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Daniel Goldman (neuroscientist)

Daniel Goldman is a molecular biologist and neuroscientist at the University of Michigan Medical School, where he studies how zebrafish regenerate the retina and optic nerve after injury.

Daniel H. Geschwind

Daniel H. Geschwind is an American neurologist and human geneticist at UCLA who pioneered gene co-expression network analysis defining the molecular pathology of autism and dementia.

Daniel H. Janzen

Daniel H. Janzen (born 1939) is an American tropical ecologist known for work on plant–animal interactions and for building Área de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica.

Daniel H. Lowenstein

Daniel H. Lowenstein is an American neurologist and epileptologist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on status epilepticus, large-scale epilepsy genetics programs, and medical education reform.

Daniel H. Solomon

Daniel H. Solomon is a rheumatologist and pharmacoepidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a Harvard Medical School professor known for research on cardiovascular risk in rheumatoid arthritis.

Daniel Hale Williams

Daniel Hale Williams (1856–1931), American surgeon, founded Chicago's interracial Provident Hospital in 1891, sutured James Cornish's pericardium after a heart stab wound in 1893, co-founded the National Medical Association, and was the first Black Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Daniel Herschlag

Daniel Herschlag is an American biochemist and professor of biochemistry at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, known for the RNA chaperone hypothesis and catalytic promiscuity.

Daniel Hillel

Daniel Hillel was an Israeli-American soil and water scientist who received the 2012 World Food Prize for micro-irrigation, taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and died in 2021.

Daniel Hunt

Daniel P. Hunt is an American hospitalist and professor of medicine directing the Division of Hospital Medicine at Emory, known for New England Journal of Medicine clinicopathologic case conferences.

Daniel I. Arnon

Daniel I. Arnon (1910–1994) was a Polish-born American plant physiologist and biochemist at UC Berkeley who discovered photophosphorylation and first achieved photosynthesis outside the living cell.

Daniel I. Sessler

Daniel I. Sessler is an American anesthesiologist and perioperative outcomes researcher whose trials showed mild hypothermia during surgery raises wound-infection risk, making warming standard practice.

Daniel J Firl

Daniel J Firl is an American physician-scientist and general surgery resident at Duke University Hospital. He is known for developing the HALT-HCC risk score for liver transplants.

Daniel J. Donoghue

Daniel J. Donoghue, also published as D J Donoghue, is an American biochemist and cancer researcher, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UC San Diego.

Daniel J. Drucker

Daniel J. Drucker (born 1956) is a Canadian endocrinologist and diabetes researcher at the University of Toronto whose work on the GLP-1 and GLP-2 hormones underlies major type 2 diabetes and obesity drugs.

Daniel J. Garry

Daniel J. Garry is an American cardiologist and molecular biologist at the University of Minnesota who studies heart stem cells and engineered pig hearts for transplantation.

Daniel J. Klionsky

Daniel J. Klionsky is an American cell biologist at the University of Michigan who studies autophagy in yeast, helped identify many ATG genes, and leads the field's assay guidelines.

Daniel J. Kronauer

Daniel J. Kronauer is a behavioral biologist who leads the Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior at The Rockefeller University and has been an HHMI Investigator since 2021.

Daniel J. Lew

Daniel J. Lew is an American cell biologist, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor at Duke University, who studies how yeast cells establish polarity via the Cdc42 GTPase.

Daniel J. Lovell

Daniel J. Lovell is an American pediatric rheumatologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, known for pivotal trials of biologic therapies in juvenile idiopathic arthritis published from 2000 to 2012.

Daniel J. Müller

Daniel J. Müller is a Swiss-based biophysicist and chair of biophysics and bionanotechnology at ETH Zurich in Basel, where he develops atomic force microscopy methods for living systems.

Daniel J. Rader

Daniel J. Rader is an American physician-scientist in human genetics and lipid metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania, chair of its Department of Genetics since 2014.

Daniel J. Sargent

Daniel J. Sargent, also known as Daniel Sargent, was an American biostatistician at Mayo Clinic who designed cancer clinical trials until his death in 2016.

Daniel J. Siegwart

Daniel J. Siegwart is a biochemist and nanomedicine researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center who developed SORT lipid nanoparticles for tissue-specific mRNA delivery and CRISPR gene editing.

Daniel Jarosz

Daniel F. Jarosz is a Stanford molecular biologist who studies prions as protein-based molecular memories regulating gene expression, and became Stanford Medicine's first senior associate dean for basic science in 2025.

Daniel Kahne

Daniel Kahne is a chemical biologist, Higgins Professor and department chair at Harvard, known for identifying the Bam complex and discovering antibiotics that trap LPS in its transporter.

Daniel Kalderon

Daniel Kalderon, born 1959, is a molecular biologist and professor at Columbia University known for identifying the nuclear location signal and for studying Hedgehog signaling in Drosophila.

Daniel Kaplan (dermatologist)

Daniel H. Kaplan is a dermatologist and immunologist, Professor of Dermatology and Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh, studying how sensory neurons shape skin immunity.

Daniel Kaul

Daniel R. Kaul is an American infectious diseases physician and Clinical Professor at the University of Michigan who directs the Transplant Infectious Disease Service and studies donor-derived infections.

Daniel Kolakofsky

Daniel Kolakofsky (born 1943) is a Canadian virologist known for the rule of six governing paramyxovirus RNA synthesis and for Sendai virus research.

Daniel Kraft (physician-scientist)

Daniel Kraft is an American physician-scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur trained at Brown, Stanford, and Harvard, known for "exponential medicine," the MarrowMiner device, and founding NextMed Health.