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David J. Sherratt
David J. Sherratt is a British molecular biologist known for work on bacterial plasmids, site-specific recombination, and chromosome replication and segregation, appointed to Oxford's Iveagh Chair of Microbiology in 1994.
David J. Wyler
David J. Wyler is an American physician-scientist in infectious disease and geographic medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for research on malaria immunology.
David J.P. Barker
David J.P. Barker (1938–2013) was a British physician and epidemiologist at the University of Southampton, known for the Barker hypothesis that fetal undernutrition permanently programs susceptibility to chronic disease in later life.
David Jablonski
David Jablonski is an American paleobiologist and University of Chicago professor who studies macroevolution, mass extinction, and marine bivalves, and coined the concept of dead clade walking.
David Jackson (plant geneticist)
David Jackson, also published as David P. Jackson, is a British plant developmental geneticist and professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who studies maize stem-cell genes controlling yield.
David Julius
David Julius is an American physiologist at UCSF known for identifying the capsaicin receptor TRPV1, work honored with the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
David K. Detweiler
David K. Detweiler (1919–2009) was an American veterinary cardiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, called the "Father of Veterinary Cardiology" and elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1974.
David Kabat
David Kabat is a virologist and Professor Emeritus of biochemistry at Oregon Health & Science University, known for work on Friend murine erythroleukemia virus and retroviral receptors.
David Keilin
David Keilin (1887–1963) was a British scientist, born in Moscow to a Polish family, who discovered cytochrome at Cambridge in 1925 and identified carbonic anhydrase as the first zinc-containing enzyme.
David Kendal Stevenson
David Kendal Stevenson is an American neonatologist and physician-scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for neonatal jaundice research and multiomics prediction of pregnancy complications.
David Kimelman
David Kimelman is a developmental biologist and professor at the University of Washington whose laboratory defined how FGF and TGF-β induce mesoderm and how Wnt signaling builds the vertebrate body axis.
David Kipnis
David M. Kipnis (1927–2014) was an American endocrinologist at Washington University in St. Louis whose 1967 quantification of the incretin effect underlies GLP-1 diabetes drugs.
David Kirk
David L. Kirk (1934–2018) was an American molecular biologist and professor emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, known for making Volvox a model system for studying multicellularity.
David Kirsch
David G. Kirsch is an American radiation oncologist and cancer biologist, a University of Toronto professor known for sarcoma mouse models and the SU2C-SARC032 immunotherapy trial.
David Klatzmann
David Klatzmann (born 1954) is a French immunologist and physician-scientist at Sorbonne Université and Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, known for identifying the AIDS virus's cellular target and pioneering low-dose interleukin-2 therapy.
David Kleinfeld
David Kleinfeld is an American physicist and systems neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego, known for applying lasers and optics to rodent whisker sensing and cortical blood flow.
David Komander
David Komander is a German-born biochemist and structural biologist who studies the ubiquitin system, discovered the deubiquitinase OTULIN, and has led the Ubiquitin Signalling Division at WEHI in Melbourne since 2018.
David L Stern
David L Stern is an American developmental and evolutionary biologist and HHMI Investigator known for showing that morphological evolution often acts through gene regulatory DNA.
David L. DeMets
David L. DeMets, born David Leon DeMets, is an American biostatistician who founded the biostatistics department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and co-developed the alpha spending function.
David L. Eaton
David L. Eaton is an American biochemical toxicologist at the University of Washington whose research explained how the body activates and detoxifies cancer-causing chemicals, especially aflatoxin B1.
David L. Garbers
David L. Garbers (1944–2006) was an American biochemist who defined the guanylyl cyclase receptor family and studied sperm–egg communication, spending 30 years as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
David L. Heymann
David L. Heymann is an American infectious disease epidemiologist who spent two decades at the World Health Organization, leading the global response to the 2003 SARS outbreak.
David L. Olive
David L. Olive is an American reproductive endocrinologist and gynecologist known for his New England Journal of Medicine reviews of endometriosis and for co-founding the Wisconsin Fertility Institute.
David L. Rimoin
David L. Rimoin (1936–2012) was a Canadian-born medical geneticist who founded the American Board and College of Medical Genetics, directed Cedars-Sinai's Medical Genetics Institute, and established the genetic heterogeneity of diabetes and skeletal dysplasias.
David L. Sackett
David L. Sackett, also known as D L Sackett, was a Canadian clinical epidemiologist called the father of evidence-based medicine, who founded McMaster's department of clinical epidemiology.
David L. Spector
David L. Spector is an American molecular cell biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory known for work on nuclear speckles, live-cell imaging, and long non-coding RNAs in cancer.
David L. Thomas
David L. Thomas is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University known for research on viral hepatitis, especially hepatitis C in people living with HIV.
David L. Vaux
David L. Vaux, born 1959 in Melbourne, is an Australian molecular biologist who identified BCL2, the first component of cell death found in any organism, and campaigns for research integrity.
David Lack
David Lack (1910–1973) was a British ornithologist and ecologist who directed the Edward Grey Institute at Oxford from 1945 to 1973, known for the clutch-size principle and Darwin's Finches.
David Lawrence Sacks
David Lawrence Sacks (born 1950) is an American parasitologist who studies Leishmania at NIAID and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.