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Donald S. Burke

Donald S. Burke is an American epidemiologist and vaccinologist who developed the first HIV diagnostic tests and served as dean of the University of Pittsburgh's public health school.

Donald S. Coffey

Donald S. Coffey (1932–2017) was an American cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins University who discovered the nuclear matrix, directed research at the Brady Urological Institute, and served as president of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Donald S. Fredrickson

Donald S. Fredrickson was an American physician who discovered Tangier disease and cholesteryl ester storage disease, created the hyperlipoproteinemia classification adopted by the WHO in 1972, and directed NIH from 1975 to 1981.

Donald S. Kaufman

Donald S. Kaufman was an American genitourinary oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for more than 40 years, where he directed the Genitourinary Oncology Disease Center and taught at Harvard Medical School.

Donald W. Landry

Donald W. Landry is an American physician-scientist and Hamilton Southworth Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, known for identifying vasopressin deficiency in vasodilatory shock and creating the first artificial enzyme that degrades cocaine.

Donald Warne

Donald Warne is an Oglala Lakota physician and public health scientist who co-directs the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Donald Y.M. Leung

Donald Y.M. Leung is an American pediatric allergist-immunologist who has led pediatric allergy at National Jewish Health in Denver since 1989 and led the first anti-IgE peanut allergy trial.

Dong‐Er Zhang

Dong-Er Zhang is a cancer biologist and professor of pathology and biological sciences at UC San Diego, known for her work on AML1-ETO in acute myeloid leukemia and on ISG15 and USP18.

Donna L. Washington

Donna L. Washington is an American internist and health services researcher at UCLA and the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

Donna Mancini

Donna M. Mancini is an American heart failure and transplant cardiologist at Mount Sinai, internationally known for exercise testing to time heart transplants and a survival score.

Dontscho Kerjaschki

Dontscho Kerjaschki is an Austrian nephropathologist and emeritus professor at the Medical University of Vienna, known for podocyte biology, membranous glomerulonephritis, and discovering lymphangiogenesis in the kidney.

Doris H. Calloway

Doris Howes Calloway (1923–2001) was an American nutrition scientist and UC Berkeley professor whose controlled feeding studies shaped protein and energy standards in dietary recommendations.

Dorothea Zucker-Franklin

Dorothea Zucker-Franklin (1929–2015) was a German-born American hematologist at New York University who used electron microscopy to work out the fine structure of blood cells.

Dorothy Brooten

Dorothy Brooten is an American nurse scientist and professor at Florida International University, a National Academy of Medicine member known for the Quality Cost Model of transitional care.

Dorothy Reed Mendenhall

Dorothy Reed Mendenhall (1874–1964) was an American physician who proved Hodgkin's disease was not tuberculosis, described the Reed–Sternberg cell, and led child health work in Wisconsin.

Dorothy T. Krieger

Dorothy T. Krieger was an American endocrinologist who directed endocrinology at Mount Sinai, showed pituitary peptide hormones are made in the brain, and received a special Lasker Foundation award in 1984.

Dorry L. Segev

Dorry L. Segev is an Israeli-born transplant surgeon and epidemiologist who directs the Center for Surgical and Transplant Applied Research at NYU Langone Health in New York.

Douglas A. Corley

Douglas A. Corley is an American gastroenterologist and researcher at Kaiser Permanente's Northern California Division of Research, known for his 2014 study linking adenoma detection rates to colorectal cancer risk.

Douglas Argyll Robertson

Douglas Argyll Robertson (1837–1909) was a Scottish ophthalmic surgeon who described the Argyll Robertson pupil, a classic sign of neurosyphilis, and served as surgeon-oculist to Queen Victoria.

Douglas B. Cines

Douglas B. Cines was an American hematologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose research shaped the understanding and treatment of immune thrombocytopenia and heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.

Douglas Easton

Douglas F. Easton is a British genetic epidemiologist, Professor at the University of Cambridge, who characterized cancer predisposition genes like BRCA1 and created the BOADICEA risk prediction model.

Douglas Hanahan

Douglas Hanahan is an American cancer biologist best known for the "Hallmarks of Cancer" framework, and professor emeritus at EPFL in Lausanne and a Ludwig Institute Distinguished Scholar.

Douglas J. Winton

Douglas J. Winton is a British cancer biologist at the University of Cambridge who studies intestinal stem cells and the earliest steps of bowel cancer.

Douglas K Owens

Douglas K Owens is an American physician and health economist at Stanford University and the VA Palo Alto, known for cost-effectiveness analyses of HIV screening and implantable defibrillators.

Douglas K. Rex

Douglas K. Rex is an American gastroenterologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University School of Medicine, known for colonoscopy quality measurement and colorectal cancer screening.

Douglas L. Arnold

Douglas L. Arnold is a neurologist and MRI researcher at the Montreal Neurological Institute known for imaging research in multiple sclerosis and drug development, including ocrelizumab trials.

Douglas L. Coleman

Douglas L. Coleman (1931–2014) was a Canadian-born scientist at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, whose mouse parabiosis experiments predicted the hormone leptin, earning him the 2010 Lasker Award.

Douglas L. Mann

Douglas L. Mann is an American cardiologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for research on inflammation in heart failure and for leading the RENEWAL and RENAISSANCE anticytokine trials.

Douglas Melton

Douglas A. Melton is an American developmental biologist known for deriving human embryonic stem cell lines and generating insulin-producing beta cells as a potential cure for type 1 diabetes.

Douglas P. Zipes

Douglas P. Zipes, born 1939, is an American cardiac electrophysiologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University School of Medicine who pioneered the implantable cardioverter and led major cardiology societies.