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David M. Knipe
David M. Knipe is an American virologist and Higgins Professor at Harvard Medical School, known for work on herpesvirus latency and viral epigenetics, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
David M. Langenau
David M. Langenau is a cancer biologist and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Mass General, known for creating the first transgenic zebrafish cancer model.
David M. Livingston
David M. Livingston (1941–2021) was an American molecular biologist and physician who spent nearly five decades at Dana-Farber and Harvard, known for work on RB and BRCA1/2.
David M. Lovinger
David M. Lovinger, also known as David Lovinger, is an American neuroscientist who studies how alcohol and addictive substances act on ion channels, synapses, and basal ganglia circuits.
David M. Ornitz
David M. Ornitz is a molecular biologist and physician-scientist, the Alumni Endowed Professor of Developmental Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, known for his work on FGF signaling in development.
David M. Prescott
David M. Prescott (1926–2011) was an American molecular biologist at the University of Colorado Boulder who discovered DNA sequence diminution and internal eliminated segments in ciliate genomes.
David M. Sabatini
David M. Sabatini is an American biochemist who discovered mTOR as a Johns Hopkins student in 1994, mapped the mTORC1 and mTORC2 complexes, and now leads a lab at IOCB Prague.
David M. Tarlinton
David M. Tarlinton is an Australian immunologist who heads Immunology and Pathology at Monash University in Melbourne, known for showing that Mcl-1 is essential for B cell memory.
David M. Tobin
David M. Tobin is a molecular geneticist at Duke University who uses zebrafish and Mycobacterium marinum to find host genes governing tuberculosis susceptibility, showing genotype-tailored therapy may help.
David M.J. Lilley
David M.J. Lilley (born 1948) is a British biochemist at the University of Dundee known for his work on branched nucleic acids, especially the Holliday junction.
David Mahlon Bonner
David Mahlon Bonner (1916–1964) was an American biochemical geneticist whose work on Neurospora crassa helped establish the one gene–one enzyme view; he was professor of microbiology at Yale and founding chair of biology at UCSD.
David Masopust
David Masopust is an American immunologist at the University of Minnesota known for identifying tissue-resident memory T cells, a major component of the immune system.
David Mervyn Blow
David Mervyn Blow (1931–2004) was a British biophysicist who helped found protein crystallography, developing isomorphous replacement and molecular replacement, and was professor of biophysics at Imperial College London from 1977.
David Nachmansohn
David Nachmansohn (1899–1983) was a German-born American biochemist who worked at Columbia University on the biochemistry of nerve activity, especially the role of acetylcholine in bioelectricity.
David Nemazee
David Nemazee (born 1956 in Shiraz, Iran) is an American immunologist at Scripps Research known for discovering B cell tolerance mechanisms, earning the 2025 Crafoord Prize.
David O. Morgan
David O. Morgan is a cell biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for showing how cyclin-dependent kinases control cell division and for work on the anaphase-promoting complex.
David Owerbach
David Owerbach is a molecular geneticist who localized the human insulin gene to chromosome 11 in 1980 and studied DNA variants predisposing people to type 1 diabetes.
David P. Bartel
David P. Bartel, also known as David Bartel, is a molecular biologist at MIT, the Whitehead Institute, and HHMI known for discovering animal microRNAs and how they repress targets.
David P. Corey
David P. Corey is an American neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School who studies how inner-ear hair cells convert sound into electrical signals and develops gene therapies for hereditary deafness.
David P. Fairlie
David P. Fairlie is an Australian medicinal chemist at the University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience, where he heads the Centre for Drug Discovery and designs constrained peptides.
David P. Lloyd
David P. Lloyd, full name David Pierce Caradoc Lloyd, was an American neurophysiologist at the Rockefeller Institute who proved the knee-jerk reflex pathway has only two neurons.
David P. Toczyski
David P. Toczyski is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, known for work on checkpoint adaptation in yeast and how checkpoint kinases block late replication origins after DNA damage.
David Pagliarini
David J. Pagliarini is an American biochemist and HHMI Investigator at Washington University School of Medicine known for studying mitochondrial protein function and coenzyme Q biosynthesis.
David Perkins (geneticist)
David Dexter Perkins (1919–2007) was an American fungal geneticist who spent his career at Stanford University, characterizing about 350 chromosome rearrangements in the bread mold Neurospora crassa.
David Pettijohn
David Pettijohn is an American biophysicist who co-discovered DNA repair replication with Philip Hanawalt at Stanford in 1964, work the Nobel Committee credits as an early step toward nucleotide excision repair.
David Poeppel
David Poeppel is a cognitive neuroscientist, Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University, who studies how the brain turns sound into speech and language.
David Porubskỳ
David Porubský is a computational genomics researcher at EMBL who maps structural variation in human genomes, known for a 2022 Cell catalog of inversions and a 2025 Nature mutation-rate study.
David Prain
Sir David Prain (1857–1944) was a Scottish botanist and physician who directed the Botanical Survey of India and then Kew from 1905 to 1922, and wrote Bengal Plants.
David Pye (zoologist)
David Pye (John David Pye, born 1932) is an English zoologist known for work on how bats echolocate and how animals detect the polarization of light.
David R. Beier
David R. Beier is a physician-scientist in mammalian developmental genetics, a University of Washington pediatrics professor and director at Seattle Children's Research Institute since 2013.