wü

Ray Wu (吴瑞) was a Chinese-American molecular biologist at Cornell University who developed a 1970 DNA sequencing method and produced the first transgenic rice plants.

RAY1225

RAY1225 is an investigational biweekly GLP-1/GIP dual receptor agonist injection by Guangdong Raynovent Biotech (Zhongsheng Pharma), in phase 3 for obesity and type 2 diabetes, with phase 2 weight loss up to 21.18% at 24 weeks.

Raymond A. Frizzell

Raymond A. Frizzell is a physiologist at the University of Pittsburgh whose 1986 Science study showed defective chloride channel regulation in cystic fibrosis airway cells.

Raymond A. Sobel

Raymond A. Sobel, also published as Raymond Sobel, is a neuropathologist and Stanford professor whose research on multiple sclerosis includes widely used mouse EAE models.

Raymond Alexander Kelser

Raymond Alexander Kelser (1892–1952) was an American veterinarian, bacteriologist, and immunologist who developed the first chloroform-inactivated killed-virus vaccine, first showed a mosquito transmitting a neurotropic virus, and served as dean at the University of Pennsylvania.

Raymond B. Huey

Raymond B. Huey is an American evolutionary physiologist and ecologist at the University of Washington, a primary founder of evolutionary physiology known for thermal ecology of ectotherms and climate-change research.

Raymond C. Bushland

Raymond C. Bushland (1910–1995) was an American entomologist with the USDA who, with Edward F. Knipling, created the sterile insect technique and eradicated the screwworm fly from the United States.

Raymond C. Harris

Raymond C. Harris is an American nephrologist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, known for the 1994 discovery of COX-2 in the kidney's macula densa and EGFR's role in kidney fibrosis.

Raymond C. Stevens

Raymond C. Stevens, also known as Raymond Stevens, is an American structural biologist and protein crystallographer known for GPCR structures, professor at USC and CEO of Structure Therapeutics.

Raymond E. Ideker

Raymond E. Ideker is an American cardiac electrophysiologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, known for research on the mechanisms of ventricular fibrillation and defibrillation.

Raymond E. Keller

Raymond E. Keller is an American developmental biologist at the University of Virginia known for working out the cellular mechanisms of convergent extension in embryos.

Raymond G. Goodwin

Raymond G. Goodwin is a molecular biologist who worked on tumor necrosis factor receptors at Immunex in Seattle and Amgen, work that led to the arthritis drug Enbrel.

Raymond Gosling

Raymond Gosling (1926–2015) was a British biophysicist who, as a research student at King's College London, took the first X-ray photographs of crystalline DNA and produced Photograph 51.

Raymond Habas

Raymond Habas is an American cell and developmental biologist known for his work on Wnt signaling in embryogenesis, who received the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Raymond Hames

Raymond B. Hames is an American evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020 for fieldwork among the Yanomamö and Ye'kwana.

Raymond J. Dattwyler

Raymond J. Dattwyler is an American physician-scientist known for Lyme disease research, formerly directing Stony Brook's Lyme Disease Center and now a professor at New York Medical College.

Raymond J. Deshaies

Raymond J. Deshaies is an American biochemist and cell biologist at Caltech who discovered cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases and co-invented PROTACs, drug molecules that recruit target proteins to the cell's degradation machinery.

Raymond J. Gibbons

Raymond J. Gibbons (born 1949) is an American cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic, a nuclear cardiology specialist and president of the American Heart Association in 2006–07.

Raymond J. Kim

Raymond J. Kim is a cardiologist and radiologist at Duke University School of Medicine who co-developed late gadolinium enhancement cardiac MRI and leads its cardiovascular MR center.

Raymond J. Lasek

Raymond J. Lasek (R. J. Lasek) is a cell biologist and neuroscientist at Case Western Reserve University known for working out the rate components of axonal transport.

Raymond J. Playford

Raymond J. Playford is a British gastroenterologist and Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of West London, known for epidermal growth factor enemas for ulcerative colitis and bovine colostrum research.

Raymond Kaempfer

Raymond Kaempfer is an Israeli molecular biologist, emeritus professor at Hebrew University's IMRIC, known for cytokine mRNA self-regulation through PKR and superantigen antagonists against toxic shock.

Raymond L. Erikson

Raymond L. Erikson (1936–2020) was an American molecular biologist who showed that the Rous sarcoma virus src gene encodes a protein kinase, the first isolated oncogene enzyme product.

Raymond L. Hintz

Raymond L. Hintz was an American pediatric endocrinologist who founded and led Stanford's Division of Pediatric Endocrinology from 1975, published over 350 papers on growth, and died in 2014.

Raymond L. Woosley

Raymond L. Woosley (R L Woosley) is an American clinical pharmacologist and cardiologist known for research on drug-induced long QT syndrome, a rare heart-rhythm side effect.

Raymond Leslie White

Raymond Leslie White (1943–2018) was an American human geneticist who built the first genome-wide linkage maps of human chromosomes, making it possible to localize and clone disease genes.