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David G. Wilkinson
David G. Wilkinson is a developmental biologist who leads the Neural Development Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, known for discovering segmental gene expression in the hindbrain.
David Hilt Tennent
David Hilt Tennent (1873–1941) was an American embryologist and cytologist at Bryn Mawr College from 1904 to 1941, known for experimental studies of echinoderm hybridization.
David Ish‐Horowicz
David Ish-Horowicz, known as D. Ish-Horowicz, was a British molecular and developmental biologist who worked mainly at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and died in 2024.
David Jackson (plant geneticist)
David Jackson, also published as David P. Jackson, is a British plant developmental geneticist and professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who studies maize stem-cell genes controlling yield.
David Kimelman
David Kimelman is a developmental biologist and professor at the University of Washington whose laboratory defined how FGF and TGF-β induce mesoderm and how Wnt signaling builds the vertebrate body axis.
David Kirk
David L. Kirk (1934–2018) was an American molecular biologist and professor emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, known for making Volvox a model system for studying multicellularity.
David M. Kingsley
David M. Kingsley is an American developmental and evolutionary geneticist, a Stanford professor and HHMI Investigator known for mapping genes behind bone development and stickleback evolution.
David M. Ornitz
David M. Ornitz is a molecular biologist and physician-scientist, the Alumni Endowed Professor of Developmental Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, known for his work on FGF signaling in development.
David Prain
Sir David Prain (1857–1944) was a Scottish botanist and physician who directed the Botanical Survey of India and then Kew from 1905 to 1922, and wrote Bengal Plants.
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 T. Breault
David T. Breault is an American pediatric endocrinologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for stem cell research and the 2010 PECASE award.
David T. Scadden
David T. Scadden is a Harvard stem cell biologist affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, known for showing that niches regulate blood-forming stem cells.
David Traver
David Traver is a stem cell biologist at UC San Diego who showed that blood-forming stem cells arise directly from the zebrafish dorsal aorta, winning a 2018 NIH award.
David W. Ehrhardt
David W. Ehrhardt is a plant cell biologist who directs a laboratory at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology in Stanford, California, studying plant cell development and morphogenesis.
Davor Solter
Davor Solter, born 1941 in Zagreb, is a developmental biologist known for discovering genomic imprinting and for embryonic antigens central to human stem cell work.
Dean DellaPenna
Dean DellaPenna is an American plant biochemist at Michigan State University who works on plant nutritional genomics and is best known for his vitamin E research.
Deepak Srivastava
Deepak Srivastava is an American physician-scientist in molecular cardiology who serves as president of the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, where his laboratory developed direct cardiac reprogramming, converting connective tissue cells into beating heart muscle cells.
Denis Duboule
Denis Duboule, born in Geneva in 1955, is a French-Swiss developmental geneticist known for his work on Hox genes, which pattern the vertebrate body and limbs.
Dennis R. Roop
Dennis R. Roop is an American cell biologist who identified the skin protein loricrin and develops stem cell therapy for epidermolysis bullosa at the University of Colorado.
Derrick J. Rossi
Derrick J. Rossi is a Canadian stem cell biologist and entrepreneur who developed modified mRNA for cellular reprogramming, co-founded Moderna Therapeutics, and leads Convelo Therapeutics.
Desh Pal S. Verma
Desh Pal S. Verma was a Canadian-American plant molecular biologist and Ohio State professor who isolated the first plant mRNA and identified nodulins, dying in 2025.
Desmond Bradley
Desmond J. Bradley is a plant scientist at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, known for identifying the snapdragon centroradialis gene and for work on snapdragon flower color evolution.
Detlef Weigel
Detlef Weigel, born 1961 in Germany, is a plant biologist directing the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, known for LEAFY, FT, and the 1001 Genomes Project.
Didier Y. R. Stainier
Didier Stainier is a Belgian-American developmental biologist who directs the Department of Developmental Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim, Germany.
Dieter Egli
Dieter Egli, also known as Dietrich M. Egli, is a Swiss-born molecular biologist and Columbia University professor known for research on genome stability and gene editing in human embryos.
Dietrich H. Bodenstein
Dietrich H. Bodenstein (1908–1984) was a German-born American insect physiologist and developmental biologist known for demonstrating how hormones control molting and metamorphosis in insects, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1958.
Dolf Weijers
Dolf Weijers is a Dutch plant developmental biologist and Professor of Biochemistry at Wageningen University, known for research on the plant hormone auxin and plant embryo development.
Dominique Bergmann
Dominique Bergmann is a developmental biologist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Stanford who studies cell fate and polarity in the plant stomatal lineage.
Dominique Bonnet
Dominique Bonnet is a French stem cell biologist who identified the leukaemic stem cell of acute myeloid leukemia and leads a lab at the Francis Crick Institute.
Dominique Van Der Straeten
Dominique Van Der Straeten is a Belgian plant scientist and senior full professor at Ghent University, known for thermographic detection of plant disease and folate-biofortified rice.