Life scientists

Danwei Huangfu

Danwei Huangfu is a stem cell and developmental biologist at the Sloan Kettering Institute, known for showing that Hedgehog signaling requires primary cilia and for CRISPR screening in human stem cells.

Danzhou Yang

Danzhou Yang is a medicinal chemist and Distinguished Professor at Purdue University who studies G-quadruplex DNA structures in oncogene promoters and telomeres by NMR spectroscopy.

Dao‐Xiu Zhou

Dao-Xiu Zhou is a plant biologist who studies epigenetic regulation in rice, working at Université Paris-Saclay in France and, since 2003, at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, China.

Daohua Jiang

Daohua Jiang (姜道华) is a Chinese structural biologist at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, known for cryo-EM structures of the cardiac sodium channel NaV1.5.

Daphne J. Osborne

Daphne J. Osborne (1925–2006) was a British plant physiologist who spent over fifty years studying ethylene and auxin, known for her 1970 Nature paper on leaf abscission and the target cell concept.

Daphne Preuss

Daphne Preuss is an American plant geneticist and entrepreneur known for defining Arabidopsis centromeres, discovering how sperm cells reach and fuse with egg cells, and founding Chromatin Inc.

Dario Alessi

Dario R. Alessi is a biochemist who directs the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit at the University of Dundee, known for discovering PDK1 and studying LRRK2 in Parkinson's disease.

Dario C. Altieri

Dario C. Altieri is an Italian-born American physician-scientist who discovered the survivin gene and has been President and CEO of The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia since 2015.

Dario Leister

Dario Leister, born 1967, is a German plant molecular biologist who has held the Chair of Plant Molecular Biology at LMU Munich since 2005, studying photosynthesis regulation.

Dario Vignali

Dario A. A. Vignali is an immunologist who chairs the Department of Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh and is best known for discovering the inhibitory cytokine IL-35.

Darrell H. Carney

Darrell H. Carney is a biochemist, adjunct professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch, and founder of Chrysalis BioTherapeutics, known for developing the tissue-repair peptide TP508.

Darrin M. York

Darrin M. York is an American computational chemist, Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, known for computing ribozyme catalytic mechanisms and co-developing the Amber simulation software.

Darwin J. Prockop

Darwin J. Prockop (1929–2024) was an American biochemist and progenitor-cell researcher known for collagen biosynthesis work and for pioneering the study of mesenchymal stromal cells.

Darwin K. Berg

Darwin K. Berg is an American developmental neurobiologist and emeritus professor at UC San Diego, known for work on nicotinic cholinergic signaling in brain development.

Daryl K. Granner

Daryl K. Granner (1936–2026) was an American physician-scientist who showed how insulin regulates the gluconeogenic enzyme PEPCK and led diabetes research at Iowa and Vanderbilt.

David A. Agard

David A. Agard is an American structural biologist and biochemist, professor at the University of California, San Francisco, known for Hsp90 chaperone research and advances in cryo-electron microscopy.

David A. Clayton

David A. Clayton is an American molecular biologist known for the transcription-priming model of mitochondrial DNA replication, in which RNA transcripts serve as primers for DNA synthesis.

David A. Harris

David A. Harris is an American molecular biologist and physician-scientist who studies the cellular prion protein and Alzheimer's disease, chairing Biochemistry & Cell Biology at Boston University.

David A. Hopwood

Sir David Alan Hopwood, born in 1933, is a British microbial geneticist who founded Streptomyces genetics and co-ordinated the 2002 complete genome sequence of Streptomyces coelicolor.

David A. Leopold

David A. Leopold is a neuroscientist who leads the Section on Cognitive Neurophysiology and Imaging at the National Institute of Mental Health, studying visual perception since 2004.

David A. Lomas

David A. Lomas is a British respiratory physician and scientist who defined how mutant alpha-1 antitrypsin polymerizes in liver cells, termed the serpinopathies, and is Professor of Medicine at University College London.

David A. McCormick

David A. McCormick is an American neuroscientist known for work on thalamocortical rhythms, sleep and arousal, and cerebellar learning, and director of the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Oregon since 2017.

David A. Patterson

David A. Patterson is an American molecular biologist and somatic-cell geneticist known for work on purine biosynthesis, Down syndrome, aging, and the c-mos oncogene in leukemia.

David A. Prince

David A. Prince (D. A. Prince) is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Stanford who studies cortical and thalamic excitability and chaired its neurology department for nearly two decades.

David A. Shub

David A. Shub is an American molecular biologist at SUNY Albany known for research on self-splicing group I introns and inteins in bacteriophages and bacteria.

David A. Stahl

David A. Stahl is an American environmental microbiologist who applied molecular tools to microbial communities and isolated the first ammonia-oxidizing archaeon, reported in Nature in 2005.

David A. Tirrell

David A. Tirrell is an American polymer chemist at Caltech, its tenth provost since 2017, known for artificial proteins and incorporating non-canonical amino acids into living cells.

David A. Wassarman

David A. Wassarman is an American Drosophila geneticist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studied RNA polymerase II transcription and created a fly model of traumatic brain injury.

David A. Williams

David A. Williams is an American pediatric hematologist and gene therapy researcher who leads hematology at Boston Children's Hospital and is a Harvard Medical School professor.