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Richard A. Finkelstein

Richard A. Finkelstein (Richard Alan Finkelstein, 1930–2023) was an American microbiologist who purified cholera toxin, choleragen, in 1969, enabling modern enterotoxin research and cholera vaccine candidates.

Richard A. Garibaldi

Richard A. Garibaldi (1942–2009) was an American physician-epidemiologist whose New England Journal of Medicine studies defined catheter-associated urinary-tract infections and nursing-home infections, and who led the University of Connecticut Department of Medicine.

Richard A. Kaslow

Richard A. Kaslow is an American epidemiologist whose research established how HLA genes shape HIV-1 progression, and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Richard A. Koup

Richard A. Koup is an American virologist and immunologist who studies HIV-specific T-cell immunity and serves as Deputy Director of NIAID's Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

Richard A. Lang

Richard A. Lang is an Australian-born molecular biologist who studies eye development and light sensing, and directs the Visual Systems Group at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Richard A. Lange

Richard A. Lange is an American cardiologist and president of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso since 2014, formerly chief of cardiology at Johns Hopkins.

Richard A. Larson

Richard A. Larson is an American physician-scientist at the University of Chicago whose leukemia clinical trials include the long-term follow-up of imatinib for chronic myeloid leukemia.

Richard A. Lerner

Richard A. Lerner (1938–2021) was an American chemist and immunologist who led Scripps Research for two decades and created antibody technologies behind drugs like Humira.

Richard A. Roth

Richard A. Roth is an emeritus member of Stanford's Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, known for showing in 1983 that the insulin receptor is itself a protein kinase.

Richard A. Rudick

Richard A. Rudick is an American neurologist specializing in multiple sclerosis, known for pivotal trials of AVONEX and TYSABRI and for directing the Cleveland Clinic's Mellen Center.

Richard A. Spritz

Richard A. Spritz is an American medical geneticist, emeritus professor at the University of Colorado, who identified the tyrosinase gene in albinism and mapped vitiligo genetics.

Richard A. Steinhardt

Richard A. Steinhardt (1939–2014) was an American cell biologist at UC Berkeley who showed that a rise in intracellular calcium activates the egg at fertilization.

Richard A. Van Etten

Richard A. Van Etten is an American hematologist-oncologist who directs the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at UC Irvine and developed the first mouse model of chronic myeloid leukemia.

Richard A. Young

Richard A. Young is an American molecular biologist, a Member of the Whitehead Institute and Professor of Biology at MIT, known for super-enhancers and genome regulatory mapping.

Richard A. Zager

Richard A. Zager is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist at Fred Hutch and the University of Washington known for research on acute kidney injury mechanisms.

Richard AC Hughes

Richard A. C. Hughes is a British neurologist and Emeritus Professor at King's College London known for research on Guillain–Barré syndrome and identifying Campylobacter jejuni infection as a trigger.

Richard Alexander Gibbs

Richard Alexander Gibbs, known as Richard A. Gibbs, is an Australian-born geneticist who founded Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center, a Human Genome Project site.

Richard Arvin Overton

Richard Arvin Overton (1906–2018) was an American supercentenarian and World War II veteran who was the oldest US man and oldest American WWII veteran at his death at 112.

Richard Axel

Richard Axel, born 1946 in New York, is an American molecular biologist and neuroscientist at Columbia University, best known for discovering the odorant receptor gene family.

Richard B. Cattell

Richard B. Cattell (1900–1964) was an American surgeon, director of the Lahey Clinic in Boston, known for thyroid, pancreatic, and biliary surgery and the Cattell maneuver.

Richard B. Devereux

Richard B. Devereux is an American cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College whose echocardiography research transformed assessment of hypertensive heart disease.

Richard B. Gaynor

Richard B. Gaynor is an American virologist who studied how HIV and HTLV-I hijack cell transcription, later leading oncology drug development at Eli Lilly and BioNTech US.

Richard B. Hallick

Richard B. Hallick is an American molecular biologist at the University of Arizona known for chloroplast genetics work on Euglena gracilis, including the first intron found in a chloroplast protein gene.

Richard B. Johnston

Richard B. Johnston is an American pediatric allergist and immunologist known for complement and phagocyte research, a 1973 sickle-cell study, and leadership at National Jewish Health in Denver.

Richard B. Lipton

Richard B. Lipton is an American neurologist and neuroepidemiologist who studies migraine and cognitive aging, directs the Montefiore Headache Center, and has published more than 800 articles.

Richard B. Setlow

Richard B. Setlow (1921–2015) was an American biophysicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who discovered nucleotide excision repair in 1964, founding the modern study of DNA repair.

Richard B. Silverman

Richard B. Silverman, born 1946 in Philadelphia, is an American medicinal chemist at Northwestern University who invented pregabalin (Lyrica), described by IUPAC as one of the most successful university-originated drugs, and designs mechanism-based enzyme inactivators.

Richard B. Vallee

Richard B. Vallee is an American cell biologist and Professor Emeritus at Columbia University whose laboratory identified cytoplasmic dynein as the motor protein for retrograde axonal transport.

Richard Baer

Richard Baer is a molecular biologist and cancer geneticist at Columbia University known for work on chromosomal translocations in lymphoma and for identifying BARD1, a protein that partners with BRCA1.

Richard Benton

Richard Benton, born in 1977, is a British neuroscientist and professor at the University of Lausanne known for discovering ionotropic receptors, a family of insect smell receptors.