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David Westaway

David Westaway is a Canadian prion disease researcher who co-discovered the prion gene encoding PrPC, co-created the TgCRND8 Alzheimer's mouse model, and directed the University of Alberta's Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases.

David Weyhe Smith

David Weyhe Smith (1926–1981) was an American pediatrician at the University of Washington who founded dysmorphology, the study of congenital malformation patterns, and co-described fetal alcohol syndrome in 1973.

David Wotton

David Wotton is a molecular biologist and professor of biochemistry at the University of Virginia, known for identifying the TGIF corepressors in TGF-beta signaling and linking TGIF mutations to holoprosencephaly.

David Y. Mason

David Y. Mason (1941–2008) was a British immunopathologist and hematologist at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital whose 1983 study established monoclonal-antibody staining as a reliable test for lymphoma.

David Yaffe (molecular biologist)

David Yaffe (1929–2020) was an Israeli molecular biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science who helped found the study of muscle cell formation and developed the widely used C2C12 muscle cell line.

David Yi‐Yung Hsia

David Yi-Yung Hsia (1925–1972) was an American pediatrician and biochemical geneticist, born in Shanghai, who developed the phenylalanine tolerance test and newborn blood screening for phenylketonuria and studied galactosemia.

David Z. Rudner

David Z. Rudner is a microbiologist and Professor of Microbiology at Harvard Medical School since 2003, known for work on chromosome segregation and spore formation in Bacillus subtilis.

David Z.I. Cherney

David Z.I. Cherney (David Zev Isaac Cherney) is a Canadian nephrologist and University of Toronto professor who directs the Renal Physiology Laboratory and studies SGLT2 inhibitors in diabetic kidney disease.

David Zimmern

David Zimmern is a molecular virologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, who showed in 1975 that tobacco mosaic virus RNA carries a methylated cap.

Davide F. Robbiani

Davide F. Robbiani is a Swiss immunologist who directs the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona and is a full professor at USI since 2020.

DavidJ.H. Brock

David J. H. Brock was a medical geneticist at the University of Edinburgh who built the biochemical and DNA-based methods used in antenatal diagnosis from the early 1970s to the late 1980s.

Davis Ng

Davis T. W. Ng is a cell biologist at Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory and the National University of Singapore known for defining ER-associated degradation pathways in yeast.

Davor Solter

Davor Solter, born 1941 in Zagreb, is a developmental biologist known for discovering genomic imprinting and for embryonic antigens central to human stem cell work.

Dawn Cornelison

Dawn Cornelison is a cell biologist and professor at the University of Missouri, recognized for her work on skeletal muscle stem cells and the extracellular matrix.

Dawn E. Kelley

Dawn E. Kelley was a molecular biologist at the Institute for Cancer Research and Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, known for her 1974 discovery of methylated messenger RNA.

Dawn L. Hershman

Dawn L. Hershman, also published as Dawn Hershman, is an American medical oncologist at Columbia University who studies breast cancer treatment and why patients stop taking cancer therapies.

Daxiong Fu

Daxiong Fu, known professionally as Dax Fu, is a physiologist at Johns Hopkins who led the first high-resolution structure of the E. coli glycerol channel GlpF.

Dayu Lin

Dayu Lin is a neuroscientist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who identified an aggression locus in the mouse hypothalamus and studies the neural circuits of aggression, mating, and parenting.

Dean Burk

Dean Burk (1904–1988) was an American biochemist who co-authored the 1934 Lineweaver–Burk plot, one of biochemistry's most cited papers, and was Chief Chemist at the National Cancer Institute from 1958 to 1974.

Dean D. Metcalfe

Dean D. Metcalfe, also known as Dean Metcalfe, is an American immunologist who led NIAID's Laboratory of Allergic Diseases from 1995 to 2017 and studies human mast cells and mastocytosis.

Dean DellaPenna

Dean DellaPenna is an American plant biochemist at Michigan State University who works on plant nutritional genomics and is best known for his vitamin E research.

Dean E. Pearson

Dean E. Pearson is an American research ecologist at the USDA Forest Service in Missoula, Montana, who studies biological invasions and won a 2009 PECASE award.

Dean F. Bajorin

Dean F. Bajorin is an American medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering and Weill Cornell who developed bladder cancer chemotherapy regimens and led the CheckMate 274 immunotherapy trial.

Dean Fergusson

Dean A. Fergusson is a Canadian clinical epidemiologist and transfusion-medicine researcher at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute who led the BART trial, which found aprotinin increased mortality in cardiac surgery.

Dean G. Tang

Dean G. Tang is a cancer researcher who studies cancer cell heterogeneity and prostate cancer stem cells, chairing Pharmacology & Therapeutics at Roswell Park in Buffalo, New York.

Dean H. Hamer

Dean H. Hamer, born 1951, is an American molecular geneticist who spent nearly 30 years at NIH, known for metallothionein research and a 1993 Xq28 sexual-orientation linkage study.

Dean H. Lockwood

Dean H. Lockwood (1937–2004) was an American physician-scientist in endocrinology who led the Endocrine and Metabolism Unit at the University of Rochester and warned of liquid protein diet dangers.

Dean Ho (nanomedicine researcher)

Dean Ho is a nanomedicine and digital medicine researcher who heads Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore and is known for nanodiamond drug delivery and CURATE.AI.

Dean J. Kereiakes

Dean J. Kereiakes, also known as Dean Kereiakes, is an American interventional cardiologist who chairs The Christ Hospital Heart and Vascular Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dean M. Wingerchuk

Dean M. Wingerchuk is a neurologist and Chair of Neurology at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, known for the diagnostic criteria that defined NMOSD as distinct from multiple sclerosis.