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Dmitriy M. Chudakov

Dmitriy M. Chudakov, born 1978 in Moscow, is a Russian immunologist known for immune repertoire sequencing, the MiXCR software, and TRBV9+ T cell depletion therapy for ankylosing spondylitis.

Dmitry G. Vassylyev

Dmitry G. Vassylyev is a structural biologist and professor of biochemistry at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, known for crystal structures of bacterial RNA polymerase.

Dmitry I. Gabrilovich

Dmitry I. Gabrilovich (Дмитрий Габрилович) is a Russian-born immunologist who leads translational tumor immunology at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, known for coining the term myeloid-derived suppressor cells in 2007.

Dmitry Korkin

Dmitry Korkin is a Russian-born computational biologist and computer science professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute who released 3D models of SARS-CoV-2 proteins in February 2020.

Dmitry Lyumkis

Dmitry Lyumkis is an American structural biologist and Associate Professor at the Salk Institute known for cryo-electron microscopy methods and structures of HIV intasomes and CRISPR-Cas13d enzymes.

Dmitry Temiakov

Dmitry Temiakov is a structural biologist and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, known for Cell papers on mitochondrial RNA polymerase, TFB2, and TEFM.

Dmitry V. Bulavin

Dmitry V. Bulavin is a Russian-born biologist known for work on p38 MAPK and the Wip1 phosphatase in cancer and aging, and director of IRCAN in Nice since 2024.

Dolf Weijers

Dolf Weijers is a Dutch plant developmental biologist and Professor of Biochemistry at Wageningen University, known for research on the plant hormone auxin and plant embryo development.

Dominic Grün

Dominic Grün is a German computational systems biologist, professor at the University of Würzburg since 2021, known for single-cell RNA-seq analysis methods including RaceID, StemID, and VarID2.

Dominick P. Purpura

Dominick P. Purpura (1927–2019) was an American neuroscientist known for research on epilepsy and dendritic spines, and dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 1984 to 2006.

Dominique Bergmann

Dominique Bergmann is a developmental biologist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Stanford who studies cell fate and polarity in the plant stomatal lineage.

Dominique Bonnet

Dominique Bonnet is a French stem cell biologist who identified the leukaemic stem cell of acute myeloid leukemia and leads a lab at the Francis Crick Institute.

Dominique Fourmy

Dominique Fourmy is a CNRS research director at the Laboratory of Biology and Applied Pharmacology, ENS Paris-Saclay, known for structural studies of the ribosomal RNA aminoglycoside binding site.

Dominique J.‐F. de Quervain

Dominique de Quervain, born 1968, is a Swiss behavioral neuroscientist and professor at the University of Basel known for the 1998 Nature finding that glucocorticoids impair memory retrieval.

Dominique Pantaloni

Dominique Pantaloni is a French biochemist and cell biologist at CNRS known for work on actin polymerization, ATP hydrolysis, and actin-based motility at the LEBS laboratory in Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

Dominique Soldati-Favre

Dominique Soldati-Favre is a cell biologist and professor at the University of Geneva who identified the glideosome motor of apicomplexan parasites and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Dominique Van Der Straeten

Dominique Van Der Straeten is a Belgian plant scientist and senior full professor at Ghent University, known for thermographic detection of plant disease and folate-biofortified rice.

Don Craig Wiley

Don Craig Wiley (1944–2001) was an American structural biologist and Harvard professor best known for determining the structures of influenza hemagglutinin and peptide-bound MHC proteins.

Don Mason (immunologist)

Don Mason, or Donald W. Mason, was a British immunologist at Oxford who used monoclonal antibodies and flow cytometry to split T cells into functional subsets.

Don W. Cleveland

Don W. Cleveland is an American cell biologist, professor and chair at UC San Diego, known for discovering tau and CENP-E and winning the 2018 Breakthrough Prize.

Don W. Fawcett

Don W. Fawcett (1917–2009) was an American anatomist and cell biologist, a pioneer of biological electron microscopy who described the fine structure of cilia, sperm, and intercellular junctions and helped found modern cell biology.

Donal S. Luse

Donal S. Luse is a molecular biologist at the Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute who studies transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II and its control by nucleosomes.

Donald A. Bryant

Donald A. Bryant (1950–2024) was an American biochemist and microbial physiologist at Penn State who studied photosynthetic bacteria, discovered new phototrophs in Yellowstone hot springs, and identified the enzyme that makes chlorophyll f.

Donald B. Kohn

Donald B. Kohn is an American physician-scientist at UCLA who develops blood stem cell gene therapies for immune disorders, including the first FDA-approved therapy for LAD-I.

Donald C. Malins

Donald C. Malins is a biochemist known for linking toxic chemicals in Puget Sound sediments to cancer in fish, and for reading structural changes in DNA by infrared spectroscopy.

Donald C. Rio

Donald C. Rio is an American biochemist and molecular biologist at UC Berkeley known for his studies of Drosophila P element transposition and RNA binding proteins in splicing.

Donald Caspar

Donald Caspar (1927–2021) was an American structural biologist credited with coining the term, who developed the quasi-equivalence theory of virus shells with Aaron Klug and helped determine the structure of tobacco mosaic virus.

Donald D. Brown

Donald D. Brown (1931–2023) was an American developmental biologist who spent his career at the Carnegie Institution in Baltimore, working out how eukaryotic genes are turned on and off.

Donald D. Newmeyer

Donald D. Newmeyer is a molecular biologist who studies apoptosis and mitochondria, a professor at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology from 1994 to 2019.

Donald E. Ayer

Donald E. Ayer is an American molecular biologist known for defining the Mad–Max transcriptional repression system that antagonizes the cancer-driving Myc oncoprotein. He has been a professor at the University of Utah since 1995.