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Damage control resuscitation
Damage control resuscitation (DCR) is a trauma care strategy for severely bleeding patients that combines permissive hypotension, 1:1:1 blood product transfusion, and rapid surgical hemorrhage control.
Damage control surgery
Damage control surgery (DCS) is a staged approach to major trauma in which an abbreviated first operation controls bleeding and contamination, ICU resuscitation restores physiology, and a planned reoperation performs definitive repair.
Damaliscus
Damaliscus is an African alcelaphine antelope genus (Sclater & Thomas, 1894) holding the topi/tsessebe (D. lunatus) and bontebok/blesbok (D. pygargus); sister to Alcelaphus, with the near-threatened bontebok recovering from an 1830s bottleneck.
Damian Aspinall
Damian Aspinall, English conservationist and chairman of The Aspinall Foundation since 2000; son of founder John Aspinall; leads gorilla and elephant rewilding from Kent parks; subject of Charity Commission statutory inquiry.
Damian Szklarczyk
Damian Szklarczyk is a Polish-trained computational biologist at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in Zurich who maintains and develops the STRING database of protein–protein association networks.
Daminozide
Daminozide (Alar, B-Nine, SADH, CAS 1596-84-5) is a plant growth regulator registered since 1963; its food uses were canceled in 1989 over the carcinogenic breakdown product UDMH, leaving ornamental uses in the US and EU.
Damping off
Damping off: soil-borne disease killing germinating seeds and seedlings, caused by Pythium, Rhizoctonia, Phytophthora, and Fusarium; managed by sanitation, pasteurized media, and water control.
Damselfly
Damselfly: an insect of the order Odonata, the slender-bodied group alongside dragonflies. Key facts: 143 European odonate species, 16 European endemics, migration in Coenagrionidae and Lestidae, 325-million-year lineage, 2025 IUCN reassessment.
Damson
The damson, also called the Damascene plum (Prunus domestica subsp. insititia), is a small tart blue plum grown chiefly for jam and preserving, especially in Britain.
Dan A. Landau
Dan A. Landau is an American physician-scientist in cancer genomics at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Genome Center, known for studying cancer evolution.
Dan A. Liebermann
Dan A. Liebermann is a molecular biologist known for discovering the MyD primary response genes, the Gadd45 stress response genes, and MyD88, and for leukemia and tumor suppression research at Temple University's Fels Institute.
Dan G. McNamara
Dan G. McNamara (1922–1998) was an American pediatric cardiologist who founded Houston's first pediatric heart program at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine.
Dan H. Barouch
Dan H. Barouch is an American physician-scientist who directs the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and develops HIV and COVID-19 vaccines.
Dan H. Moore
Dan H. Moore was an American cancer virologist and biophysicist known for purifying the mouse mammary tumor virus and searching for a human breast cancer virus.
Dan Herschlag
Dan Herschlag is an American biochemist at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, known for work on enzyme catalysis and RNA biophysics.
Dan I. Andersson
Dan I. Andersson is a Swedish medical bacteriology researcher at Uppsala University who directs the Uppsala Antibiotic Center and studies how bacteria evolve antibiotic resistance.
Dan J. Stein
Dan J. Stein (1962–2025) was a South African psychiatrist at the University of Cape Town known for research on obsessive-compulsive disorder and global mental health.
Dan Knights
Dan Knights is an American computational microbiologist and speedcuber who won the 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube world title in 2003 and now leads microbiome research at the University of Minnesota.
Dan L. Longo
Dan L. Longo (born 1949) is an American physician-scientist in immunology and hematology who led lymphoma research at the National Institutes of Health and Harvard.
Dan Littman
Dan R. Littman is an American immunologist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine whose laboratory defined Th17 cells and identified the HIV receptor complex CD4 and CCR5.
Dan Luo
Dan Luo is a professor of biological and environmental engineering at Cornell University who engineers DNA as a bulk material for hydrogels, diagnostics, and drug delivery.
Dan M. Roden
Dan M. Roden (Dan Roden) is a Canadian-born physician-scientist in cardiology and clinical pharmacology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known for work on antiarrhythmic drugs, drug-induced long QT syndrome, and pharmacogenomics.
Dan Merenstein M.D.
Dan Merenstein, M.D., is an American family medicine physician-scientist at Georgetown University whose probiotics and antibiotic stewardship research led to his 2024 election to the National Academy of Medicine.
Dan Olweus
Dan Olweus (1931–2020) was a Swedish-born psychologist who spent his career in Norway, founded the scientific study of school bullying, and created the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program.
Dan S. Tawfik
Dan S. Tawfik (1955–2021) was an Israeli biochemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for developing in vitro compartmentalization and establishing enzyme promiscuity in molecular evolution.
Dan Theodorescu
Dan Theodorescu is a urologic oncologist and bladder cancer researcher who became director of the University of Arizona Cancer Center in 2025 and developed the COXEN drug-response algorithm.
Dan Wilson
Dan Wilson is a pharmaceutical-industry scientist with a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University who runs the YouTube channel Debunk the Funk, debunking vaccine and medical misinformation using primary scientific literature.
Dan Yakir
Dan Yakir is an Israeli professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Israel Prize laureate who studies carbon and water exchange between vegetation and the atmosphere in dry climates.
Dana Boatman
Dana Boatman, also known as Dana Frances Boatman-Reich, is an audiologist and clinical neurophysiologist, professor at Johns Hopkins, and director of its Auditory Neurophysiology Laboratory, studying speech perception.
Dana Carroll
Dana Carroll is an American biochemist and genome engineer at the University of Utah, known for pioneering genome editing with zinc-finger nucleases and later TALEN and CRISPR nucleases.