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Robert P. Giugliano

Robert P. Giugliano is an American cardiologist, Senior Investigator with the TIMI Study Group at Brigham and Women's Hospital, who led the ENGAGE AF-TIMI 48 edoxaban trial.

Robert P. Hanson

Robert P. Hanson was an American veterinary virologist and epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for work on Newcastle disease virus, La Crosse virus epidemiology, and scrapie research.

Robert P. Hasserjian

Robert P. Hasserjian, also published as Robert Hasserjian, is a hematopathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who studies the diagnosis and classification of myeloid neoplasms.

Robert P. Hebbel

Robert P. Hebbel is an American hematologist at the University of Minnesota known for showing that abnormal adhesion of sickle red cells to endothelium drives sickle cell disease.

Robert P. Kelch

Robert P. Kelch is an American pediatric endocrinologist known for research on growth and pubertal hormones, who led medical schools at Iowa and Michigan before retiring in 2009.

Robert P. Kimberly

Robert P. Kimberly is an American rheumatologist, immunologist, and human geneticist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, known for Fc gamma receptor polymorphisms as autoimmune risk factors.

Robert P. Perrillo

Robert P. Perrillo is an American hepatologist and gastroenterologist at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, known for hepatitis B treatment trials since the 1980s.

Robert P. Perry

Robert P. Perry (1931–2013) was an American molecular biologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977.

Robert Palese Perry

Robert Palese Perry (1931–2013) was an American molecular biologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, known for defining the cellular sites of RNA synthesis and naming the CHD-1 protein.

Robert Peter Gale

Robert Peter Gale is an American physician-scientist in hematology at Imperial College London, known for leukemia and bone marrow transplant research and for treating Chernobyl radiation victims in 1986.

Robert Plomin

Robert Plomin (born 1948) is an American psychologist and behavioral geneticist at King's College London, known for twin and adoption studies showing genetic influence on intelligence increases with age.

Robert Plonsey

Robert Plonsey (1924–2015) was an American biomedical engineer at Case Western Reserve and Duke who helped found bioelectricity, known for the bidomain model of cardiac tissue and defibrillation theory.

Robert Preißner

Robert Preißner is a scientist at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin working in structure-oriented bioinformatics, known for the ProTox web servers predicting chemical toxicity since 2014.

Robert R. Kay

Robert R. Kay is a British cell biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for identifying the morphogen DIF-1 in Dictyostelium.

Robert R. Linton

Robert R. Linton was an American surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who led the Society for Vascular Surgery in 1955 and lent his name to three vascular procedures.

Robert R. McCrae

Robert R. McCrae (born 1949) is an American personality psychologist who co-developed the five-factor model and the Revised NEO Personality Inventory at the National Institute on Aging.

Robert R. Redfield

Robert R. Redfield, virologist and 18th CDC director (2018-2021), HIV researcher at Walter Reed and University of Maryland; later prominent lab-leak advocate for COVID-19 origins.

Robert R. Reisz

Robert R. Reisz, born 1947, is a Romanian-born Canadian vertebrate paleontologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga, known for research on the origin of amniotes.

Robert R. Sokal

Robert R. Sokal (1926–2012) was an Austrian-born American biostatistician and evolutionary biologist who co-founded numerical taxonomy, the quantitative classification of organisms, and wrote the influential textbook Biometry.

Robert R. Wolfe

Robert R. Wolfe (R. R. Wolfe) is an American muscle-metabolism researcher known for stable isotope tracer methodology and burn catabolism research, now a geriatrics professor and center director at UAMS in Little Rock.

Robert Rayford

Robert Rayford (1953–1969), St. Louis teenager, first known HIV/AIDS case in the United States; died 1969, confirmed by 1987 testing of preserved blood samples showing HIV proteins.

Robert Ridgway

Robert Ridgway (1850–1929) was an American ornithologist who spent more than 50 years at the Smithsonian Institution as its first Curator of Birds, writing the standard references on North American birds.

Robert Roberts (cardiologist)

Robert Roberts is a Canadian-born American cardiologist regarded as a founder of molecular cardiology, known for the MBCK heart-attack diagnostic test and the first genetic locus for familial atrial fibrillation.

Robert Robinson (structural biologist)

Robert (Bob) Charles Robinson is a structural biologist who solved the Arp2/3 complex structure and showed in 2018 that Asgard archaea encode functional profilins; he is a professor at VISTEC in Thailand.

Robert Robison

Robert Robison (1883–1941) was a British biochemist at the Lister Institute in London, best known for isolating the Robison ester and studying phosphatase in bone calcification.

Robert Rosenberg (hematologist)

Robert Rosenberg, also known as Robert D. Rosenberg (1937–2020), was an American hematologist and vascular biologist who explained how antithrombin regulates clotting and taught at Harvard and MIT.

Robert Rössle

Robert Rössle (1876–1956) was a German pathologist who held Rudolf Virchow's chair at the Berlin Charité, advanced inflammation theory with serous inflammation and Pathergie, and introduced quantitative measurement into pathology.

Robert S. Coe

Robert S. Coe is a geophysicist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz, known for paleomagnetism, lava-flow reversal records, and the Coe paleointensity method.

Robert S. Daum

Robert S. Daum was an American pediatric infectious diseases physician-scientist at the University of Chicago whose group identified community-associated MRSA in children and led a 2017 antibiotic trial for skin abscesses.

Robert S. DiPaola

Robert S. DiPaola is an American medical oncologist known for leading prostate cancer trials including CHAARTED, and provost of the University of Kentucky since 2022.