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Dawn E. Kelley

Dawn E. Kelley was a molecular biologist at the Institute for Cancer Research and Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, known for her 1974 discovery of methylated messenger RNA.

Daxiong Fu

Daxiong Fu, known professionally as Dax Fu, is a physiologist at Johns Hopkins who led the first high-resolution structure of the E. coli glycerol channel GlpF.

Dean D. Metcalfe

Dean D. Metcalfe, also known as Dean Metcalfe, is an American immunologist who led NIAID's Laboratory of Allergic Diseases from 1995 to 2017 and studies human mast cells and mastocytosis.

Dean DellaPenna

Dean DellaPenna is an American plant biochemist at Michigan State University who works on plant nutritional genomics and is best known for his vitamin E research.

Dean H. Hamer

Dean H. Hamer, born 1951, is an American molecular geneticist who spent nearly 30 years at NIH, known for metallothionein research and a 1993 Xq28 sexual-orientation linkage study.

Dean R. Hewish

Dean R. Hewish is a molecular biologist who reported in 1973 that nuclease digestion of chromatin DNA yields regularly spaced fragments, key evidence for the nucleosome model.

Dean V. Buonomano

Dean V. Buonomano, also published as Dean Buonomano, is a neuroscientist and professor of neurobiology and psychology at UCLA known for research on how the brain tells time.

Dean W. Felsher

Dean W. Felsher, also cited as Dean Felsher, is an American physician-scientist and Stanford oncology professor known for oncogene addiction, the finding that inactivating MYC can make tumors regress.

Debabrata Mukhopadhyay

Debabrata Mukhopadhyay, known professionally as Dev Mukhopadhyay, is a molecular biologist and professor at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, who studies the tumor microenvironment, angiogenesis, and nanomedicine.

Debashish Bhattacharya

Debashish Bhattacharya is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University known for algal genomics, the origin of the plastid, and single-cell genomics of marine protists, including the 2012 Cyanophora paradoxa genome paper.

Debora Marks

Debora S. Marks is a computational biologist and Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, known for predicting protein 3D structure from evolutionary sequence covariation.

Deborah A. Nickerson

Deborah A. Nickerson, also known as Deborah Nickerson, was an American human geneticist at the University of Washington who pioneered SNP detection and exome sequencing for diagnosing rare disease.

Deborah Bourc'his

Déborah Bourc'his is a French epigeneticist at Institut Curie who studies DNA methylation in germ cells and embryos, known for deciphering DNMT3B, DNMT3L, and DNMT3C.

Deborah Fass

Deborah Fass is a professor of chemical and structural biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, who studies disulfide bonding in protein folding.

Deborah K. Morrison

Deborah K. Morrison is an American cell biologist who studies regulation of the Ras/Raf/MEK/ERK signaling pathway and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Deborah M. Gordon

Deborah M. Gordon is an American biologist at Stanford University who studies how ant colonies work without central control, best known for a field study of red harvester ants running since 1985.

Deborah P. Merke

Deborah P. Merke is an American pediatric endocrinologist and NIH physician-scientist known for research on congenital adrenal hyperplasia, including the discovery of adrenaline deficiency in the disorder.

Deborah T. Hung

Deborah T. Hung is a physician, chemist, and geneticist who studies bacterial pathogenesis at the Broad Institute and Harvard, and practices infectious disease and critical care medicine in Boston.

Dedre Gentner

Dedre Gentner is an American cognitive and developmental psychologist, the Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor at Northwestern University, known for structure-mapping theory of analogy and the career of metaphor account of metaphor processing.

Deepak Bastia

Deepak Bastia is a molecular biologist who studies how DNA replication starts and stops, holding the Donnelly Endowed Chair at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Deepak Srivastava

Deepak Srivastava is an American physician-scientist in molecular cardiology who serves as president of the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, where his laboratory developed direct cardiac reprogramming, converting connective tissue cells into beating heart muscle cells.

Dejian Ren

Dejian Ren is an American physiologist and Professor of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania known for identifying the NALCN sodium-leak channel and the lysosomal channel TMEM175.

Dek Woolfson

Dek Woolfson (Derek Neil Woolfson, born 1965) is a chemist and biochemist who designs new proteins from scratch, and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Bristol.

Denes Hnisz

Denes Hnisz, born 1979 in Szolnok, Hungary, is a molecular biologist who leads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin.

Denis C. Guttridge

Denis C. Guttridge is an American cancer biologist who studies NF-κB signaling in muscle wasting, and a professor at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Denis Duboule

Denis Duboule, born in Geneva in 1955, is a French-Swiss developmental geneticist known for his work on Hox genes, which pattern the vertebrate body and limbs.

Denis Gospodarowicz

Denis Gospodarowicz was a cell biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, whose laboratory named and purified fibroblast growth factor, later linked to tumor angiogenesis.

Denis Jabaudon

Denis Jabaudon is a Swiss neuroscientist and physician, professor at the University of Geneva, who studies the genetic mechanisms that specify cortical neuron identity during brain development.

Denis L. Rousseau

Denis L. Rousseau is a Professor of Biochemistry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, known for time-resolved resonance Raman studies of cytochrome c oxidase and hemoglobin.

Denis Monard

Denis Monard (born 1941) is a Swiss cellular and molecular neuroscientist who discovered glia-derived nexin, a protease inhibitor promoting neurite outgrowth, and distinguished it from nerve growth factor while directing the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel.