Life and health scientists

David S. Siscovick

David S. Siscovick is an American physician and cardiovascular epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, known for research on sudden cardiac death and exercise.

David S. Stephens, also published as David Stephens, is an American infectious disease physician-scientist at Emory University, known for research on meningococcal and pneumococcal disease and vaccines.

David S. Wilcove

David S. Wilcove is a conservation ecologist, professor of ecology and public affairs at Princeton University, and author of The Condor's Shadow, known for research on deforestation and biodiversity loss.

David S. Wishart

David S. Wishart is a Canadian biochemist at the University of Alberta who led the Human Metabolome Project, built HMDB and DrugBank, and won the 2025 Herzberg Gold Medal.

David Saadoun

David Saadoun is a French professor of internal medicine and clinical immunology at Sorbonne Université and Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris, known for research on cryoglobulinemic vasculitis and Behçet's syndrome.

David Sancho

David Sancho is a Spanish immunologist who leads the Immunobiology Laboratory at the Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) in Madrid, known for identifying the dendritic cell receptor CLEC9A/DNGR-1.

David Savage

David Savage, also known as David F. Savage, is an American biochemist and genome engineer who is a professor at UC Berkeley and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

David Schlessinger

David Schlessinger is a Canadian-born molecular geneticist at the National Institute on Aging known for mapping the human X chromosome and the SardiNIA aging study.

David Schubert

David Schubert (1943–2020) was an American cell biologist and neurobiologist who founded and led the Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute, developing the Alzheimer's drug candidate J147.

David Self

David Self is an addiction neuroscientist known for laboratory work on cocaine relapse, a PECASE award recipient, and Professor of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

David Shaffer

David Shaffer (1936-2023), South African-born Columbia child psychiatrist and Irving Philips Professor, pioneered psychological autopsy studies of teen suicide, created Columbia TeenScreen, and led development of the DISC and C-GAS; ex-husband of Anna Wintour.

David Shalloway

David Shalloway is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at Cornell University who trained in theoretical physics and studies aberrant PTPalpha splicing in breast and colon cancers.

David Shemin

David Shemin (1911–1991) was an American biochemist who pioneered stable-isotope tracers in human metabolism, tracing glycine into his own hemoglobin and discovering δ-aminolevulinic acid and the heme biosynthesis pathway.

David Sinclair (aging researcher)

David Sinclair is an Australian-born molecular geneticist and aging biologist, a tenured professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School known for work on sirtuins and NAD+.

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David Sloan Wilson

David Sloan Wilson, born 1949, is an American evolutionary biologist and SUNY Distinguished Professor emeritus at Binghamton University known for reopening the group selection debate and developing multilevel selection theory.

David Smith (American microbiologist)

David J. Smith is an American NASA microbiologist who founded the Aerobiology Laboratory at Ames Research Center and won the Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.

David Solit

David B. Solit is an American medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who leads the Kravis Center for Molecular Oncology and its Extraordinary Responder Initiative.

David Spiegel

David Spiegel is an American psychiatrist at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for a 1989 Lancet trial linking group therapy to survival in metastatic breast cancer.

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David Starr Jordan

David Starr Jordan (1851–1931) was an American ichthyologist credited with more than 2,500 fish species and the founding president of Stanford University from 1891 to 1913, who also led the early American eugenics movement.

David Stückler

David Stückler, who publishes as David Stuckler, is a political economy and public health researcher at Bocconi University, known for work linking austerity and privatization to mortality.

David Sulzer

David Sulzer, also known as the composer and performer Dave Soldier, is an American neuroscientist and professor at Columbia University who studies dopamine synapses, α-synuclein, and Parkinson's disease.

David T. Bonthron

David T. Bonthron is a professor of molecular medicine at the University of Leeds and consultant clinical geneticist, known for imprinting research and rare disease gene discovery.

David T. Breault

David T. Breault is an American pediatric endocrinologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for stem cell research and the 2010 PECASE award.

David T. Burke

David T. Burke is an American geneticist at the University of Michigan who studies quantitative genetics of complex traits and received the 1996 PECASE award.

David T. Denhardt

David T. Denhardt (died 2020) was an American molecular biologist and emeritus Rutgers professor known for Denhardt's solution, work on phage φX-174 DNA replication, and decades of osteopontin research.

David T. Felson

David T. Felson is an American rheumatologist and epidemiologist at Boston University and the University of Manchester, known for research on osteoarthritis and bone density.

David T. Gibson

David T. Gibson (1938–2014) was a British-born American microbiologist who showed how bacteria degrade petroleum's aromatic hydrocarbons and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.

David T. Scadden

David T. Scadden is a Harvard stem cell biologist affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, known for showing that niches regulate blood-forming stem cells.