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David Quantick

David Quantick (born 1961) is an English novelist, comedy writer and broadcaster, formerly of NME, who wrote for The Day Today, Brass Eye, The Thick of It and the Emmy-winning Veep, and authored novels including The Mule and Night Train.

David Quéré

David Quéré, born 1963, is a French physicist, CNRS research director at ESPCI Paris and professor at École Polytechnique, known for work on capillarity, wetting, and superhydrophobic surfaces.

David R. Beier

David R. Beier is a physician-scientist in mammalian developmental genetics, a University of Washington pediatrics professor and director at Seattle Children's Research Institute since 2013.

David R. Blake

David R. Blake is a British rheumatologist and physician-scientist who proposed that exercise-induced hypoxic-reperfusion injury and reactive oxygen species sustain inflammation in the rheumatoid joint, and explained arthritis's symmetry neurologically.

David R. Boulware

David R. Boulware is an infectious disease physician and professor at the University of Minnesota, known for trials of COVID-19 outpatient treatments and cryptococcal meningitis therapy.

David R. Challoner

David R. Challoner is an American physician-executive who served as vice president for health affairs at the University of Florida from 1982 to 1998, growing Shands into an eight-hospital system.

David R. Clemmons

David R. Clemmons was an American endocrinologist and Sarah Graham Kenan Professor at UNC Chapel Hill who made IGF-I the standard diagnostic test for acromegaly.

David R. Copenhagen

David R. Copenhagen is an American retinal neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on retinal synaptic transmission.

David R. Corey

David R. Corey, born 1963 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a biochemist at UT Southwestern Medical Center known for work on antisense oligonucleotides and allele-selective inhibition of mutant huntingtin.

David R. Davies

David R. Davies (1927–2016) was an American X-ray crystallographer at the National Institutes of Health who helped determine the first protein structure and pioneered structures of antibodies, DNA, and HIV-1 integrase.

David R. Engelke

David R. Engelke is an American molecular biologist known for three decades of work on RNA polymerase III transcription and tRNA genes at the University of Michigan.

David R. Flum

David R. Flum is an American general surgeon and surgical outcomes researcher at the University of Washington, known for leading the CODA trial of antibiotics versus appendectomy.

David R. Fraser

David R. Fraser is a New Zealand-born nutritional biochemist and veterinarian known for co-discovering that the kidney makes 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, vitamin D's active hormone form.

David R. Gandara

David R. Gandara is an American medical oncologist and lung cancer researcher, Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, known for phase III trials and biomarker development in thoracic cancers.

David R. Garrod

David R. Garrod, also known as David Garrod, is a British cell biologist at the University of Manchester known for research on desmosomes, the junctions holding cells together.

David R. Goddard

David R. Goddard (1908–1985) was an American plant physiologist who proved plant and animal respiration share the cytochrome system, and provost of the University of Pennsylvania.

David R. Greaves

David R. Greaves is a British immunologist at the University of Oxford, known for co-identifying locus control regions in 1989 and for research on macrophages in inflammation and atherosclerosis.

David R. Hansen

David Rasmussen Hansen, born 1938 in Exira, Iowa, is an American jurist and senior judge of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, elevated in 1991.

David R. Heebner

David R. Heebner (1927–2003) was an American defense systems engineer who made the towed sonar array practical, served in the Pentagon, and helped build SAIC.

David R. K. Adler

David R. K. Adler is an American political economist, born in Los Angeles, co-founder and Co-General Coordinator of Progressive International, former DiEM25 policy director and Bernie Sanders foreign policy adviser, and Guardian columnist.

David R. Kearns

David R. Kearns is a physical chemist and emeritus professor at the University of California, San Diego, known for applying NMR spectroscopy to tRNA and DNA.

David R. Liu

David R. Liu is a Harvard and Broad Institute professor who pioneered base editing and prime editing, gene-editing methods that alter DNA without cutting both strands.

David R. Matthews

David R. Matthews, born in 1947, is a British physician-scientist at Oxford, Emeritus Professor of Diabetes Medicine, founding chairman of OCDEM, and co-chair of the CANVAS trial.

David R. Mayhew

David R. Mayhew is an American political scientist at Yale University, a Sterling Professor Emeritus, known for Congress: The Electoral Connection (1974) and Divided We Govern (1991).

David R. McClay

David R. McClay is an American developmental biologist and Arthur S. Pearse Professor Emeritus at Duke University, known for his 1999 finding that nuclear β-catenin specifies sea urchin cell fates.

David R. Montgomery

David R. Montgomery is an American geomorphologist and MacArthur Fellow, a University of Washington professor since 1991 known for research on bedrock river incision, soil erosion, and civilizations.

David R. Nygren

David R. Nygren is an American experimental particle physicist who invented the time projection chamber in 1974, spent most of his career at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and won the Panofsky Prize.

David R. Owens

David R. Owens is a British diabetes researcher, clinical lead for diabetes-related retinopathy at Swansea University Medical School, and author of the 2001 Lancet review "Insulins today and beyond".

David R. Phillips

David R. Phillips is an American platelet biologist who defined the membrane defect in Glanzmann thrombasthenia, framed GPIIb-IIIa as the responsive integrin, and co-founded COR Therapeutics and Portola Pharmaceuticals.

David R. Rubinow

David R. Rubinow is an American psychiatrist, chair emeritus of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, best known for the differential sensitivity model of reproductive mood disorders.