Life and health scientists

David A. Patterson

David A. Patterson is an American molecular biologist and somatic-cell geneticist known for work on purine biosynthesis, Down syndrome, aging, and the c-mos oncogene in leukemia.

David A. Prince

David A. Prince (D. A. Prince) is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Stanford who studies cortical and thalamic excitability and chaired its neurology department for nearly two decades.

David A. Sack

David A. Sack, also known as David Sack, is an American infectious-disease epidemiologist and physician, a Johns Hopkins professor who led icddr,b in Bangladesh and advanced oral cholera vaccines.

David A. Scheinberg is an American physician-scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who treats leukemia and develops targeted cancer therapies, including alpha-particle radiopharmaceuticals and the WT1 vaccine.

David A. Shafritz

David A. Shafritz (1940–2025) was an American physician-scientist and hepatologist who spent over fifty years at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, directing its Marion Bessin Liver Research Center.

David A. Shub

David A. Shub is an American molecular biologist at SUNY Albany known for research on self-splicing group I introns and inteins in bacteriophages and bacteria.

David A. Stahl

David A. Stahl is an American environmental microbiologist who applied molecular tools to microbial communities and isolated the first ammonia-oxidizing archaeon, reported in Nature in 2005.

David A. Stevens

David A. Stevens is a Stanford physician-scientist in infectious diseases, known for work on fungal infections and for leading a San Jose research laboratory since 1973.

David A. Talan

David A. Talan is an American emergency medicine physician and infectious diseases researcher who built and led EMERGEncy ID NET and led the STOP MRSA and CODA trials.

David A. Thorley‐Lawson

David A. Thorley-Lawson was a British-born immunologist at Tufts University School of Medicine who proposed the germinal center model of Epstein-Barr virus latency and died in 2017.

David A. Tirrell

David A. Tirrell is an American polymer chemist at Caltech, its tenth provost since 2017, known for artificial proteins and incorporating non-canonical amino acids into living cells.

David A. Wardle

David A. Wardle is a New Zealand-born plant and ecosystem ecologist, professor of ecology at Umeå University since 2023, known for long-term experiments on boreal lake islands in Sweden.

David A. Warrell

David A. Warrell (D.A. Warrell), born 1939, is a British physician-scientist and Emeritus Professor of Tropical Medicine at Oxford, known for snakebite and malaria research.

David A. Wassarman

David A. Wassarman is an American Drosophila geneticist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studied RNA polymerase II transcription and created a fly model of traumatic brain injury.

David A. Williams

David A. Williams is an American pediatric hematologist and gene therapy researcher who leads hematology at Boston Children's Hospital and is a Harvard Medical School professor.

David Aaron Kessler

David Aaron Kessler, born 1951, is an American pediatrician and lawyer who was FDA commissioner from 1990 to 1997 and later dean of the Yale and UCSF medical schools.

David Adams (cancer geneticist)

David J. Adams is a cancer geneticist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, England, who studies somatic mutations driving melanoma and other skin cancers.

David Alastair Compston

David Alastair Compston, also known as David Alastair Standish Compston, is a British neurologist, Professor Emeritus at Cambridge, known for quantifying multiple sclerosis genetics and introducing alemtuzumab therapy.

David Alland

David Alland is an American infectious-diseases physician and researcher, professor and chief of infectious diseases at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, who led development of the Xpert MTB/RIF tuberculosis diagnostic.

David Allen Brenner

David Allen Brenner is an American hepatologist and physician-scientist, president and CEO of Sanford Burnham Prebys since 2022 and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

David Alpers

David H. Alpers is an American gastroenterologist and physician-scientist, emeritus William B. Kountz Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and a past president of the American Gastroenterological Association.

David Altshuler (geneticist)

David Altshuler is an American endocrinologist and human geneticist known for diabetes genetics and genome-wide association studies, and former chief scientific officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

David Amaral

David Amaral is an American neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at UC Davis, founding research director of the MIND Institute, founder of the Autism Phenome Project, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.

David Apirion

David Apirion was a molecular biologist at Washington University who showed how E. coli cuts its rRNA and tRNA transcripts, defining RNase III, E, and P.

David Artis

David Artis is an immunologist and Michael Kors Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, known for work on innate lymphoid cells and neuro-immune research.

David Attwell

David Attwell (born 1953) is a British neuroscientist and Jodrell Professor of Physiology at University College London, known for work on glial cells, brain energy budgets, and stroke.

David Axelrod

David Axelrod is an American transplantation researcher whose work covers kidney discards, transplant quality measurement, and using the Epic Cosmos electronic health record database for transplant research.

David B. Allison

David B. Allison is an American biostatistician and obesity researcher, known for the 2016 Nature commentary "Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors" and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2012.

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David B. Beck

David B. Beck is an American clinical geneticist who led the 2020 discovery of VEXAS syndrome and directs an inflammatory disease genetics program at NYU Langone Health.