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Danny M. Cohn

Danny M. Cohn is a Dutch internist in vascular medicine at Amsterdam UMC who heads its expert center for hereditary angioedema and leads trials of new treatments.

Danny Porath

Danny Porath is a physicist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem known for a landmark 2000 Nature measurement of electrical transport through single DNA molecules.

Danny Reinberg

Danny Reinberg is a Chilean-born American biochemist at the University of Miami who studies how chromatin transmits gene-silencing information and named Polycomb repressive complex 2.

Danny Rischin

Danny Rischin is an Australian medical oncologist, Director of Medical Oncology at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, known for head and neck cancer and skin cancer research.

Danwei Huangfu

Danwei Huangfu is a stem cell and developmental biologist at the Sloan Kettering Institute, known for showing that Hedgehog signaling requires primary cilia and for CRISPR screening in human stem cells.

Danzhou Yang

Danzhou Yang is a medicinal chemist and Distinguished Professor at Purdue University who studies G-quadruplex DNA structures in oncogene promoters and telomeres by NMR spectroscopy.

Dao‐Xiu Zhou

Dao-Xiu Zhou is a plant biologist who studies epigenetic regulation in rice, working at Université Paris-Saclay in France and, since 2003, at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, China.

Daohua Jiang

Daohua Jiang (姜道华) is a Chinese structural biologist at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, known for cryo-EM structures of the cardiac sodium channel NaV1.5.

Daolin Tang

Daolin Tang is a Professor of Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who directs the Center for DAMP Biology and studies ferroptosis, DAMPs, and pancreatic cancer.

Daphne Haas-Kogan

Daphne Haas-Kogan is an American radiation oncologist who treats brain tumors and pediatric cancers and chairs radiation oncology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Daphne J. Osborne

Daphne J. Osborne (1925–2006) was a British plant physiologist who spent over fifty years studying ethylene and auxin, known for her 1970 Nature paper on leaf abscission and the target cell concept.

Daphne Preuss

Daphne Preuss is an American plant geneticist and entrepreneur known for defining Arabidopsis centromeres, discovering how sperm cells reach and fuse with egg cells, and founding Chromatin Inc.

Daphne W. Bell

Daphne W. Bell is a Northern Ireland-born cancer geneticist and senior investigator at the National Human Genome Research Institute, known for defining genomic drivers of aggressive endometrial cancer.

Darell D. Bigner

Darell D. Bigner is an American physician-scientist at Duke University who founded its Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center and developed the poliovirus therapy PVSRIPO.

Daren K. Heyland

Daren K. Heyland is a Canadian critical care physician and clinical epidemiologist at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, known for the NUTRIC score and the RE-ENERGIZE trial.

Daria Mochly‐Rosen

Daria Mochly-Rosen is a chemical and systems biologist at Stanford School of Medicine, known for PKC anchoring proteins and ALDH2 activators, who founded SPARK in 2006.

Dario Alessi

Dario R. Alessi is a biochemist who directs the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit at the University of Dundee, known for discovering PDK1 and studying LRRK2 in Parkinson's disease.

Dario C. Altieri

Dario C. Altieri is an Italian-born American physician-scientist who discovered the survivin gene and has been President and CEO of The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia since 2015.

Dario DiFrancesco

Dario DiFrancesco is an Italian physiologist who discovered the cardiac "funny current" (If) at Oxford in 1979; his work underpins the heart-rate drug ivabradine and HCN4 channel research.

Dario Giugliano

Dario Giugliano is an Italian researcher in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism at the Università della Campania in Naples, best known for the 2004 JAMA Mediterranean-diet trial.

Dario Leister

Dario Leister, born 1967, is a German plant molecular biologist who has held the Chair of Plant Molecular Biology at LMU Munich since 2005, studying photosynthesis regulation.

Dario Neri

Dario Neri, born in Rome in 1963, is an Italian chemist and antibody engineer, a former professor of Biomacromolecules at ETH Zürich and co-founder and CEO of the biotech company Philogen.

Dario Vignali

Dario A. A. Vignali is an immunologist who chairs the Department of Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh and is best known for discovering the inhibitory cytokine IL-35.

Dariush Mozaffarian

Dariush Mozaffarian is a cardiologist and nutritional epidemiologist at Tufts University, where he led the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy as dean from 2014 to 2022.

Darrel W. Stafford

Darrel W. Stafford is a Professor Emeritus of biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who identified the gene for vitamin K epoxide reductase.

Darrell H. Carney

Darrell H. Carney is a biochemist, adjunct professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch, and founder of Chrysalis BioTherapeutics, known for developing the tissue-repair peptide TP508.

Darrell N. Kotton

Darrell N. Kotton is a pulmonary physician-scientist at Boston University who founded its Center for Regenerative Medicine and pioneered methods for generating lung cells from patients' stem cells.

Darren K. McGuire

Darren K. McGuire is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for leading major diabetes drug cardiovascular outcome trials.

Darrin M. York

Darrin M. York is an American computational chemist, Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, known for computing ribozyme catalytic mechanisms and co-developing the Amber simulation software.

Darryl C. De Vivo

Darryl C. De Vivo is an American child neurologist and neurometabolic physician-scientist, Sidney Carter Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, known for identifying Glut1 deficiency syndrome and co-authoring the 2017 nusinersen trial.