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Dennis Arthur Ausiello

Dennis Arthur Ausiello is an American nephrologist who led Massachusetts General Hospital's department of medicine from 1996 to 2013 and studies epithelial water and ion transport.

Dennis Burton (immunologist)

Dennis R. Burton is a British-born immunologist, Professor and Chairman of Immunology and Microbiology at Scripps Research, known for pioneering broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV and coronaviruses.

Dennis C. Sgroi

Dennis C. Sgroi is an American pathologist and breast-cancer researcher who is Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Breast Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dennis D. Cunningham

Dennis D. Cunningham is a molecular biologist and biochemist at UC Irvine known for discovering the protease nexins and working out how thrombin signals cells to divide.

Dennis D. Spencer

Dennis D. Spencer is an American neurosurgeon and epilepsy researcher at Yale School of Medicine, known for developing the most commonly used temporal lobe epilepsy surgery technique.

Dennis D.M. O’Leary

Dennis D.M. O'Leary (1954–2024) was an American neuroscientist and professor at the Salk Institute who studied axon guidance and how the brain's sensory maps and cortical areas are built during development.

Dennis E. Hallahan

Dennis E. Hallahan is an American radiation oncologist and cancer researcher, head of Radiation Oncology at Washington University in St. Louis since 2009, known for radiation-inducible gene therapy.

Dennis E. Niewoehner

Dennis E. Niewoehner was an American pulmonary physician and COPD researcher who spent 42 years as Chief of the Pulmonary Section at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center.

Dennis E. Vance

Dennis E. Vance is a Canadian biochemist at the University of Alberta known for establishing how cells make phosphatidylcholine and how the pathway governs liver function.

Dennis G. Maki

Dennis George Maki, known as Dennis G. Maki, is an American infectious disease physician at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose work underpins worldwide prevention of central-line bloodstream infections.

Dennis H. Wright

Dennis H. Wright, full name Dennis Howard Wright, was a British pathologist and world expert in lymphoma diagnosis, Foundation Professor of Pathology at Southampton from 1972 to 1996.

Dennis J. Selkoe

Dennis J. Selkoe, also known as Dennis Selkoe, is an American neurologist and Harvard Medical School professor known for research on the molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease.

Dennis J. Slamon

Dennis J. Slamon, also known as Dennis Slamon, is an American oncologist at UCLA whose HER2 research led to Herceptin and CDK4/6 inhibitor breast cancer drugs.

Dennis J. Stuehr

Dennis J. Stuehr is an American biochemist at Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute who established the enzyme chemistry of nitric oxide synthase and macrophage nitric oxide biosynthesis.

Dennis J. Thiele

Dennis J. Thiele is an American molecular biologist who spent 35 years at Duke University studying copper metabolism and the stress factor HSF1, and founded Sisu Pharma.

Dennis L. Andress

Dennis L. Andress is an American nephrology researcher at the University of Washington known for renal osteodystrophy and vitamin D therapy in chronic kidney disease.

Dennis L. Kasper

Dennis L. Kasper is an American microbiologist and immunologist at Harvard Medical School known for group B Streptococcus vaccine work and discovering that gut bacterial polysaccharides activate T cells.

Dennis L. Murphy

Dennis L. Murphy (1936–2017) was an American neuropsychopharmacologist at the National Institute of Mental Health known for his 1996 Science paper linking a serotonin transporter gene variant to anxiety-related traits.

Dennis L. Stevens

Dennis L. Stevens is an American physician-scientist known for research on group A streptococcus toxins and for defining the modern treatment of necrotizing soft tissue infections.

Dennis M. Bier

Dennis M. Bier is an American pediatric nutrition scientist and physician at Baylor College of Medicine, known for stable isotope tracer methods that transformed the study of metabolism in children.

Dennis M. Black

Dennis M. Black is an American biostatistician and epidemiologist, Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who led defining osteoporosis trials including FIT, PaTH, and HORIZON.

Dennis R. Roop

Dennis R. Roop is an American cell biologist who identified the skin protein loricrin and develops stem cell therapy for epidermolysis bullosa at the University of Colorado.

Dennis R. Winge

Dennis R. Winge is an American biochemist at the University of Utah School of Medicine, known for work on copper metallochaperones and mitochondrial respiratory complex assembly.

Dennis Robert Hoagland

Dennis Robert Hoagland (1884–1949) was an American plant physiologist and professor of plant nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley, creator of the Hoagland solution.

Dennis Ross‐Degnan

Dennis Ross-Degnan is a health-policy researcher at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute who studies how medicines are used and how policies change that use.

Dennis S. Charney

Dennis S. Charney, American psychiatrist and neurobiologist, Mount Sinai dean for 18 years; discovered ketamine as a fast-acting antidepressant, co-invented the Rejoyn digital therapeutic, and wrote Resilience with Steven Southwick.

Dennis Slone

Dennis Slone (1930–1982) was a South African-born physician and drug-safety epidemiologist in Boston who co-founded the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program and the Drug Epidemiology Unit.

Dennis T. Mangano

Dennis T. Mangano is a physician-scientist in cardiovascular and perioperative medicine, a UCSF professor until 2010 best known for his 1996 NEJM trial of atenolol before noncardiac surgery.

Dennis T. Villareal

Dennis T. Villareal is an American geriatrician at Baylor College of Medicine known for trials showing weight loss plus exercise improves function in obese older adults.

Dennis vanEngelsdorp

Dennis vanEngelsdorp is a Dutch-born, Canadian-raised apiarist and entomologist at the University of Maryland who helped characterize colony collapse disorder and founded the Bee Informed Partnership.