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David A. Kass

David A. Kass, also known as David Kass, is an American cardiologist at Johns Hopkins University known for research on cGMP signaling, phosphodiesterase enzymes, and heart failure.

David A. King

David A. King, born in 1939, is a South African-born British surface chemist at Cambridge who served as the UK Government's Chief Scientific Adviser from 2000 to 2007.

David A. Leigh

David A. Leigh, born 1963 in Birmingham, England, is a British chemist at the University of Manchester whose group pioneered artificial molecular machines, Brownian ratchets, and molecular knots.

David A. Leopold

David A. Leopold is a neuroscientist who leads the Section on Cognitive Neurophysiology and Imaging at the National Institute of Mental Health, studying visual perception since 2004.

David A. Lieberman

David A. Lieberman is a gastroenterologist at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, known for research that established colonoscopy as a colorectal cancer screening test for average-risk adults.

David A. Lomas

David A. Lomas is a British respiratory physician and scientist who defined how mutant alpha-1 antitrypsin polymerizes in liver cells, termed the serpinopathies, and is Professor of Medicine at University College London.

David A. Markle

David A. Markle is an optical engineer who developed the Micralign and Micrascan projection lithography systems at Perkin-Elmer and Ultratech, winning the 1979 SEMI Award.

David A. Mazziotti

David A. Mazziotti is a theoretical chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago, known since 1998 for reducing quantum chemistry's many-electron problem to an effective two-electron problem.

David A. McCarron

David A. McCarron is an American nephrologist and hypertension researcher who headed nephrology at Oregon Health & Science University and proposed in 1982 that low dietary calcium, not sodium, drives high blood pressure.

David A. McCormick

David A. McCormick is an American neuroscientist known for work on thalamocortical rhythms, sleep and arousal, and cerebellar learning, and director of the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Oregon since 2017.

David A. Morrow

David A. Morrow is an American cardiologist who directs the Samuel A. Levine Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is a Harvard Medical School professor.

David A. Muller

David A. Muller is a Cornell University professor of applied physics and electron microscopist who developed pixel-array detectors and ptychography, setting a world record for microscope resolution in 2021.

David A. Nagib

David A. Nagib, also published as David Nagib, is an organic chemist at The Ohio State University known for radical-mediated C–H functionalization and catalytic carbene chemistry developed from aldehydes.

David A. Patterson

David A. Patterson is an American molecular biologist and somatic-cell geneticist known for work on purine biosynthesis, Down syndrome, aging, and the c-mos oncogene in leukemia.

David A. Patterson (American computer scientist)

David A. Patterson is an American computer scientist who led the RISC project at UC Berkeley, co-invented RAID storage, and shared the 2017 Turing Award with John Hennessy.

David A. Petti

David A. Petti is an American nuclear engineer who spent about 35 years at Idaho National Laboratory and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.

David A. Prince

David A. Prince (D. A. Prince) is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Stanford who studies cortical and thalamic excitability and chaired its neurology department for nearly two decades.

David A. R. White

David A.R. White (David Andrew Roy White), American actor and producer born 1970 in Dodge City, Kansas; Evening Shade actor, co-founder of Pure Flix, and star-producer of the God's Not Dead faith-based film franchise.

David A. Ricks

David A. Ricks, known as Dave Ricks, is an American pharmaceutical executive who has led Eli Lilly as chair, president, and CEO since 2017, during the GLP-1 boom.

David A. Ruiz

David Augustin Ruiz is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Ohio since 2022, appointed by President Biden.

David A. Sack

David A. Sack, also known as David Sack, is an American infectious-disease epidemiologist and physician, a Johns Hopkins professor who led icddr,b in Bangladesh and advanced oral cholera vaccines.

David A. Scheinberg

David A. Scheinberg is an American physician-scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who treats leukemia and develops targeted cancer therapies, including alpha-particle radiopharmaceuticals and the WT1 vaccine.

David A. Shafritz

David A. Shafritz (1940–2025) was an American physician-scientist and hepatologist who spent over fifty years at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, directing its Marion Bessin Liver Research Center.

David A. Shub

David A. Shub is an American molecular biologist at SUNY Albany known for research on self-splicing group I introns and inteins in bacteriophages and bacteria.

David A. Siegel

David A. Siegel (died April 5, 2025) was an American entrepreneur who founded Westgate Resorts, one of the largest timeshare companies, and appeared in the documentary The Queen of Versailles.

David A. Stahl

David A. Stahl is an American environmental microbiologist who applied molecular tools to microbial communities and isolated the first ammonia-oxidizing archaeon, reported in Nature in 2005.

David A. Stevens

David A. Stevens is a Stanford physician-scientist in infectious diseases, known for work on fungal infections and for leading a San Jose research laboratory since 1973.

David A. Talan

David A. Talan is an American emergency medicine physician and infectious diseases researcher who built and led EMERGEncy ID NET and led the STOP MRSA and CODA trials.

David A. Thorley‐Lawson

David A. Thorley-Lawson was a British-born immunologist at Tufts University School of Medicine who proposed the germinal center model of Epstein-Barr virus latency and died in 2017.

David A. Tirrell

David A. Tirrell is an American polymer chemist at Caltech, its tenth provost since 2017, known for artificial proteins and incorporating non-canonical amino acids into living cells.