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David P. Lane
David P. Lane is a British cancer biologist who co-discovered the p53 protein in 1979, coined "guardian of the genome," and later led Cancer Research UK and A*STAR as Chief Scientist.
David P. Lauler
David P. Lauler is an American endocrinologist at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Harvard Medical School who studied aldosterone secretion in hypertension and primary aldosteronism, publishing from 1962 to 1976.
David P. Lloyd
David P. Lloyd, full name David Pierce Caradoc Lloyd, was an American neurophysiologist at the Rockefeller Institute who proved the knee-jerk reflex pathway has only two neurons.
David P. Ryan
David P. Ryan is an American medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers, the inaugural president of the Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute since 2025, and a Harvard Medical School professor.
David P. Taggart
David P. Taggart (1958–2026) was a British cardiac surgeon, Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at Oxford, who led the Arterial Revascularisation Trial in coronary bypass surgery.
David P. Toczyski
David P. Toczyski is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, known for work on checkpoint adaptation in yeast and how checkpoint kinases block late replication origins after DNA damage.
David Pagliarini
David J. Pagliarini is an American biochemist and HHMI Investigator at Washington University School of Medicine known for studying mitochondrial protein function and coenzyme Q biosynthesis.
David Pellman
David Pellman is an American cell biologist and cancer geneticist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, known for explaining how cell division errors generate the chromosome abnormalities that drive cancer.
David Penny
David Penny (1938–2024) was a New Zealand molecular evolutionist at Massey University who developed mathematical methods for phylogenetic trees and tests of Darwin's theory of evolution.
David Perkins (geneticist)
David Dexter Perkins (1919–2007) was an American fungal geneticist who spent his career at Stanford University, characterizing about 350 chromosome rearrangements in the bread mold Neurospora crassa.
David Pettijohn
David Pettijohn is an American biophysicist who co-discovered DNA repair replication with Philip Hanawalt at Stanford in 1964, work the Nobel Committee credits as an early step toward nucleotide excision repair.
David Pilbeam
David Pilbeam (David Roger Pilbeam, born 1940) is an English-born paleoanthropologist and Harvard emeritus professor known for fieldwork on Miocene apes in Pakistan's Siwalik fossil beds.
David Piwnica‐Worms
David Piwnica-Worms is an American physician-scientist in molecular imaging who chairs the Department of Cancer Systems Imaging at MD Anderson in Houston, known for genetically encoded reporters imaging enzyme activity in living mice.
David Poeppel
David Poeppel is a cognitive neuroscientist, Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University, who studies how the brain turns sound into speech and language.
David Porubskỳ
David Porubský is a computational genomics researcher at EMBL who maps structural variation in human genomes, known for a 2022 Cell catalog of inversions and a 2025 Nature mutation-rate study.
David Prain
Sir David Prain (1857–1944) was a Scottish botanist and physician who directed the Botanical Survey of India and then Kew from 1905 to 1922, and wrote Bengal Plants.
David Pressman
David Pressman (1916–1980) was an American immunochemist known for experimental work on the antibody combining site and the 1970 monograph Structural Basis of Antibody Specificity.
David Pye (zoologist)
David Pye (John David Pye, born 1932) is an English zoologist known for work on how bats echolocate and how animals detect the polarization of light.
David R. Beier
David R. Beier is a physician-scientist in mammalian developmental genetics, a University of Washington pediatrics professor and director at Seattle Children's Research Institute since 2013.
David R. Blake
David R. Blake is a British rheumatologist and physician-scientist who proposed that exercise-induced hypoxic-reperfusion injury and reactive oxygen species sustain inflammation in the rheumatoid joint, and explained arthritis's symmetry neurologically.
David R. Boulware
David R. Boulware is an infectious disease physician and professor at the University of Minnesota, known for trials of COVID-19 outpatient treatments and cryptococcal meningitis therapy.
David R. Clemmons
David R. Clemmons was an American endocrinologist and Sarah Graham Kenan Professor at UNC Chapel Hill who made IGF-I the standard diagnostic test for acromegaly.
David R. Copenhagen
David R. Copenhagen is an American retinal neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on retinal synaptic transmission.
David R. Corey
David R. Corey, born 1963 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a biochemist at UT Southwestern Medical Center known for work on antisense oligonucleotides and allele-selective inhibition of mutant huntingtin.
David R. Davies
David R. Davies (1927–2016) was an American X-ray crystallographer at the National Institutes of Health who helped determine the first protein structure and pioneered structures of antibodies, DNA, and HIV-1 integrase.
David R. Engelke
David R. Engelke is an American molecular biologist known for three decades of work on RNA polymerase III transcription and tRNA genes at the University of Michigan.
David R. Flum
David R. Flum is an American general surgeon and surgical outcomes researcher at the University of Washington, known for leading the CODA trial of antibiotics versus appendectomy.
David R. Fraser
David R. Fraser is a New Zealand-born nutritional biochemist and veterinarian known for co-discovering that the kidney makes 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, vitamin D's active hormone form.
David R. Gandara
David R. Gandara is an American medical oncologist and lung cancer researcher, Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, known for phase III trials and biomarker development in thoracic cancers.
David R. Garrod
David R. Garrod, also known as David Garrod, is a British cell biologist at the University of Manchester known for research on desmosomes, the junctions holding cells together.