Life scientists

David R. Copenhagen

David R. Copenhagen is an American retinal neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on retinal synaptic transmission.

David R. Corey, born 1963 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a biochemist at UT Southwestern Medical Center known for work on antisense oligonucleotides and allele-selective inhibition of mutant huntingtin.

David R. Davies

David R. Davies (1927–2016) was an American X-ray crystallographer at the National Institutes of Health who helped determine the first protein structure and pioneered structures of antibodies, DNA, and HIV-1 integrase.

David R. Engelke

David R. Engelke is an American molecular biologist known for three decades of work on RNA polymerase III transcription and tRNA genes at the University of Michigan.

David R. Garrod

David R. Garrod, also known as David Garrod, is a British cell biologist at the University of Manchester known for research on desmosomes, the junctions holding cells together.

David R. Goddard

David R. Goddard (1908–1985) was an American plant physiologist who proved plant and animal respiration share the cytochrome system, and provost of the University of Pennsylvania.

David R. Kearns

David R. Kearns is a physical chemist and emeritus professor at the University of California, San Diego, known for applying NMR spectroscopy to tRNA and DNA.

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David R. Liu

David R. Liu is a Harvard and Broad Institute professor who pioneered base editing and prime editing, gene-editing methods that alter DNA without cutting both strands.

David R. McClay

David R. McClay is an American developmental biologist and Arthur S. Pearse Professor Emeritus at Duke University, known for his 1999 finding that nuclear β-catenin specifies sea urchin cell fates.

David R. Sibley

David R. Sibley is an American molecular neuropharmacologist who led the Molecular Neuropharmacology Section at NINDS in Bethesda, Maryland, known for establishing how phosphorylation regulates G protein-coupled receptor signaling.

David R. Wolstenholme

David R. Wolstenholme, also known as D R Wolstenholme, was a British-born molecular biologist at the University of Utah known for his work on mitochondrial DNA structure and evolution.

David Ravine

David Ravine is an Australian medical geneticist, Foundation Professor of Medical Genetics at The University of Western Australia, known for ultrasound diagnostic criteria for polycystic kidney disease.

David Reich (geneticist)

David Emil Reich is an American geneticist and Harvard Medical School professor whose ancient DNA laboratory has produced over half of the world's ancient human DNA data.

David Relman

David A. Relman is an American microbiologist and physician at Stanford University whose sequence-based methods identified uncultured disease-causing bacteria and opened the modern study of the human microbiome.

David Rittenberg

David Rittenberg (1906–1970) was an American biochemist at Columbia University who, with Rudolph Schoenheimer, developed isotopic tracer techniques showing that body proteins and fats are constantly broken down and resynthesized.

David Ron

David Ron, born 1955 in Israel, is a physician-scientist and professor at the University of Cambridge known for defining the unfolded protein response and identifying PERK, CHOP, and mammalian IRE1.

David Russel

David Russel, or David William Russell, is an American physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington known for hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy and gene targeting.

David S. Bredt

David S. Bredt is an American molecular neuroscientist who discovered neuronal nitric oxide synthase, defined PSD-95's scaffolding role at synapses, and later led neuroscience drug discovery at Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson.

David S. Hogness

David S. Hogness was an American molecular biologist and biochemist at Stanford whose Drosophila methods, including colony hybridization and chromosomal walking, made genome mapping possible.

David S. Park

David S. Park, also known as David Park, is a molecular neuroscientist who studies Parkinson's disease and stroke, and who led the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary.

David S. Roos

David S. Roos is an American biologist and E. Otis Kendall Professor at the University of Pennsylvania known for discovering the apicoplast and leading the PlasmoDB and EuPathDB databases.

David S. Wishart

David S. Wishart is a Canadian biochemist at the University of Alberta who led the Human Metabolome Project, built HMDB and DrugBank, and won the 2025 Herzberg Gold Medal.

David Sancho

David Sancho is a Spanish immunologist who leads the Immunobiology Laboratory at the Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) in Madrid, known for identifying the dendritic cell receptor CLEC9A/DNGR-1.

David Savage

David Savage, also known as David F. Savage, is an American biochemist and genome engineer who is a professor at UC Berkeley and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

David Schlessinger

David Schlessinger is a Canadian-born molecular geneticist at the National Institute on Aging known for mapping the human X chromosome and the SardiNIA aging study.

David Schubert

David Schubert (1943–2020) was an American cell biologist and neurobiologist who founded and led the Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute, developing the Alzheimer's drug candidate J147.

David Self

David Self is an addiction neuroscientist known for laboratory work on cocaine relapse, a PECASE award recipient, and Professor of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

David Shalloway

David Shalloway is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at Cornell University who trained in theoretical physics and studies aberrant PTPalpha splicing in breast and colon cancers.

David Shemin

David Shemin (1911–1991) was an American biochemist who pioneered stable-isotope tracers in human metabolism, tracing glycine into his own hemoglobin and discovering δ-aminolevulinic acid and the heme biosynthesis pathway.