Life and health

David A. Tirrell

David A. Tirrell is an American polymer chemist at Caltech, its tenth provost since 2017, known for artificial proteins and incorporating non-canonical amino acids into living cells.

David A. Wardle

David A. Wardle is a New Zealand-born plant and ecosystem ecologist, professor of ecology at Umeå University since 2023, known for long-term experiments on boreal lake islands in Sweden.

David A. Warrell

David A. Warrell (D.A. Warrell), born 1939, is a British physician-scientist and Emeritus Professor of Tropical Medicine at Oxford, known for snakebite and malaria research.

David A. Wassarman is an American Drosophila geneticist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studied RNA polymerase II transcription and created a fly model of traumatic brain injury.

David A. Williams

David A. Williams is an American pediatric hematologist and gene therapy researcher who leads hematology at Boston Children's Hospital and is a Harvard Medical School professor.

David Aaron Kessler

David Aaron Kessler, born 1951, is an American pediatrician and lawyer who was FDA commissioner from 1990 to 1997 and later dean of the Yale and UCSF medical schools.

David Adams (cancer geneticist)

David J. Adams is a cancer geneticist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, England, who studies somatic mutations driving melanoma and other skin cancers.

Oct 10, 2026

David Agus

David Agus is an American medical oncologist and USC professor who is founding CEO of the Ellison Medical Institute and wrote the New York Times bestseller The End of Illness.

David Alastair Compston

David Alastair Compston, also known as David Alastair Standish Compston, is a British neurologist, Professor Emeritus at Cambridge, known for quantifying multiple sclerosis genetics and introducing alemtuzumab therapy.

David Alland

David Alland is an American infectious-diseases physician and researcher, professor and chief of infectious diseases at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, who led development of the Xpert MTB/RIF tuberculosis diagnostic.

David Allen Brenner

David Allen Brenner is an American hepatologist and physician-scientist, president and CEO of Sanford Burnham Prebys since 2022 and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

David Alpers

David H. Alpers is an American gastroenterologist and physician-scientist, emeritus William B. Kountz Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and a past president of the American Gastroenterological Association.

David Altshuler (geneticist)

David Altshuler is an American endocrinologist and human geneticist known for diabetes genetics and genome-wide association studies, and former chief scientific officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

David Amaral

David Amaral is an American neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at UC Davis, founding research director of the MIND Institute, founder of the Autism Phenome Project, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.

David Apirion

David Apirion was a molecular biologist at Washington University who showed how E. coli cuts its rRNA and tRNA transcripts, defining RNase III, E, and P.

David Arora

David Arora (born about 1952) is an American self-taught mycologist and writer, author of Mushrooms Demystified (1979; 2nd ed. 1986) and All That the Rain Promises and More (1991), founder of the Santa Cruz Fungus Fair and Wasson Award recipient.

David Artis

David Artis is an immunologist and Michael Kors Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, known for work on innate lymphoid cells and neuro-immune research.

David Attwell

David Attwell (born 1953) is a British neuroscientist and Jodrell Professor of Physiology at University College London, known for work on glial cells, brain energy budgets, and stroke.

David Axelrod

David Axelrod is an American transplantation researcher whose work covers kidney discards, transplant quality measurement, and using the Epic Cosmos electronic health record database for transplant research.

David B. Allison

David B. Allison is an American biostatistician and obesity researcher, known for the 2016 Nature commentary "Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors" and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2012.

Oct 10, 2026

David B. Beck

David B. Beck is an American clinical geneticist who led the 2020 discovery of VEXAS syndrome and directs an inflammatory disease genetics program at NYU Langone Health.

David B. Corry

David B. Corry is an American physician-scientist in immunology and pulmonary medicine at Baylor College of Medicine who showed interleukin 13 drives asthma and proposed airway mycosis.

David B. Lindenmayer

David B. Lindenmayer is an Australian conservation biologist and landscape ecologist, a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University known for his 2012 paper on the decline of large old trees.

David B. Pryor

David B. Pryor is an American cardiologist and health-services researcher known for the Duke treadmill score, and was Chief Medical Officer of Ascension Health from 2001 to 2011.

David B. Reuben

David B. Reuben is an American geriatrician and health services researcher who was chief of UCLA's geriatrics division until 2024 and led major dementia care and falls trials.

David B. Roth

David B. Roth is an American molecular biologist and pathologist known for work on V(D)J recombination and DNA repair in lymphocytes, and chair of pathology at Penn from 2011.

David B. Sykes

David B. Sykes is a hematologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for differentiation therapy in acute myeloid leukemia and for defining the TEMPI syndrome.

David B. Wake

David B. Wake (1936–2021) was an American evolutionary biologist and herpetologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for work on salamander diversification, evo-devo, and the salamander ring species Ensatina.

David B. Weiner

David B. Weiner is an American immunologist known as the father of DNA vaccines, who led the first clinical trials of DNA vaccines against HIV, MERS, and Zika.