Françoise Roch-Ramel (née Ramel; 20 September 1931 – 26 June 2001)[1] was a Swiss pharmacologist and a leading expert on the renal transport of organic anions and cations, especially uric acid.
Born to Edwin Ramel[2] and raised in Château-d'Œx, Switzerland, her major research focus was the renal excretion of drugs and other xenobiotics.
[2] According to Simmonds, she studied "renal transport of organic anions and cations, especially uric acid, in the kidney" since the beginning of her academic career.
To do so, Roch-Ramel created her own micro-puncture techniques to study ion transport in several different mammalian species including humans, cebus monkeys, pigs, rats, cats, rabbits, mongrel dogs and Dalmatian dogs.
She was known to pay scrupulous attention to the methodology described in these publications and realized that the problems attached to the measurement of compounds, such as uric acid, had great importance on the validity of future academic studies.