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Daniel B Turner-Evans

Daniel B Turner-Evans is a neuroscientist who mapped the fruit fly's head-direction circuit at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus and became an assistant professor at UC Santa Cruz in 2021.

Daniel B. Drachman

Daniel B. Drachman (1932–2022) was an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University who established myasthenia gravis as an autoimmune disease, paving the way for plasmapheresis as its first effective treatment.

Daniel B. Kramer

Daniel B. Kramer is an American cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston who studies the safety, ethics, and regulation of implanted heart devices such as pacemakers.

Daniel B. Mark

Daniel B. Mark, also known as Daniel Mark, is an American cardiologist and outcomes researcher at Duke University, known for the Duke treadmill score, the Duke Activity Status Index, and ISCHEMIA health-status analyses.

Daniel B. Rifkin

Daniel B. Rifkin, also published as D. B. Rifkin, is a molecular biologist and Research Professor of Cell Biology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine known for TGF-β research.

Daniel B. Stetson

Daniel B. Stetson is an immunologist and professor at the University of Washington known for work on innate immune detection of viral DNA and RNA and autoimmunity.

Daniel Batlle

Daniel Batlle is a nephrologist and hypertension researcher at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, known for the urinary anion gap and for ACE2 research in diabetic kidney disease.

Daniel Bogenhagen

Daniel F. Bogenhagen is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University known for work on mitochondrial DNA replication, transcription, and repair in animal cells.

Daniel Bovet

Daniel Bovet was a Swiss-born, naturalized Italian pharmacologist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for synthetic compounds acting on the vascular system and skeletal muscles.

Daniel Bradley (Irish geneticist)

Daniel Bradley is an Irish population geneticist, Professor at Trinity College Dublin, known for ancient DNA studies of Irish prehistory and a 2020 Nature paper on Newgrange.

Daniel Branton

Daniel Branton is a cell biologist and Higgins Professor Emeritus at Harvard who established the lipid-bilayer structure of membranes and proposed nanopore DNA sequencing, earning National Academy of Sciences membership.

Daniel Broek

Daniel Broek is a molecular biologist at the University of Southern California known for defining how yeast RAS proteins are switched on, in Cell papers from 1985 and 1987.

Daniel Burkhoff

Daniel Burkhoff (D. Burkhoff) is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York, known for heart failure hemodynamics research and the Harvi simulator.

Daniel Bush

Daniel Bush is a neuroscientist and Associate Professor at University College London who leads the Human Neurophysiology lab, studying human spatial and episodic memory with intracranial EEG and MEG.

Daniel C. Baumgart

Daniel C. Baumgart is a gastroenterologist and professor of medicine known for inflammatory bowel disease research, based at Charité Berlin and the University of Alberta.

Daniel C. Brennan

Daniel C. Brennan is an American transplant nephrologist and professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, known for kidney transplant induction trials and research on BK polyomavirus infection.

Daniel C. Chung

Daniel C. Chung is an American gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who led the ECLIPSE study behind the first FDA-approved colorectal cancer blood test.

Daniel C. Douek

Daniel C. Douek is an American immunologist and physician-scientist who studies how HIV damages the immune system, as chief of the Human Immunology Section at the NIH Vaccine Research Center.

Daniel C. Link

Daniel C. Link is an American physician-scientist and medical oncologist at Washington University School of Medicine, known for research on hematopoietic stem cells, bone marrow niches, and acute leukemia.

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923–2008), American pediatrician and virologist, shared the 1976 Nobel Prize for proving kuru transmissible via funerary cannibalism; convicted in 1997 of child abuse.

Daniel Catovsky

Daniel Catovsky (1937–2022) was an Argentine-born British haematologist who defined the diagnosis and treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, working at the Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research in London.

Daniel Cattran

Daniel C. Cattran is a Canadian nephrologist and University of Toronto professor who chairs the Toronto Glomerulonephritis Registry and co-led the MENTOR trial establishing rituximab for membranous nephropathy.

Daniel Chandramohan

Daniel Chandramohan is a clinical epidemiologist and Professor of Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for leading large malaria vaccine trials in West Africa.

Daniel Choquet

Daniel Choquet is a French neurobiologist at the CNRS in Bordeaux known for showing that AMPA receptors move in the neuronal membrane, enabling synaptic plasticity and learning.

Daniel D. Von Hoff

Daniel D. Von Hoff is an American medical oncologist and Distinguished Professor at TGen in Phoenix, Arizona, known for developing new anticancer agents, especially for pancreatic cancer.

Daniel De Backer

Daniel De Backer (born 1961) is a Belgian intensivist, professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, who led the SOAP II trial and was ESICM president from 2014 to 2016.

Daniel De Carvalho

Daniel De Carvalho is a cancer epigenetics researcher at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and University of Toronto, known for viral mimicry and the cfMeDIP-seq blood test.

Daniel Deykin

Daniel Deykin is an American physician and researcher who trained in Boston and directed VA health services research, best known for his reviews of warfarin and heparin therapy.

Daniel Durocher

Daniel Durocher is a Canadian molecular biologist who studies how cells detect and repair DNA damage, leading research at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto.

Daniel Dwyer

Daniel J. Dwyer is an American microbiologist known for research on how bactericidal antibiotics kill bacteria, including the widely cited 2007 Cell paper on a common killing mechanism.