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Dipanjan Pan

Dipanjan Pan is a nanomedicine researcher who holds the Huck Chair Professorship at Pennsylvania State University, known for 2020 nanoparticle tests diagnosing COVID-19 in 10 minutes.

Dirk H. Busch

Dirk H. Busch, also known as Dirk Busch, is a German immunologist who directs the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene at the Technical University of Munich.

Dirk J. Gouma

Dirk J. Gouma, born 1948, is a Dutch surgeon and emeritus professor of general surgery at the Academisch Medisch Centrum, Amsterdam, appointed to the chair in 1993.

Dirk J. van Veldhuisen

Dirk J. van Veldhuisen is a Dutch cardiologist and heart failure researcher, Professor of Cardiology at the University Medical Center Groningen and chairman of its cardiology department from 2001.

Dirk Schadendorf

Dirk Schadendorf is a German dermato-oncologist who directs the dermatology clinic at University Hospital Essen and led landmark melanoma trials including CheckMate 067 and COMBI.

Dirkje S. Postma

Dirkje S. Postma, also known as Dirkje Postma, is a Dutch pulmonologist who researched asthma and COPD at the University of Groningen, winning the 2000 Spinoza Prize.

Dixon Chibanda

Dixon Chibanda is a Zimbabwean psychiatrist who founded the Friendship Bench in Harare in 2006, training grandmothers to deliver problem-solving therapy, and directs the African Mental Health Research Initiative.

Djillali Annane

Djillali Annane (born 1963) is a French intensivist and professor at Université Paris-Saclay who heads intensive care at Hôpital Raymond-Poincaré and led major septic shock trials.

DKristina M. Utzschneider

Kristina M. Utzschneider is an American endocrinologist at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle and the University of Washington who studies type 2 diabetes.

Dmitri Simberg

Dmitri Simberg is a professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Pharmacy who studies immune reactions to injected nanoparticles and how to prevent them.

Domenico Accili

Domenico Accili is an Italian-born physician-scientist in endocrinology at Columbia University, known for identifying FOXO transcription factors in insulin action and showing that beta cell failure in diabetes proceeds by dedifferentiation.

Domenico Corrado

Domenico Corrado is an Italian cardiologist who leads the Clinica Cardiologica at the University of Padova, known for research showing Italy's athlete ECG screening cut sudden deaths by about 70%.

Domenico Praticò

Domenico Praticò is an Italian-born physician-scientist and pharmacologist, born in 1962, whose studies are credited as the first to delineate oxidative stress's role in Alzheimer's disease, and who directed the Alzheimer's Center at Temple University.

Dominic J. Withers

Dominic J. Withers is a British clinician-scientist, Clinical Chair in Diabetes & Endocrinology at Imperial College London, known for showing that IRS-2 disruption causes type 2 diabetes in mice.

Dominic Kwiatkowski

Dominic Kwiatkowski was a British malaria genomics researcher, professor at Oxford and head of the Parasites and Microbes Programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, who founded MalariaGEN in 2005.

Dominick J. Angiolillo

Dominick J. Angiolillo is an Italian-born American cardiologist who is Chief of Cardiology at the University of Florida – Jacksonville, known for pioneering personalized antiplatelet therapy in coronary interventions.

Dominique Baeten

Dominique Baeten (born 1970) is a Belgian rheumatologist and full professor at Amsterdam UMC, known for leading the clinical trials that established secukinumab as a treatment for ankylosing spondylitis.

Dominique Prié

Dominique Prié is a French nephrologist and Inserm researcher known for work on the genetics of renal phosphate transport, including the 2002 New England Journal of Medicine study linking NPT2a mutations to hypophosphatemia.

Dominique Valla

Dominique Valla, born 1952, is a French hepatologist who led the liver service at Hôpital Beaujon in Clichy and specialized in vascular disorders of the liver.

Don C. Rockey

Don C. Rockey, also known as Don Rockey, is an American hepatologist at the Medical University of South Carolina known for research on liver fibrosis and portal hypertension.

Don C. Wiley

Don C. Wiley was an American structural biologist at Harvard who solved the structures of influenza hemagglutinin and MHC molecules, winning the 1995 Lasker Award.

Don D. Sin

Don D. Sin (Don Sin) is a Canadian respirologist known for research linking COPD to systemic inflammation and cardiovascular disease, and Director of the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation at the University of British Columbia.

Don Ganem

Don Ganem is an American virologist who spent about 30 years at UCSF studying hepatitis B virus and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, then led infectious disease research at Novartis.

Don Poldermans

Don Poldermans (born 1956) is a Dutch cardiologist at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam whose 1999 bisoprolol trial shaped international guidelines.

Donald A. Berry

Donald A. Berry (born 1940) is an American biostatistician at MD Anderson Cancer Center known for pioneering Bayesian adaptive designs for clinical trials in oncology.

Donald A. Goldmann

Donald A. Goldmann is an American pediatric infectious-diseases physician and epidemiologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard, known for work on healthcare-associated infections, antibiotic resistance, and hospital infection control.

Donald A. Redelmeier

Donald A. Redelmeier is a Canadian physician-scientist in internal medicine and medical decision science at Sunnybrook and the University of Toronto, known for the 1997 cell-phone driving study.

Donald Armstrong

Donald Armstrong (1931–2018) was an American infectious-disease physician and hospital epidemiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a national authority on infections in people with cancer and AIDS.

Donald B. Calne

Donald B. Calne is a British-born Canadian neurologist at the University of British Columbia who pioneered drug treatment for Parkinson's disease and helped define the D1 and D2 dopamine receptors.

Donald B. Louria

Donald B. Louria is an American physician known for work in medical mycology, alcohol and immune defenses, and lead poisoning, based from Bellevue Hospital to Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.