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David DeRosier

David J. DeRosier is a structural biologist who, with Aaron Klug, computed the first 3D structure from electron micrographs in 1968, then spent his career at Brandeis University.

David Dilcher

David L. Dilcher, born in 1936, is an American paleobotanist who studies the origin and evolutionary success of flowering plants, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989.

David Drew (biochemist)

David Drew is a structural biologist and Professor of Biochemistry at Stockholm University, known for determining the structures of SLC solute transporters, including the fructose transporter GLUT5 and mammalian Na+/H+ exchangers.

David Dubnau

David Dubnau is an American microbiologist and professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, known for his work on genetic competence and natural transformation in Bacillus subtilis.

David Dupret

David Dupret is a cognitive neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience at Oxford, leading an MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit group studying the brain network physiology of memory.

David E. Cane

David E. Cane is a biological chemist at Brown University known for his work on terpenoid biosynthesis, polyketide synthases, and vitamin B6 formation in E. coli.

David E. Comings

David E. Comings (born 1935) is an American physician and medical geneticist who headed genetics at City of Hope in Duarte, California, and later proposed contested genetic models of Tourette syndrome and ADHD.

David E. Cummings

David E. Cummings is an American endocrinologist and University of Washington professor who established ghrelin's role in mealtime hunger and helped create metabolic surgery for diabetes.

David E. Fisher

David E. Fisher is an American physician-scientist who chairs the Department of Dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital and is a Harvard professor known for melanoma research.

David E. Goldman

David E. Goldman, born David Eliot Goldman, was an American biophysicist whose 1943 constant-field equation underlies the Goldman–Hodgkin–Katz equation, still standard for interpreting membrane potentials and ion-channel selectivity.

David E. Green

David E. Green (1910–1983) was an American biochemist who codirected the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was a central figure in research on the respiratory chain and oxidative phosphorylation.

David E. Housman

David E. Housman is an American geneticist, MIT biology professor since 1975, known for identifying the Wilms' tumor gene WT1 and the trinucleotide repeat expansion causing myotonic dystrophy.

David E. Kuhl

David E. Kuhl (1929–2017) was an American physician and nuclear-medicine scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who built the first emission tomography scanners, founding SPECT and PET.

David E. Levy

David E. Levy is an American biologist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies the JAK–STAT pathway, interferon immunity, and STAT3's role in cancer metabolism.

David E. Neal

David E. Neal, born 1951, is a British surgical oncologist and urologist who led the ProtecT and CAP trials that shaped prostate cancer treatment, holding chairs at Cambridge and Oxford.

David E. Newby

David E. Newby, also published as David Ernest Newby, is a British cardiologist at the University of Edinburgh who led the SCOT-HEART trial of CT coronary angiography.

David E. Richardson

David E. Richardson is an American NOAA fishery biologist known for his 2016 discovery of an Atlantic bluefin tuna spawning ground in the Slope Sea.

David E. Salt

David E. Salt is a British plant biologist who founded ionomics, the high-throughput study of mineral composition of organisms, known for phytoremediation and work at Nottingham.

David E. Trentham

David E. Trentham is an American rheumatologist and Harvard Medical School associate professor in Boston, known for collagen autoimmunity research and the 1993 oral type II collagen rheumatoid arthritis trial.

David E. Wennberg

David E. Wennberg is an American cardiologist and health-services researcher known for a 2002 New England Journal of Medicine study linking surgical death rates to hospital volume.

David Eagleman

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist, author, and inventor who teaches at Stanford University, works on synesthesia and time perception, founded Neosensory, and wrote the book Livewired.

David Eidelberg

David Eidelberg is an American neurologist and neuroimaging researcher, professor and neuroscience center director at the Feinstein Institutes, known for network imaging biomarkers in Parkinson's disease.

David Eisenberg

David S. Eisenberg is an American biochemist and structural biologist at UCLA known for determining atomic structures of amyloid fibrils and designing inhibitors of toxic protein aggregation.

David Epel

David Epel is a marine biologist and emeritus professor at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California, where he worked from 1965 to 2009.

David Erlinge

David Erlinge (D Erlinge) is a Swedish cardiologist, Professor of Cardiology at Lund University, and head of cardiology at Skåne University Hospital, known for leading major coronary trials.

David F. Horrobin

David F. Horrobin (1939–2003) was a British physiologist and pharmaceutical entrepreneur known for the prostaglandin–schizophrenia hypothesis, his essential fatty acid research, and his critique of grant peer review.

David F. Ransohoff

David F. Ransohoff, also published as David Ransohoff, is an American professor of medicine and epidemiology at UNC Chapel Hill known for evaluating cancer screening tests.

David Feldman (American endocrinologist)

David Feldman is an American endocrinologist and Stanford professor emeritus known for showing in 1984 that the anesthetic etomidate blocks adrenal steroidogenesis, and for vitamin D receptor research.

David Ferrier

Sir David Ferrier (1843–1928) was a Scottish-born London neurologist whose electrical stimulation experiments on monkeys mapped the motor and sensory centers of the cerebral cortex.

David Ferster

David Ferster is a neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus in Northwestern University's Department of Neurobiology, known for studying visual cortex circuitry and developing in vivo whole-cell patch recording.