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David J. Anderson
David J. Anderson, also known as D.J. Anderson, is an American neuroscientist at Caltech who studies how the brain's circuits encode emotions such as fear and aggression.
David J. Asai
David J. Asai is an American cell biologist known for research on the motor protein dynein and for leading inclusive science education programs at HHMI from 2008 to 2024.
David J. Dunlop
David J. Dunlop is a Canadian geophysicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga, known for rock magnetism, paleomagnetism, and the 1997 textbook Rock Magnetism.
David J. Freedman
David J. Freedman is a neuroscientist at the University of Chicago who studies how the primate brain learns visual categories and uses them to make decisions, chairing Neurobiology since 2024.
David J. Galas
David J. Galas (1944–2023) was an American molecular biologist who co-invented DNase footprinting and directed the Department of Energy's Human Genome Program from 1990 to 1993.
David J. Glass
David J. Glass is an American molecular biologist at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals known for research on skeletal muscle signaling and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
David J. Grainger
David J. Grainger is a molecular biologist known for TGF-β research in vascular disease and a rapid blood test for coronary heart disease, later co-founding the venture firm Medicxi.
David J. Heeger
David J. Heeger is an American cognitive and computational neuroscientist, a Silver Professor at New York University known for the normalization model of neural computation and fMRI analysis.
David J. Linden
David J. Linden is an American neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins who studies memory storage, addiction, and cerebellar synaptic plasticity, and writes science books for general audiences.
David J. Lipman
David J. Lipman is an American bioinformatician who co-developed the sequence-search tools FASTA and BLAST and was the founding director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
David J. Loskutoff
David J. Loskutoff is a cell biology professor at The Scripps Research Institute who joined in 1975, discovered plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), and studied obesity, inflammation, and thrombosis.
David J. Sherratt
David J. Sherratt is a British molecular biologist known for work on bacterial plasmids, site-specific recombination, and chromosome replication and segregation, appointed to Oxford's Iveagh Chair of Microbiology in 1994.
David Jackson (plant geneticist)
David Jackson, also published as David P. Jackson, is a British plant developmental geneticist and professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who studies maize stem-cell genes controlling yield.
David Julius
David Julius is an American physiologist at UCSF known for identifying the capsaicin receptor TRPV1, work honored with the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
David Kabat
David Kabat is a virologist and Professor Emeritus of biochemistry at Oregon Health & Science University, known for work on Friend murine erythroleukemia virus and retroviral receptors.
David Keilin
David Keilin (1887–1963) was a British scientist, born in Moscow to a Polish family, who discovered cytochrome at Cambridge in 1925 and identified carbonic anhydrase as the first zinc-containing enzyme.
David Kimelman
David Kimelman is a developmental biologist and professor at the University of Washington whose laboratory defined how FGF and TGF-β induce mesoderm and how Wnt signaling builds the vertebrate body axis.
David Kirk
David L. Kirk (1934–2018) was an American molecular biologist and professor emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, known for making Volvox a model system for studying multicellularity.
David Kleinfeld
David Kleinfeld is an American physicist and systems neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego, known for applying lasers and optics to rodent whisker sensing and cortical blood flow.
David Komander
David Komander is a German-born biochemist and structural biologist who studies the ubiquitin system, discovered the deubiquitinase OTULIN, and has led the Ubiquitin Signalling Division at WEHI in Melbourne since 2018.
David L. Garbers
David L. Garbers (1944–2006) was an American biochemist who defined the guanylyl cyclase receptor family and studied sperm–egg communication, spending 30 years as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
David L. Rimoin
David L. Rimoin (1936–2012) was a Canadian-born medical geneticist who founded the American Board and College of Medical Genetics, directed Cedars-Sinai's Medical Genetics Institute, and established the genetic heterogeneity of diabetes and skeletal dysplasias.
David L. Spector
David L. Spector is an American molecular cell biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory known for work on nuclear speckles, live-cell imaging, and long non-coding RNAs in cancer.
David L. Vaux
David L. Vaux, born 1959 in Melbourne, is an Australian molecular biologist who identified BCL2, the first component of cell death found in any organism, and campaigns for research integrity.
David Lawrence Sacks
David Lawrence Sacks (born 1950) is an American parasitologist who studies Leishmania at NIAID and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.
David Levens
David Levens is a Senior Investigator and head of the Gene Regulation Section at the National Cancer Institute, studying how c-Myc and DNA topology control transcription.
David Leys
David Leys is a British-based structural biologist and biochemist, Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Manchester, known for determining the first reductive dehalogenase structure and the prenylated FMN cofactor.
David Luck
David Luck (1929–1998) was an American molecular geneticist and cell biologist at Rockefeller University who used the alga Chlamydomonas to dissect the genetics of mitochondria and flagella.
David M. Glover
David M. Glover, born 1948, is a cell biologist who discovered the Polo and Aurora kinase families regulating cell division, and has taught at Caltech since 2019.
David M. Kingsley
David M. Kingsley is an American developmental and evolutionary geneticist, a Stanford professor and HHMI Investigator known for mapping genes behind bone development and stickleback evolution.