Life and health scientists

Detlef Schuppan

Detlef Schuppan, born 1954, is a German physician-scientist known for identifying tissue transglutaminase as the celiac autoantigen and developing the first TG2 inhibitor in trials.

Detlef Weigel

Detlef Weigel, born 1961 in Germany, is a plant biologist directing the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, known for LEAFY, FT, and the 1001 Genomes Project.

Detlev Bronk

Detlev Wulf Bronk (1897–1975) was an American biophysicist who recorded electrical activity in single motor nerve fibers and served as president of Johns Hopkins and Rockefeller University.

Devi Sridhar

Devi Sridhar is an American global public health researcher, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and founding director of its Global Health Governance Programme, widely known during COVID-19.

DeWitt S. Goodman (1930–1991) was an American physician-scientist at Columbia University whose laboratory defined how vitamin A travels in blood and who chaired the first National Cholesterol Education Program.

DeWitt Stetten Jr.

DeWitt Stetten Jr. (1909–1990) was an American physician-biochemist who used isotopic tracers to study metabolism, then led Rutgers Medical School as first dean and directed NIGMS from 1970.

Dharminder Chauhan

Dharminder Chauhan is an Indian-trained scientist with a JD and PhD who studies drug resistance in multiple myeloma as a Senior Scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

Dhruba K. Chattoraj

Dhruba K. Chattoraj is a molecular geneticist at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, who studies bacterial DNA replication, proposing handcuffing to control P1 plasmid copy number and studying the Vibrio cholerae initiator RctB.

Dian Fossey

Dian Fossey (1932–1985), American primatologist, founded Rwanda's Karisoke Research Center in 1967, studied mountain gorillas for 18 years, wrote Gorillas in the Mist, founded the Digit Fund, and was murdered at Karisoke in 1985, case unsolved.

Diana B. Petitti

Diana B. Petitti, also known as Diana Petitti, is an American epidemiologist and preventive-medicine physician and clinical professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Phoenix.

Diana C. Hargreaves

Diana C. Hargreaves is an American molecular biologist and professor at the Salk Institute who studies how the BAF chromatin remodeling complex shapes immune function and cancer therapy response.

Diana Elbourne

Diana Elbourne (D. Elbourne) is a trials methodologist and perinatal health researcher, Professor of Healthcare Evaluation at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for the UK neonatal ECMO and CESAR trials.

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Diana Greene Foster

Diana Greene Foster is an American demographer and professor at the University of California, San Francisco who led the Turnaway Study, a ten-year study of about 1,000 women who sought abortions.

Diana H. Wall

Diana H. Wall was an American soil ecologist at Colorado State University who showed that soil animals, from Antarctic nematodes onward, are a working part of the climate system.

Diana L. Miglioretti

Diana L. Miglioretti is an American biostatistician and chief of the Division of Biostatistics at UC Davis who studies breast cancer screening and radiation risks from medical imaging.

Diana M. Bautista

Diana M. Bautista is a neuroscientist at UC Berkeley who studies the molecular mechanisms of touch, pain, and itch, and became an HHMI investigator in 2022.

Diana M. Gibb

Diana M. Gibb is a British pediatrician and Professor of Epidemiology at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, known for landmark pediatric HIV trials in Africa.

Diana W. Bianchi

Diana W. Bianchi is an American medical geneticist and neonatologist, director of the NIH's child health institute since 2016 and a pioneer of prenatal DNA screening.

Diane E. Griffin

Diane E. Griffin (1940–2024) was an American virologist and immunologist at Johns Hopkins known for research on measles virus and alphavirus encephalitis, and NAS vice president.

Diane E. Meier

Diane E. Meier is an American palliative care physician and geriatrician who founded the Center to Advance Palliative Care and won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2008.

Diane Havlir

Diane V. Havlir is an American physician-scientist at UCSF, chief of HIV and infectious diseases at San Francisco General, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.

Diane K O'Dowd

Diane K. O'Dowd is an American neurobiologist and HHMI Professor at UC Irvine, known for research on ion channels and SCN1A epilepsy mutations and for undergraduate science-education reform.

Diane K. Hawley

Diane K. Hawley is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Oregon since 1986, known for work on RNA polymerase II and transcription.

Diane M. Robins

Diane M. Robins is an American human geneticist, professor emerita at the University of Michigan, known for her work on androgen receptor regulation in prostate cancer.

Diane M. Simeone

Diane M. Simeone is an American pancreatic surgeon and cancer researcher who directs Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health and belongs to the National Academy of Medicine.

Diane Mathis

Diane Mathis is an immunologist who holds the Morton Grove-Rasmussen Professorship at Harvard Medical School, known for work on immunological tolerance, the Aire transcription factor, and type 1 diabetes.

Diane O'Brien

Diane M. O'Brien is an American nutrition scientist and ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who pioneered stable isotope ratios as objective dietary biomarkers.

Diane R. Gold

Diane R. Gold is a pulmonologist and epidemiologist, professor at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for about forty years of research on air pollution, smoking, and childhood asthma.

Diane W. Wara

Diane W. Wara is a pediatric immunologist and professor emeritus at UCSF, a pioneer of pediatric HIV medicine elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1998.