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Dianna M. Milewicz

Dianna M. Milewicz is an American medical geneticist at UTHealth Houston who studies the genetics of thoracic aortic aneurysms and directs the John Ritter Research Program.

Dianne K. Newman

Dianne K. Newman is an American geobiologist and microbiologist at Caltech known for applying genetics to microbial metabolism and studying phenazines in cystic fibrosis lungs.

Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum

Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum is a public health scientist who heads the World Health Organization's Climate Change and Health Unit in Geneva and helps lead the annual Lancet Countdown reports.

Dick de Zeeuw

Dick de Zeeuw (born 1951 in The Hague) is a Dutch clinical pharmacologist and professor at the University Medical Center Groningen who led major diabetic kidney disease trials.

Dick Heinegård

Dick Heinegård (1942–2013) was a Swedish biochemist and physician at Lund University whose laboratory identified numerous cartilage matrix proteins and developed biomarkers for monitoring joint disease.

Dick Menzies

Dick Menzies is a Canadian respirologist and tuberculosis researcher at McGill University who led 2018 trials showing four months of rifampin treats latent TB as effectively as nine months of isoniazid.

Dickinson W. Richards

Dickinson W. Richards (1895–1973) was an American physiologist at Columbia University and Bellevue Hospital who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on heart catheterization.

Didier Cros

Didier Cros is a French-trained American neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for electrophysiological diagnosis of peripheral nerve disease and NEJM MGH case records.

Didier Dreyfuss

Didier Dreyfuss is a French professor emeritus of intensive-care medicine at Université Paris Cité and former head of intensive care at Hôpital Louis Mourier, Colombes.

Didier Lebrec

Didier Lebrec (born 1945) is a French hepatologist and INSERM researcher at Hôpital Beaujon in Clichy, known for his 1981 trial showing propranolol sharply reduced recurrent bleeding in cirrhosis.

Didier Mazel

Didier Mazel is a French geneticist at the Institut Pasteur in Paris who studies integrons, horizontal gene transfer, and genome architecture in bacteria, including Vibrio cholerae.

Didier Ménard

Didier Ménard, born 1966, is a French pharmacist-biologist and malaria researcher who established K13 mutations as the main determinants of artemisinin resistance and led the KARMA consortium.

Didier Picard

Didier Picard, born 1957, is a Swiss molecular biologist who led a laboratory at the University of Geneva from 1990, known for work on the Hsp90 chaperone and steroid receptors.

Didier Pittet

Didier Pittet is a Swiss infectious-diseases physician and hospital epidemiologist who developed and popularized alcohol-based handrub and led WHO's Clean Care is Safer Care program.

Didier Raoult

Didier Raoult (born 1952 in Dakar, Senegal) is a French microbiologist known for culturing Tropheryma whipplei, discovering giant viruses, and contested COVID-19 hydroxychloroquine claims.

Didier Samuel

Didier Samuel is a French hepatologist who led the liver transplant program at Hôpital Paul-Brousse in Villejuif and became Chairman and CEO of Inserm in February 2023.

Didier Trono

Didier Trono, born 1956, is a professor at EPFL in Switzerland who heads the Laboratory of Virology and Genetics and invented lentiviral vectors for gene therapy.

Didier Y. R. Stainier

Didier Stainier is a Belgian-American developmental biologist who directs the Department of Developmental Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim, Germany.

Diederick E. Grobbee

Diederick E. Grobbee, also published as D. E. Grobbee, is a Dutch clinical epidemiologist who founded Utrecht's Julius Center and led the DREAM aneurysm trial.

Diederik van de Beek

Diederik van de Beek (born 1974) is a Dutch neurologist and professor of neurological infectious diseases at Amsterdam UMC, best known for the 2002 dexamethasone trial in bacterial meningitis.

Diego Riveros

Diego Riveros, also known as Diego Riveros-Iregui, is a Colombian-American ecohydrologist who is a professor at UNC Chapel Hill and studies soil carbon dioxide and water quality.

Diego Vergani

Diego Vergani is a British-based liver immunologist and hepatologist, Professor of Liver Immunopathology at King's College London since 2003, known for research on autoimmune and viral liver disease.

Dieter Egli

Dieter Egli, also known as Dietrich M. Egli, is a Swiss-born molecular biologist and Columbia University professor known for research on genome stability and gene editing in human embryos.

Dieter Gallwitz

Dieter Gallwitz is a German molecular biologist who discovered the yeast Ypt/Rab-GTPases, key regulators of vesicle trafficking, and directed a Max Planck Institute department in Göttingen.

Dieter Häussinger

Dieter Häussinger, born 1951 in Nördlingen, is a German hepatologist who discovered the liver's intercellular glutamine cycle, shaped the modern concept of hepatic encephalopathy, and directed Düsseldorf University Hospital's gastroenterology clinic from 1994 to 2020.

Dieter Oesterhelt

Dieter Oesterhelt (1940–2022) was a German biochemist who discovered bacteriorhodopsin, the first known microbial rhodopsin, laying the basis for optogenetics and winning the 2021 Albert Lasker Award.

Dieter Söll

Dieter Söll is a German-born biochemist and molecular biologist at Yale University who studies transfer RNA and pioneered expanding the genetic code with new amino acids.

Diethard Tautz

Diethard Tautz, born 1957, is a German evolutionary and developmental biologist who directed the Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute in Plön from 2007 to 2023.

Diether Lambrechts

Diether Lambrechts is a Belgian epigenetics and cancer biologist who heads the Laboratory of Translational Genetics at VIB-KU Leuven, known for showing that tumor hypoxia alters DNA methylation by reducing TET enzyme activity.

Dietmar Schmitz

Dietmar Schmitz is a German physician and neuroscientist, professor at Charité Berlin since 2005 and DZNE site speaker, known for work on synaptic plasticity and optogenetics.