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David J. Salant

David J. Salant is a South African–trained nephrologist at Boston University whose 2009 discovery of the PLA2R antigen turned membranous nephropathy diagnosis from biopsy to blood test.

David J. Wyler

David J. Wyler is an American physician-scientist in infectious disease and geographic medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for research on malaria immunology.

David J.P. Barker

David J.P. Barker (1938–2013) was a British physician and epidemiologist at the University of Southampton, known for the Barker hypothesis that fetal undernutrition permanently programs susceptibility to chronic disease in later life.

David K. Detweiler

David K. Detweiler (1919–2009) was an American veterinary cardiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, called the "Father of Veterinary Cardiology" and elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1974.

David Kendal Stevenson

David Kendal Stevenson is an American neonatologist and physician-scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for neonatal jaundice research and multiomics prediction of pregnancy complications.

David Kipnis

David M. Kipnis (1927–2014) was an American endocrinologist at Washington University in St. Louis whose 1967 quantification of the incretin effect underlies GLP-1 diabetes drugs.

David Kirsch

David G. Kirsch is an American radiation oncologist and cancer biologist, a University of Toronto professor known for sarcoma mouse models and the SU2C-SARC032 immunotherapy trial.

David Klatzmann

David Klatzmann (born 1954) is a French immunologist and physician-scientist at Sorbonne Université and Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, known for identifying the AIDS virus's cellular target and pioneering low-dose interleukin-2 therapy.

David L. DeMets

David L. DeMets, born David Leon DeMets, is an American biostatistician who founded the biostatistics department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and co-developed the alpha spending function.

David L. Eaton

David L. Eaton is an American biochemical toxicologist at the University of Washington whose research explained how the body activates and detoxifies cancer-causing chemicals, especially aflatoxin B1.

David L. Heymann

David L. Heymann is an American infectious disease epidemiologist who spent two decades at the World Health Organization, leading the global response to the 2003 SARS outbreak.

David L. Olive

David L. Olive is an American reproductive endocrinologist and gynecologist known for his New England Journal of Medicine reviews of endometriosis and for co-founding the Wisconsin Fertility Institute.

David L. Sackett

David L. Sackett, also known as D L Sackett, was a Canadian clinical epidemiologist called the father of evidence-based medicine, who founded McMaster's department of clinical epidemiology.

David L. Thomas

David L. Thomas is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University known for research on viral hepatitis, especially hepatitis C in people living with HIV.

David Littmann

David Littmann (1906–1981) was an American cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor who patented the lightweight two-sided Littmann stethoscope in 1966, sold by 3M from 1967.

David Lyden

David Lyden is a physician-scientist and pediatric neuro-oncologist at Weill Cornell Medicine who defined the pre-metastatic niche, showing how tumor exosomes prepare distant organs for metastasis.

David M. Goldenberg

David M. Goldenberg, born in Brooklyn, is an American physician-scientist who pioneered radiolabeled antibodies for cancer detection and therapy, and developed the FDA-approved drug Trodelvy.

David M. Greer

David M. Greer is an American neurologist and neurointensivist who has chaired neurology at Boston University since 2017 and led the World Brain Death Project and the 2023 brain death guideline.

David M. Herrington

David M. Herrington is an American cardiologist and professor of cardiovascular medicine and epidemiology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, known for the 2000 ERA hormone-therapy trial.

David M. Holtzman

David M. Holtzman is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis who studies Alzheimer's disease and directs the Knight Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.

David M. Hyman

David M. Hyman is an American oncologist specializing in precision medicine who led the vemurafenib and larotrectinib basket trials and became Eli Lilly's Chief Medical Officer in 2024.

David M. Kranz

David M. Kranz is a professor emeritus of biochemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for co-developing yeast display to engineer high-affinity T cell receptors for cancer immunotherapy.

David M. Nathan

David M. Nathan is an American endocrinologist who directed the Clinical Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and led the DCCT and Diabetes Prevention Program trials.

David M. Shahian

David M. Shahian is a cardiac surgeon and outcomes researcher, Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for leading the Society of Thoracic Surgeons public reporting programs.

David M. Underhill

David M. Underhill is an immunologist, professor, and chair of Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, known for defining how the innate immune receptor Dectin-1 detects fungi.

David M. Virshup

David M. Virshup is an American physician-scientist and cancer biologist known for research on Wnt signaling, and a professor at Duke University School of Medicine.

David M. Weinstock

David M. Weinstock is a physician-scientist in hematologic oncology who led a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute laboratory from 2008 to 2022 and created the PRoXe leukemia model repository.

David Mabey

David Mabey is a British physician and Professor of Communicable Diseases at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine whose research shaped trachoma treatment.

David Mant

David Mant is a British public-health physician and emeritus Professor of General Practice at the University of Oxford, known for research on early diagnosis in primary care.

David Marine

David Marine (1880–1976) was an American pathologist whose animal experiments and Akron, Ohio school-based iodine trial showed iodine prevents simple goiter, the finding behind iodized table salt.