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Donald D. Brown
Donald D. Brown (1931–2023) was an American developmental biologist who spent his career at the Carnegie Institution in Baltimore, working out how eukaryotic genes are turned on and off.
Donald Ort
Donald R. Ort is an American plant biologist and Robert Emerson Professor at the University of Illinois, known for engineering crops with more efficient photosynthesis.
Donald P. Weeks
Donald P. Weeks is an American plant molecular biologist and emeritus professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln who developed dicamba-resistance gene technology for soybeans and contributed to plant genome editing.
Dorothea Bennett
Dorothea Bennett (1929–1990) was an American geneticist known for her work on early mammalian development, especially the mouse T/t complex, at Cornell, Sloan-Kettering, and Texas.
Douglas Houghton Campbell
Douglas Houghton Campbell (1859–1953) was an American botanist who studied the morphology of mosses, liverworts, and ferns, and headed Stanford University's botany department from 1891 to 1925.
Douglas W. Losordo
Douglas W. Losordo is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular regenerative medicine who led pioneering CD34+ stem cell trials for refractory angina and later held biotech chief medical officer roles.
Dukinfield Henry Scott
Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854–1934) was a British botanist and paleobotanist who led the Jodrell Laboratory at Kew and co-described the Paleozoic seed Lagenostoma Lomaxi in 1904.
Duojia Pan
Duojia Pan (潘多加), also published as Pan Duojia, is an HHMI investigator and Physiology chairman at UT Southwestern known for discovering the Hippo signaling pathway, which halts organ growth and whose failure drives tumors.
Edith Heard
Edith Heard, born 1965 in London, is a geneticist known for her work on X-chromosome inactivation, formerly EMBL Director General and now Director of the Francis Crick Institute.
Edmund Ware Sinnott
Edmund Ware Sinnott (1888–1968) was an American botanist and geneticist at Yale University who studied how genes control plant shape and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Édouard Hannezo
Édouard Hannezo is a French theoretical biophysicist and professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria since 2022, known for a unifying theory of branching morphogenesis.
Eduardo Blumwald
Eduardo Blumwald is a plant cell biologist and Distinguished Professor at UC Davis, known for engineering salt tolerance in plants, including salt-tolerant tomatoes, and for nitrogen-fixing cereals.
Eduardo Moreno (biologist)
Eduardo Moreno Lampaya, born in Madrid in 1970, is a Spanish biologist and Senior Group Leader at the Champalimaud Centre in Lisbon, known for super-competitor cells and fitness fingerprints.
Edward E. Farmer
Edward E. Farmer is a Swiss-based plant biologist who spent his career at the University of Lausanne studying wound signaling in plants, retiring in 2023 as Honorary Professor.
Edward M. De Robertis
Edward M. De Robertis is a Uruguayan-born developmental biologist, professor at UCLA since 1985, known for the first vertebrate Hox gene and the Chordin/BMP gradient.
Edwin L. Ferguson
Edwin L. Ferguson is an American molecular geneticist and University of Chicago professor known for showing that Dpp acts as a morphogen patterning the fruit fly embryo.
Elaine Dzierzak
Elaine Dzierzak is a developmental biologist known for showing that blood stem cells are born inside the embryo, in the AGM region, and is Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh.
Elaine Fuchs
Elaine Fuchs (born 1950) is an American cell biologist who studies skin stem cells and tissue repair, known for work on keratin genes and hair-follicle stem cells.
Elaine M. Tobin
Elaine M. Tobin is an American plant molecular biologist who joined UCLA in 1975, showed that phytochrome controls gene transcription, and discovered the plant circadian clock component CCA1.
Elazar Zelzer
Elazar Zelzer is an Israeli molecular and developmental biologist, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for linking skeletal development genetics with mechanosensory neurons.
Eldon Newcomb
Eldon H. Newcomb (1919–2022) was an American plant cell biologist and electron microscopist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for characterizing plant microbodies and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988.
Elisabeth Knust
Elisabeth Knust (born 1951) is a developmental biologist and Director Emerita at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, known for the Drosophila polarity genes crumbs, stardust, and bazooka.
Elizabeth Blaber
Elizabeth Blaber is a space biologist and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who studies how spaceflight stressors affect stem cells and tissue regeneration.
Elizabeth J. Robertson
Elizabeth J. Robertson, also published as Liz Robertson, is a British developmental biologist and Professor at Oxford known for discovering Nodal and for early embryonic stem cell work.
Elizabeth S. Dennis
Elizabeth S. Dennis, also known as Elizabeth Dennis, is an Australian plant molecular biologist known for establishing the molecular and epigenetic basis of vernalization, the process by which cold promotes flowering.
Elizabeth S. Russell
Elizabeth S. Russell, known as "Tibby," was an American mammalian developmental geneticist who spent her career at The Jackson Laboratory and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.
Elizabeth Vierling
Elizabeth Vierling is an American plant molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.
Elliot M. Meyerowitz
Elliot Meyerowitz is an American plant developmental biologist, the George W. Beadle Professor at Caltech, known for establishing Arabidopsis as a model organism and the ABC model of flower development.
Elly Tanaka
Elly M. Tanaka, born 1965 in Boston, is an Austrian-based regeneration biologist who studies axolotl limb and spinal cord regeneration and directs IMBA in Vienna since 2024.
Elmer Drew Merrill
Elmer Drew Merrill (1876–1956) was an American botanist who described over 3,000 Far Eastern plant species, built the Manila herbarium, and directed the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard.