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Donald Patrick McDonnell

Donald Patrick McDonnell is a pharmacologist at Duke University School of Medicine whose nuclear receptor research produced breast cancer drugs, including the FDA-approved ORSERDU (elacestrant).

Donald Pfaff

Donald W. Pfaff is an American neuroscientist and Professor Emeritus at Rockefeller University, known for working out the neural circuitry of a hormone-dependent reproductive behavior and formulating generalized CNS arousal.

Donald Pinkel

Donald Pinkel (1926–2022) was an American pediatrician and cancer researcher who, as first director of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, created Total Therapy for childhood leukemia.

Donald Pious

Donald A. Pious (1930–1998) was an American immunologist at the University of Washington known for using somatic cell mutants to discover HLA-DM's role in antigen processing.

Donald R. McCarty

Donald R. McCarty is a University of Florida plant molecular biologist known for cloning the maize Viviparous-1 gene and discovering the VP14 enzyme of abscisic acid biosynthesis.

Donald R. Senger

Donald R. Senger (D. R. Senger) is a cancer researcher who discovered vascular permeability factor, renamed VEGF, now targeted by drugs treating cancer and wet macular degeneration.

Donald S. Baim

Donald S. Baim was an American interventional cardiologist who founded Beth Israel Hospital's cardiology program, edited Grossman's cardiac catheterization textbook, and became Boston Scientific's chief medical officer.

Donald S. Burke

Donald S. Burke is an American epidemiologist and vaccinologist who developed the first HIV diagnostic tests and served as dean of the University of Pittsburgh's public health school.

Donald S. Coffey

Donald S. Coffey (1932–2017) was an American cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins University who discovered the nuclear matrix, directed research at the Brady Urological Institute, and served as president of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Donald S. Faber

Donald S. Faber (1943–2025) was an American neuroscientist who studied synaptic transmission and sensorimotor behavior, chiefly on the goldfish Mauthner cell, and chaired neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Donald S. Fredrickson

Donald S. Fredrickson was an American physician who discovered Tangier disease and cholesteryl ester storage disease, created the hyperlipoproteinemia classification adopted by the WHO in 1972, and directed NIH from 1975 to 1981.

Donald S. Kaufman

Donald S. Kaufman was an American genitourinary oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for more than 40 years, where he directed the Genitourinary Oncology Disease Center and taught at Harvard Medical School.

Donald Shreffler

Donald Shreffler was an American immunogeneticist whose studies of the mouse H2 major histocompatibility complex shaped immunology in the 1960s and 1970s; he chaired genetics at Washington University.

Donald T. Dubin

Donald T. Dubin was a molecular biologist at Rutgers University known for work on RNA methylation, including mitochondrial ribosomal RNA in hamster cells and the capped RNA of Sindbis virus.

Donald W. Hilgemann

Donald W. Hilgemann is an American physiologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center who studies ion transport in cell membranes, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Donald W. Landry

Donald W. Landry is an American physician-scientist and Hamilton Southworth Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, known for identifying vasopressin deficiency in vasodilatory shock and creating the first artificial enzyme that degrades cocaine.

Donald Warne

Donald Warne is an Oglala Lakota physician and public health scientist who co-directs the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Donald Y.M. Leung

Donald Y.M. Leung is an American pediatric allergist-immunologist who has led pediatric allergy at National Jewish Health in Denver since 1989 and led the first anti-IgE peanut allergy trial.

Dong Xu

Dong Xu is a bioinformatician and Curators' Distinguished Professor in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Missouri, known for the scGNN framework and protein localization prediction.

Dong-Seon Chang

Dong-Seon Chang is a South Korean neuroscientist who studies how people perceive others' actions, and a science communicator with a Spiegel bestseller and a popular YouTube channel.

Dong‐Er Zhang

Dong-Er Zhang is a cancer biologist and professor of pathology and biological sciences at UC San Diego, known for her work on AML1-ETO in acute myeloid leukemia and on ISG15 and USP18.

Dongsheng Cai

Dongsheng Cai is a physician-scientist and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, known for showing that hypothalamic inflammation drives obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and aging.

Donna L. Färber

Donna L. Farber is an American immunologist at Columbia University known for defining tissue-resident memory T cells and for building an organ-donor program mapping human immunity.

Donna L. Maney

Donna L. Maney is an American neuroendocrinologist at Emory University known for her research on the white-throated sparrow and for reforming how sex differences are studied.

Donna L. Washington

Donna L. Washington is an American internist and health services researcher at UCLA and the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

Donna Mancini

Donna M. Mancini is an American heart failure and transplant cardiologist at Mount Sinai, internationally known for exercise testing to time heart transplants and a survival score.

Donovan H. Parks

Donovan H. Parks is a Canadian bioinformatician and Senior Researcher at Aalborg University in Denmark, known for CheckM, GTDB-Tk, and leading the Genome Taxonomy Database for over a decade.

Dontscho Kerjaschki

Dontscho Kerjaschki is an Austrian nephropathologist and emeritus professor at the Medical University of Vienna, known for podocyte biology, membranous glomerulonephritis, and discovering lymphangiogenesis in the kidney.

Dora E. Angelaki

Dora E. Angelaki is a computational and systems neuroscientist, professor at New York University since 2018, known for research on vestibular-visual integration, spatial navigation, and multisensory perception.

Doreen Cantrell

Doreen A. Cantrell is a British immunologist and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the University of Dundee, known for work on T lymphocyte activation and signaling.