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David Fidock

David A. Fidock is an Australian-born parasitologist and C.S. Hamish Young Professor at Columbia University, known for identifying the genetic basis of chloroquine resistance in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

David Finnegan

David J. Finnegan is a molecular geneticist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, known for his work on transposable elements in Drosophila, including the I factor and mariner transposon.

David Fitzpatrick (neuroscientist)

David Fitzpatrick (born 1952) is an American neuroscientist who studies how visual cortex circuits develop, and the founding Scientific Director and CEO of the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience.

David G. DeNardo

David G. DeNardo is an American cancer immunologist and professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known for work on pancreatic cancer immunotherapy.

David G. Drubin

David G. Drubin is an American cell biologist at UC Berkeley known for work on endocytosis and cell polarity, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

David G. Harrison

David G. Harrison is an American cardiologist and pharmacologist at Vanderbilt University known for showing that T cells drive hypertension and that oxidative stress impairs blood vessel function.

David G. Huntsman

David G. Huntsman is a Canadian pathologist and molecular geneticist at the University of British Columbia who directs OVCARE and researches ovarian and hereditary cancers.

David G. Lambright

David G. Lambright is an American structural biologist and professor at UMass Chan Medical School, known for crystallographic studies of G proteins and Rab GTPases.

David G. Maloney

David G. Maloney is an American medical oncologist and tumor immunologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center known for developing rituximab, the first antibody-based cancer drug.

David G. Marsh

David G. Marsh was a London-born immunologist at Johns Hopkins whose family studies of ragweed and rye-grass allergy established a two-part genetic model of allergy, with his 1994 study linking total IgE to chromosome 5.

David G. Nathan

David G. Nathan, born in Boston in 1929, is an American pediatric hematologist who developed the first prenatal tests for thalassemia and sickle cell anemia and led Dana-Farber.

David G. Poplack

David G. Poplack is a pediatric oncologist known for childhood leukemia research and for leading Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Center in Houston for 25 years.

David G. Russell

David G. Russell is a microbiologist and William Kaplan Professor Emeritus of Infection Biology at Cornell University, known for four decades of work on how Mycobacterium tuberculosis persists inside macrophages.

David G. Schatz

David G. Schatz is an American molecular geneticist and immunologist at Yale School of Medicine, best known for discovering RAG1 and RAG2, the proteins that assemble antibody and T cell receptor genes.

David G. Shand

David G. Shand is a clinical pharmacologist and physician whose Vanderbilt and Duke research showed how propranolol lowers blood pressure and defined its rare withdrawal syndrome.

David G. Warnock

David G. Warnock is an American nephrologist and physiologist who directed nephrology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and led major trials in diabetic kidney disease.

David G. Wilkinson

David G. Wilkinson is a developmental biologist who leads the Neural Development Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, known for discovering segmental gene expression in the hindbrain.

David Gems

David Gems is a British biogerontologist, Professor of Biogerontology at the UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing, known for studying aging in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans.

David Ginsburg (physician-scientist)

David Ginsburg is an American physician-scientist at the University of Michigan known for cloning the von Willebrand factor gene and defining genetic causes of bleeding and clotting disorders.

David Gitlin

David Gitlin (born 1921, New York) was an American immunologist and pediatrician who worked out the clinical physiology of the gamma globulins, the antibody-carrying serum proteins.

David Givol

David Givol (1929–2012) was an Israeli molecular biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for mapping the antibody combining site by affinity labeling and for later work on the p53 tumor suppressor gene.

David Glendenning Cogan

David Glendenning Cogan was an American ophthalmologist who led Harvard's Howe Laboratory from 1943 to 1973, founded neuro-ophthalmology, and gave his name to Cogan's syndrome, a rare autoimmune eye-and-ear disease.

David Goeddel

David Goeddel is an American molecular biologist who was the first scientist hired at Genentech, where his cloning work underpinned human insulin and other therapeutics.

David Goldman (neurogeneticist)

David Goldman is an American physician and neurogeneticist who has headed the Laboratory of Neurogenetics at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism since 1991, studying genes affecting psychiatric vulnerability.

David Gozal

David Gozal is a physician-scientist in pediatric sleep medicine known for research on childhood obstructive sleep apnea, and dean of Marshall University's medical school since 2023.

David Grimwade

David Grimwade (1962–2016) was a British molecular hematologist, Professor at King's College London, who pioneered minimal residual disease monitoring in acute promyelocytic and acute myeloid leukemia.

David Gruber

David Gruber is an American marine biologist, Distinguished Professor at Baruch College, CUNY, known for discovering biofluorescent sea animals and for founding Project CETI to decode sperm whale communication.

David Gubbins

David Gubbins, born in 1947, is a geophysicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds known for work on Earth's magnetic field and inverse theory.

David Guertin

David Guertin is an American molecular biologist and professor at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, known for discovering mTOR complex 2 and studying brown fat and metabolism.

David Guthrie Catcheside

David Guthrie Catcheside (1907–1994) was a British-Australian geneticist who founded Australia's first university genetics department in Adelaide and studied recombination control in Neurospora crassa, later directing ANU's Research School of Biological Sciences.