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Donald E. Ingber

Donald E. Ingber is an American cell biologist and bioengineer at Harvard, founding director of the Wyss Institute, known for cellular tensegrity theory and Human Organs-on-Chips, microfluidic devices modeling organ function.

Donald E. Mosier

Donald E. Mosier is an immunologist known for HIV/AIDS research, best known for the 1988 Nature paper that transferred a functional human immune system into SCID mice.

Donald E. Olins

Donald E. Olins is a biologist at the University of New England known for the first electron-microscope images of the nucleosome, published in Science in 1974.

Donald F. Conrad

Donald F. Conrad is an American human geneticist and chief of the Division of Genetics at the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU since 2018.

Donald Ganem

Donald Ganem, known professionally as Don Ganem, is an American virologist and physician who spent three decades at UCSF, was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, and led infectious-disease research at Novartis.

Donald Griffin

Donald Redfield Griffin was an American zoologist who discovered echolocation in bats, coined the term, and founded cognitive ethology, the study of animal consciousness, in 1976.

Donald Helinski

Donald R. Helinski is an American molecular biologist and emeritus professor at UC San Diego whose laboratory first showed that bacterial plasmids are rings of DNA.

Donald Hilvert

Donald Hilvert (born 1956) is an organic chemist and enzymologist who taught at The Scripps Research Institute and ETH Zurich, known for catalytic antibodies, chorismate mutase, and designed enzymes.

Donald J. Reis

Donald J. Reis (1931–2000) was an American neuroscientist and neurologist who led Cornell's Laboratory of Neurobiology for over 30 years, studying brain control of blood pressure and emotional behavior.

Donald Kennedy

Donald Kennedy (1931–2020) was an American neurobiologist who showed that single crayfish neurons can trigger coordinated behavior, and later served as FDA commissioner, Stanford's eighth president, and editor of Science.

Donald Küfe

Donald W. Kufe is an American medical oncologist and cancer pharmacologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, known for identifying the MUC1-C oncoprotein and developing the CA15-3 breast cancer blood test.

Donald L Riddle

Donald L Riddle is an American geneticist who mapped the dauer larva pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans, work that led to discoveries about genes controlling adult life span.

Donald L. Gill

Donald L. Gill is a cell physiologist who studies calcium signaling and chairs the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Donald M. Coen

Donald M. Coen is a virologist and Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School, known for work on herpesvirus replication, latency, and antiviral drug resistance.

Donald M. Crothers

Donald M. Crothers (1937–2014) was an American biochemist and biophysicist who spent his career at Yale University studying DNA bending, transcription initiation, and nucleic-acid thermodynamics.

Donald M. Engelman

Donald M. Engelman is a Yale biophysicist known for the helical hairpin hypothesis of membrane protein insertion and for pHLIP, a peptide targeting acidic tumor tissue.

Donald Macleod

Donald Macleod is a molecular biologist known for DNA methylation research at the MRC Mammalian Genome Unit and University of Edinburgh, whose 1985 Cell paper defined CpG islands.

Donald N. Duvick

Donald N. Duvick (1924–2006) was an American maize geneticist and plant breeder at Pioneer Hi-Bred in Iowa, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002.

Donald Ort

Donald R. Ort is an American plant biologist and Robert Emerson Professor at the University of Illinois, known for engineering crops with more efficient photosynthesis.

Donald P. Weeks

Donald P. Weeks is an American plant molecular biologist and emeritus professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln who developed dicamba-resistance gene technology for soybeans and contributed to plant genome editing.

Donald Pfaff

Donald W. Pfaff is an American neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus at Rockefeller University, known for working out the neural circuitry of a hormone-dependent reproductive behavior and formulating generalized CNS arousal.

Donald Pious

Donald A. Pious (1930–1998) was an American immunologist at the University of Washington known for using somatic cell mutants to discover HLA-DM's role in antigen processing.

Donald R. McCarty

Donald R. McCarty is a University of Florida plant molecular biologist known for cloning the maize Viviparous-1 gene and discovering the VP14 enzyme of abscisic acid biosynthesis.

Donald R. Senger

Donald R. Senger (D. R. Senger) is a cancer researcher who discovered vascular permeability factor, renamed VEGF, now targeted by drugs treating cancer and wet macular degeneration.

Donald S. Faber

Donald S. Faber (1943–2025) was an American neuroscientist who studied synaptic transmission and sensorimotor behavior, chiefly on the goldfish Mauthner cell, and chaired neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Donald Shreffler

Donald Shreffler was an American immunogeneticist whose studies of the mouse H2 major histocompatibility complex shaped immunology in the 1960s and 1970s; he chaired genetics at Washington University.

Donald T. Dubin

Donald T. Dubin was a molecular biologist at Rutgers University known for work on RNA methylation, including mitochondrial ribosomal RNA in hamster cells and the capped RNA of Sindbis virus.

Donald W. Hilgemann

Donald W. Hilgemann is an American physiologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center who studies ion transport in cell membranes, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Dong Xu

Dong Xu is a bioinformatician and Curators' Distinguished Professor in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Missouri, known for the scGNN framework and protein localization prediction.

Dong-Seon Chang

Dong-Seon Chang is a South Korean neuroscientist who studies how people perceive others' actions, and a science communicator with a Spiegel bestseller and a popular YouTube channel.