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David A. Bennett

David A. Bennett is an American neurologist who directs the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago, known for showing that most dementia arises from mixed brain pathologies.

David A. Bluemke

David A. Bluemke is an American radiologist and cardiovascular imaging researcher, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison since 2017 known for leading the MESA cardiac MRI studies.

David A. Braun

David A. Braun, also known as David Braun, is an American medical oncologist and physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine who treats kidney cancer and studies immunotherapy response.

David A. Bushinsky

David A. Bushinsky is an American nephrologist at the University of Rochester who led its nephrology division for 29 years and studied acid effects on bone.

David A. Chad

David A. Chad is a neuromuscular neurologist from Montreal who built and led the University of Massachusetts Neuromuscular Medicine Division for 26 years, until 2008.

David A. Cheresh

David A. Cheresh is an American cancer biologist and Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego known for defining how the integrin αvβ3 supports tumor angiogenesis.

David A. Clayton

David A. Clayton is an American molecular biologist known for the transcription-priming model of mitochondrial DNA replication, in which RNA transcripts serve as primers for DNA synthesis.

David A. Cooper

David A. Cooper (1949–2018) was an Australian immunologist and HIV researcher who diagnosed Australia's first HIV cases and led the Kirby Institute for 32 years.

David A. D’Alessio

David A. D'Alessio is an American physician-scientist who has been Chief of Duke's Division of Endocrinology since 2014, known for research on the incretin hormones GLP-1 and GIP in insulin secretion, type 2 diabetes, and obesity.

David A. Fiellin

David A. Fiellin, also published as David Fiellin, is an American primary care physician and addiction medicine researcher at Yale University known for clinical trials moving opioid dependence treatment into primary care.

David A. Grimes

David A. Grimes is an American physician and reproductive epidemiologist, Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

David A. Harris

David A. Harris is an American molecular biologist and physician-scientist who studies the cellular prion protein and Alzheimer's disease, chairing Biochemistry & Cell Biology at Boston University.

David A. Hopwood

Sir David Alan Hopwood, born in 1933, is a British microbial geneticist who founded Streptomyces genetics and co-ordinated the 2002 complete genome sequence of Streptomyces coelicolor.

David A. Kass

David A. Kass, also known as David Kass, is an American cardiologist at Johns Hopkins University known for research on cGMP signaling, phosphodiesterase enzymes, and heart failure.

David A. Leopold

David A. Leopold is a neuroscientist who leads the Section on Cognitive Neurophysiology and Imaging at the National Institute of Mental Health, studying visual perception since 2004.

David A. Lieberman

David A. Lieberman is a gastroenterologist at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, known for research that established colonoscopy as a colorectal cancer screening test for average-risk adults.

David A. Lomas

David A. Lomas is a British respiratory physician and scientist who defined how mutant alpha-1 antitrypsin polymerizes in liver cells, termed the serpinopathies, and is Professor of Medicine at University College London.

David A. McCarron

David A. McCarron is an American nephrologist and hypertension researcher who headed nephrology at Oregon Health & Science University and proposed in 1982 that low dietary calcium, not sodium, drives high blood pressure.

David A. McCormick

David A. McCormick is an American neuroscientist known for work on thalamocortical rhythms, sleep and arousal, and cerebellar learning, and director of the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Oregon since 2017.

David A. Morrow

David A. Morrow is an American cardiologist who directs the Samuel A. Levine Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is a Harvard Medical School professor.

David A. Patterson

David A. Patterson is an American molecular biologist and somatic-cell geneticist known for work on purine biosynthesis, Down syndrome, aging, and the c-mos oncogene in leukemia.

David A. Prince

David A. Prince (D. A. Prince) is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Stanford who studies cortical and thalamic excitability and chaired its neurology department for nearly two decades.

David A. Sack

David A. Sack, also known as David Sack, is an American infectious-disease epidemiologist and physician, a Johns Hopkins professor who led icddr,b in Bangladesh and advanced oral cholera vaccines.

David A. Scheinberg

David A. Scheinberg is an American physician-scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who treats leukemia and develops targeted cancer therapies, including alpha-particle radiopharmaceuticals and the WT1 vaccine.

David A. Shafritz

David A. Shafritz (1940–2025) was an American physician-scientist and hepatologist who spent over fifty years at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, directing its Marion Bessin Liver Research Center.

David A. Shub

David A. Shub is an American molecular biologist at SUNY Albany known for research on self-splicing group I introns and inteins in bacteriophages and bacteria.

David A. Stahl

David A. Stahl is an American environmental microbiologist who applied molecular tools to microbial communities and isolated the first ammonia-oxidizing archaeon, reported in Nature in 2005.

David A. Stevens

David A. Stevens is a Stanford physician-scientist in infectious diseases, known for work on fungal infections and for leading a San Jose research laboratory since 1973.

David A. Talan

David A. Talan is an American emergency medicine physician and infectious diseases researcher who built and led EMERGEncy ID NET and led the STOP MRSA and CODA trials.

David A. Thorley‐Lawson

David A. Thorley-Lawson was a British-born immunologist at Tufts University School of Medicine who proposed the germinal center model of Epstein-Barr virus latency and died in 2017.