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David J. Grain

David J. Grain, born in 1962, is an American investment executive who founded Grain Management in 2007, a private equity firm investing in fiber networks, wireless spectrum, and cell towers.

David J. Grainger

David J. Grainger is a molecular biologist known for TGF-β research in vascular disease and a rapid blood test for coronary heart disease, later co-founding the venture firm Medicxi.

David J. Greenblatt

David J. Greenblatt is an American clinical pharmacologist at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for work defining clinical pharmacokinetics, benzodiazepine studies, and drug-drug interaction research.

David J. Gross

David J. Gross, born 1941 in Washington, D.C., is an American theoretical physicist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering asymptotic freedom in the strong interaction.

David J. Hale

David J. Hale, born David Jason Hale, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Kentucky since 2014.

David J. Heeger

David J. Heeger is an American cognitive and computational neuroscientist, a Silver Professor at New York University known for the normalization model of neural computation and fMRI analysis.

David J. Heldebrant

David J. Heldebrant is an American organic chemist who directs the Physical Sciences Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, known for CO2-binding organic liquids for carbon capture.

David J. Hunter

David J. Hunter is a rheumatologist and osteoarthritis researcher who holds the Florence and Cope Chair of Rheumatology at the University of Sydney and leads the Kolling Institute's osteoarthritis team.

David J. Kemp

David J. Kemp (1945–2013) was an Australian molecular biologist and parasitologist who was the first to clone malaria parasite genes, in 1983, and later studied the scabies mite.

David J. Kupfer

David J. Kupfer is an American psychiatrist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh who chaired the American Psychiatric Association task force for DSM-5.

David J. Kwiatkowski

David J. Kwiatkowski is an American cancer geneticist, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, known for identifying the TSC1 gene, which causes tuberous sclerosis complex.

David J. Lenschow

Deborah J. Lenschow is an immunologist credited by the Nobel Committee's 2018 background for showing in 1992 that CTLA4-Ig costimulation blockade can treat autoimmune disease.

David J. Linden

David J. Linden is an American neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins who studies memory storage, addiction, and cerebellar synaptic plasticity, and writes science books for general audiences.

David J. Lipman

David J. Lipman is an American bioinformatician who co-developed the sequence-search tools FASTA and BLAST and was the founding director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

David J. Loskutoff

David J. Loskutoff is a cell biology professor at The Scripps Research Institute who joined in 1975, discovered plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), and studied obesity, inflammation, and thrombosis.

David J. Mangelsdorf

David J. Mangelsdorf (1958–2025) was an American molecular biologist and pharmacologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center who discovered the retinoid X receptor and characterized orphan nuclear receptors regulating metabolism.

David J. Meltzer

David J. Meltzer is an American archaeologist at Southern Methodist University known for work on the peopling of the Americas, including the 1997 Monte Verde paper.

David J. Nesbitt

David J. Nesbitt is an American chemical physicist at JILA, NIST, and the University of Colorado Boulder, known for single-molecule spectroscopy of quantum dots and RNA folding.

David J. Norris

David J. Norris (born 1968, St. Louis) is an American materials scientist who has been Professor of Materials Engineering at ETH Zurich since 2010, known for work on colloidal quantum dots.

David J. Novak

David John Novak, born 1961, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia since 2019, nominated by President Trump.

David J. Perreault

David J. Perreault is an MIT electrical engineer and Ford Professor known for very-high-frequency power conversion, a National Academy of Engineering member and 2024 IEEE Newell Award winner.

David J. Pine

David J. Pine is an American physicist at New York University known for co-developing diffusing-wave spectroscopy and for self-assembling a colloidal diamond lattice in 2020.

David J. Pinsky

David J. Pinsky is an American physician-scientist and cardiologist who has led cardiovascular medicine at the University of Michigan since 2003, studying protection against ischemic injury.

David J. Prezant

David J. Prezant is an American pulmonologist, FDNY Chief Medical Officer, known for defining World Trade Center cough syndrome after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

David J. Procter

David J. Procter is a British organic chemist, Professor and Head of Department at the University of Manchester, known for radical synthesis and samarium diiodide catalysis.

David J. Rush

David J. Rush, former CIA senior executive in the Directorate of Science and Technology, pleaded guilty in October 2026 to a $194 million fraud using a fabricated Special Access Program, fake credentials, gold bars, and Florida real estate.

David J. Sahn

David J. Sahn (1945–2021) was an American pediatric cardiologist who performed the first real-time two-dimensional echocardiogram in the United States in 1972 and pioneered Doppler color flow mapping.

David J. Salant

David J. Salant is a South African–trained nephrologist at Boston University whose 2009 discovery of the PLA2R antigen turned membranous nephropathy diagnosis from biopsy to blood test.

David J. Sharpe

David J. Sharpe was a lawyer and legal scholar at George Washington University in Washington, DC, who co-authored with embryologist Robert G. Edwards a 1971 Nature paper on human embryology ethics.

David J. Sherratt

David J. Sherratt is a British molecular biologist known for work on bacterial plasmids, site-specific recombination, and chromosome replication and segregation, appointed to Oxford's Iveagh Chair of Microbiology in 1994.