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Darryl C. Zeldin

Darryl C. Zeldin is an American physician-scientist and Scientific Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, known for research on cytochrome P450 enzymes and national allergy epidemiology.

Darwin J. Prockop

Darwin J. Prockop (1929–2024) was an American biochemist and progenitor-cell researcher known for collagen biosynthesis work and for pioneering the study of mesenchymal stromal cells.

Darwin K. Berg

Darwin K. Berg is an American developmental neurobiologist and emeritus professor at UC San Diego, known for work on nicotinic cholinergic signaling in brain development.

Daryl K. Granner

Daryl K. Granner (1936–2026) was an American physician-scientist who showed how insulin regulates the gluconeogenic enzyme PEPCK and led diabetes research at Iowa and Vanderbilt.

Dave A. Chokshi

Dave A. Chokshi (Dave Ashok Chokshi) is an American physician and health policy researcher who served as New York City's 43rd health commissioner from 2020 to 2022.

Dave Singh

Dave Singh is a British respiratory physician-scientist, Professor at the University of Manchester since 2011 and Medical Director of the Medicines Evaluation Unit, known for leading major COPD drug trials.

Daved H. Fremont

Daved H. Fremont is a structural biologist and immunologist who is a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, known for defining the structural basis of Zika virus antibody protection.

David A. Agard

David A. Agard is an American structural biologist and biochemist, professor at the University of California, San Francisco, known for Hsp90 chaperone research and advances in cryo-electron microscopy.

David A. Asch

David A. Asch, also known as David Asch, is an American physician and behavioral economist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how physicians and patients make medical choices.

David A. Barbie

David A. Barbie, also known as David Allen Barbie, is an American medical oncologist and cancer researcher who is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

David A. Bennett

David A. Bennett is an American neurologist who directs the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago, known for showing that most dementia arises from mixed brain pathologies.

David A. Bluemke

David A. Bluemke is an American radiologist and cardiovascular imaging researcher, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison since 2017 known for leading the MESA cardiac MRI studies.

David A. Braun

David A. Braun, also known as David Braun, is an American medical oncologist and physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine who treats kidney cancer and studies immunotherapy response.

David A. Bushinsky

David A. Bushinsky is an American nephrologist at the University of Rochester who led its nephrology division for 29 years and studied acid effects on bone.

David A. Chad

David A. Chad is a neuromuscular neurologist from Montreal who built and led the University of Massachusetts Neuromuscular Medicine Division for 26 years, until 2008.

David A. Cheresh

David A. Cheresh is an American cancer biologist and Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego known for defining how the integrin αvβ3 supports tumor angiogenesis.

David A. Clayton

David A. Clayton is an American molecular biologist known for the transcription-priming model of mitochondrial DNA replication, in which RNA transcripts serve as primers for DNA synthesis.

David A. Cooper

David A. Cooper (1949–2018) was an Australian immunologist and HIV researcher who diagnosed Australia's first HIV cases and led the Kirby Institute for 32 years.

David A. D’Alessio

David A. D'Alessio is an American physician-scientist who has been Chief of Duke's Division of Endocrinology since 2014, known for research on the incretin hormones GLP-1 and GIP in insulin secretion, type 2 diabetes, and obesity.

David A. Fiellin

David A. Fiellin, also published as David Fiellin, is an American primary care physician and addiction medicine researcher at Yale University known for clinical trials moving opioid dependence treatment into primary care.

David A. Grimes

David A. Grimes is an American physician and reproductive epidemiologist, Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

David A. Harris

David A. Harris is an American molecular biologist and physician-scientist who studies the cellular prion protein and Alzheimer's disease, chairing Biochemistry & Cell Biology at Boston University.

David A. Hopwood

Sir David Alan Hopwood, born in 1933, is a British microbial geneticist who founded Streptomyces genetics and co-ordinated the 2002 complete genome sequence of Streptomyces coelicolor.

David A. Kass

David A. Kass, also known as David Kass, is an American cardiologist at Johns Hopkins University known for research on cGMP signaling, phosphodiesterase enzymes, and heart failure.

David A. Leopold

David A. Leopold is a neuroscientist who leads the Section on Cognitive Neurophysiology and Imaging at the National Institute of Mental Health, studying visual perception since 2004.

David A. Lieberman

David A. Lieberman is a gastroenterologist at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, known for research that established colonoscopy as a colorectal cancer screening test for average-risk adults.

David A. Lomas

David A. Lomas is a British respiratory physician and scientist who defined how mutant alpha-1 antitrypsin polymerizes in liver cells, termed the serpinopathies, and is Professor of Medicine at University College London.

David A. McCarron

David A. McCarron is an American nephrologist and hypertension researcher who headed nephrology at Oregon Health & Science University and proposed in 1982 that low dietary calcium, not sodium, drives high blood pressure.

David A. McCormick

David A. McCormick is an American neuroscientist known for work on thalamocortical rhythms, sleep and arousal, and cerebellar learning, and director of the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Oregon since 2017.

David A. Morrow

David A. Morrow is an American cardiologist who directs the Samuel A. Levine Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is a Harvard Medical School professor.