Medical and health researchers

David Gitlin

David Gitlin (born 1921, New York) was an American immunologist and pediatrician who worked out the clinical physiology of the gamma globulins, the antibody-carrying serum proteins.

David Givol (1929–2012) was an Israeli molecular biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for mapping the antibody combining site by affinity labeling and for later work on the p53 tumor suppressor gene.

David Glendenning Cogan

David Glendenning Cogan was an American ophthalmologist who led Harvard's Howe Laboratory from 1943 to 1973, founded neuro-ophthalmology, and gave his name to Cogan's syndrome, a rare autoimmune eye-and-ear disease.

David Gozal

David Gozal is a physician-scientist in pediatric sleep medicine known for research on childhood obstructive sleep apnea, and dean of Marshall University's medical school since 2023.

David H Rosmarin

David H Rosmarin is an American psychologist who directs the Spirituality and Mental Health Program at McLean Hospital and developed SPIRIT, a spiritually integrated cognitive-behavioral therapy.

David H. Broide

David H. Broide is a South African-trained physician-scientist and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, known for research on asthma, airway remodeling, and eosinophils.

David H. Gutmann

David H. Gutmann is an American physician-scientist and neurologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where he directs the Neurofibromatosis Center and studies the genetic disorder NF1.

David H. Persing

David H. Persing is an American physician-scientist in molecular diagnostics who established PCR testing for tick-borne diseases at the Mayo Clinic and later led test development at Cepheid.

David H. Sachs

David H. Sachs, born 1942, is an American transplant immunologist and surgeon known for inducing transplantation tolerance and developing miniature swine as a research model.

David H. Smith

David H. Smith (1931–1999) was an American pediatrician who, with Porter W. Anderson Jr., developed the Hib conjugate vaccine that all but eliminated Hib meningitis in children.

David H. Spodick

David H. Spodick (1927–2019) was an American cardiologist who specialized in pericardial disease, cardiac tamponade, and electrocardiography, publishing over 400 papers and lending his name to Spodick's sign.

David H. Van Thiel

David H. Van Thiel is an American hepatologist known for his 1975 work showing alcohol damages the testis directly and for building liver transplantation at Pittsburgh.

David H.K. Chui

David H.K. Chui is a physician-scientist in hematology known for discovering that embryonic ζ-globin chains persist in adults with two-gene α-thalassemia deletion, a carrier-screening marker.

David Hafler

David A. Hafler is an American neurologist and immunologist, Edgerly Professor of Neurology at Yale, whose work established regulatory T cell dysfunction in multiple sclerosis and autoimmune disease.

David Horn (parasite molecular biologist)

David Horn is a parasite molecular biologist who holds the Chair of Parasite Molecular Biology at the University of Dundee, studying drug resistance in African trypanosomes, which cause sleeping sickness.

David Huang

David Huang is an American ophthalmologist and biomedical engineer at Oregon Health & Science University who co-invented optical coherence tomography, the standard eye imaging method, earning the 2023 Lasker Award.

David Hurwitz (endocrinologist)

David Hurwitz was an American endocrinologist who chaired medicine at Mount Auburn Hospital and whose placebo-controlled studies of the first oral diabetes drugs, published in 1961 and 1967, remain methodological standards.

David Isenberg

David Isenberg, also known as David A. Isenberg, is a British rheumatologist and Emeritus Professor at University College London known for research on systemic lupus erythematosus.

David J. Brenner

David J. Brenner, born 1953 in Liverpool, is a British-born radiation biophysicist who directs Columbia University's Center for Radiological Research and quantifies cancer risks from CT scans.

David J. Cohen

David J. Cohen is an American interventional cardiologist and outcomes researcher, Director of Clinical and Outcomes Research at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York.

David J. Greenblatt

David J. Greenblatt is an American clinical pharmacologist at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for work defining clinical pharmacokinetics, benzodiazepine studies, and drug-drug interaction research.

David J. Hunter

David J. Hunter is a rheumatologist and osteoarthritis researcher who holds the Florence and Cope Chair of Rheumatology at the University of Sydney and leads the Kolling Institute's osteoarthritis team.

David J. Kemp

David J. Kemp (1945–2013) was an Australian molecular biologist and parasitologist who was the first to clone malaria parasite genes, in 1983, and later studied the scabies mite.

David J. Kupfer

David J. Kupfer is an American psychiatrist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh who chaired the American Psychiatric Association task force for DSM-5.

David J. Kwiatkowski

David J. Kwiatkowski is an American cancer geneticist, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, known for identifying the TSC1 gene, which causes tuberous sclerosis complex.

David J. Lenschow

Deborah J. Lenschow is an immunologist credited by the Nobel Committee's 2018 background for showing in 1992 that CTLA4-Ig costimulation blockade can treat autoimmune disease.

David J. Mangelsdorf

David J. Mangelsdorf (1958–2025) was an American molecular biologist and pharmacologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center who discovered the retinoid X receptor and characterized orphan nuclear receptors regulating metabolism.

David J. Pinsky

David J. Pinsky is an American physician-scientist and cardiologist who has led cardiovascular medicine at the University of Michigan since 2003, studying protection against ischemic injury.

David J. Prezant

David J. Prezant is an American pulmonologist, FDNY Chief Medical Officer, known for defining World Trade Center cough syndrome after the September 11, 2001 attacks.