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David I. Friedman

David I. Friedman is an American bacterial geneticist at the University of Michigan known for identifying integration host factor and the boxA antitermination signal in bacteriophage λ.

David I. Meyer

David I. Meyer is an American molecular cell biologist, Professor Emeritus of Biological Chemistry at UCLA, who identified the ER docking protein in 1982 and led The Lundquist Institute from 2009.

David I. Stuart

David I. Stuart is a British structural biologist who determines the atomic structures of viruses, is MRC Professor of Structural Biology at Oxford, and was knighted in 2021.

David I. Watkins

David I. Watkins is an American virologist and immunologist who studies killer T cell responses to HIV and SIV, and is a professor of pathology at George Washington University.

David Isenberg

David Isenberg, also known as David A. Isenberg, is a British rheumatologist and Emeritus Professor at University College London known for research on systemic lupus erythematosus.

David Ish‐Horowicz

David Ish-Horowicz, known as D. Ish-Horowicz, was a British molecular and developmental biologist who worked mainly at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and died in 2024.

David J. Anderson

David J. Anderson, also known as D.J. Anderson, is an American neuroscientist at Caltech who studies how the brain's circuits encode emotions such as fear and aggression.

David J. Asai

David J. Asai is an American cell biologist known for research on the motor protein dynein and for leading inclusive science education programs at HHMI from 2008 to 2024.

David J. Brenner

David J. Brenner, born 1953 in Liverpool, is a British-born radiation biophysicist who directs Columbia University's Center for Radiological Research and quantifies cancer risks from CT scans.

David J. Cohen

David J. Cohen is an American interventional cardiologist and outcomes researcher, Director of Clinical and Outcomes Research at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York.

David J. Dunlop

David J. Dunlop is a Canadian geophysicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga, known for rock magnetism, paleomagnetism, and the 1997 textbook Rock Magnetism.

David J. Freedman

David J. Freedman is a neuroscientist at the University of Chicago who studies how the primate brain learns visual categories and uses them to make decisions, chairing Neurobiology since 2024.

David J. Galas

David J. Galas (1944–2023) was an American molecular biologist who co-invented DNase footprinting and directed the Department of Energy's Human Genome Program from 1990 to 1993.

David J. Glass

David J. Glass is an American molecular biologist at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals known for research on skeletal muscle signaling and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

David J. Grainger

David J. Grainger is a molecular biologist known for TGF-β research in vascular disease and a rapid blood test for coronary heart disease, later co-founding the venture firm Medicxi.

David J. Greenblatt

David J. Greenblatt is an American clinical pharmacologist at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for work defining clinical pharmacokinetics, benzodiazepine studies, and drug-drug interaction research.

David J. Heeger

David J. Heeger is an American cognitive and computational neuroscientist, a Silver Professor at New York University known for the normalization model of neural computation and fMRI analysis.

David J. Hunter

David J. Hunter is a rheumatologist and osteoarthritis researcher who holds the Florence and Cope Chair of Rheumatology at the University of Sydney and leads the Kolling Institute's osteoarthritis team.

David J. Kemp

David J. Kemp (1945–2013) was an Australian molecular biologist and parasitologist who was the first to clone malaria parasite genes, in 1983, and later studied the scabies mite.

David J. Kupfer

David J. Kupfer is an American psychiatrist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh who chaired the American Psychiatric Association task force for DSM-5.

David J. Kwiatkowski

David J. Kwiatkowski is an American cancer geneticist, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, known for identifying the TSC1 gene, which causes tuberous sclerosis complex.

David J. Lenschow

Deborah J. Lenschow is an immunologist credited by the Nobel Committee's 2018 background for showing in 1992 that CTLA4-Ig costimulation blockade can treat autoimmune disease.

David J. Linden

David J. Linden is an American neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins who studies memory storage, addiction, and cerebellar synaptic plasticity, and writes science books for general audiences.

David J. Lipman

David J. Lipman is an American bioinformatician who co-developed the sequence-search tools FASTA and BLAST and was the founding director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

David J. Loskutoff

David J. Loskutoff is a cell biology professor at The Scripps Research Institute who joined in 1975, discovered plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), and studied obesity, inflammation, and thrombosis.

David J. Mangelsdorf

David J. Mangelsdorf (1958–2025) was an American molecular biologist and pharmacologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center who discovered the retinoid X receptor and characterized orphan nuclear receptors regulating metabolism.

David J. Pinsky

David J. Pinsky is an American physician-scientist and cardiologist who has led cardiovascular medicine at the University of Michigan since 2003, studying protection against ischemic injury.

David J. Prezant

David J. Prezant is an American pulmonologist, FDNY Chief Medical Officer, known for defining World Trade Center cough syndrome after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

David J. Sahn

David J. Sahn (1945–2021) was an American pediatric cardiologist who performed the first real-time two-dimensional echocardiogram in the United States in 1972 and pioneered Doppler color flow mapping.

David J. Salant

David J. Salant is a South African–trained nephrologist at Boston University whose 2009 discovery of the PLA2R antigen turned membranous nephropathy diagnosis from biopsy to blood test.