Life and health scientists

Daniel Llano

Daniel Adolfo Llano is an American physician-scientist, professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and neurologist at Carle, known for auditory thalamocortical research and tinnitus.

Daniel Louvard, born in 1948, is a French cell biologist, CNRS research director, and honorary director of the Institut Curie research center in Paris, known for studying epithelial cells and colorectal cancer.

Daniel M. Green

Daniel M. Green is an American pediatric oncologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis whose research focuses on fertility and other late effects of childhood cancer treatment.

Daniel M. Musher

Daniel M. Musher is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at Baylor College of Medicine, chief of the Houston VA Infectious Disease Section from 1971 to 2012.

Daniel M. Wegner

Daniel M. Wegner (1948–2013) was a Canadian-born social psychologist, the John Lindsley Professor at Harvard, known for research on thought suppression, transactive memory, and conscious will.

Daniel M. Wolpert

Daniel M. Wolpert, also known as Daniel Wolpert, is a neuroscientist at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute who studies how the brain controls movement using computational and Bayesian models.

Daniel MacArthur

Daniel MacArthur (Daniel G. MacArthur) is an Australian geneticist known for building ExAC and gnomAD, the world's largest catalogs of human genetic variation, and leads the Centre for Population Genomics.

Daniel Margoliash

Daniel Margoliash is a neuroethologist and professor at the University of Chicago who studies how songbirds learn and remember their songs, and how sleep shapes that learning.

Daniel Matúš

Daniel Matúš is a physician-scientist from Leipzig, Germany, who studies how latrophilin adhesion GPCRs organize synapse formation as a Stanford University postdoctoral scholar in molecular and cellular physiology.

Daniel Mazia

Daniel Mazia (1912–1996) was an American cell biologist who, with Katsuma Dan at UC Berkeley in 1952, first isolated the mitotic apparatus intact from dividing sea urchin eggs, opening cell division to biochemical study.

Daniel McCloskey

Daniel McCloskey is an American neuroscientist at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, known for studying social behavior in naked mole-rats and winning a 2016 PECASE award.

Daniel METZGER

Daniel Metzger is a French molecular biologist at CNRS and IGBMC who studies nuclear receptor signaling, known for showing in 1988 that the human estrogen receptor functions in yeast.

Daniel Mucida

Daniel Mucida (Daniel S. Mucida) is a Brazilian-born immunologist who leads the Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology at The Rockefeller University and became an HHMI Investigator in 2021.

Daniel N. Hebert

Daniel N. Hebert (1962–2024) was an American cell biologist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst known for work on glycan-directed protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum.

Daniel N. Wilson

Daniel N. Wilson is a New Zealand–trained molecular and structural biologist, professor of biochemistry at Universität Hamburg since 2016, who studies ribosomes, translation stalling, and antibiotics.

Daniel Nathans

Daniel Nathans (1928–1999) was an American molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for applying restriction enzymes to the genetics of DNA.

Daniel O'Connor (American neuroscientist)

Daniel O'Connor is an American systems neuroscientist and associate professor at Johns Hopkins, known for studying how neural circuits convert touch into perception and decisions.

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Daniel Oliver (botanist)

Daniel Oliver (1830–1916) was an English botanist, Keeper of the Herbarium at Kew from 1864 to 1890 and professor of botany at University College London.

Daniel P. Kiehart

Daniel P. Kiehart is a cell and developmental biologist at Duke University, known for showing that the molecular motor nonmuscle myosin II drives morphogenesis in the fruit fly.

Daniel P. Petrylak

Daniel P. Petrylak is an American medical oncologist at Yale School of Medicine whose trials established docetaxel for prostate cancer and enfortumab vedotin for bladder cancer.

Daniel Pauly

Daniel Pauly is a fisheries scientist at the University of British Columbia whose 2016 study found world marine catches about 30 percent higher than officially reported.

Daniel Peeper

Daniel S. Peeper is a Dutch cancer biologist who, since 2017, has headed the Division of Molecular Oncology & Immunology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute.

Daniel Porte

Daniel Porte, Jr. (1931–2023) was an American physician-scientist at the University of Washington and Seattle VA who established sympathetic regulation of insulin secretion and beta-cell failure in type 2 diabetes.

Daniel R. Larson

Daniel R. Larson is an American biophysicist and Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for pioneering live-cell, single-molecule imaging of transcription and splicing.

Daniel R. Masys

Daniel R. Masys is an American physician and biomedical informaticist, elected to the National Academy of Medicine, who helped create the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

Daniel R. Pérez

Daniel R. Pérez is an Argentine-American virologist at the University of Georgia who studies influenza at the animal–human interface and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Daniel R. Storm

Daniel R. Storm is an American neuroscientist and professor of pharmacology at the University of Washington in Seattle, known for research on calmodulin-stimulated adenylyl cyclases, cAMP signaling, and memory.

Daniel R. Weinberger

Daniel R. Weinberger (born 1947) is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist known for the neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia and studies of genetic risk for brain disorders.