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Derrick J. Rossi
Derrick J. Rossi is a Canadian stem cell biologist and entrepreneur who developed modified mRNA for cellular reprogramming, co-founded Moderna Therapeutics, and leads Convelo Therapeutics.
Derrick T. Brazill
Derrick T. Brazill is an American cell biologist whose research on cell density sensing and the actin cytoskeleton earned a 2004 PECASE award; he is now Provost of York College, CUNY.
Desh Pal S. Verma
Desh Pal S. Verma was a Canadian-American plant molecular biologist and Ohio State professor who isolated the first plant mRNA and identified nodulins, dying in 2025.
Desmond Bradley
Desmond J. Bradley is a plant scientist at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, known for identifying the snapdragon centroradialis gene and for work on snapdragon flower color evolution.
Detlef Weigel
Detlef Weigel, born 1961 in Germany, is a plant biologist directing the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, known for LEAFY, FT, and the 1001 Genomes Project.
Detlev Bronk
Detlev Wulf Bronk (1897–1975) was an American biophysicist who recorded electrical activity in single motor nerve fibers and served as president of Johns Hopkins and Rockefeller University.
DeWitt S. Goodman
DeWitt S. Goodman (1930–1991) was an American physician-scientist at Columbia University whose laboratory defined how vitamin A travels in blood and who chaired the first National Cholesterol Education Program.
DeWitt Stetten Jr.
DeWitt Stetten Jr. (1909–1990) was an American physician-biochemist who used isotopic tracers to study metabolism, then led Rutgers Medical School as first dean and directed NIGMS from 1970.
Dhruba K. Chattoraj
Dhruba K. Chattoraj is a molecular geneticist at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, who studies bacterial DNA replication, proposing handcuffing to control P1 plasmid copy number and studying the Vibrio cholerae initiator RctB.
Diana C. Hargreaves
Diana C. Hargreaves is an American molecular biologist and professor at the Salk Institute who studies how the BAF chromatin remodeling complex shapes immune function and cancer therapy response.
Diana M. Bautista
Diana M. Bautista is a neuroscientist at UC Berkeley who studies the molecular mechanisms of touch, pain, and itch, and became an HHMI investigator in 2022.
Diana W. Bianchi
Diana W. Bianchi is an American medical geneticist and neonatologist, director of the NIH's child health institute since 2016 and a pioneer of prenatal DNA screening.
Diane E. Griffin
Diane E. Griffin (1940–2024) was an American virologist and immunologist at Johns Hopkins known for research on measles virus and alphavirus encephalitis, and NAS vice president.
Diane K O'Dowd
Diane K. O'Dowd is an American neurobiologist and HHMI Professor at UC Irvine, known for research on ion channels and SCN1A epilepsy mutations and for undergraduate science-education reform.
Diane K. Hawley
Diane K. Hawley is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Oregon since 1986, known for work on RNA polymerase II and transcription.
Diane Mathis
Diane Mathis is an immunologist who holds the Morton Grove-Rasmussen Professorship at Harvard Medical School, known for work on immunological tolerance, the Aire transcription factor, and type 1 diabetes.
Dianne K. Newman
Dianne K. Newman is an American geobiologist and microbiologist at Caltech known for applying genetics to microbial metabolism and studying phenazines in cystic fibrosis lungs.
Didier Mazel
Didier Mazel is a French geneticist at the Institut Pasteur in Paris who studies integrons, horizontal gene transfer, and genome architecture in bacteria, including Vibrio cholerae.
Didier Picard
Didier Picard, born 1957, is a Swiss molecular biologist who led a laboratory at the University of Geneva from 1990, known for work on the Hsp90 chaperone and steroid receptors.
Didier Raoult
Didier Raoult (born 1952 in Dakar, Senegal) is a French microbiologist known for culturing Tropheryma whipplei, discovering giant viruses, and contested COVID-19 hydroxychloroquine claims.
Didier Trono
Didier Trono, born 1956, is a professor at EPFL in Switzerland who heads the Laboratory of Virology and Genetics and invented lentiviral vectors for gene therapy.
Didier Y. R. Stainier
Didier Stainier is a Belgian-American developmental biologist who directs the Department of Developmental Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim, Germany.
Dieter Egli
Dieter Egli, also known as Dietrich M. Egli, is a Swiss-born molecular biologist and Columbia University professor known for research on genome stability and gene editing in human embryos.
Dieter Gallwitz
Dieter Gallwitz is a German molecular biologist who discovered the yeast Ypt/Rab-GTPases, key regulators of vesicle trafficking, and directed a Max Planck Institute department in Göttingen.
Dieter Oesterhelt
Dieter Oesterhelt (1940–2022) was a German biochemist who discovered bacteriorhodopsin, the first known microbial rhodopsin, laying the basis for optogenetics and winning the 2021 Albert Lasker Award.
Dieter Söll
Dieter Söll is a German-born biochemist and molecular biologist at Yale University who studies transfer RNA and pioneered expanding the genetic code with new amino acids.
Diethard Tautz
Diethard Tautz, born 1957, is a German evolutionary and developmental biologist who directed the Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute in Plön from 2007 to 2023.
Diether Lambrechts
Diether Lambrechts is a Belgian epigenetics and cancer biologist who heads the Laboratory of Translational Genetics at VIB-KU Leuven, known for showing that tumor hypoxia alters DNA methylation by reducing TET enzyme activity.
Dietmar Schmitz
Dietmar Schmitz is a German physician and neuroscientist, professor at Charité Berlin since 2005 and DZNE site speaker, known for work on synaptic plasticity and optogenetics.
Dietmar Schmucker
Dietmar Schmucker is a German molecular neuroscientist at the University of Bonn known for discovering in 2000 that the Drosophila Dscam receptor generates tens of thousands of isoforms.