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Daniel Matúš

Daniel Matúš is a physician-scientist from Leipzig, Germany, who studies how latrophilin adhesion GPCRs organize synapse formation as a Stanford University postdoctoral scholar in molecular and cellular physiology.

Daniel Mazia

Daniel Mazia (1912–1996) was an American cell biologist who, with Katsuma Dan at UC Berkeley in 1952, first isolated the mitotic apparatus intact from dividing sea urchin eggs, opening cell division to biochemical study.

Daniel McCloskey

Daniel McCloskey is an American neuroscientist at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, known for studying social behavior in naked mole-rats and winning a 2016 PECASE award.

Daniel METZGER

Daniel Metzger is a French molecular biologist at CNRS and IGBMC who studies nuclear receptor signaling, known for showing in 1988 that the human estrogen receptor functions in yeast.

Daniel Mucida

Daniel Mucida (Daniel S. Mucida) is a Brazilian-born immunologist who leads the Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology at The Rockefeller University and became an HHMI Investigator in 2021.

Daniel N. Hebert

Daniel N. Hebert (1962–2024) was an American cell biologist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst known for work on glycan-directed protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum.

Daniel N. Wilson

Daniel N. Wilson is a New Zealand–trained molecular and structural biologist, professor of biochemistry at Universität Hamburg since 2016, who studies ribosomes, translation stalling, and antibiotics.

Daniel Nathans

Daniel Nathans (1928–1999) was an American molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for applying restriction enzymes to the genetics of DNA.

Daniel O'Connor (American neuroscientist)

Daniel O'Connor is an American systems neuroscientist and associate professor at Johns Hopkins, known for studying how neural circuits convert touch into perception and decisions.

Daniel Oliver (botanist)

Daniel Oliver (1830–1916) was an English botanist, Keeper of the Herbarium at Kew from 1864 to 1890 and professor of botany at University College London.

Daniel P. Kiehart

Daniel P. Kiehart is a cell and developmental biologist at Duke University, known for showing that the molecular motor nonmuscle myosin II drives morphogenesis in the fruit fly.

Daniel Peeper

Daniel S. Peeper is a Dutch cancer biologist who, since 2017, has headed the Division of Molecular Oncology & Immunology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute.

Daniel R. Larson

Daniel R. Larson is an American biophysicist and Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for pioneering live-cell, single-molecule imaging of transcription and splicing.

Daniel R. Pérez

Daniel R. Pérez is an Argentine-American virologist at the University of Georgia who studies influenza at the animal–human interface and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Daniel R. Storm

Daniel R. Storm is an American neuroscientist and professor of pharmacology at the University of Washington in Seattle, known for research on calmodulin-stimulated adenylyl cyclases, cAMP signaling, and memory.

Daniel R. Weinberger

Daniel R. Weinberger (born 1947) is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist known for the neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia and studies of genetic risk for brain disorders.

Daniel Reisel

Daniel Reisel is a British-based neuroscientist turned physician who studied psychopaths at Wormwood Scrubs prison and gave a 2013 TED talk arguing that restorative justice could stimulate the brain regions involved in empathy.

Daniel S. Rokhsar

Daniel S. Rokhsar is a computational biologist and physicist at UC Berkeley who studies animal evolution through genome analysis and leads genomics at the Joint Genome Institute.

Daniel Schramek

Daniel Schramek is a cancer geneticist who leads functional cancer genomics at Sinai Health's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, screening genes directly in living mice.

Daniel St Johnston

Daniel St Johnston, born 1960, is Professor of Developmental Genetics at the Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, an FRS known for studying cell polarity and mRNA localization in Drosophila.

Daniel Zilberman

Daniel Zilberman is a plant scientist studying cytosine DNA methylation, known for work on the DDM1 remodeler and H2A.Z, and a professor at IST Austria since 2021.

Daniella Goldfarb

Daniella Goldfarb is an Israeli electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopist and emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for introducing Gd(III) spin labeling for protein distance measurements.

Danielle N. Lee

Danielle N. Lee is an American biologist and science communicator known as The Urban Scientist, who studies field mice and African giant pouched rats and teaches science through hip-hop.

Daniëlle Posthuma

Daniëlle Posthuma (born 1972) is a Dutch statistical geneticist and full professor of Complex Trait Genetics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, known for the FUMA GWAS annotation platform.

Danielle S. Bassett

Dani S. Bassett, also published as Danielle S. Bassett, is an American physicist and neuroscientist known for network neuroscience, applying network science to the brain.

Danilo Bzdok

Danilo Bzdok is a neuroscientist and AI researcher, associate professor at McGill University and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Mila in Montreal, working on machine learning in psychiatry.

Danny J. Schnell

Danny J. Schnell was an American molecular biologist who isolated the chloroplast protein import machinery and chaired Plant Biology at Michigan State until his death in 2021.

Danny L. Brower

Danny L. Brower is an American developmental biologist known for Drosophila segment determination and integrin studies, and former department head at the University of Arizona.

Danny Porath

Danny Porath is a physicist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem known for a landmark 2000 Nature measurement of electrical transport through single DNA molecules.

Danny Reinberg

Danny Reinberg is a Chilean-born American biochemist at the University of Miami who studies how chromatin transmits gene-silencing information and named Polycomb repressive complex 2.