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Declan McGuone

Declan McGuone is an Irish-trained neuropathologist and Associate Professor of Pathology at Yale School of Medicine, known for NEJM case records and a rabies incubation study.

Dedre Gentner

Dedre Gentner is an American cognitive and developmental psychologist, the Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor at Northwestern University, known for structure-mapping theory of analogy and the career of metaphor account of metaphor processing.

Deepak Bastia

Deepak Bastia is a molecular biologist who studies how DNA replication starts and stops, holding the Donnelly Endowed Chair at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Deepak Srivastava

Deepak Srivastava is an American physician-scientist in molecular cardiology who serves as president of the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, where his laboratory developed direct cardiac reprogramming, converting connective tissue cells into beating heart muscle cells.

Dejian Ren

Dejian Ren is an American physiologist and Professor of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania known for identifying the NALCN sodium-leak channel and the lysosomal channel TMEM175.

Dek Woolfson

Dek Woolfson (Derek Neil Woolfson, born 1965) is a chemist and biochemist who designs new proteins from scratch, and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Bristol.

Delan Devakumar

Delan Devakumar is a British public health physician and Professor of Global Child Health at UCL, known for work on racism, migration, and child health.

Delbert A. Fisher

Delbert A. Fisher (1928–2026) was an American pediatric endocrinologist, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1988, whose work launched newborn screening for congenital hypothyroidism.

Denes Hnisz

Denes Hnisz, born 1979 in Szolnok, Hungary, is a molecular biologist who leads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin.

Denis A. Evans

Denis A. Evans is an American physician-scientist in geriatric epidemiology who spent 27 years at Rush University Medical Center, founding the Chicago Health and Aging Project.

Denis C. Guttridge

Denis C. Guttridge is an American cancer biologist who studies NF-κB signaling in muscle wasting, and a professor at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Denis Duboule

Denis Duboule, born in Geneva in 1955, is a French-Swiss developmental geneticist known for his work on Hox genes, which pattern the vertebrate body and limbs.

Denis E. O’Donnell

Denis E. O'Donnell is a Canadian respirologist and Professor of Medicine (Emeritus) at Queen's University who founded the Respiratory Investigation Unit and studies breathlessness and exercise limitation in COPD.

Denis Gospodarowicz

Denis Gospodarowicz was a cell biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, whose laboratory named and purified fibroblast growth factor, later linked to tumor angiogenesis.

Denis J. Pereira Gray

Sir Denis Pereira Gray is a British general practitioner and Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter, known for founding Europe's first university department of general practice.

Denis Jabaudon

Denis Jabaudon is a Swiss neuroscientist and physician, professor at the University of Geneva, who studies the genetic mechanisms that specify cortical neuron identity during brain development.

Denis L. Rousseau

Denis L. Rousseau is a Professor of Biochemistry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, known for time-resolved resonance Raman studies of cytochrome c oxidase and hemoglobin.

Denis Le Bihan

Denis Le Bihan is a French physician and physicist who invented diffusion MRI, used to diagnose acute stroke, and co-invented diffusion tensor imaging of brain connections.

Denis Monard

Denis Monard (born 1941) is a Swiss cellular and molecular neuroscientist who discovered glia-derived nexin, a protease inhibitor promoting neurite outgrowth, and distinguished it from nerve growth factor while directing the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel.

Denis Paré

Denis Paré is a Canadian systems neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University–Newark, known for identifying amygdala intercalated neurons that regulate fear, with implications for PTSD research.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

Denis Parsons Burkitt (1911–1993) was a British surgeon who worked in Uganda, mapped the childhood cancer Burkitt lymphoma across Africa, and later campaigned for dietary fiber.

Denis Wirtz

Denis Wirtz is a cell biologist and biophysicist at Johns Hopkins University, vice provost for research since 2014, known for particle-tracking microrheology and cell migration research.

Denisa D. Wagner

Denisa D. Wagner is the Edwin Cohn Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, known for her work on von Willebrand factor and thrombosis.

Denise J. Jamieson

Denise J. Jamieson is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and public health researcher who became dean of the University of Iowa's Carver College of Medicine in 2023 after a CDC career.

Denise J. Montell

Denise J. Montell is an American cell and developmental biologist, Duggan Professor at UC Santa Barbara, known for collective cell migration in Drosophila and anastasis.

Denise Monack

Denise M. Monack is an American microbiologist at Stanford University School of Medicine who studies Salmonella persistence, chairs microbiology and immunology since 2022, and is known for inflammasome research.

Denise P. Barlow

Denise P. Barlow (1950–2017) was a British geneticist in Austria who discovered the first imprinted mammalian gene, Igf2r, in 1991 and the silencing RNA Airn, winning the 2014 Erwin Schrödinger Prize.

Dennis A. Carson

Dennis A. Carson is an American physician-scientist who developed the leukemia drug cladribine, discovered chromosome 9p21 deletions in cancers, and directed UC San Diego's Moores Cancer Center.

Dennis A. Dougherty

Dennis A. Dougherty is an American chemist at Caltech known for establishing the cation–π interaction in biology and for the textbook Modern Physical Organic Chemistry.

Dennis A. Powers

Dennis A. Powers (1938–2003) was an American marine molecular biologist who directed Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station from 1988 to 2000 and studied genetic adaptation in fish.