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Dana H. Hanselman
Dana H. Hanselman is an American fisheries scientist who directs NOAA's Auke Bay Laboratories in Juneau, Alaska, and leads the federal stock assessment of Alaska sablefish.
Dana M. Small
Dana M. Small is a psychologist and neuroscientist who studies flavor and food reward; after twenty years on Yale's faculty, she holds a Canada Excellence Research Chair at McGill University.
Dana Pe'er
Dana Pe'er is an Israeli-American computational biologist who develops machine-learning methods for single-cell genomics and chairs computational and systems biology at the Sloan Kettering Institute.
Dana R. Leach
Dana R. Leach is an immunologist who, as a postdoctoral fellow in James Allison's lab at UC Berkeley, was first author of the 1996 Science paper showing CTLA-4 blockade cures tumors in mice.
Danaea
Danaea is a genus of eusporangiate ferns in the family Marattiaceae, the only marattioid genus restricted to the Neotropics, from southern Mexico to southern Brazil.
DANAMI-3 trial
DANAMI-3 (Third Danish Study of Optimal Acute Treatment of Patients With STEMI), a Danish program of three randomized trials (iPOST, DEFER, PRIMULTI) at 4 centers, 2011-2014, testing postconditioning, deferred stenting, and complete revascularization in STEMI.
Danaparoid sodium
Danaparoid sodium (Orgaran) is a non-heparin heparinoid mixture of glycosaminoglycans from porcine mucosa, an antithrombin-mediated factor Xa inhibitor (anti-Xa:anti-IIa 22:1) used for HIT treatment and DVT prophylaxis; withdrawn from the US in 2002.
Danazol
Danazol: synthetic androgenic steroid derived from ethisterone, approved 1976 for endometriosis pain; suppresses pituitary-ovarian axis, binds androgen/progesterone/glucocorticoid receptors; now largely abandoned due to androgenic side effects.
Dance movement therapy
Dance movement therapy (DMT) is a psychotherapy using dance and movement to integrate emotional, cognitive, social, and physical health, practiced by trained therapists in mental health and rehabilitation settings.
Dance On 50+ trial
Dance On 50+ (NCT07158866) is a Universidade do Porto clinical trial comparing ballroom dance, multicomponent exercise, and no intervention in 110 healthy adults aged 50+ over 6 months.
Dance Therapy
Dance therapy (dance/movement therapy, DMT; UK: dance movement psychotherapy) is the psychotherapeutic use of dance and movement for healing, pioneered by Marian Chace in 1940s America, with the ADTA founded in 1966 and meta-analyses showing moderate psychological benefits.
Dandie Dinmont Terrier
Dandie Dinmont Terrier: small British border terrier, only dog breed named after a fictional character in Scott's Guy Mannering (1815). Pepper or mustard coat, silky topknot, weasel-like body; AKC-recognized 1886, a vulnerable native breed with 81 UK puppies registered in 2024.
Dandruff
Dandruff, the mild scalp end of seborrheic dermatitis, causes flaky, itchy scalp skin; linked to Malassezia yeast, sebum, and skin barrier dysfunction; treated with medicated shampoos.
Danegaptide
Danegaptide (ZP1609, GAP-134) is a rotigaptide-derived dipeptide gap junction modifier acting on connexin 43. Its phase 2 STEMI reperfusion-injury trial failed, and it is now in diabetic retinopathy development by Breye Therapeutics.
Danesh Moazed
Danesh Moazed is a professor of cell biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Harvard Medical School, known for research on heterochromatin, RNA interference, and epigenetic inheritance.
Danfeng Cai
Danfeng Cai is a biologist and assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health since 2021, known for showing that YAP forms liquid-like nuclear condensates.
Danger triangle of the face
The danger triangle of the face, also called the nasolabial triangle, spans from the nose bridge to the mouth corners, where infections can spread to the brain.
Dangerous Dogs Act 1991
Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 (c. 65), UK law banning Pit Bull Terrier, Japanese Tosa, Dogo Argentino, Fila Brasileiro and, since 2024, XL Bully dogs, with a dangerously-out-of-control offence for any dog.
Danggui San
当归散 (Danggui San, Danggui Powder), also called Antai Wan, is a five-herb classic Chinese medicine formula from Zhang Zhongjing's Jingui Yaolue, used to nourish blood, clear damp-heat, and calm the fetus, now studied mainly for recurrent miscarriage.
Danggui Yinzi
Danggui Yinzi (当归饮子) is a classic Chinese herbal formula for itching and skin disease, first recorded in 1253 and now used for urticaria, pruritus, and eczema.
Dango (団子)
Dango (団子) is a Japanese boiled rice-flour dumpling, usually served three to five per skewer as a wagashi snack. Varieties include mitarashi, hanami, and tsukimi dango; distinct from pounded mochi.
Dani Zamir
Dani Zamir (born 1950) is an Israeli plant geneticist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for tomato genetic resources enabling breeding from wild species.
Danicopan
Danicopan (Voydeya, ALXN2040) is an oral complement factor D inhibitor approved in 2024 as add-on to ravulizumab or eculizumab for extravascular hemolysis in adults with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, based on the phase 3 ALPHA trial.
Daniel A. Colón-Ramos
Daniel A. Colón-Ramos is a Puerto Rican-born neuroscientist, the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor at Yale School of Medicine, who studies how synapses are assembled and modified using C. elegans.
Daniel A. Dombeck
Daniel A. Dombeck is an American systems neuroscientist at Northwestern University who studies the brain circuits underlying navigation, imaging neurons in mice in virtual reality.
Daniel A. Goodenough
Daniel A. Goodenough (1944–2024) was an American cell biologist, Takeda Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, known for discovering ZO-1, the first tight junction protein, and naming connexin.
Daniel A. Haber
Daniel A. Haber is an American physician-scientist who directs the Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research at Massachusetts General Hospital and is a Harvard Medical School professor of oncology.
Daniel A. Heller
Daniel A. Heller is a nanomedicine researcher who heads the Cancer Nanomedicine Laboratory at the Sloan Kettering Institute and is Professor of Pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Daniel A. Lim
Daniel A. Lim is an American neuroscientist and neurosurgeon-scientist, professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies how chromatin regulators control neural stem cells and applies that work to glioblastoma.
Daniel A. Portnoy
Daniel A. Portnoy is an American microbiologist and immunologist at UC Berkeley known for his work on the intracellular bacterium Listeria monocytogenes and for turning that research into cancer immunotherapy platforms.