Life and health

Richard Bonneau

Richard Bonneau is a computational biologist and Professor of Biology and Computer Science at NYU's Courant Institute who leads machine learning for drug discovery at Genentech, where he co-founded Prescient Design.

Richard Brimacombe

Richard Brimacombe is a molecular biologist known for experimentally determining the structure of ribosomal RNA in the E. coli ribosome, working for most of his career at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin.

Richard Brooke Roberts

Richard Brooke Roberts (1910–1980) was an American biophysicist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington who co-discovered delayed neutrons in 1939 and helped prove protein synthesis occurs on ribosomes in E. coli.

Richard Bruynoghe

Richard Bruynoghe (1881–1957) was a Belgian physician and bacteriologist at the University of Louvain who, with Joseph Maisin, published the first report on treating human infections with bacteriophages in 1921.

Richard Bucala

Richard Bucala is an American immunologist and rheumatologist who is Chief of Rheumatology at Yale School of Medicine, known for cloning macrophage migration inhibitory factor and discovering the fibrocyte.

Richard C. Boucher

Richard C. Boucher is an American physician-scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whose research showed cystic fibrosis begins with dehydration of the airway surface.

Richard C. Starr

Richard Cawthorn Starr (1924–1998) was an American phycologist who founded and directed the UTEX Culture Collection of Algae and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.

Richard C. Strohman

Richard C. Strohman (1927–2009) was an American molecular biologist and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for pioneering muscle development research and for essays criticizing genetic determinism.

Richard C. Talamo

Richard C. Talamo was an American pediatrician and pulmonary researcher, a Johns Hopkins professor and later Tufts pediatrics chairman, known for alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency and cystic fibrosis research.

Richard C. Thompson

Richard C. Thompson is a British marine biologist, professor at the University of Plymouth, who coined the term 'microplastics' in 2004 and advises on global plastics policy.

Richard C. Trembath

Richard C. Trembath is a British physician-scientist and Professor of Medical Genetics at King's College London, known for identifying disease genes in pulmonary arterial hypertension and psoriasis.

Richard Casaburi

Richard Casaburi is an American physician-scientist in pulmonary medicine who directs the Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center at Harbor-UCLA and established exercise training and anabolic therapy as treatments for COPD.

Richard Cerione

Richard A. Cerione is an American biochemist and cancer biologist at Cornell University known for work on the Rho GTPase Cdc42 and protein modifications in cancer cells.

Richard Chaisson

Richard E. Chaisson is an American infectious-disease physician and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, where he directs the Center for Tuberculosis Research, which he founded in 1998.

Richard Clarke Cabot

Richard Clarke Cabot (1868–1939) was an American physician and Harvard medical educator who founded the first in-hospital medical social work department at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1905.

Richard D. Alexander

Richard D. Alexander (1929–2018) was an American evolutionary biologist and entomologist at the University of Michigan who studied cricket communication and the evolution of social behavior and morality.

Richard D. Bardgett

Richard D. Bardgett is a British soil ecologist and professor of ecology at Lancaster University who studies how plants, roots, and soil microbes regulate biogeochemical cycles.

Richard D. Berlin

Richard D. Berlin was an American physician and cell biologist known for showing that the cell surface stops endocytosis during mitosis, and led UConn Health's cell biology department from 1973 to 2006.

Richard D. Clover

Richard D. Clover (died 2017) was an American physician and public health leader who served as founding dean of the University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences.

Richard D. Gelber

Richard D. Gelber is a biostatistician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard professor who has led breast cancer, leukemia, and AIDS trials since 1977 and developed the Q-TWiST and STEPP methods.

Richard D. Klausner

Richard D. Klausner is an American cell biologist and physician who directed the National Cancer Institute from 1995 to 2001 and is a founder of Altos Labs.

Richard D. Kolodner

Richard D. Kolodner is an American molecular biologist at UC San Diego known for identifying the human mismatch repair genes MSH2 and MLH1, whose inherited defects cause Lynch syndrome.

Richard D. Krugman

Richard D. Krugman is an American pediatrician in child abuse and neglect medicine who served as dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine from 1992 to 2015.

Richard D. Palmiter

Richard D. Palmiter (born 1942) is an American biochemist and neuroscientist at the University of Washington, known for the 1982 transgenic "super mouse" and dopamine-deficient mice studies.

Richard D. Vierstra

Richard D. Vierstra is an American plant biologist at Washington University in St. Louis, known for his research on plant protein degradation and phytochrome light perception.

Richard D. Wood

Richard D. Wood is an American molecular biologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center known for rebuilding nucleotide excision repair, the process that removes UV damage from DNA.

Richard Darwin Keynes

Richard Darwin Keynes (1919–2010) was a British physiologist who showed with Alan Hodgkin in 1955 that potassium ions move through nerve membranes in single file.

Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins (born 1941), British evolutionary biologist emeritus at Oxford, author of The Selfish Gene (1976), The Extended Phenotype, and The God Delusion; defender of the gene's-eye view, coiner of 'evolvability', and antagonist of Gould and E.O. Wilson.

Richard Dixon (plant biochemist)

Richard A. Dixon is a plant biochemist, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007 and the Royal Society in 2018, known for lignin biosynthesis and metabolic engineering.