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D. Ware Branch

D. Ware Branch is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Utah, known for research on antiphospholipid syndrome and recurrent pregnancy loss.

Daan Kromhout

Daan Kromhout (born 1950) is a Dutch cardiovascular epidemiologist who led the Zutphen Study from 1978 and co-chaired the Seven Countries Study, showing fish eating lowers coronary mortality.

Dafna D. Gladman

Dafna D. Gladman is a Canadian rheumatologist and University of Toronto professor who built the world's largest psoriatic arthritis cohort and founded the lupus research group SLICC.

Dag Aarsland

Dag Aarsland is a Norwegian old age psychiatrist and dementia researcher who is professor and head of the Department of Old Age Psychiatry at King's College London.

Daiming Fan (樊代明)

Daiming Fan (樊代明) is a Chinese gastroenterologist and past president of the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi'an, known for gastric cancer research and leadership of the China Anti-Cancer Association.

Dale E. Bredesen

Dale E. Bredesen, also known as Dale Bredesen, is an American physician-scientist known for research on programmed cell death and the ReCODE protocol, a contested program for cognitive decline.

Dale N. Gerding

Dale N. Gerding is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist who spent his career in the VA health system studying Clostridioides difficile, including a non-toxigenic biotherapeutic preventing recurrent infection.

Dale T. Umetsu

Dale T. Umetsu is an American physician-scientist and immunologist known for identifying the TIM gene family and NKT cells in asthma, and for professorships at Harvard and Stanford.

Dan A. Landau

Dan A. Landau is an American physician-scientist in cancer genomics at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Genome Center, known for studying cancer evolution.

Dan A. Liebermann

Dan A. Liebermann is a molecular biologist known for discovering the MyD primary response genes, the Gadd45 stress response genes, and MyD88, and for leukemia and tumor suppression research at Temple University's Fels Institute.

Dan J. Stein

Dan J. Stein (1962–2025) was a South African psychiatrist at the University of Cape Town known for research on obsessive-compulsive disorder and global mental health.

Dan L. Longo

Dan L. Longo (born 1949) is an American physician-scientist in immunology and hematology who led lymphoma research at the National Institutes of Health and Harvard.

Dan M. Roden

Dan M. Roden (Dan Roden) is a Canadian-born physician-scientist in cardiology and clinical pharmacology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known for work on antiarrhythmic drugs, drug-induced long QT syndrome, and pharmacogenomics.

Dan Merenstein M.D.

Dan Merenstein, M.D., is an American family medicine physician-scientist at Georgetown University whose probiotics and antibiotic stewardship research led to his 2024 election to the National Academy of Medicine.

Dan Theodorescu

Dan Theodorescu is a urologic oncologist and bladder cancer researcher who became director of the University of Arizona Cancer Center in 2025 and developed the COXEN drug-response algorithm.

Dana R. Leach

Dana R. Leach is an immunologist who, as a postdoctoral fellow in James Allison's lab at UC Berkeley, was first author of the 1996 Science paper showing CTLA-4 blockade cures tumors in mice.

Daniel A. Haber

Daniel A. Haber is an American physician-scientist who directs the Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research at Massachusetts General Hospital and is a Harvard Medical School professor of oncology.

Daniel A. Heller

Daniel A. Heller is a nanomedicine researcher who heads the Cancer Nanomedicine Laboratory at the Sloan Kettering Institute and is Professor of Pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Daniel A. Winer

Daniel A. Winer, also published as Daniel Winer, is a physician-scientist in immunology who showed that B cells and T cells drive obesity-related insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.

Daniel Aletaha

Daniel Aletaha, born 1975 in Vienna, is an Austrian rheumatologist who holds the Chair of Rheumatology at the Medical University of Vienna and has been EULAR President since 2023.

Daniel B. Drachman

Daniel B. Drachman (1932–2022) was an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University who established myasthenia gravis as an autoimmune disease, paving the way for plasmapheresis as its first effective treatment.

Daniel B. Kramer

Daniel B. Kramer is an American cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston who studies the safety, ethics, and regulation of implanted heart devices such as pacemakers.

Daniel B. Mark

Daniel B. Mark, also known as Daniel Mark, is an American cardiologist and outcomes researcher at Duke University, known for the Duke treadmill score, the Duke Activity Status Index, and ISCHEMIA health-status analyses.

Daniel Batlle

Daniel Batlle is a nephrologist and hypertension researcher at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, known for the urinary anion gap and for ACE2 research in diabetic kidney disease.

Daniel Bovet

Daniel Bovet was a Swiss-born, naturalized Italian pharmacologist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for synthetic compounds acting on the vascular system and skeletal muscles.

Daniel Burkhoff

Daniel Burkhoff (D. Burkhoff) is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York, known for heart failure hemodynamics research and the Harvi simulator.

Daniel C. Baumgart

Daniel C. Baumgart is a gastroenterologist and professor of medicine known for inflammatory bowel disease research, based at Charité Berlin and the University of Alberta.

Daniel C. Brennan

Daniel C. Brennan is an American transplant nephrologist and professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, known for kidney transplant induction trials and research on BK polyomavirus infection.

Daniel C. Chung

Daniel C. Chung is an American gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who led the ECLIPSE study behind the first FDA-approved colorectal cancer blood test.

Daniel C. Link

Daniel C. Link is an American physician-scientist and medical oncologist at Washington University School of Medicine, known for research on hematopoietic stem cells, bone marrow niches, and acute leukemia.