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David Levens

David Levens is a Senior Investigator and head of the Gene Regulation Section at the National Cancer Institute, studying how c-Myc and DNA topology control transcription.

David Leys

David Leys is a British-based structural biologist and biochemist, Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Manchester, known for determining the first reductive dehalogenase structure and the prenylated FMN cofactor.

David Littmann

David Littmann (1906–1981) was an American cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor who patented the lightweight two-sided Littmann stethoscope in 1966, sold by 3M from 1967.

David Luck

David Luck (1929–1998) was an American molecular geneticist and cell biologist at Rockefeller University who used the alga Chlamydomonas to dissect the genetics of mitochondria and flagella.

David Lyden

David Lyden is a physician-scientist and pediatric neuro-oncologist at Weill Cornell Medicine who defined the pre-metastatic niche, showing how tumor exosomes prepare distant organs for metastasis.

David M. Glover

David M. Glover, born 1948, is a cell biologist who discovered the Polo and Aurora kinase families regulating cell division, and has taught at Caltech since 2019.

David M. Goldenberg

David M. Goldenberg, born in Brooklyn, is an American physician-scientist who pioneered radiolabeled antibodies for cancer detection and therapy, and developed the FDA-approved drug Trodelvy.

David M. Greer

David M. Greer is an American neurologist and neurointensivist who has chaired neurology at Boston University since 2017 and led the World Brain Death Project and the 2023 brain death guideline.

David M. Herrington

David M. Herrington is an American cardiologist and professor of cardiovascular medicine and epidemiology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, known for the 2000 ERA hormone-therapy trial.

David M. Holtzman

David M. Holtzman is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis who studies Alzheimer's disease and directs the Knight Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.

David M. Hyman

David M. Hyman is an American oncologist specializing in precision medicine who led the vemurafenib and larotrectinib basket trials and became Eli Lilly's Chief Medical Officer in 2024.

David M. J. S. Bowman

David M. J. S. Bowman, also published as David Bowman, is an Australian fire scientist who holds the research chair in Pyrogeography and Fire Science at the University of Tasmania.

David M. Kingsley

David M. Kingsley is an American developmental and evolutionary geneticist, a Stanford professor and HHMI Investigator known for mapping genes behind bone development and stickleback evolution.

David M. Knipe

David M. Knipe is an American virologist and Higgins Professor at Harvard Medical School, known for work on herpesvirus latency and viral epigenetics, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

David M. Kranz

David M. Kranz is a professor emeritus of biochemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for co-developing yeast display to engineer high-affinity T cell receptors for cancer immunotherapy.

David M. Langenau

David M. Langenau is a cancer biologist and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Mass General, known for creating the first transgenic zebrafish cancer model.

David M. Livingston

David M. Livingston (1941–2021) was an American molecular biologist and physician who spent nearly five decades at Dana-Farber and Harvard, known for work on RB and BRCA1/2.

David M. Lovinger

David M. Lovinger, also known as David Lovinger, is an American neuroscientist who studies how alcohol and addictive substances act on ion channels, synapses, and basal ganglia circuits.

David M. Nathan

David M. Nathan is an American endocrinologist who directed the Clinical Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and led the DCCT and Diabetes Prevention Program trials.

David M. Ornitz

David M. Ornitz is a molecular biologist and physician-scientist, the Alumni Endowed Professor of Developmental Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, known for his work on FGF signaling in development.

David M. Prescott

David M. Prescott (1926–2011) was an American molecular biologist at the University of Colorado Boulder who discovered DNA sequence diminution and internal eliminated segments in ciliate genomes.

David M. Sabatini

David M. Sabatini is an American biochemist who discovered mTOR as a Johns Hopkins student in 1994, mapped the mTORC1 and mTORC2 complexes, and now leads a lab at IOCB Prague.

David M. Shahian

David M. Shahian is a cardiac surgeon and outcomes researcher, Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for leading the Society of Thoracic Surgeons public reporting programs.

David M. Tarlinton

David M. Tarlinton is an Australian immunologist who heads Immunology and Pathology at Monash University in Melbourne, known for showing that Mcl-1 is essential for B cell memory.

David M. Tobin

David M. Tobin is a molecular geneticist at Duke University who uses zebrafish and Mycobacterium marinum to find host genes governing tuberculosis susceptibility, showing genotype-tailored therapy may help.

David M. Underhill

David M. Underhill is an immunologist, professor, and chair of Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, known for defining how the innate immune receptor Dectin-1 detects fungi.

David M. Virshup

David M. Virshup is an American physician-scientist and cancer biologist known for research on Wnt signaling, and a professor at Duke University School of Medicine.

David M. Weinstock

David M. Weinstock is a physician-scientist in hematologic oncology who led a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute laboratory from 2008 to 2022 and created the PRoXe leukemia model repository.

David M.J. Lilley

David M.J. Lilley (born 1948) is a British biochemist at the University of Dundee known for his work on branched nucleic acids, especially the Holliday junction.

David Mabey

David Mabey is a British physician and Professor of Communicable Diseases at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine whose research shaped trachoma treatment.