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David Mataix‐Cols

David Mataix-Cols is a clinical psychologist and professor of child and adolescent psychiatric science at Karolinska Institutet, known for reshaping how obsessive-compulsive disorder is classified and treated.

David Molyneux

David Molyneux, born in 1943, is a British parasitologist and emeritus professor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine known for pioneering work on neglected tropical diseases.

David Mooney (bioengineer)

David J. Mooney is a bioengineer, the Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor at Harvard SEAS and a Wyss Institute founding core faculty member, known for the first implantable biomaterial cancer vaccine.

David Morens

David M. Morens, epidemiologist and NIAID senior advisor 2006-2022 under Anthony Fauci, co-authored landmark pandemic influenza papers with Jeffery Taubenberger; in 2026 he pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the U.S. by hiding COVID-19 grant records on personal Gmail to evade FOIA.

David N. Herndon

David N. Herndon (born 1950) is an American burn surgeon, Chief of Staff at Shriners Galveston, known for burn metabolism research and editing Total Burn Care.

David N. Juurlink

David N. Juurlink is a Canadian physician-scientist in clinical pharmacology and medical toxicology at the University of Toronto, known for population-based studies of adverse drug events and opioid safety.

David N. Orth

David N. Orth, born 1933, is an American endocrinologist who directed Vanderbilt's endocrinology division from 1968 to 1997, trained under Grant Liddle, and served as president of the Endocrine Society.

David Nabarro

Sir David Nabarro (1949–2025) was a British physician and public health specialist who served 18 years in senior UN and WHO crisis-response posts, including Ebola envoy.

David Neal Franz

David Neal Franz, also published as David N. Franz, is an American child neurologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital who founded its Tuberous Sclerosis Clinic in 1992.

David O. Freedman

David O. Freedman is a physician and travel-medicine researcher, Professor Emeritus of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and co-founder of the GeoSentinel surveillance network.

David O. Meltzer

David O. Meltzer is an American physician and health economist at the University of Chicago, a member of the National Academy of Medicine known for the Comprehensive Care Physician model.

David Owen Meltzer

David Owen Meltzer is an American physician and health economist at the University of Chicago, a member of the National Academy of Medicine known for the Comprehensive Care Physician model.

David P. Carbone

David P. Carbone is an American thoracic oncologist who directs the James Thoracic Oncology Center at Ohio State and won the IASLC Scientific Award in 2021.

David P. Dearnaley

David P. Dearnaley is a British radiation oncologist and Emeritus Professor of Uro-Oncology at the Institute of Cancer Research, known for prostate cancer radiotherapy trials.

David P. Earle

David P. Earle (1910–2002) was an American nephrologist who chaired medicine at Northwestern University from 1965 to 1973 and led decades-long cohort studies of poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis in South Trinidad.

David P. Faxon

David P. Faxon is an American interventional cardiologist, a Senior Scholar at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and President of the American Heart Association in 2001.

David P. Lane

David P. Lane is a British cancer biologist who co-discovered the p53 protein in 1979, coined "guardian of the genome," and later led Cancer Research UK and A*STAR as Chief Scientist.

David P. Lauler

David P. Lauler is an American endocrinologist at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Harvard Medical School who studied aldosterone secretion in hypertension and primary aldosteronism, publishing from 1962 to 1976.

David P. Ryan

David P. Ryan is an American medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers, the inaugural president of the Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute since 2025, and a Harvard Medical School professor.

David P. Taggart

David P. Taggart (1958–2026) was a British cardiac surgeon, Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at Oxford, who led the Arterial Revascularisation Trial in coronary bypass surgery.

David Pellman

David Pellman is an American cell biologist and cancer geneticist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, known for explaining how cell division errors generate the chromosome abnormalities that drive cancer.

David Piwnica‐Worms

David Piwnica-Worms is an American physician-scientist in molecular imaging who chairs the Department of Cancer Systems Imaging at MD Anderson in Houston, known for genetically encoded reporters imaging enzyme activity in living mice.

David Pressman

David Pressman (1916–1980) was an American immunochemist known for experimental work on the antibody combining site and the 1970 monograph Structural Basis of Antibody Specificity.

David R. Blake

David R. Blake is a British rheumatologist and physician-scientist who proposed that exercise-induced hypoxic-reperfusion injury and reactive oxygen species sustain inflammation in the rheumatoid joint, and explained arthritis's symmetry neurologically.

David R. Boulware

David R. Boulware is an infectious disease physician and professor at the University of Minnesota, known for trials of COVID-19 outpatient treatments and cryptococcal meningitis therapy.

David R. Clemmons

David R. Clemmons was an American endocrinologist and Sarah Graham Kenan Professor at UNC Chapel Hill who made IGF-I the standard diagnostic test for acromegaly.

David R. Flum

David R. Flum is an American general surgeon and surgical outcomes researcher at the University of Washington, known for leading the CODA trial of antibiotics versus appendectomy.

David R. Fraser

David R. Fraser is a New Zealand-born nutritional biochemist and veterinarian known for co-discovering that the kidney makes 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, vitamin D's active hormone form.

David R. Gandara

David R. Gandara is an American medical oncologist and lung cancer researcher, Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, known for phase III trials and biomarker development in thoracic cancers.

David R. Greaves

David R. Greaves is a British immunologist at the University of Oxford, known for co-identifying locus control regions in 1989 and for research on macrophages in inflammation and atherosclerosis.