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Douglas L. Black

Douglas L. Black is an American RNA biologist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA, known for research on alternative pre-mRNA splicing by the Rbfox and PTB protein families.

Douglas L. Brutlag

Douglas L. Brutlag (born 1946) is an American molecular and computational biologist, emeritus professor of biochemistry at Stanford University who developed protein motif methods and co-founded IntelliGenetics.

Douglas M. Fowler

Douglas M. Fowler is an American biochemist and geneticist at the University of Washington who developed deep mutational scanning, a method for measuring hundreds of thousands of protein mutations at once.

Douglas Prasher

Douglas Prasher is an American molecular biologist who cloned the green fluorescent protein gene in 1992, enabling the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Chalfie, Shimomura, and Tsien.

Douglas R. Green

Douglas R. Green is an immunologist and cell-death researcher who chairs the Department of Immunology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and is known for apoptosis research.

Douglas S Kim

Douglas S Kim is a neuroscientist known for co-authorship on genetically encoded calcium indicators, including the GCaMP6 family, and for a 2015 study of ultraviolet vision in mouse visual cortex.

Douglas S. Kwon

Douglas S. Kwon, also cited as Douglas Kwon, is a physician-scientist in mucosal immunology at the Ragon Institute and Harvard Medical School who studies HIV acquisition.

Douglas T. Fearon

Douglas T. Fearon, born in 1942, is an American medical immunologist who showed that complement C3 links innate and adaptive immunity, and later studied tumor immunology at Cambridge.

Douglas T. Golenbock

Douglas T. Golenbock is an American immunologist and physician-scientist who leads the Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology at UMass Chan Medical School, known for defining the TLR4/MD-2 endotoxin receptor.

Douglas W. Losordo

Douglas W. Losordo is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular regenerative medicine who led pioneering CD34+ stem cell trials for refractory angina and later held biotech chief medical officer roles.

Douglass J. Forbes

Douglass J. Forbes is an American cell biologist and Emeritus Professor at UC San Diego, known for work on nuclear transport and nuclear pore complex assembly.

Douglass M. Turnbull

Douglass M. Turnbull is a British neurologist and mitochondrial-disease researcher at Newcastle University whose mitochondrial donation technique required a change in UK law and produced eight babies by 2025.

Drew Weissman

Drew Weissman is an American physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for modified mRNA research.

Duane A. Compton

Duane A. Compton is an American cell and cancer biologist who served as Dean of Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and studies chromosomal instability in tumors.

Dudley K. Strickland

Dudley K. Strickland is an American cell biologist and vascular researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, known for identifying the receptor LRP1 and discovering RAP.

Dudley W. Lamming

Dudley W. Lamming is an American biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies how nutrient-sensing pathways, especially mTOR and dietary isoleucine, control metabolism and aging.

Dukinfield Henry Scott

Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854–1934) was a British botanist and paleobotanist who led the Jodrell Laboratory at Kew and co-described the Paleozoic seed Lagenostoma Lomaxi in 1904.

Duncan Odom

Duncan T. Odom is a genomics researcher known for showing that tissue-specific transcription factor binding evolves rapidly between mammals, and for experimental studies of cancer genome evolution.

Duojia Pan

Duojia Pan (潘多加), also published as Pan Duojia, is an HHMI investigator and Physiology chairman at UT Southwestern known for discovering the Hippo signaling pathway, which halts organ growth and whose failure drives tumors.

Dušan Bartsch

Dušan Bartsch is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist, professor at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, known for defining how CREB transcription factors regulate long-term memory.

Dusan Bogunovic

Dusan Bogunovic is an immunologist and Professor of Pediatric Immunology at Columbia University, known for work on inborn errors of immunity, MIS-C, and autoimmunity in Down syndrome.

Dwight E. Bergles

Dwight E. Bergles is an American neuroscientist and professor at Johns Hopkins who studies how glial cells communicate with neurons, how myelin forms and repairs, and how spontaneous electrical activity shapes the developing auditory system.

Dwight Ingle

Dwight Joyce Ingle (1907–1978) was an American endocrinologist and professor of physiology at the University of Chicago known for the permissive concept of hormone action and adrenal cortex research.

E. B. Babcock

E. B. Babcock, born Ernest Brown Babcock, was an American plant geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, who led the study of the genus Crepis.

E. Brad Thompson

E. Brad Thompson (Edward I. Bradbridge Thompson) is an American biochemist and physician, Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas Medical Branch, known for research on glucocorticoid receptors.

E. De Robertis

E. De Robertis, also known as Eduardo De Robertis, was an Argentine physician and cell biologist who pioneered the electron-microscope study of the synapse and discovered the synaptic vesicle.

E. J. Conway

Edward Joseph Conway, known as E. J. Conway, was an Irish biochemist at University College Dublin who invented the Conway microdiffusion unit and overturned the belief that muscle is impermeable to chloride.

E. John Wherry

E. John Wherry is an American immunologist at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine known for defining the molecular nature of T cell exhaustion in chronic infection and cancer.

E. Morton Bradbury

E. Morton Bradbury is a British-born biophysicist and biochemist known for work on chromatin structure, especially histone acetylation, and led the Life Sciences Division at Los Alamos from 1988.

E. Newton Harvey

E. Newton Harvey (1887–1959) was an American biologist at Princeton University, known as the Dean of Bioluminescence for his study of light emission by living organisms.