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David Amaral

David Amaral is an American neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at UC Davis, founding research director of the MIND Institute, founder of the Autism Phenome Project, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.

David Apirion

David Apirion was a molecular biologist at Washington University who showed how E. coli cuts its rRNA and tRNA transcripts, defining RNase III, E, and P.

David Artis

David Artis is an immunologist and Michael Kors Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, known for work on innate lymphoid cells and neuro-immune research.

David Attwell

David Attwell (born 1953) is a British neuroscientist and Jodrell Professor of Physiology at University College London, known for work on glial cells, brain energy budgets, and stroke.

David B. Roth

David B. Roth is an American molecular biologist and pathologist known for work on V(D)J recombination and DNA repair in lymphocytes, and chair of pathology at Penn from 2011.

David B. Sykes

David B. Sykes is a hematologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for differentiation therapy in acute myeloid leukemia and for defining the TEMPI syndrome.

David B. Weiner

David B. Weiner is an American immunologist known as the father of DNA vaccines, who led the first clinical trials of DNA vaccines against HIV, MERS, and Zika.

David Baker (biochemist)

David Baker, born 1962, is an American biochemist at the University of Washington who won half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computational protein design.

David Baltimore

David Baltimore (1938–2025), American biologist, co-discoverer of reverse transcriptase, 1975 Nobel laureate, creator of the Baltimore virus classification, Whitehead founding director, Rockefeller and Caltech president, exonerated in the Baltimore case.

David Barford

David Barford, born 1963, is a structural biologist and group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for structures of the kinetochore and APC/C.

David Baulcombe

Sir David Charles Baulcombe, born in 1952, is a British plant scientist who discovered small interfering RNAs, won the Lasker and Wolf Prizes, and became Biological Secretary of the Royal Society in 2024.

David Beach (cell cycle biologist)

David Beach is a British-born cell cycle biologist who trained with Paul Nurse, led a laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, and discovered the CDK inhibitors p21 and p16.

David Bilder

David Bilder is a developmental biologist at UC Berkeley who studies how epithelial tissues are built and how they suppress tumors, using the fruit fly Drosophila.

David Boettiger

David Boettiger was an American microbiologist at the University of Pennsylvania who helped discover reverse transcriptase and showed that integrins transduce mechanical force into chemical signals.

David Botstein

David Botstein (1942–2026) was a Swiss-born American geneticist whose 1980 proposal for a DNA linkage map of the human genome became a foundation of the Human Genome Project.

David Braff

David L. Braff is an American psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher at the University of California, San Diego, known for work on prepulse inhibition and neurophysiological endophenotypes of schizophrenia.

David C. Burr

David C. Burr, also known as David Burr, is an Australian and Italian vision neuroscientist, emeritus professor at the University of Florence, born in Zimbabwe in 1952.

David C. Chan

David C. Chan, also published as David Chan, is a molecular biologist at Caltech known for the HIV gp41 core structure and for showing mitochondrial fusion protects mitochondrial DNA.

David C. Gadsby

David C. Gadsby (1947–2019) was a British physiologist at Rockefeller University known for work on the sodium–potassium pump and CFTR, the chloride channel behind cystic fibrosis.

David C. Klein

David C. Klein is an American neuroscientist who spent his career at NIH studying the pineal gland and melatonin, including cloning the rhythm enzyme AANAT in 1995.

David C. Page

David C. Page is an American human geneticist at MIT and the Whitehead Institute known for sequencing the Y chromosome and showing it is not disappearing.

David C. Queller

David C. Queller is an American evolutionary biologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for work on kin selection and cooperation in social insects and social amoebas.

David C. Rubinsztein

David C. Rubinsztein is a South African-born clinician-scientist and Professor of Molecular Neurogenetics at Cambridge who pioneered autophagy upregulation as a therapy for neurodegenerative disease.

David C. Spray

David C. Spray is a neuroscientist and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, known for research on gap junctions, connexins, and pannexins.

David C. Van Essen

David C. Van Essen is an American neuroscientist at Washington University in St. Louis known for co-leading the Human Connectome Project and mapping 180 cortical areas per hemisphere in 2016.

David C. Wraith

David C. Wraith is a British immunologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham, best known for his work on autoimmunity and antigen-specific peptide immunotherapy.

David Chaplin

David D. Chaplin is an American immunologist known for work on lymphotoxin signaling and lymphoid organ development, and chair of microbiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from 2001.

David Chilton Phillips

David Chilton Phillips, Baron Phillips of Ellesmere (1924–1999), was a British structural biologist who determined the first three-dimensional structure of an enzyme, lysozyme, and founded molecular biophysics at Oxford.

David Clark (rehabilitation scientist)

David J. Clark is an American rehabilitation scientist who studies the neural control of walking in older adults and stroke survivors at the University of Florida.

David Clayton

David Clayton, also known as David G. Clayton, is a British statistician and genetic epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge known for generalized linear mixed models and genome-wide association studies.