Researchers in molecular and cell biology

David I. Meyer

David I. Meyer is an American molecular cell biologist, Professor Emeritus of Biological Chemistry at UCLA, who identified the ER docking protein in 1982 and led The Lundquist Institute from 2009.

David J. Asai

David J. Asai is an American cell biologist known for research on the motor protein dynein and for leading inclusive science education programs at HHMI from 2008 to 2024.

David J. Glass

David J. Glass is an American molecular biologist at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals known for research on skeletal muscle signaling and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

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 Komander is a German-born biochemist and structural biologist who studies the ubiquitin system, discovered the deubiquitinase OTULIN, and has led the Ubiquitin Signalling Division at WEHI in Melbourne since 2018.

David L. Spector

David L. Spector is an American molecular cell biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory known for work on nuclear speckles, live-cell imaging, and long non-coding RNAs in cancer.

David L. Vaux

David L. Vaux, born 1959 in Melbourne, is an Australian molecular biologist who identified BCL2, the first component of cell death found in any organism, and campaigns for research integrity.

David Luck

David Luck (1929–1998) was an American molecular geneticist and cell biologist at Rockefeller University who used the alga Chlamydomonas to dissect the genetics of mitochondria and flagella.

David M. Glover

David M. Glover, born 1948, is a cell biologist who discovered the Polo and Aurora kinase families regulating cell division, and has taught at Caltech since 2019.

David M. Langenau

David M. Langenau is a cancer biologist and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Mass General, known for creating the first transgenic zebrafish cancer model.

David M. Prescott

David M. Prescott (1926–2011) was an American molecular biologist at the University of Colorado Boulder who discovered DNA sequence diminution and internal eliminated segments in ciliate genomes.

David M. Sabatini

David M. Sabatini is an American biochemist who discovered mTOR as a Johns Hopkins student in 1994, mapped the mTORC1 and mTORC2 complexes, and now leads a lab at IOCB Prague.

David M. Tobin

David M. Tobin is a molecular geneticist at Duke University who uses zebrafish and Mycobacterium marinum to find host genes governing tuberculosis susceptibility, showing genotype-tailored therapy may help.

David O. Morgan

David O. Morgan is a cell biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for showing how cyclin-dependent kinases control cell division and for work on the anaphase-promoting complex.

David P. Bartel

David P. Bartel, also known as David Bartel, is a molecular biologist at MIT, the Whitehead Institute, and HHMI known for discovering animal microRNAs and how they repress targets.

David P. Toczyski

David P. Toczyski is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, known for work on checkpoint adaptation in yeast and how checkpoint kinases block late replication origins after DNA damage.

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. 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. Wolstenholme

David R. Wolstenholme, also known as D R Wolstenholme, was a British-born molecular biologist at the University of Utah known for his work on mitochondrial DNA structure and evolution.

David Ron

David Ron, born 1955 in Israel, is a physician-scientist and professor at the University of Cambridge known for defining the unfolded protein response and identifying PERK, CHOP, and mammalian IRE1.

David S. Hogness

David S. Hogness was an American molecular biologist and biochemist at Stanford whose Drosophila methods, including colony hybridization and chromosomal walking, made genome mapping possible.

David Shalloway

David Shalloway is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at Cornell University who trained in theoretical physics and studies aberrant PTPalpha splicing in breast and colon cancers.

David T. Denhardt

David T. Denhardt (died 2020) was an American molecular biologist and emeritus Rutgers professor known for Denhardt's solution, work on phage φX-174 DNA replication, and decades of osteopontin research.

David Tollervey

David Tollervey is an RNA biologist and Professor of RNA Biology at the University of Edinburgh, known for work on ribosome synthesis and the exosome, elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004.

David W. Melton

David W. Melton is a molecular biologist who holds the Chair in Somatic Cell Genetics at the University of Edinburgh and heads its DNA Repair and Cancer Research Group.

David Wotton

David Wotton is a molecular biologist and professor of biochemistry at the University of Virginia, known for identifying the TGIF corepressors in TGF-beta signaling and linking TGIF mutations to holoprosencephaly.

David Yaffe (molecular biologist)

David Yaffe (1929–2020) was an Israeli molecular biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science who helped found the study of muscle cell formation and developed the widely used C2C12 muscle cell line.

Davis Ng

Davis T. W. Ng is a cell biologist at Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory and the National University of Singapore known for defining ER-associated degradation pathways in yeast.