Life scientists

Daniel A. Colón-Ramos

Daniel A. Colón-Ramos is a Puerto Rican-born neuroscientist, the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor at Yale School of Medicine, who studies how synapses are assembled and modified using C. elegans.

Daniel A. Dombeck

Daniel A. Dombeck is an American systems neuroscientist at Northwestern University who studies the brain circuits underlying navigation, imaging neurons in mice in virtual reality.

Daniel A. Goodenough (1944–2024) was an American cell biologist, Takeda Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, known for discovering ZO-1, the first tight junction protein, and naming connexin.

Daniel A. Lim

Daniel A. Lim is an American neuroscientist and neurosurgeon-scientist, professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies how chromatin regulators control neural stem cells and applies that work to glioblastoma.

Daniel A. Portnoy

Daniel A. Portnoy is an American microbiologist and immunologist at UC Berkeley known for his work on the intracellular bacterium Listeria monocytogenes and for turning that research into cancer immunotherapy platforms.

Daniel Amador-Noguez

Daniel Amador-Noguez is a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a 2025 PECASE recipient whose lab uses metabolomics and modeling to study microbial metabolism.

Daniel B Turner-Evans

Daniel B Turner-Evans is a neuroscientist who mapped the fruit fly's head-direction circuit at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus and became an assistant professor at UC Santa Cruz in 2021.

Daniel B. Rifkin

Daniel B. Rifkin, also published as D. B. Rifkin, is a molecular biologist and Research Professor of Cell Biology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine known for TGF-β research.

Daniel B. Stetson

Daniel B. Stetson is an immunologist and professor at the University of Washington known for work on innate immune detection of viral DNA and RNA and autoimmunity.

Daniel Bogenhagen

Daniel F. Bogenhagen is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University known for work on mitochondrial DNA replication, transcription, and repair in animal cells.

Daniel Bradley (Irish geneticist)

Daniel Bradley is an Irish population geneticist, Professor at Trinity College Dublin, known for ancient DNA studies of Irish prehistory and a 2020 Nature paper on Newgrange.

Daniel Branton

Daniel Branton is a cell biologist and Higgins Professor Emeritus at Harvard who established the lipid-bilayer structure of membranes and proposed nanopore DNA sequencing, earning National Academy of Sciences membership.

Daniel Broek

Daniel Broek is a molecular biologist at the University of Southern California known for defining how yeast RAS proteins are switched on, in Cell papers from 1985 and 1987.

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Daniel Bush

Daniel Bush is a neuroscientist and Associate Professor at University College London who leads the Human Neurophysiology lab, studying human spatial and episodic memory with intracranial EEG and MEG.

Daniel C. Douek

Daniel C. Douek is an American immunologist and physician-scientist who studies how HIV damages the immune system, as chief of the Human Immunology Section at the NIH Vaccine Research Center.

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923–2008), American pediatrician and virologist, shared the 1976 Nobel Prize for proving kuru transmissible via funerary cannibalism; convicted in 1997 of child abuse.

Daniel Choquet

Daniel Choquet is a French neurobiologist at the CNRS in Bordeaux known for showing that AMPA receptors move in the neuronal membrane, enabling synaptic plasticity and learning.

Daniel Durocher

Daniel Durocher is a Canadian molecular biologist who studies how cells detect and repair DNA damage, leading research at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto.

Daniel Dwyer

Daniel J. Dwyer is an American microbiologist known for research on how bactericidal antibiotics kill bacteria, including the widely cited 2007 Cell paper on a common killing mechanism.

Daniel E. Bauer

Daniel E. Bauer is an American physician-scientist who directs the Gene Therapy Program at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's and identified the BCL11A enhancer target behind approved CRISPR sickle cell therapies.

Daniel E. Feldman

Daniel E. Feldman is a neuroscientist, Professor and Chair of Neuroscience at UC Berkeley, known for the 2005 Science review 'Map Plasticity in Somatosensory Cortex' and autism research.

Daniel E. Gottschling

Daniel E. Gottschling is an American molecular biologist and geneticist who studies cellular aging in yeast, known for telomere research and elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Daniel E. Koshland (biochemist)

Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. (1920–2007) was an American biochemist at UC Berkeley known for the induced-fit model of enzyme action and for editing Science from 1985 to 1995.

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Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.

Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. was a biochemist who proposed the induced fit theory of enzyme action in 1958 and the sequential KNF model of cooperativity in 1966.

Daniel F. Bowen‐Pope

Daniel F. Bowen-Pope is an American molecular and vascular biologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, known for his work on platelet-derived growth factor.

Daníel F. Guðbjartsson

Daníel F. Guðbjartsson (Daniel F. Gudbjartsson) is an Icelandic geneticist who has worked at deCODE genetics in Reykjavík since 1998 and was appointed head of the company in 2026.

Daniel F. Klessig

Daniel F. Klessig is a plant molecular biologist who helped discover RNA splicing in adenoviruses and established salicylic acid as a key hormone in plant immunity.

Daniel F. Voytas

Daniel F. Voytas, also known as Daniel Voytas, is an American plant geneticist at the University of Minnesota known for developing TALENs and co-founding the gene-editing company Calyxt.

Daniel Finley

Daniel Finley is an American cell biologist and Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School since 1988, known for his work on the ubiquitin-proteasome system.