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Dietmar Schmucker

Dietmar Schmucker is a German molecular neuroscientist at the University of Bonn known for discovering in 2000 that the Drosophila Dscam receptor generates tens of thousands of isoforms.

Dietmar Vestweber

Dietmar Vestweber (born 1956 in Wuppertal) is a German cell biologist known for his work on VE-cadherin, controlling leukocyte extravasation and vascular permeability. He received the Leibniz Prize in 1998.

Dietmar Voges

Dietmar Voges is a biochemist, first author of the 1999 Annual Review of Biochemistry review of the 26S proteasome that the Nobel Committee cited in 2004.

Dietmar W. Hutmacher

Dietmar W. Hutmacher is a biomedical engineer and Distinguished Professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, known for regenerative medicine and 3D-printed bone scaffolds, and co-founder of Osteopore.

Dietrich H. Bodenstein

Dietrich H. Bodenstein (1908–1984) was a German-born American insect physiologist and developmental biologist known for demonstrating how hormones control molting and metamorphosis in insects, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1958.

Dietrich Hoffmann

Dietrich Hoffmann was an American cancer researcher who spent his career on tobacco carcinogenesis, co-identifying the carcinogen NNK and creating the standard "Hoffmann analytes" lists of smoke toxicants.

Dietrich Keppler

Dietrich Keppler, born 1940, is a German physician-scientist and biochemist known for defining leukotrienes and discovering ATP-dependent MRP export pumps at Heidelberg's German Cancer Research Center.

Dietrich Suck

Dietrich Suck is a structural biologist and X-ray crystallographer known for the crystal structure of DNase I, who led a research group at EMBL Heidelberg from 1982 to 2009.

Dihua Yu

Dihua Yu is a cancer biologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center, where she chairs Molecular Oncology and studies breast and pancreatic cancer metastasis and therapy resistance.

Dilworth Wayne Woolley

Dilworth Wayne Woolley (1914–1966) was a Canadian-born American biochemist at the Rockefeller Institute, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1952, known for antimetabolites and the serotonin hypothesis of mental illness.

Dima Qato

Dima Qato is an American pharmacoepidemiologist and Hygeia Centennial Chair at the University of Southern California, known for research on pharmacy deserts and how pharmacy closures affect medication adherence.

Dimiter S. Dimitrov

Dimiter S. Dimitrov is a virologist and antibody engineer who spent 27 years at the National Cancer Institute before joining the University of Pittsburgh in 2017.

Dimitri Krainc

Dimitri Krainc is a Slovenian-born neurologist and neuroscientist who became chair of neurology at Northwestern University in 2013, known for research on Parkinson's and Huntington's disease.

Dimitri Kullmann

Dimitri M. Kullmann is a British neurologist and neuroscientist, Professor of Neurology at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, known for synaptic plasticity and epilepsy gene therapy.

Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis

Dimitrios Kontoyiannis is a Greek-American physician-scientist in infectious diseases at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, known for research on invasive fungal infections in leukemia and transplant patients.

Dimitrios Stamou

Dimitrios Stamou (born 1974 in Athens) is a Greek professor of bionanotechnology and nanomedicine at the University of Copenhagen, leading a bio-nanotechnology laboratory since 2004.

Dimitris Kioussis

Dimitris Kioussis, born in Greece in 1949, is a molecular immunologist known for discovering the locus control region of the human CD2 gene and for his work on gene expression in developing immune cells.

Dimitris Thanos

Dimitris Thanos is a Greek molecular biologist known for his work on the enhanceosome, and since 2006 a director and vice president at the Academy of Athens' BRFAA.

Dina Zielinski

Dina Zielinski is a bioinformatician and computational biologist known for co-developing DNA Fountain, the 2017 DNA data storage technique, and now works at WhiteLab Genomics in France.

Dinah S. Singer

Dinah S. Singer is an American molecular biologist who led the National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Biology and co-chaired the Cancer Moonshot's Blue Ribbon Panel.

Ding Xue

Ding Xue, also known as Xue Ding, is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Colorado Boulder known for research on programmed cell death in C. elegans.

Dino Moras

Dino Moras, born 1944, is a French structural biologist and CNRS research director at the IGBMC in Strasbourg, known for crystallographic studies of transfer RNA and nuclear hormone receptors.

Dinshaw Patel

Dinshaw J. Patel, born 1942, is an Indian-born American structural biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 1992, known for RNA silencing, CRISPR-Cas, and cGAS-STING research.

Diomedes E. Logothetis

Diomedes E. Logothetis is a physiologist and pharmacologist at Northeastern University known for showing that G protein βγ subunits activate the cardiac muscarinic K+ channel.

Dionna Williams

Dionna Williams is an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist, Associate Professor at Emory University School of Medicine, studying how HIV and drugs of abuse damage the brain.

Dipak Kotecha

Dipak Kotecha is a British cardiologist, Professor of Cardiology and Cardiac Imaging at the University of Birmingham, known for research on heart failure and atrial fibrillation and for chairing the 2024 ESC atrial fibrillation guidelines.

Dipali Sashital

Dipali Sashital is an American biochemist and professor at Iowa State University who studies CRISPR-Cas bacterial immune systems and received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Dipanjan Chowdhury

Dipanjan Chowdhury is a molecular biologist who studies DNA repair and genome stability, and is Svanberg Family Professor at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Radiation and Genomic Stability at Dana-Farber.

Dipanjan Pan

Dipanjan Pan is a nanomedicine researcher who holds the Huck Chair Professorship at Pennsylvania State University, known for 2020 nanoparticle tests diagnosing COVID-19 in 10 minutes.

Dipankar Sen

Dipankar Sen is an Indian-born biochemist at Simon Fraser University since 1991, known for early Nature papers on four-stranded G4-DNA and for showing that DNA can act as a catalyst.