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David Colman
David R. Colman (1949–2011) was an American neuroscientist known for research on myelin, glial cells, and the synapse, who directed McGill's Montreal Neurological Institute from 2002.
David Cortez
David Cortez is an American molecular biologist who studies how cells protect and repair DNA during replication, and chairs the Department of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
David Craik
David J. Craik is an Australian chemist at the University of Queensland who discovered the cyclotides, ultra-stable circular plant peptides, and applies them to peptide-based drug design.
David Crews
David Crews (1947–2025) was a behavioral endocrinologist and evolutionary biologist, the Ashbel Smith Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, known for his 1988 Nature paper on reptile incubation temperature.
David D. Ginty
David D. Ginty is an American neurobiologist who studies touch, chair of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and an HHMI investigator elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.
David D. Roberts
David D. Roberts is an American cancer biologist who spent over 40 years at the National Cancer Institute, where he identified CD47 as the key receptor for thrombospondin-1.
David D. Sabatini
David D. Sabatini is an Argentine-born American cell biologist, born in 1931, at NYU, known for the 1971 signal hypothesis and work on intracellular protein trafficking.
David Denlinger
David Denlinger is an American insect physiologist at Ohio State University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004, known for defining how insects enter and exit diapause.
David DeRosier
David J. DeRosier is a structural biologist who, with Aaron Klug, computed the first 3D structure from electron micrographs in 1968, then spent his career at Brandeis University.
David Drew (biochemist)
David Drew is a structural biologist and Professor of Biochemistry at Stockholm University, known for determining the structures of SLC solute transporters, including the fructose transporter GLUT5 and mammalian Na+/H+ exchangers.
David Dubnau
David Dubnau is an American microbiologist and professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, known for his work on genetic competence and natural transformation in Bacillus subtilis.
David Dupret
David Dupret is a cognitive neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience at Oxford, leading an MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit group studying the brain network physiology of memory.
David E. Cane
David E. Cane is a biological chemist at Brown University known for his work on terpenoid biosynthesis, polyketide synthases, and vitamin B6 formation in E. coli.
David E. Comings
David E. Comings (born 1935) is an American physician and medical geneticist who headed genetics at City of Hope in Duarte, California, and later proposed contested genetic models of Tourette syndrome and ADHD.
David E. Goldman
David E. Goldman, born David Eliot Goldman, was an American biophysicist whose 1943 constant-field equation underlies the Goldman–Hodgkin–Katz equation, still standard for interpreting membrane potentials and ion-channel selectivity.
David E. Green
David E. Green (1910–1983) was an American biochemist who codirected the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was a central figure in research on the respiratory chain and oxidative phosphorylation.
David E. Housman
David E. Housman is an American geneticist, MIT biology professor since 1975, known for identifying the Wilms' tumor gene WT1 and the trinucleotide repeat expansion causing myotonic dystrophy.
David E. Salt
David E. Salt is a British plant biologist who founded ionomics, the high-throughput study of mineral composition of organisms, known for phytoremediation and work at Nottingham.
David Eagleman
David Eagleman is a neuroscientist, author, and inventor who teaches at Stanford University, works on synesthesia and time perception, founded Neosensory, and wrote the book Livewired.
David Eisenberg
David S. Eisenberg is an American biochemist and structural biologist at UCLA known for determining atomic structures of amyloid fibrils and designing inhibitors of toxic protein aggregation.
David Epel
David Epel is a marine biologist and emeritus professor at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California, where he worked from 1965 to 2009.
David Ferster
David Ferster is a neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus in Northwestern University's Department of Neurobiology, known for studying visual cortex circuitry and developing in vivo whole-cell patch recording.
David Fidock
David A. Fidock is an Australian-born parasitologist and C.S. Hamish Young Professor at Columbia University, known for identifying the genetic basis of chloroquine resistance in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
David Finnegan
David J. Finnegan is a molecular geneticist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, known for his work on transposable elements in Drosophila, including the I factor and mariner transposon.
David Fitzpatrick (neuroscientist)
David Fitzpatrick (born 1952) is an American neuroscientist who studies how visual cortex circuits develop, and the founding Scientific Director and CEO of the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience.
David G. Drubin
David G. Drubin is an American cell biologist at UC Berkeley known for work on endocytosis and cell polarity, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
David G. Lambright
David G. Lambright is an American structural biologist and professor at UMass Chan Medical School, known for crystallographic studies of G proteins and Rab GTPases.
David G. Russell
David G. Russell is a microbiologist and William Kaplan Professor Emeritus of Infection Biology at Cornell University, known for four decades of work on how Mycobacterium tuberculosis persists inside macrophages.
David G. Schatz
David G. Schatz is an American molecular geneticist and immunologist at Yale School of Medicine, best known for discovering RAG1 and RAG2, the proteins that assemble antibody and T cell receptor genes.
David G. Wilkinson
David G. Wilkinson is a developmental biologist who leads the Neural Development Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, known for discovering segmental gene expression in the hindbrain.