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David Mahlon Bonner

David Mahlon Bonner (1916–1964) was an American biochemical geneticist whose work on Neurospora crassa helped establish the one gene–one enzyme view; he was professor of microbiology at Yale and founding chair of biology at UCSD.

David Mant

David Mant is a British public-health physician and emeritus Professor of General Practice at the University of Oxford, known for research on early diagnosis in primary care.

David Marine

David Marine (1880–1976) was an American pathologist whose animal experiments and Akron, Ohio school-based iodine trial showed iodine prevents simple goiter, the finding behind iodized table salt.

David Masopust

David Masopust is an American immunologist at the University of Minnesota known for identifying tissue-resident memory T cells, a major component of the immune system.

David Mataix‐Cols

David Mataix-Cols is a clinical psychologist and professor of child and adolescent psychiatric science at Karolinska Institutet, known for reshaping how obsessive-compulsive disorder is classified and treated.

David Mervyn Blow

David Mervyn Blow (1931–2004) was a British biophysicist who helped found protein crystallography, developing isomorphous replacement and molecular replacement, and was professor of biophysics at Imperial College London from 1977.

David Molyneux

David Molyneux, born in 1943, is a British parasitologist and emeritus professor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine known for pioneering work on neglected tropical diseases.

David Mooney (bioengineer)

David J. Mooney is a bioengineer, the Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor at Harvard SEAS and a Wyss Institute founding core faculty member, known for the first implantable biomaterial cancer vaccine.

David Morens

David M. Morens, epidemiologist and NIAID senior advisor 2006-2022 under Anthony Fauci, co-authored landmark pandemic influenza papers with Jeffery Taubenberger; in 2026 he pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the U.S. by hiding COVID-19 grant records on personal Gmail to evade FOIA.

David Mouillot

David Mouillot (born 1970) is a French marine ecologist and professor at the Université de Montpellier, known for his 2016 Nature paper on coral reef bright spots.

David N. Herndon

David N. Herndon (born 1950) is an American burn surgeon, Chief of Staff at Shriners Galveston, known for burn metabolism research and editing Total Burn Care.

David N. Juurlink

David N. Juurlink is a Canadian physician-scientist in clinical pharmacology and medical toxicology at the University of Toronto, known for population-based studies of adverse drug events and opioid safety.

David N. Orth

David N. Orth, born 1933, is an American endocrinologist who directed Vanderbilt's endocrinology division from 1968 to 1997, trained under Grant Liddle, and served as president of the Endocrine Society.

David N. Reznick

David N. Reznick (born 1952) is an American evolutionary biologist and Distinguished Professor at UC Riverside whose Trinidadian guppy experiments showed evolution by natural selection can be remarkably fast.

David Nabarro

Sir David Nabarro (1949–2025) was a British physician and public health specialist who served 18 years in senior UN and WHO crisis-response posts, including Ebola envoy.

David Nachmansohn

David Nachmansohn (1899–1983) was a German-born American biochemist who worked at Columbia University on the biochemistry of nerve activity, especially the role of acetylcholine in bioelectricity.

David Neal Franz

David Neal Franz, also published as David N. Franz, is an American child neurologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital who founded its Tuberous Sclerosis Clinic in 1992.

David Nemazee

David Nemazee (born 1956 in Shiraz, Iran) is an American immunologist at Scripps Research known for discovering B cell tolerance mechanisms, earning the 2025 Crafoord Prize.

David O. Freedman

David O. Freedman is a physician and travel-medicine researcher, Professor Emeritus of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and co-founder of the GeoSentinel surveillance network.

David O. Meltzer

David O. Meltzer is an American physician and health economist at the University of Chicago, a member of the National Academy of Medicine known for the Comprehensive Care Physician model.

David O. Morgan

David O. Morgan is a cell biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for showing how cyclin-dependent kinases control cell division and for work on the anaphase-promoting complex.

David Owen Meltzer

David Owen Meltzer is an American physician and health economist at the University of Chicago, a member of the National Academy of Medicine known for the Comprehensive Care Physician model.

David Owerbach

David Owerbach is a molecular geneticist who localized the human insulin gene to chromosome 11 in 1980 and studied DNA variants predisposing people to type 1 diabetes.

David P. Bartel

David P. Bartel, also known as David Bartel, is a molecular biologist at MIT, the Whitehead Institute, and HHMI known for discovering animal microRNAs and how they repress targets.

David P. Carbone

David P. Carbone is an American thoracic oncologist who directs the James Thoracic Oncology Center at Ohio State and won the IASLC Scientific Award in 2021.

David P. Corey

David P. Corey is an American neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School who studies how inner-ear hair cells convert sound into electrical signals and develops gene therapies for hereditary deafness.

David P. Dearnaley

David P. Dearnaley is a British radiation oncologist and Emeritus Professor of Uro-Oncology at the Institute of Cancer Research, known for prostate cancer radiotherapy trials.

David P. Earle

David P. Earle (1910–2002) was an American nephrologist who chaired medicine at Northwestern University from 1965 to 1973 and led decades-long cohort studies of poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis in South Trinidad.

David P. Fairlie

David P. Fairlie is an Australian medicinal chemist at the University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience, where he heads the Centre for Drug Discovery and designs constrained peptides.

David P. Faxon

David P. Faxon is an American interventional cardiologist, a Senior Scholar at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and President of the American Heart Association in 2001.