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Daniel Gerlich

Daniel W. Gerlich is an Austrian-based molecular cell biologist and senior group leader at IMBA in Vienna since 2012, known for live imaging of mitotic chromosome segregation.

Daniel Goldman (neuroscientist)

Daniel Goldman is a molecular biologist and neuroscientist at the University of Michigan Medical School, where he studies how zebrafish regenerate the retina and optic nerve after injury.

Daniel H. Geschwind

Daniel H. Geschwind is an American neurologist and human geneticist at UCLA who pioneered gene co-expression network analysis defining the molecular pathology of autism and dementia.

Daniel Herschlag

Daniel Herschlag is an American biochemist and professor of biochemistry at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, known for the RNA chaperone hypothesis and catalytic promiscuity.

Daniel Hillel

Daniel Hillel was an Israeli-American soil and water scientist who received the 2012 World Food Prize for micro-irrigation, taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and died in 2021.

Daniel I. Arnon

Daniel I. Arnon (1910–1994) was a Polish-born American plant physiologist and biochemist at UC Berkeley who discovered photophosphorylation and first achieved photosynthesis outside the living cell.

Daniel J Firl

Daniel J Firl is an American physician-scientist and general surgery resident at Duke University Hospital. He is known for developing the HALT-HCC risk score for liver transplants.

Daniel J. Donoghue

Daniel J. Donoghue, also published as D J Donoghue, is an American biochemist and cancer researcher, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UC San Diego.

Daniel J. Garry

Daniel J. Garry is an American cardiologist and molecular biologist at the University of Minnesota who studies heart stem cells and engineered pig hearts for transplantation.

Daniel J. Klionsky

Daniel J. Klionsky is an American cell biologist at the University of Michigan who studies autophagy in yeast, helped identify many ATG genes, and leads the field's assay guidelines.

Daniel J. Lew

Daniel J. Lew is an American cell biologist, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor at Duke University, who studies how yeast cells establish polarity via the Cdc42 GTPase.

Daniel J. Müller

Daniel J. Müller is a Swiss-based biophysicist and chair of biophysics and bionanotechnology at ETH Zurich in Basel, where he develops atomic force microscopy methods for living systems.

Daniel Jarosz

Daniel F. Jarosz is a Stanford molecular biologist who studies prions as protein-based molecular memories regulating gene expression, and became Stanford Medicine's first senior associate dean for basic science in 2025.

Daniel Kahne

Daniel Kahne is a chemical biologist, Higgins Professor and department chair at Harvard, known for identifying the Bam complex and discovering antibiotics that trap LPS in its transporter.

Daniel Kalderon

Daniel Kalderon, born 1959, is a molecular biologist and professor at Columbia University known for identifying the nuclear location signal and for studying Hedgehog signaling in Drosophila.

Daniel Kaplan (dermatologist)

Daniel H. Kaplan is a dermatologist and immunologist, Professor of Dermatology and Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh, studying how sensory neurons shape skin immunity.

Daniel Kolakofsky

Daniel Kolakofsky (born 1943) is a Canadian virologist known for the rule of six governing paramyxovirus RNA synthesis and for Sendai virus research.

Daniel L. Alkon

Daniel L. Alkon is a neuroscientist known for research on the cellular mechanisms of memory and for applying them to Alzheimer's disease diagnostics and therapy.

Daniel L. Hartl

Daniel L. Hartl, also known as D L Hartl, is an American population geneticist, Higgins Professor of Biology at Harvard, known for work on molecular evolution and drug resistance.

Daniel L. Kastner

Daniel L. Kastner is an American physician-scientist and NIH Distinguished Investigator whose laboratory mapped the familial Mediterranean fever gene, established autoinflammatory disease, and identified more than 10 hereditary fever pathways.

Daniel L. Minor

Daniel L. Minor Jr. is a structural biologist and biophysicist at UCSF and Berkeley Lab known for structural and mechanistic work on ion channels, including K2P potassium channels.

Daniel L. Schacter

Daniel L. Schacter is a cognitive neuroscientist and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Harvard since 1991, known for the seven sins of memory and the constructive episodic simulation hypothesis.

Daniel Leahy

Daniel J. Leahy is an American structural biologist at UT Austin who studies cell-surface receptor signaling, including EGFR and HER2, work relevant to cancer treatment.

Daniel Llano

Daniel Adolfo Llano is an American physician-scientist, professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and neurologist at Carle, known for auditory thalamocortical research and tinnitus.

Daniel Louvard

Daniel Louvard, born in 1948, is a French cell biologist, CNRS research director, and honorary director of the Institut Curie research center in Paris, known for studying epithelial cells and colorectal cancer.

Daniel M. Musher

Daniel M. Musher is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at Baylor College of Medicine, chief of the Houston VA Infectious Disease Section from 1971 to 2012.

Daniel M. Wegner

Daniel M. Wegner (1948–2013) was a Canadian-born social psychologist, the John Lindsley Professor at Harvard, known for research on thought suppression, transactive memory, and conscious will.

Daniel M. Wolpert

Daniel M. Wolpert, also known as Daniel Wolpert, is a neuroscientist at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute who studies how the brain controls movement using computational and Bayesian models.

Daniel MacArthur

Daniel MacArthur (Daniel G. MacArthur) is an Australian geneticist known for building ExAC and gnomAD, the world's largest catalogs of human genetic variation, and leads the Centre for Population Genomics.

Daniel Margoliash

Daniel Margoliash is a neuroethologist and professor at the University of Chicago who studies how songbirds learn and remember their songs, and how sleep shapes that learning.