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Dongsheng Cai

Dongsheng Cai is a physician-scientist and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, known for showing that hypothalamic inflammation drives obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and aging.

Donna L. Färber

Donna L. Farber is an American immunologist at Columbia University known for defining tissue-resident memory T cells and for building an organ-donor program mapping human immunity.

Donna L. Maney

Donna L. Maney is an American neuroendocrinologist at Emory University known for her research on the white-throated sparrow and for reforming how sex differences are studied.

Donovan H. Parks

Donovan H. Parks is a Canadian bioinformatician and Senior Researcher at Aalborg University in Denmark, known for CheckM, GTDB-Tk, and leading the Genome Taxonomy Database for over a decade.

Dora E. Angelaki

Dora E. Angelaki is a computational and systems neuroscientist, professor at New York University since 2018, known for research on vestibular-visual integration, spatial navigation, and multisensory perception.

Doreen Cantrell

Doreen A. Cantrell is a British immunologist and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the University of Dundee, known for work on T lymphocyte activation and signaling.

Dorian B. McGavern

Dorian B. McGavern is an American immunologist who leads the Viral Immunology and Intravital Imaging Section at NINDS, NIH, studying immune responses in the central nervous system.

Doris Bachtrog

Doris Bachtrog is an evolutionary geneticist and professor of integrative biology at UC Berkeley, known for studying how sex chromosomes form, degenerate, and evolve, using fruit flies and other animals.

Doris Ying Tsao

Doris Ying Tsao, who publishes as Doris Y. Tsao, is an American neuroscientist known for discovering the macaque face patch system and decoding how the brain represents faces.

Doron Lancet

Doron Lancet is an Israeli human geneticist and bioinformatician at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for olfactory genetics, GeneCards, and the GARD prebiotic evolution model.

Dorothea Bennett

Dorothea Bennett (1929–1990) was an American geneticist known for her work on early mammalian development, especially the mouse T/t complex, at Cornell, Sloan-Kettering, and Texas.

Dorothee Kern

Dorothee Kern is a German-born biophysical chemist who uses NMR spectroscopy to watch proteins move, an HHMI Investigator, and a founder of Relay Therapeutics and MOMA Therapeutics.

Dorothy Cheney

Dorothy Cheney (1950–2018) was an American primatologist who, with her husband Robert Seyfarth, pioneered playback experiments on wild vervet monkeys in Kenya and baboons in Botswana.

Dorothy E. Shippen

Dorothy E. Shippen is an American-trained biochemist and geneticist at Texas A&M University who established Arabidopsis thaliana as the model plant for telomere biology and discovered plant telomerase.

Dorothy M. Horstmann

Dorothy M. Horstmann was an American epidemiologist and virologist at Yale whose demonstration that poliovirus travels in blood enabled polio vaccines; she became Yale School of Medicine's first woman professor in 1961.

Dorothy Wrinch

Dorothy Wrinch, who published as D. M. Wrinch, was a mathematician and biochemist who originated the cyclol theory of protein folding and taught at Smith College from 1942 to 1971.

Doug Waterhouse

Doug Waterhouse (1916–2000) was an Australian entomologist who led CSIRO's Division of Entomology for 21 years and identified the active ingredients of the insect repellent Aerogard.

Douglas A. Bayliss

Douglas A. Bayliss is a neuroscientist and pharmacologist who chairs Pharmacology at the University of Virginia, known for identifying how the brain's carbon dioxide sensors control breathing.

Douglas A. Lauffenburger

Douglas A. Lauffenburger is an American biological engineer at MIT who founded and chaired its Department of Biological Engineering and was named an Institute Professor in 2026.

Douglas C. Dean

Douglas C. Dean is a molecular biologist holding an endowed chair at the University of Louisville, known for Cell papers on the retinoblastoma protein and later research on retinitis pigmentosa.

Douglas C. Rees

Douglas C. Rees (D.C. Rees) is an American structural biochemist, the Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson Professor of Chemistry at Caltech, known for the first crystal structure of nitrogenase.

Douglas C. Wallace

Douglas C. Wallace is an American mitochondrial geneticist who founded the field of human mitochondrial genetics, showing that mtDNA is inherited only from the mother.

Douglas C. Youvan

Douglas C. Youvan is an American biophysicist who sequenced the bacterial photosynthetic reaction-center genes, engineered its amino acids to alter electron transfer, and co-founded Kairos Scientific.

Douglas D. Bannerman

Douglas D. Bannerman is an American immunologist whose USDA Beltsville research defined how cows' innate immunity responds to mastitis, earning the 2006 Presidential Early Career Award.

Douglas D. Richman

Douglas D. Richman is an American virologist and physician at UC San Diego, known for the first identification of HIV drug resistance and landmark antiretroviral therapy trials.

Douglas H. Turner

Douglas H. Turner, born 1946, is an American chemist at the University of Rochester whose Turner rules let software predict RNA secondary structure from sequence alone.

Douglas Higgs

Douglas Higgs (Douglas R. Higgs) is a British clinician-scientist at Oxford who directed the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit and is known for unraveling the molecular genetics of alpha-thalassaemia.

Douglas Houghton Campbell

Douglas Houghton Campbell (1859–1953) was an American botanist who studied the morphology of mosses, liverworts, and ferns, and headed Stanford University's botany department from 1891 to 1925.

Douglas K. Bishop

Douglas K. Bishop is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Chicago who studies homologous recombination and discovered the meiosis-specific protein Dmc1 in 1992.

Douglas Koshland

Douglas E. Koshland is an American molecular biologist and UC Berkeley professor known for identifying cohesins and for work on chromosome structure and segregation in budding yeast.