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Dominic Grün

Dominic Grün is a German computational systems biologist, professor at the University of Würzburg since 2021, known for single-cell RNA-seq analysis methods including RaceID, StemID, and VarID2.

Dominic J. Withers

Dominic J. Withers is a British clinician-scientist, Clinical Chair in Diabetes & Endocrinology at Imperial College London, known for showing that IRS-2 disruption causes type 2 diabetes in mice.

Dominic Kwiatkowski

Dominic Kwiatkowski was a British malaria genomics researcher, professor at Oxford and head of the Parasites and Microbes Programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, who founded MalariaGEN in 2005.

Dominick J. Angiolillo

Dominick J. Angiolillo is an Italian-born American cardiologist who is Chief of Cardiology at the University of Florida – Jacksonville, known for pioneering personalized antiplatelet therapy in coronary interventions.

Dominick P. Purpura

Dominick P. Purpura (1927–2019) was an American neuroscientist known for research on epilepsy and dendritic spines, and dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 1984 to 2006.

Dominique Baeten

Dominique Baeten (born 1970) is a Belgian rheumatologist and full professor at Amsterdam UMC, known for leading the clinical trials that established secukinumab as a treatment for ankylosing spondylitis.

Dominique Bergmann

Dominique Bergmann is a developmental biologist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Stanford who studies cell fate and polarity in the plant stomatal lineage.

Dominique Bonnet

Dominique Bonnet is a French stem cell biologist who identified the leukaemic stem cell of acute myeloid leukemia and leads a lab at the Francis Crick Institute.

Dominique Fourmy

Dominique Fourmy is a CNRS research director at the Laboratory of Biology and Applied Pharmacology, ENS Paris-Saclay, known for structural studies of the ribosomal RNA aminoglycoside binding site.

Dominique J.‐F. de Quervain

Dominique de Quervain, born 1968, is a Swiss behavioral neuroscientist and professor at the University of Basel known for the 1998 Nature finding that glucocorticoids impair memory retrieval.

Dominique Pantaloni

Dominique Pantaloni is a French biochemist and cell biologist at CNRS known for work on actin polymerization, ATP hydrolysis, and actin-based motility at the LEBS laboratory in Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

Dominique Prié

Dominique Prié is a French nephrologist and Inserm researcher known for work on the genetics of renal phosphate transport, including the 2002 New England Journal of Medicine study linking NPT2a mutations to hypophosphatemia.

Dominique Soldati-Favre

Dominique Soldati-Favre is a cell biologist and professor at the University of Geneva who identified the glideosome motor of apicomplexan parasites and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Dominique Valla

Dominique Valla, born 1952, is a French hepatologist who led the liver service at Hôpital Beaujon in Clichy and specialized in vascular disorders of the liver.

Dominique Van Der Straeten

Dominique Van Der Straeten is a Belgian plant scientist and senior full professor at Ghent University, known for thermographic detection of plant disease and folate-biofortified rice.

Don C. Rockey

Don C. Rockey, also known as Don Rockey, is an American hepatologist at the Medical University of South Carolina known for research on liver fibrosis and portal hypertension.

Don C. Wiley

Don C. Wiley was an American structural biologist at Harvard who solved the structures of influenza hemagglutinin and MHC molecules, winning the 1995 Lasker Award.

Don Craig Wiley

Don Craig Wiley (1944–2001) was an American structural biologist and Harvard professor best known for determining the structures of influenza hemagglutinin and peptide-bound MHC proteins.

Don D. Sin

Don D. Sin (Don Sin) is a Canadian respirologist known for research linking COPD to systemic inflammation and cardiovascular disease, and Director of the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation at the University of British Columbia.

Don Ganem

Don Ganem is an American virologist who spent about 30 years at UCSF studying hepatitis B virus and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, then led infectious disease research at Novartis.

Don Kirkham

Don Kirkham (1908–1998) was an American physicist and soil physicist at Iowa State University, described by the Soil Science Society of America as probably the best-known soil physicist of the 20th century.

Don Mason (immunologist)

Don Mason, or Donald W. Mason, was a British immunologist at Oxford who used monoclonal antibodies and flow cytometry to split T cells into functional subsets.

Don Poldermans

Don Poldermans (born 1956) is a Dutch cardiologist at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam whose 1999 bisoprolol trial shaped international guidelines.

Don W. Cleveland

Don W. Cleveland is an American cell biologist, professor and chair at UC San Diego, known for discovering tau and CENP-E and winning the 2018 Breakthrough Prize.

Don W. Fawcett

Don W. Fawcett (1917–2009) was an American anatomist and cell biologist, a pioneer of biological electron microscopy who described the fine structure of cilia, sperm, and intercellular junctions and helped found modern cell biology.

Donal S. Luse

Donal S. Luse is a molecular biologist at the Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute who studies transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II and its control by nucleosomes.

Donald A. Berry

Donald A. Berry (born 1940) is an American biostatistician at MD Anderson Cancer Center known for pioneering Bayesian adaptive designs for clinical trials in oncology.

Donald A. Bryant

Donald A. Bryant (1950–2024) was an American biochemist and microbial physiologist at Penn State who studied photosynthetic bacteria, discovered new phototrophs in Yellowstone hot springs, and identified the enzyme that makes chlorophyll f.

Donald A. Goldmann

Donald A. Goldmann is an American pediatric infectious-diseases physician and epidemiologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard, known for work on healthcare-associated infections, antibiotic resistance, and hospital infection control.

Donald A. Redelmeier

Donald A. Redelmeier is a Canadian physician-scientist in internal medicine and medical decision science at Sunnybrook and the University of Toronto, known for the 1997 cell-phone driving study.