Life and health scientists

Dan J. Stein

Dan J. Stein (1962–2025) was a South African psychiatrist at the University of Cape Town known for research on obsessive-compulsive disorder and global mental health.

Dan Knights

Dan Knights is an American computational microbiologist and speedcuber who won the 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube world title in 2003 and now leads microbiome research at the University of Minnesota.

Dan L. Longo

Dan L. Longo (born 1949) is an American physician-scientist in immunology and hematology who led lymphoma research at the National Institutes of Health and Harvard.

Dan Littman

Dan R. Littman is an American immunologist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine whose laboratory defined Th17 cells and identified the HIV receptor complex CD4 and CCR5.

Dan Luo

Dan Luo is a professor of biological and environmental engineering at Cornell University who engineers DNA as a bulk material for hydrogels, diagnostics, and drug delivery.

Dan M. Roden (Dan Roden) is a Canadian-born physician-scientist in cardiology and clinical pharmacology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known for work on antiarrhythmic drugs, drug-induced long QT syndrome, and pharmacogenomics.

Dan Merenstein M.D.

Dan Merenstein, M.D., is an American family medicine physician-scientist at Georgetown University whose probiotics and antibiotic stewardship research led to his 2024 election to the National Academy of Medicine.

Dan Olweus

Dan Olweus (1931–2020) was a Swedish-born psychologist who spent his career in Norway, founded the scientific study of school bullying, and created the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program.

Dan S. Tawfik

Dan S. Tawfik (1955–2021) was an Israeli biochemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for developing in vitro compartmentalization and establishing enzyme promiscuity in molecular evolution.

Dan Theodorescu

Dan Theodorescu is a urologic oncologist and bladder cancer researcher who became director of the University of Arizona Cancer Center in 2025 and developed the COXEN drug-response algorithm.

Dan Wilson

Dan Wilson is a pharmaceutical-industry scientist with a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University who runs the YouTube channel Debunk the Funk, debunking vaccine and medical misinformation using primary scientific literature.

Dan Yakir

Dan Yakir is an Israeli professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Israel Prize laureate who studies carbon and water exchange between vegetation and the atmosphere in dry climates.

Dana Boatman

Dana Boatman, also known as Dana Frances Boatman-Reich, is an audiologist and clinical neurophysiologist, professor at Johns Hopkins, and director of its Auditory Neurophysiology Laboratory, studying speech perception.

Dana Carroll

Dana Carroll is an American biochemist and genome engineer at the University of Utah, known for pioneering genome editing with zinc-finger nucleases and later TALEN and CRISPR nucleases.

Dana H. Hanselman

Dana H. Hanselman is an American fisheries scientist who directs NOAA's Auke Bay Laboratories in Juneau, Alaska, and leads the federal stock assessment of Alaska sablefish.

Dana M. Small

Dana M. Small is a psychologist and neuroscientist who studies flavor and food reward; after twenty years on Yale's faculty, she holds a Canada Excellence Research Chair at McGill University.

Dana Pe'er

Dana Pe'er is an Israeli-American computational biologist who develops machine-learning methods for single-cell genomics and chairs computational and systems biology at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

Dana R. Leach

Dana R. Leach is an immunologist who, as a postdoctoral fellow in James Allison's lab at UC Berkeley, was first author of the 1996 Science paper showing CTLA-4 blockade cures tumors in mice.

Danesh Moazed

Danesh Moazed is a professor of cell biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Harvard Medical School, known for research on heterochromatin, RNA interference, and epigenetic inheritance.

Dani Zamir

Dani Zamir (born 1950) is an Israeli plant geneticist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for tomato genetic resources enabling breeding from wild species.

Daniel A. Colón-Ramos

Daniel A. Colón-Ramos is a Puerto Rican-born neuroscientist, the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor at Yale School of Medicine, who studies how synapses are assembled and modified using C. elegans.

Daniel A. Dombeck

Daniel A. Dombeck is an American systems neuroscientist at Northwestern University who studies the brain circuits underlying navigation, imaging neurons in mice in virtual reality.

Daniel A. Goodenough

Daniel A. Goodenough (1944–2024) was an American cell biologist, Takeda Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, known for discovering ZO-1, the first tight junction protein, and naming connexin.

Daniel A. Haber

Daniel A. Haber is an American physician-scientist who directs the Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research at Massachusetts General Hospital and is a Harvard Medical School professor of oncology.

Daniel A. Heller

Daniel A. Heller is a nanomedicine researcher who heads the Cancer Nanomedicine Laboratory at the Sloan Kettering Institute and is Professor of Pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Daniel A. Lim

Daniel A. Lim is an American neuroscientist and neurosurgeon-scientist, professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies how chromatin regulators control neural stem cells and applies that work to glioblastoma.

Daniel A. Portnoy

Daniel A. Portnoy is an American microbiologist and immunologist at UC Berkeley known for his work on the intracellular bacterium Listeria monocytogenes and for turning that research into cancer immunotherapy platforms.

Daniel A. Winer

Daniel A. Winer, also published as Daniel Winer, is a physician-scientist in immunology who showed that B cells and T cells drive obesity-related insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.

Daniel Aletaha

Daniel Aletaha, born 1975 in Vienna, is an Austrian rheumatologist who holds the Chair of Rheumatology at the Medical University of Vienna and has been EULAR President since 2023.