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Dennis Vitkup

Dennis Vitkup is a computational biologist at Columbia University who studies metabolism, bacterial evolution, the gut microbiome, and the genetics of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disease.

Dennis W. Choi

Dennis W. Choi (born 1953) is an American neurologist and neuroscientist known for work on glutamate excitotoxicity, neuroprotection, and neuronal death after stroke and spinal cord injury.

Dennis W. Dickson

Dennis W. Dickson is an American neuropathologist at Mayo Clinic in Florida who directs its brain bank and co-authored the 2012 guidelines for assessing Alzheimer's disease neuropathology.

Dennis W. Stacey

Dennis W. Stacey, born 1947, is an American cell biologist at the Cleveland Clinic who pioneered microinjection of mRNA and proteins into living cells to study Ras signaling.

Dennis Y. Loh

Dennis Y. Loh is an American immunologist who used transgenic mice to show how the thymus selects T cells, as an HHMI investigator at Washington University.

Depei Liu (刘德培)

Depei Liu (刘德培), born 1950 in Anhui, is a Chinese biochemist and molecular biologist known for globin gene regulation, gene therapy, and cardiovascular disease genetics research.

Derek A. T. Cummings

Derek A. T. Cummings, also published as Derek Cummings, is an infectious-disease epidemiologist known for modeling dengue and influenza, and a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins.

Derek C. Angus

Derek Angus is a Scottish-born physician and critical care researcher at the University of Pittsburgh who led its critical care department and led landmark sepsis trials.

Derek Denton

Derek Denton (1924–2022) was an Australian research physiologist, founding director of the Howard Florey Institute in Melbourne, whose sheep and chimpanzee studies established salt appetite as innate and linked salt intake to blood pressure.

Derek E. G. Briggs

Derek E. G. Briggs is a paleontologist at Yale University and a Peabody Museum curator since 2003, known for work on the Burgess Shale and the Tully monster.

Derek H. Oakley

Derek H. Oakley is an American neuropathologist and stem cell biologist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital who studies Alzheimer's disease using patient-derived stem cells.

Derek J. Hausenloy

Derek J. Hausenloy, also published as Derek John Hausenloy, is a cardiologist and professor at University College London and Duke-NUS Medical School, known for research on cardioprotection and ischaemic conditioning.

Derek M. Yellon

Derek M. Yellon is a cardiologist, Professor of Molecular & Cellular Cardiology at University College London, and Director of the Hatter Cardiovascular Institute, known for defining the RISK pathway in myocardial protection.

Derek R. Lovley

Derek R. Lovley, also published as Derek Lovley, is an American microbiologist who discovered the metal-respiring bacterium Geobacter in 1987 and founded electromicrobiology, known for microbial nanowires and uranium bioremediation.

Derek van der Kooy

Derek van der Kooy is a professor of molecular genetics at the University of Toronto known for his 2000 discovery of retinal stem cells in the adult mammalian eye.

Derek Yach

Derek Yach is a South African global health expert who was WHO Executive Director for Noncommunicable Diseases, led the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and later taught at Yale.

Derick T Wade

Derick T Wade, also known as Derick Wade, is a physician in rehabilitation medicine known for his 1983 Lancet paper on stroke care and work defining rehabilitation.

Dermot M.F. Cooper

Dermot M.F. Cooper is a pharmacologist known for his work on adenylyl cyclases and calcium regulation of cyclic AMP, holding faculty positions at the University of Colorado and Cambridge.

Derrick J. Rossi

Derrick J. Rossi is a Canadian stem cell biologist and entrepreneur who developed modified mRNA for cellular reprogramming, co-founded Moderna Therapeutics, and leads Convelo Therapeutics.

Derrick T. Brazill

Derrick T. Brazill is an American cell biologist whose research on cell density sensing and the actin cytoskeleton earned a 2004 PECASE award; he is now Provost of York College, CUNY.

Des R. Richardson

Des R. Richardson is an Australian pharmacologist and biochemist who directs the Centre for Cancer Cell Biology at Griffith University and developed the anticancer iron chelators Dp44mT and DpC.

Desh Pal S. Verma

Desh Pal S. Verma was a Canadian-American plant molecular biologist and Ohio State professor who isolated the first plant mRNA and identified nodulins, dying in 2025.

Désiré Collen

Désiré Collen (born 1943) is a Belgian physician-scientist who cloned tissue-type plasminogen activator and developed it into alteplase, a clot-dissolving drug used worldwide for heart attack and stroke.

Désirée van der Heijde

Désirée van der Heijde is a Dutch rheumatologist, professor at Leiden University Medical Center, who developed the Disease Activity Score and the modified Sharp–van der Heijde scoring method.

Desmond Bradley

Desmond J. Bradley is a plant scientist at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, known for identifying the snapdragon centroradialis gene and for work on snapdragon flower color evolution.

Desmond G. Julian

Desmond G. Julian (1926–2019) was a British cardiologist whose 1961 Lancet paper first proposed coronary care units, and who established Europe's first such unit in Edinburgh in 1964.

Desmond J. Fitzgerald

Desmond J. Fitzgerald, also published as D J Fitzgerald, is an Irish cardiologist and clinical pharmacologist whose research established that platelet activation drives unstable coronary artery disease.

Desmond Morris

Desmond Morris (1928–2026), English zoologist, ethologist, surrealist painter, and broadcaster; London Zoo curator of mammals, presenter of Granada's Zoo Time, author of the 1967 bestseller The Naked Ape, and researcher of the painting chimpanzee Congo.

Desmond O’Neill

Desmond O'Neill is an Irish geriatrician and medical gerontologist, senior academic in Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin's Tallaght University Hospital campus, and consultant in geriatric and stroke medicine.

Detlef Schlöndorff

Detlef Schlöndorff (1942–2019) was a German-born nephrologist known for research on chemokines and inflammatory kidney disease, and editor-in-chief of Kidney International from 2012 to 2017.