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Dorian B. McGavern

Dorian B. McGavern is an American immunologist who leads the Viral Immunology and Intravital Imaging Section at NINDS, NIH, studying immune responses in the central nervous system.

Doris Bachtrog

Doris Bachtrog is an evolutionary geneticist and professor of integrative biology at UC Berkeley, known for studying how sex chromosomes form, degenerate, and evolve, using fruit flies and other animals.

Doris H. Calloway

Doris Howes Calloway (1923–2001) was an American nutrition scientist and UC Berkeley professor whose controlled feeding studies shaped protein and energy standards in dietary recommendations.

Doris Ying Tsao

Doris Ying Tsao, who publishes as Doris Y. Tsao, is an American neuroscientist known for discovering the macaque face patch system and decoding how the brain represents faces.

Doron Lancet

Doron Lancet is an Israeli human geneticist and bioinformatician at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for olfactory genetics, GeneCards, and the GARD prebiotic evolution model.

Dorothea Bennett

Dorothea Bennett (1929–1990) was an American geneticist known for her work on early mammalian development, especially the mouse T/t complex, at Cornell, Sloan-Kettering, and Texas.

Dorothea Zucker-Franklin

Dorothea Zucker-Franklin (1929–2015) was a German-born American hematologist at New York University who used electron microscopy to work out the fine structure of blood cells.

Dorothee Kern

Dorothee Kern is a German-born biophysical chemist who uses NMR spectroscopy to watch proteins move, an HHMI Investigator, and a founder of Relay Therapeutics and MOMA Therapeutics.

Dorothy Brooten

Dorothy Brooten is an American nurse scientist and professor at Florida International University, a National Academy of Medicine member known for the Quality Cost Model of transitional care.

Dorothy Cheney

Dorothy Cheney (1950–2018) was an American primatologist who, with her husband Robert Seyfarth, pioneered playback experiments on wild vervet monkeys in Kenya and baboons in Botswana.

Dorothy E. Shippen

Dorothy E. Shippen is an American-trained biochemist and geneticist at Texas A&M University who established Arabidopsis thaliana as the model plant for telomere biology and discovered plant telomerase.

Dorothy M. Horstmann

Dorothy M. Horstmann was an American epidemiologist and virologist at Yale whose demonstration that poliovirus travels in blood enabled polio vaccines; she became Yale School of Medicine's first woman professor in 1961.

Dorothy Reed Mendenhall

Dorothy Reed Mendenhall (1874–1964) was an American physician who proved Hodgkin's disease was not tuberculosis, described the Reed–Sternberg cell, and led child health work in Wisconsin.

Dorothy T. Krieger

Dorothy T. Krieger was an American endocrinologist who directed endocrinology at Mount Sinai, showed pituitary peptide hormones are made in the brain, and received a special Lasker Foundation award in 1984.

Dorothy Wrinch

Dorothy Wrinch, who published as D. M. Wrinch, was a mathematician and biochemist who originated the cyclol theory of protein folding and taught at Smith College from 1942 to 1971.

Dorry L. Segev

Dorry L. Segev is an Israeli-born transplant surgeon and epidemiologist who directs the Center for Surgical and Transplant Applied Research at NYU Langone Health in New York.

Doug Waterhouse

Doug Waterhouse (1916–2000) was an Australian entomologist who led CSIRO's Division of Entomology for 21 years and identified the active ingredients of the insect repellent Aerogard.

Douglas A. Bayliss

Douglas A. Bayliss is a neuroscientist and pharmacologist who chairs Pharmacology at the University of Virginia, known for identifying how the brain's carbon dioxide sensors control breathing.

Douglas A. Corley

Douglas A. Corley is an American gastroenterologist and researcher at Kaiser Permanente's Northern California Division of Research, known for his 2014 study linking adenoma detection rates to colorectal cancer risk.

Douglas A. Lauffenburger

Douglas A. Lauffenburger is an American biological engineer at MIT who founded and chaired its Department of Biological Engineering and was named an Institute Professor in 2026.

Douglas Argyll Robertson

Douglas Argyll Robertson (1837–1909) was a Scottish ophthalmic surgeon who described the Argyll Robertson pupil, a classic sign of neurosyphilis, and served as surgeon-oculist to Queen Victoria.

Douglas B. Cines

Douglas B. Cines was an American hematologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose research shaped the understanding and treatment of immune thrombocytopenia and heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.

Douglas C. Dean

Douglas C. Dean is a molecular biologist holding an endowed chair at the University of Louisville, known for Cell papers on the retinoblastoma protein and later research on retinitis pigmentosa.

Douglas C. Rees

Douglas C. Rees (D.C. Rees) is an American structural biochemist, the Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson Professor of Chemistry at Caltech, known for the first crystal structure of nitrogenase.

Douglas C. Wallace

Douglas C. Wallace is an American mitochondrial geneticist who founded the field of human mitochondrial genetics, showing that mtDNA is inherited only from the mother.

Douglas C. Youvan

Douglas C. Youvan is an American biophysicist who sequenced the bacterial photosynthetic reaction-center genes, engineered its amino acids to alter electron transfer, and co-founded Kairos Scientific.

Douglas D. Bannerman

Douglas D. Bannerman is an American immunologist whose USDA Beltsville research defined how cows' innate immunity responds to mastitis, earning the 2006 Presidential Early Career Award.

Douglas D. Richman

Douglas D. Richman is an American virologist and physician at UC San Diego, known for the first identification of HIV drug resistance and landmark antiretroviral therapy trials.

Douglas E. Soltis

Douglas E. Soltis, born in 1953, is an American plant biologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History known for work on flowering plant evolution and polyploidy.

Douglas Easton

Douglas F. Easton is a British genetic epidemiologist, Professor at the University of Cambridge, who characterized cancer predisposition genes like BRCA1 and created the BOADICEA risk prediction model.