Life scientists

Daeyeol Lee

Daeyeol Lee (이대열) is a South Korean-born neuroscientist who studies decision making in the primate brain and helped found neuroeconomics, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins since 2019.

Dafna Bar-Sagi

Dafna Bar-Sagi is a cancer biologist who studies how the Ras oncogene drives tumor growth, especially in pancreatic cancer, and leads science at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Dagmar Klostermeier

Dagmar Klostermeier is a biochemist who heads the Chair of Biophysical Chemistry at the University of Münster, studying RNA helicases and DNA topoisomerases as ATP-driven molecular machines.

Dagmar Ringe

Dagmar Ringe is a biochemist and Professor Emerita at Brandeis University, a pioneer of structural enzymology known for her work on pyridoxal phosphate-dependent enzymes and for inventing solvent mapping, a fragment-based drug discovery method.

Daisuke Kihara

Daisuke Kihara is a Japanese-born computational structural biologist and bioinformatician, a full professor at Purdue University known for deep-learning tools that build atomic protein models from cryo-EM maps.

Daisuke Kohda

Daisuke Kohda is a Japanese structural biologist and professor at Kyushu University's Medical Institute of Bioregulation who determines protein structures by NMR spectroscopy, known for the Tom20 mitochondrial import receptor.

Daisuke Yamamoto

Daisuke Yamamoto (山元大輔) is a Japanese neurogeneticist and behavior geneticist who cloned fruitless, the gene governing courtship behavior in fruit flies, and is professor emeritus of Tohoku University.

Dale A. Ramsden

Dale A. Ramsden is an American biochemist at the University of North Carolina who studies how cells repair chromosome breaks, including polymerase theta-mediated end joining.

Dale B. Wigley

Dale B. Wigley is a structural biologist and Royal Society Fellow who holds the Chair in Protein Crystallography at Imperial College London, known for DNA helicase structures.

Dale Bauman

Dale E. Bauman is an American dairy cattle physiologist and Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988.

Dale I. Godfrey

Dale I. Godfrey (Dale Godfrey) is an Australian immunologist at the University of Melbourne's Peter Doherty Institute, known for research on NKT cells and unconventional T cells.

Dale Kaiser

Dale Kaiser was an American molecular geneticist at Stanford University who discovered cell-to-cell signaling in the soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus and shared the 1980 Lasker Award.

Dale Purves

Dale Purves is an American neuroscientist, the George B. Geller Professor Emeritus at Duke University, known for research on neural development and, since the mid-1990s, visual and auditory perception.

Dale Sanders

Dale Sanders is a British plant biologist whose work on ion transport and plant nutrition underpins zinc biofortification of cereals; he led the John Innes Centre from 2010.

Damian Szklarczyk

Damian Szklarczyk is a Polish-trained computational biologist at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in Zurich who maintains and develops the STRING database of protein–protein association networks.

Dan H. Barouch

Dan H. Barouch is an American physician-scientist who directs the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and develops HIV and COVID-19 vaccines.

Dan H. Moore

Dan H. Moore was an American cancer virologist and biophysicist known for purifying the mouse mammary tumor virus and searching for a human breast cancer virus.

Dan Herschlag

Dan Herschlag is an American biochemist at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, known for work on enzyme catalysis and RNA biophysics.

Dan I. Andersson

Dan I. Andersson is a Swedish medical bacteriology researcher at Uppsala University who directs the Uppsala Antibiotic Center and studies how bacteria evolve antibiotic resistance.

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Dan Knights

Dan Knights is an American computational microbiologist and speedcuber who won the 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube world title in 2003 and now leads microbiome research at the University of Minnesota.

Dan Littman

Dan R. Littman is an American immunologist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine whose laboratory defined Th17 cells and identified the HIV receptor complex CD4 and CCR5.

Dan Luo

Dan Luo is a professor of biological and environmental engineering at Cornell University who engineers DNA as a bulk material for hydrogels, diagnostics, and drug delivery.

Dan S. Tawfik

Dan S. Tawfik (1955–2021) was an Israeli biochemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for developing in vitro compartmentalization and establishing enzyme promiscuity in molecular evolution.

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Dan Wilson

Dan Wilson is a pharmaceutical-industry scientist with a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University who runs the YouTube channel Debunk the Funk, debunking vaccine and medical misinformation using primary scientific literature.

Dana Boatman

Dana Boatman, also known as Dana Frances Boatman-Reich, is an audiologist and clinical neurophysiologist, professor at Johns Hopkins, and director of its Auditory Neurophysiology Laboratory, studying speech perception.

Dana Carroll

Dana Carroll is an American biochemist and genome engineer at the University of Utah, known for pioneering genome editing with zinc-finger nucleases and later TALEN and CRISPR nucleases.

Dana M. Small

Dana M. Small is a psychologist and neuroscientist who studies flavor and food reward; after twenty years on Yale's faculty, she holds a Canada Excellence Research Chair at McGill University.

Dana Pe'er

Dana Pe'er is an Israeli-American computational biologist who develops machine-learning methods for single-cell genomics and chairs computational and systems biology at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

Danesh Moazed

Danesh Moazed is a professor of cell biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Harvard Medical School, known for research on heterochromatin, RNA interference, and epigenetic inheritance.