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Robert A. Kloner

Robert A. Kloner is an American cardiologist and experimental pathologist, Chief Science Officer at Huntington Medical Research Institutes in Pasadena, known for defining myocardial stunning and the no-reflow phenomenon.

Robert A. Lamb

Robert A. Lamb (1950–2023) was a British-born American virologist at Northwestern University and an HHMI Investigator known for defining the influenza M2 protein as an ion channel.

Robert A. Lazzarini

Robert A. Lazzarini is an American molecular biologist known for work on vesicular stomatitis virus RNA and myelin protein genetics, and for showing myelin basic protein arises by alternative splicing.

Robert A. Levine

Robert A. Levine (1953–2026) was an American cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for applying three-dimensional echocardiography to the mitral valve.

Robert A. Martienssen

Robert A. Martienssen is a plant biologist and geneticist who leads a laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, known for work on epigenetic inheritance in plants.

Robert A. O’Reilly

Robert A. O'Reilly was an American clinical pharmacologist whose work at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and UCSF established the genetics of hereditary resistance to coumarin anticoagulants.

Robert A. O’Rourke

Robert A. O'Rourke (1936–2011) was an American cardiologist who spent over 30 years at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and edited Hurst's The Heart.

Robert A. Rizza

Robert A. Rizza is an American endocrinologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for clinical research on insulin action and glucose metabolism in diabetes.

Robert A. Rosenheck

Robert A. Rosenheck is an American psychiatrist and Yale School of Medicine professor emeritus who spent 22 years directing the VA Northeast Program Evaluation Center, evaluating mental health programs for veterans.

Robert A. Seder

Robert A. Seder, also published as Robert Seder, is an American physician-scientist who leads the Cellular Immunology Section of the NIH Vaccine Research Center, known for malaria antibody and vaccine work.

Robert A. Star

Robert A. Star is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist who directs the Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases at NIDDK and led the 2008 ATN trial.

Robert A. Steinberg

Robert A. Steinberg is a molecular biologist who used somatic-cell genetics of cultured S49 mouse lymphoma cells to determine how cAMP-dependent protein kinase is structured, regulated, and expressed.

Robert A. Weinberg

Robert A. Weinberg is an American cancer biologist at MIT and the Whitehead Institute who discovered the first human oncogene, Ras, and wrote "The Hallmarks of Cancer" (2000).

Robert A. White

Robert A. White, also published as Robert A. H. White, is a Cambridge developmental geneticist known for work on the bithorax complex and Hox gene regulation in Drosophila.

Robert A. Whitney

Robert A. Whitney Jr. (born 1935), American veterinarian and RADM in the U.S. Public Health Service; first NCRR director, PHS chief veterinary officer 1984-1989, Deputy and Acting U.S. Surgeon General in 1993.

Robert A. Wood

Robert A. Wood is an American pediatric allergist at Johns Hopkins known for the OUtMATCH trial, which led to the 2024 approval of omalizumab for multiple food allergies.

Robert Adelstein

Robert S. Adelstein (1934–2024) was an American physician-scientist who spent about sixty years at NIH, established phosphorylation as the regulator of smooth muscle and nonmuscle myosin, and defined the three nonmuscle myosin II genes.

Robert Almer Harper

Robert Almer Harper (1862–1946) was an American botanist and cytologist who worked out the details of reproduction in the fungus ascospore, teaching at Columbia University.

Robert Aubrey Hinde

Robert Aubrey Hinde (1923–2016) was a British ethologist and zoologist at Cambridge whose quantitative rhesus monkey mother–infant separation studies became experimental foundations for attachment theory.

Robert Austrian

Robert Austrian (1916–2007) was an American infectious-diseases physician and epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania who developed the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine, winning the 1978 Lasker Award.

Robert Avery Montgomery

Robert Avery Montgomery is an American transplant surgeon, Chair of Surgery and Transplant Institute director at NYU Langone, known for kidney paired donation and gene-edited pig organ transplants.

Robert B. Belshe

Robert B. Belshe is an American infectious-diseases physician and vaccinologist, professor emeritus at Saint Louis University, known for pediatric trials of the intranasal influenza vaccine and the Herpevac herpes vaccine trial.

Robert B. Case

Robert B. Case is an American cardiologist at St. Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital Center and Columbia University, known for the 1992 JAMA study on living alone after myocardial infarction.

Robert B. Colvin

Robert B. Colvin is an American transplant immunopathologist, Benjamin Castleman Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Pathology, emeritus, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Robert B. Copeland

Robert B. Copeland was an American cardiologist in LaGrange, Georgia, who founded the Georgia Heart Clinic in 1972 and helped change national heart attack treatment through the C-PORT trials.

Robert B. Couch

Robert B. Couch (1930–2024) was an American physician-scientist and clinical virologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, known for influenza vaccine and antiviral research.

Robert B. Darnell

Robert B. Darnell is an American physician-scientist at Rockefeller University known for developing CLIP, which maps RNA-protein interactions in living tissue, and for founding the New York Genome Center.

Robert B. Gennis

Robert B. Gennis is an American biochemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for his work on membrane-bound respiratory enzymes and proton pumping.

Robert B. Goldberg

Robert B. Goldberg (1944–2025) was an American plant molecular biologist at UCLA known for studies of gene regulation during plant embryogenesis and seed development, and for the barnase–barstar system used in hybrid canola production.

Robert B. Innis

Robert B. Innis, born 1952, is an American physician-scientist who has led the Molecular Imaging Branch at NIMH since 2001, developing PET radioligands for brain imaging.