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David R. Goddard

David R. Goddard (1908–1985) was an American plant physiologist who proved plant and animal respiration share the cytochrome system, and provost of the University of Pennsylvania.

David R. Greaves

David R. Greaves is a British immunologist at the University of Oxford, known for co-identifying locus control regions in 1989 and for research on macrophages in inflammation and atherosclerosis.

David R. Kearns

David R. Kearns is a physical chemist and emeritus professor at the University of California, San Diego, known for applying NMR spectroscopy to tRNA and DNA.

David R. Liu

David R. Liu is a Harvard and Broad Institute professor who pioneered base editing and prime editing, gene-editing methods that alter DNA without cutting both strands.

David R. Matthews

David R. Matthews, born in 1947, is a British physician-scientist at Oxford, Emeritus Professor of Diabetes Medicine, founding chairman of OCDEM, and co-chair of the CANVAS trial.

David R. McClay

David R. McClay is an American developmental biologist and Arthur S. Pearse Professor Emeritus at Duke University, known for his 1999 finding that nuclear β-catenin specifies sea urchin cell fates.

David R. Owens

David R. Owens is a British diabetes researcher, clinical lead for diabetes-related retinopathy at Swansea University Medical School, and author of the 2001 Lancet review "Insulins today and beyond".

David R. Phillips

David R. Phillips is an American platelet biologist who defined the membrane defect in Glanzmann thrombasthenia, framed GPIIb-IIIa as the responsive integrin, and co-founded COR Therapeutics and Portola Pharmaceuticals.

David R. Rubinow

David R. Rubinow is an American psychiatrist, chair emeritus of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, best known for the differential sensitivity model of reproductive mood disorders.

David R. Sibley

David R. Sibley is an American molecular neuropharmacologist who led the Molecular Neuropharmacology Section at NINDS in Bethesda, Maryland, known for establishing how phosphorylation regulates G protein-coupled receptor signaling.

David R. Spigel

David R. Spigel is an American medical oncologist and lung-cancer researcher in Nashville, Tennessee, president and chief medical officer of Sarah Cannon Research Institute since 2026.

David R. Wolstenholme

David R. Wolstenholme, also known as D R Wolstenholme, was a British-born molecular biologist at the University of Utah known for his work on mitochondrial DNA structure and evolution.

David Ravine

David Ravine is an Australian medical geneticist, Foundation Professor of Medical Genetics at The University of Western Australia, known for ultrasound diagnostic criteria for polycystic kidney disease.

David Reich (geneticist)

David Emil Reich is an American geneticist and Harvard Medical School professor whose ancient DNA laboratory has produced over half of the world's ancient human DNA data.

David Relman

David A. Relman is an American microbiologist and physician at Stanford University whose sequence-based methods identified uncultured disease-causing bacteria and opened the modern study of the human microbiome.

David Rimm

David L. Rimm is an American pathologist and the Anthony N. Brady Professor at Yale School of Medicine, known for inventing the AQUA quantitative pathology method and founding HistoRx.

David Rittenberg

David Rittenberg (1906–1970) was an American biochemist at Columbia University who, with Rudolph Schoenheimer, developed isotopic tracer techniques showing that body proteins and fats are constantly broken down and resynthesized.

David Ron

David Ron, born 1955 in Israel, is a physician-scientist and professor at the University of Cambridge known for defining the unfolded protein response and identifying PERK, CHOP, and mammalian IRE1.

David Rosner

David Rosner was an American historian of public health at Columbia University whose research on silicosis and lead poisoning was used in litigation over lead paint.

David Russel

David Russel, or David William Russell, is an American physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington known for hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy and gene targeting.

David S. Alberts

David S. Alberts, also known as David Alberts, was an American oncologist at the University of Arizona whose 1996 trial established intraperitoneal cisplatin for advanced ovarian cancer.

David S. Baldwin

David S. Baldwin (1921–2013) was an American physician-scientist in nephrology at NYU School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital, known for studies of glomerular disease, drug-induced interstitial nephritis, and poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis.

David S. Bredt

David S. Bredt is an American molecular neuroscientist who discovered neuronal nitric oxide synthase, defined PSD-95's scaffolding role at synapses, and later led neuroscience drug discovery at Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson.

David S. Celermajer

David S. Celermajer is an Australian cardiologist and Scandrett Professor of Cardiology at the University of Sydney, known for developing a non-invasive ultrasound technique for measuring arterial endothelial function and leading Australia's congenital heart disease registry.

David S. Cooper

David S. Cooper is an American thyroid endocrinologist, a Johns Hopkins professor for more than 30 years, known for work on Graves' disease, subclinical thyroid disease, and thyroid cancer guidelines.

David S. Hogness

David S. Hogness was an American molecular biologist and biochemist at Stanford whose Drosophila methods, including colony hybridization and chromosomal walking, made genome mapping possible.

David S. Hong

David S. Hong is an American medical oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center known for leading clinical trials of sotorasib, the first approved KRAS G12C drug.

David S. Ludwig

David S. Ludwig is an American endocrinologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard known for research on sugary drinks and the carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity.

David S. Park

David S. Park, also known as David Park, is a molecular neuroscientist who studies Parkinson's disease and stroke, and who led the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary.

David S. Roos

David S. Roos is an American biologist and E. Otis Kendall Professor at the University of Pennsylvania known for discovering the apicoplast and leading the PlasmoDB and EuPathDB databases.