Life and health scientists

Douglas W. Losordo

Douglas W. Losordo is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular regenerative medicine who led pioneering CD34+ stem cell trials for refractory angina and later held biotech chief medical officer roles.

Douglas W. Wilmore

Douglas W. Wilmore is an American surgeon-scientist who directed the Nutrition Support Service at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, known for work on surgical metabolism and clinical nutrition.

Douglass J. Forbes

Douglass J. Forbes is an American cell biologist and Emeritus Professor at UC San Diego, known for work on nuclear transport and nuclear pore complex assembly.

Douglass M. Turnbull

Douglass M. Turnbull is a British neurologist and mitochondrial-disease researcher at Newcastle University whose mitochondrial donation technique required a change in UK law and produced eight babies by 2025.

Dr. Andy Galpin

Dr. Andy Galpin, also known as Dr. Andrew J. Galpin, is an American exercise physiologist known for single-muscle-fiber research and coaching elite athletes, including Olympic gold medalists.

Drew M. Pardoll

Drew M. Pardoll is a Johns Hopkins oncologist who discovered the PD-1 ligand PD-L2, helped lead early clinical trials of PD-1 immunotherapy, and directs the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.

Drew Weissman

Drew Weissman is an American physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for modified mRNA research.

Drucilla J. Roberts

Drucilla J. Roberts is an American perinatal pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for her research on placental pathology and stillbirth.

Duane A. Compton

Duane A. Compton is an American cell and cancer biologist who served as Dean of Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and studies chromosomal instability in tumors.

Duane M. Ilstrup

Duane M. Ilstrup (1946–2021) was an American medical statistician who spent his career in biostatistics at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, and wrote a 2004 handbook advising young biostatisticians.

Dudley J. Pennell

Dudley J. Pennell, also known as Dudley Pennell, is a British cardiologist and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London who pioneered cardiovascular magnetic resonance, including the T2 technique for measuring cardiac iron.

Dudley K. Strickland

Dudley K. Strickland is an American cell biologist and vascular researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, known for identifying the receptor LRP1 and discovering RAP.

Dudley W. Lamming

Dudley W. Lamming is an American biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies how nutrient-sensing pathways, especially mTOR and dietary isoleucine, control metabolism and aging.

Dukinfield Henry Scott

Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854–1934) was a British botanist and paleobotanist who led the Jodrell Laboratory at Kew and co-described the Paleozoic seed Lagenostoma Lomaxi in 1904.

Duncan J. Stewart

Duncan J. Stewart is a Canadian cardiologist and regenerative medicine researcher who led the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute as CEO and Scientific Director from 2007 to 2024.

Duncan Odom

Duncan T. Odom is a genomics researcher known for showing that tissue-specific transcription factor binding evolves rapidly between mammals, and for experimental studies of cancer genome evolution.

Duncan P. Thomas

Duncan P. Thomas is a hematologist and thrombosis researcher known for work on pulmonary embolism, platelet aggregation, and heparin, who taught at Tufts and later worked in England.

Sep 17, 2026

Duncan vB. Neuhauser

Duncan Neuhauser was an American health services researcher and professor emeritus at Case Western Reserve University, known for clinical decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and quality measurement.

Dung T. Le

Dung T. Le (Dung Thi Le) is a gastrointestinal oncologist and professor at Johns Hopkins whose trials produced the first US cancer approval based on a tumor's genetic feature, in 2017.

Duojia Pan

Duojia Pan (潘多加), also published as Pan Duojia, is an HHMI investigator and Physiology chairman at UT Southwestern known for discovering the Hippo signaling pathway, which halts organ growth and whose failure drives tumors.

Dušan Bartsch

Dušan Bartsch is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist, professor at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, known for defining how CREB transcription factors regulate long-term memory.

Dusan Bogunovic

Dusan Bogunovic is an immunologist and Professor of Pediatric Immunology at Columbia University, known for work on inborn errors of immunity, MIS-C, and autoimmunity in Down syndrome.

Dwight E. Bergles

Dwight E. Bergles is an American neuroscientist and professor at Johns Hopkins who studies how glial cells communicate with neurons, how myelin forms and repairs, and how spontaneous electrical activity shapes the developing auditory system.

Dwight E. Harken

Dwight E. Harken (1910–1993) was an American cardiac surgeon at Harvard Medical School who pioneered surgery inside the beating heart and performed the first aortic valve replacement.

Dwight Ingle

Dwight Joyce Ingle (1907–1978) was an American endocrinologist and professor of physiology at the University of Chicago known for the permissive concept of hormone action and adrenal cortex research.

Dwight J. Rouse

Dwight J. Rouse is an American maternal-fetal medicine specialist, professor at Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital, known for the 2008 NEJM magnesium sulfate trial.

Dyann F. Wirth

Dyann F. Wirth is an American malariologist and molecular parasitologist, the Richard Pearson Strong Professor at Harvard, known for her work on malaria parasite genetics and drug resistance.

Sep 17, 2026

Dyanne D. Affonso

Dyanne D. Affonso is an American nurse-scientist and clinical psychologist whose research made postpartum depression an NIH women's health priority; she was named a Living Legend in 2025.

Dyhia Belhabib

Dyhia Belhabib is an Algerian-trained fisheries scientist at Ecotrust Canada in Vancouver who estimates illegal fishing by reconstructing national catch records and building criminal-history databases of fishing vessels.