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Diter von Wettstein
Diter von Wettstein (1929–2017) was a German-born plant geneticist and barley breeder who worked in Sweden, Denmark, and the United States, mapping chlorophyll synthesis and developing transgenic barley.
Donald B. Kohn
Donald B. Kohn is an American physician-scientist at UCLA who develops blood stem cell gene therapies for immune disorders, including the first FDA-approved therapy for LAD-I.
Donald F. Conrad
Donald F. Conrad is an American human geneticist and chief of the Division of Genetics at the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU since 2018.
Donald L Riddle
Donald L Riddle is an American geneticist who mapped the dauer larva pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans, work that led to discoveries about genes controlling adult life span.
Donald Macleod
Donald Macleod is a molecular biologist known for DNA methylation research at the MRC Mammalian Genome Unit and University of Edinburgh, whose 1985 Cell paper defined CpG islands.
Donald N. Duvick
Donald N. Duvick (1924–2006) was an American maize geneticist and plant breeder at Pioneer Hi-Bred in Iowa, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002.
Donald R. McCarty
Donald R. McCarty is a University of Florida plant molecular biologist known for cloning the maize Viviparous-1 gene and discovering the VP14 enzyme of abscisic acid biosynthesis.
Doris Bachtrog
Doris Bachtrog is an evolutionary geneticist and professor of integrative biology at UC Berkeley, known for studying how sex chromosomes form, degenerate, and evolve, using fruit flies and other animals.
Doron Lancet
Doron Lancet is an Israeli human geneticist and bioinformatician at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for olfactory genetics, GeneCards, and the GARD prebiotic evolution model.
Dorothy E. Shippen
Dorothy E. Shippen is an American-trained biochemist and geneticist at Texas A&M University who established Arabidopsis thaliana as the model plant for telomere biology and discovered plant telomerase.
Douglas C. Wallace
Douglas C. Wallace is an American mitochondrial geneticist who founded the field of human mitochondrial genetics, showing that mtDNA is inherited only from the mother.
Douglas Higgs
Douglas Higgs (Douglas R. Higgs) is a British clinician-scientist at Oxford who directed the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit and is known for unraveling the molecular genetics of alpha-thalassaemia.
Douglas K. Bishop
Douglas K. Bishop is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Chicago who studies homologous recombination and discovered the meiosis-specific protein Dmc1 in 1992.
Douglas Koshland
Douglas E. Koshland is an American molecular biologist and UC Berkeley professor known for identifying cohesins and for work on chromosome structure and segregation in budding yeast.
Douglas M. Fowler
Douglas M. Fowler is an American biochemist and geneticist at the University of Washington who developed deep mutational scanning, a method for measuring hundreds of thousands of protein mutations at once.
Douglass M. Turnbull
Douglass M. Turnbull is a British neurologist and mitochondrial-disease researcher at Newcastle University whose mitochondrial donation technique required a change in UK law and produced eight babies by 2025.
E. B. Babcock
E. B. Babcock, born Ernest Brown Babcock, was an American plant geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, who led the study of the genus Crepis.
Edgar Anderson
Edgar Anderson (1897–1969) was an American botanist and geneticist at the Missouri Botanical Garden, best known for naming introgressive hybridization, the transfer of genes between species.
Edward A. Adelberg
Edward A. Adelberg (1920–2009) was an American microbial geneticist at Berkeley and Yale, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1971, known for discovering F-duction in E. coli.
Edward B. Lewis
Edward B. Lewis (Edward Butts Lewis) was an American geneticist at Caltech who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on the genetic control of embryonic development.
Edward C. Cox
Edward C. Cox, known as Ted Cox, is an American geneticist and Edwin Grant Conklin Professor of Biology, Emeritus, at Princeton, known for work on mutator genes and single-molecule methods in living bacteria.
Edward M. Rubin
Edward M. Rubin, known as Eddy Rubin, is an American geneticist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who directed the Joint Genome Institute from 2002 to 2016.
Edward Murray East
Edward Murray East (1879–1938) was an American plant geneticist at Harvard's Bussey Institution who showed continuous variation follows Mendelian inheritance and helped found hybrid corn.
Edward S. Buckler
Edward S. Buckler is an American plant geneticist at the USDA-ARS and Cornell University known for statistical genetics of maize, the TASSEL software, and the maize NAM population.
Edward Tatum
Edward Lawrie Tatum (1909–1975) was an American biochemical geneticist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that genes act by regulating chemical events.
Edwin Cuppen
Edwin Cuppen is a Dutch molecular geneticist in cancer genomics, professor of Human Genetics at UMC Utrecht and scientific director of the Hartwig Medical Foundation since 2017.
Effie W. Petersdorf
Effie W. Petersdorf is a transplant physician-scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle whose registry-scale HLA matching studies established the 8/8 match standard for unrelated donor transplantation.
Eiichi Ohtsubo
Eiichi Ohtsubo (大坪 栄一) was a Japanese molecular geneticist known for sequencing bacterial insertion sequences and transposon Tn3, largely at Stony Brook and the University of Tokyo.
Eileen E. M. Furlong
Eileen E. M. Furlong is a developmental genomics biologist who heads the Genome Biology Unit at EMBL Heidelberg, known for work on developmental enhancers and the 2022 Leibniz Prize.
Eimear E. Kenny
Eimear E. Kenny, also known as Eimear Kenny, is an Irish-born population and medical geneticist who directs the Institute for Genomic Health at Mount Sinai in New York.