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David H Rosmarin

David H Rosmarin is an American psychologist who directs the Spirituality and Mental Health Program at McLean Hospital and developed SPIRIT, a spiritually integrated cognitive-behavioral therapy.

David H. Baker

David H. Baker, full name David Hiram Baker, was an American animal nutritionist at the University of Illinois who defined amino acid and mineral nutrition of pigs, chickens, cats, and dogs.

David H. Broide

David H. Broide is a South African-trained physician-scientist and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, known for research on asthma, airway remodeling, and eosinophils.

David H. Gutmann

David H. Gutmann is an American physician-scientist and neurologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where he directs the Neurofibromatosis Center and studies the genetic disorder NF1.

David H. Hubel

David H. Hubel (1926–2013) was a Canadian-born American neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School who shared half of the 1981 Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system.

David H. Kirn

David H. Kirn is a physician-scientist in oncolytic virus cancer therapy and gene therapy who co-founded and leads 4D Molecular Therapeutics and teaches biotechnology entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley.

David H. Ledbetter

David H. Ledbetter is an American human geneticist known for the 1981 report that a chromosome 15 deletion causes Prader–Willi syndrome and for cloning the LIS-1 gene in 1993.

David H. MacLennan

David H. MacLennan (1937–2020) was a Canadian biochemist at the University of Toronto who purified and sequenced the muscle calcium pump and cloned the ryanodine receptor gene.

David H. Mathews

David H. Mathews is an American computational RNA biologist and professor at the University of Rochester School of Medicine who created and maintains the RNAstructure software package.

David H. Munn

David H. Munn is an American physician-scientist and immunologist at Augusta University in Georgia, known for establishing the enzyme IDO as a mechanism of immune tolerance.

David H. Persing

David H. Persing is an American physician-scientist in molecular diagnostics who established PCR testing for tick-borne diseases at the Mayo Clinic and later led test development at Cepheid.

David H. Raulet

David H. Raulet is an American immunologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for defining how natural killer cells recognize cancer cells and for identifying NKG2D ligands.

David H. Sachs

David H. Sachs, born 1942, is an American transplant immunologist and surgeon known for inducing transplantation tolerance and developing miniature swine as a research model.

David H. Sherman

David H. Sherman is an American natural products biochemist at the University of Michigan who studies microbial compounds to develop new antibiotics and anticancer drugs.

David H. Smith

David H. Smith (1931–1999) was an American pediatrician who, with Porter W. Anderson Jr., developed the Hib conjugate vaccine that all but eliminated Hib meningitis in children.

David H. Spodick

David H. Spodick (1927–2019) was an American cardiologist who specialized in pericardial disease, cardiac tamponade, and electrocardiography, publishing over 400 papers and lending his name to Spodick's sign.

David H. Van Thiel

David H. Van Thiel is an American hepatologist known for his 1975 work showing alcohol damages the testis directly and for building liver transplantation at Pittsburgh.

David H.K. Chui

David H.K. Chui is a physician-scientist in hematology known for discovering that embryonic ζ-globin chains persist in adults with two-gene α-thalassemia deletion, a carrier-screening marker.

David Hafler

David A. Hafler is an American neurologist and immunologist, Edgerly Professor of Neurology at Yale, whose work established regulatory T cell dysfunction in multiple sclerosis and autoimmune disease.

David Hansman

David Hansman is an Australian medical microbiologist who first showed antibiotic resistance in the pneumococcus in Australia and directed microbiology at the Adelaide Children's Hospital from 1970 to 1998.

David Haussler

David Haussler is an American computational biologist, Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Cruz, whose team posted the first public human genome assembly in 2000 and built the UCSC Genome Browser.

David Hillis

David Hillis is an American evolutionary biologist at the University of Texas at Austin who studies molecular evolution and biodiversity and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.

David Hilt Tennent

David Hilt Tennent (1873–1941) was an American embryologist and cytologist at Bryn Mawr College from 1904 to 1941, known for experimental studies of echinoderm hybridization.

David Hirsh

David Hirsh is a molecular biologist who discovered trans-spliced leader RNAs in C. elegans, founded the biotech company Synergen, and later chaired a department at Columbia University.

David Ho

David Ho (何大一) is a physician-scientist and medical virologist who showed HIV replicates rapidly and pioneered combination antiretroviral therapy, transforming AIDS into a manageable disease.

David Holden (bacteriologist)

David W. Holden is a British bacteriologist and Fellow of the Royal Society, emeritus Regius Professor at Imperial College London, known for signature-tagged mutagenesis and Salmonella SPI-2.

David Hoogerheide

David P. Hoogerheide is an American physicist at the NIST Center for Neutron Research who leads its Neutron Reflectometry Team and received a 2025 PECASE award.

David Horn (parasite molecular biologist)

David Horn is a parasite molecular biologist who holds the Chair of Parasite Molecular Biology at the University of Dundee, studying drug resistance in African trypanosomes, which cause sleeping sickness.

David Huang

David Huang is an American ophthalmologist and biomedical engineer at Oregon Health & Science University who co-invented optical coherence tomography, the standard eye imaging method, earning the 2023 Lasker Award.

David Hurwitz (endocrinologist)

David Hurwitz was an American endocrinologist who chaired medicine at Mount Auburn Hospital and whose placebo-controlled studies of the first oral diabetes drugs, published in 1961 and 1967, remain methodological standards.