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Douglas G. Capone

Douglas G. Capone, also known as Douglas Capone, is an American oceanographer and USC professor known for research showing that marine microbes fix nitrogen in the open ocean.

Douglas H. Erwin

Douglas H. Erwin, born 1958, is an American paleobiologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History known for work on the end-Permian mass extinction.

Douglas H. Turner

Douglas H. Turner, born 1946, is an American chemist at the University of Rochester whose Turner rules let software predict RNA secondary structure from sequence alone.

Douglas Hanahan

Douglas Hanahan is an American cancer biologist best known for the "Hallmarks of Cancer" framework, and professor emeritus at EPFL in Lausanne and a Ludwig Institute Distinguished Scholar.

Douglas Higgs

Douglas Higgs (Douglas R. Higgs) is a British clinician-scientist at Oxford who directed the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit and is known for unraveling the molecular genetics of alpha-thalassaemia.

Douglas Houghton Campbell

Douglas Houghton Campbell (1859–1953) was an American botanist who studied the morphology of mosses, liverworts, and ferns, and headed Stanford University's botany department from 1891 to 1925.

Douglas J. Futuyma

Douglas J. Futuyma (born 1942) is an American evolutionary biologist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University, known for research on speciation in herbivorous insects and the textbook Evolution.

Douglas J. Winton

Douglas J. Winton is a British cancer biologist at the University of Cambridge who studies intestinal stem cells and the earliest steps of bowel cancer.

Douglas K Owens

Douglas K Owens is an American physician and health economist at Stanford University and the VA Palo Alto, known for cost-effectiveness analyses of HIV screening and implantable defibrillators.

Douglas K. Bishop

Douglas K. Bishop is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Chicago who studies homologous recombination and discovered the meiosis-specific protein Dmc1 in 1992.

Douglas K. Rex

Douglas K. Rex is an American gastroenterologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University School of Medicine, known for colonoscopy quality measurement and colorectal cancer screening.

Douglas Koshland

Douglas E. Koshland is an American molecular biologist and UC Berkeley professor known for identifying cohesins and for work on chromosome structure and segregation in budding yeast.

Douglas L. Arnold

Douglas L. Arnold is a neurologist and MRI researcher at the Montreal Neurological Institute known for imaging research in multiple sclerosis and drug development, including ocrelizumab trials.

Douglas L. Black

Douglas L. Black is an American RNA biologist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA, known for research on alternative pre-mRNA splicing by the Rbfox and PTB protein families.

Douglas L. Brutlag

Douglas L. Brutlag (born 1946) is an American molecular and computational biologist, emeritus professor of biochemistry at Stanford University who developed protein motif methods and co-founded IntelliGenetics.

Douglas L. Coleman

Douglas L. Coleman (1931–2014) was a Canadian-born scientist at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, whose mouse parabiosis experiments predicted the hormone leptin, earning him the 2010 Lasker Award.

Douglas L. Mann

Douglas L. Mann is an American cardiologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for research on inflammation in heart failure and for leading the RENEWAL and RENAISSANCE anticytokine trials.

Douglas M. Fowler

Douglas M. Fowler is an American biochemist and geneticist at the University of Washington who developed deep mutational scanning, a method for measuring hundreds of thousands of protein mutations at once.

Douglas Melton

Douglas A. Melton is an American developmental biologist known for deriving human embryonic stem cell lines and generating insulin-producing beta cells as a potential cure for type 1 diabetes.

Douglas P. Zipes

Douglas P. Zipes, born 1939, is an American cardiac electrophysiologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University School of Medicine who pioneered the implantable cardioverter and led major cardiology societies.

Douglas Prasher

Douglas Prasher is an American molecular biologist who cloned the green fluorescent protein gene in 1992, enabling the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Chalfie, Shimomura, and Tsien.

Douglas R. Green

Douglas R. Green is an immunologist and cell-death researcher who chairs the Department of Immunology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and is known for apoptosis research.

Douglas R. Lowy

Douglas R. Lowy is a virologist and cancer researcher who leads the Laboratory of Cellular Oncology at the National Cancer Institute and developed the technology behind HPV vaccines.

Douglas S Kim

Douglas S Kim is a neuroscientist known for co-authorship on genetically encoded calcium indicators, including the GCaMP6 family, and for a 2015 study of ultraviolet vision in mouse visual cortex.

Douglas S. Kwon

Douglas S. Kwon, also cited as Douglas Kwon, is a physician-scientist in mucosal immunology at the Ragon Institute and Harvard Medical School who studies HIV acquisition.

Douglas S. Lee

Douglas S. Lee is a Canadian cardiologist and clinician-scientist at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre in Toronto, a University of Toronto professor known for heart failure risk prediction tools including EHMRG.

Douglas S. Robinson

Douglas S. Robinson is a physician-scientist in asthma immunology and Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College London, known for a landmark 1992 New England Journal of Medicine paper on TH2 cells in asthma.

Douglas T. Fearon

Douglas T. Fearon, born in 1942, is an American medical immunologist who showed that complement C3 links innate and adaptive immunity, and later studied tumor immunology at Cambridge.

Douglas T. Golenbock

Douglas T. Golenbock is an American immunologist and physician-scientist who leads the Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology at UMass Chan Medical School, known for defining the TLR4/MD-2 endotoxin receptor.

Douglas W. Dockery

Douglas W. Dockery is an American environmental epidemiologist at Harvard, best known as Principal Investigator of the Harvard Six Cities Study on air pollution and mortality.