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Dr. Samuel Rabkin	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Surgery	MGH	NSCI	BBS	Herpes simplex virus vectors for gene delivery in the CNS and cancer gene therapy
Dr. Laurel Raftery	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Dermatology	MGH/E	BBS		Regulation of epithelial morphogenesis by TGF-beta family signaling
Dr. Klaus Rajewsky	M.D.	Fred S. Rosen Professor of Pediatrics	CBR	BBS	IMM	Gene targeting, immunology and disease
Dr. Anjana Rao	Ph.D.	Professor of Pathology	IDI	BBS	IMM	Signalling and gene regulation in lymphocytes
Dr. Tom Rapoport	Ph.D.	Professor of Cell Biology	HMS	BBS		Protein transport across the endoplasmic reticulum membrane
Dr. Elio Raviola	M.D.	Bullard Professor of Neurobiology	HMS	NSCI		Functional wiring of the rabbit retina; control of postnatal development.
Dr. Samara Reck-Peterson	Ph.D.	Instructor in Cell Biology	HMS	BBS		Molecular Mechanism of Microtubule-Based Motility
Dr. Wade Regehr	Ph.D.	Professor of Neurobiology	HMS	NSCI		The investigation of the role of pre- and post- synaptic calcium dynamics in determining synaptic efficacy in spike initiation.
Dr. David Reich	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Genetics	HMS	BBS		Applying population genetics to find disease genes
Dr. R. Clay Reid	M.D., Ph.D.	Professor of Neurobiology	HMS	NSCI		Electrophysiological and computational study of the mammalian visual system.
Dr. Ellis Reinherz	M.D.	Professor of Medicine	DFCI	IMM		Human T- cell antigen receptor; human lymphocyte differentiation antigens.
Dr. Charles Richardson	M.D.	Edward S. Wood Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology	HMS	BBS	VIR	Structure and Replication of DNA
Dr. John Rinn	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Pathology	BIDMC	BBS		Epigenetic Regulation by large non-coding RNA
Dr. Charles Roberts	M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics	DFCI	BBS		Chromatin and Cancer
Dr. Thomas Roberts	Ph.D.	Professor of Pathology	DFCI	BBS	VIR	Control of Gene Expression Tumorgenesis and Differentiation
Dr. Barrett Rollins	Ph.D., M.D.	Professor of Medicine	DFCI	IMM		Control of leukocyte trafficking and the immune response by chemokines and other cytokines.
Dr. Evan Rosen	M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Medicine	BIDMC	BBS		Molecular approaches to metabolism and energy balance
Dr. Vicki Rosen	Ph.D.	Professor of Developmental Biology	HSDM	BBS		BMP signaling in organogenesis
Dr. Paul Rosenberg	M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Neurology	CH	NSCI	BBS	Mechanisms of action of neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, specifically glutamate and norepinephrine.
Dr. Anthony Rosenzweig	M.D.	Associate Professor of Medicine	BIDMC	BBS		Signal Transduction in Heart Failure and Atherosclerosis
Dr. Derrick Rossi	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Pathology	IDI	BBS		Hematopoietic Stem Cell Biology and Aging
Dr. Frederick Roth	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology	HMS	BBS		Methods and applications in computational molecular biology
Dr. Eric Rubin	M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Medicine (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics)	HMS	BBS		Bacterial genetics of tuberculosis and tularemia
Dr. Lee Rubin	Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Medicine	HU-Camb	BBS
Dr. Joan Ruderman	Ph.D.	Marion V. Nelson Professor of Cell Biology	HMS	BBS		CB Regulation of Cell Cycle
Dr. David Rudner	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics	HMS	BBS		Molecular mechanisms in bacterial differentiation
Dr. Ruth Ruprecht	M.D., Ph.D.	Professor of Medicine	DFCI	VIR	IMM	Retroviral pathogenesis; host-virus interactions including virus-induced perturbation of the developing immune system; the nature of protective anti-retroviral immune responses in primates Host-retrovirus interactions; molecular determinant of lentiviral pathogenesis and attenuation in primates (VIR)
Dr. Gary Ruvkun	Ph.D.	Professor of Genetics	MGH	BBS		Molecular Genetics of Development