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Dipa Karmakar
Dipa Karmakar, Indian artistic gymnast from Agartala, first Indian woman gymnast at the Olympics (Rio 2016), fourth in the vault final, Produnova vault specialist, 2014 Commonwealth Games bronze medalist.
Dipak Kotecha
Dipak Kotecha is a British cardiologist, Professor of Cardiology and Cardiac Imaging at the University of Birmingham, known for research on heart failure and atrial fibrillation and for chairing the 2024 ESC atrial fibrillation guidelines.
Dipak Misra
Dipak Misra (दीपक मिश्रा; born 1953) is an Indian jurist who served as the 45th Chief Justice of India from 2017 to 2018, after leading the Patna and Delhi High Courts.
Dipali Goenka (दिपाली गोयनका)
Dipali Goenka (दिपाली गोयनका) is an Indian business executive who leads Welspun Living, one of India's largest home-textile exporters, as managing director and CEO since 2014.
Dipali Sashital
Dipali Sashital is an American biochemist and professor at Iowa State University who studies CRISPR-Cas bacterial immune systems and received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Dipan Kundu
Dipan Kundu is an Associate Professor of chemical engineering at UNSW Sydney known for aqueous rechargeable zinc batteries, including a high-capacity design published in Nature Energy in 2016.
Dipangkorn Rasmijoti (ทีปังกรรัศมีโชติ)
Dipangkorn Rasmijoti (ทีปังกรรัศมีโชติ), born 2005, is the only officially recognised son of Thailand's King Vajiralongkorn (Rama X) and the presumptive heir under the 1924 Palace Law of Succession; schooled in Germany, he keeps a low profile.
Dipanjan Chowdhury
Dipanjan Chowdhury is a molecular biologist who studies DNA repair and genome stability, and is Svanberg Family Professor at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Radiation and Genomic Stability at Dana-Farber.
Dipanjan Deb
Dipanjan "DJ" Deb is a private equity investor who co-founded the technology investment firm Francisco Partners in 1999 and serves as its CEO, overseeing more than $75 billion raised since inception.
Dipanjan Pan
Dipanjan Pan is a nanomedicine researcher who holds the Huck Chair Professorship at Pennsylvania State University, known for 2020 nanoparticle tests diagnosing COVID-19 in 10 minutes.
Dipankar Bhattacharya
Dipankar Bhattacharya is an Indian politician who leads the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation as general secretary and participates in the INDIA opposition alliance.
Dipankar Das Sarma
Dipankar Das Sarma, often published as D. D. Sarma, is an Indian condensed matter physicist and solid-state chemist at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
Dipankar Sen
Dipankar Sen is an Indian-born biochemist at Simon Fraser University since 1991, known for early Nature papers on four-stranded G4-DNA and for showing that DNA can act as a catalyst.
Dipannita Sharma
Dipannita Sharma (दीपानिता शर्मा), Assamese-Indian supermodel and actor from Duliajan, Assam; Miss India 1998 finalist and Miss Photogenic; film debut in 16 December (2002); roles in War, Ladies vs Ricky Bahl; award-winning Assamese film and web series work.
Dipavamsa
The Dīpavaṃsa, meaning Chronicle of the Island, is an anonymous Pali verse chronicle of Sri Lanka, composed around the 4th century CE and the oldest of the Pali chronicles.
Dipendra of Nepal
Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, Crown Prince and briefly King of Nepal, killed nine royal family members including King Birendra at Narayanhiti Palace on 1 June 2001 over a marriage dispute, then died of a self-inflicted gunshot on 4 June 2001.
Dipentaerythritol
Dipentaerythritol is an ether-linked polyol with six hydroxyl groups on a compact C10 skeleton, formed as a byproduct of pentaerythritol production and used in polyesters, PVC stabilizers, coatings, and lubricants.
Dipeptidyl peptidase-4
Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4, DPP-IV, CD26, EC 3.4.14.5) is a serine protease discovered in 1966 that inactivates incretin hormones GLP-1 and GIP; its inhibitors (sitagliptin, vildagliptin) treat type 2 diabetes with low hypoglycemia risk and neutral cardiovascular outcomes.
Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor
Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors, or gliptins, are oral type 2 diabetes drugs that prolong incretin action; sitagliptin was first approved in 2006, with neutral cardiovascular outcomes but a saxagliptin heart failure signal.
DIPG trial
DIPG trial: clinical studies for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), a fatal pediatric brainstem tumor. Key trials include hypofractionated radiotherapy comparisons, BIOMEDE targeted therapy, NCT03620032 re-irradiation, and CAR T studies.
Diphacinone
Diphacinone (diphenadione, CAS 82-66-6) is a first-generation indandione anticoagulant rodenticide inhibiting vitamin K epoxide reductase; multi-dose rat, mouse, vole, and island rodent control poison, WHO Class IA, vitamin K1 antidote.
Diphallia
Diphallia (duplicate penis) is an extremely rare congenital anomaly, about 1 in 5–6 million births, with roughly 100 reported cases since Wecker's 1609 report; it ranges from accessory tissue to complete penile duplication with associated anomalies.
Diphasiastrum
Diphasiastrum, ground cedars, is a genus of clubmosses (Lycopodiaceae) published by Holub in 1975, with flattened fan-like branches, underground mycorrhizal gametophytes, x=23, and extensive hybridization in Central Europe; sometimes synonymized with Lycopodium.
Diphasiastrum digitatum
Diphasiastrum digitatum (Dill. ex A. Braun) Holub, southern ground-cedar or fan clubmoss, is a North American clubmoss (Lycopodiaceae) with flat fan-shaped branches, 15–50 cm erect shoots, and 2–5 strobili, native from eastern Canada to the eastern and north-central USA, globally secure (G5).
Diphemanil
Diphemanil, sold as Prantal, is a synthetic quaternary ammonium anticholinergic drug that blocks muscarinic receptors to reduce stomach acid, saliva, and sweat; it was used for peptic ulcer and is now discontinued.
Diphenamid
Diphenamid (N,N-dimethyl-2,2-diphenylacetamide, CAS 957-51-7, Dymid, Enide) is a pre-emergence amide herbicide introduced circa 1960, root-absorbed, VLCFA-inhibiting (HRAC K3), moderately persistent and mobile in soil, discontinued in the US in 1988.
Diphenhydramine
Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) is a first-generation antihistamine developed by George Rieveschl and first marketed in 1946 by Parke-Davis. Used for allergy, motion sickness, and sleep aids; Beers Criteria advise avoiding it in older adults.
Diphenidol
Diphenidol (difenidol; Vontrol, Cephadol) is a non-phenothiazine antiemetic and antivertigo tertiary alcohol drug, approved in the US in 1967 and now discontinued there, still used in Japan for vertigo.
Diphenoxylate
Diphenoxylate (Lomotil, with atropine) is a phenylpiperidine μ-opioid agonist antidiarrheal, US Schedule V, contraindicated under age 6, dependence reported at 100-300 mg/day.
Diphenyl diselenide
Diphenyl diselenide (Ph2Se2) is a stable, commercially available organoselenium compound used as a reagent in organic synthesis and as a reference antioxidant and glutathione peroxidase mimic.