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David C. Rubinsztein

David C. Rubinsztein is a South African-born clinician-scientist and Professor of Molecular Neurogenetics at Cambridge who pioneered autophagy upregulation as a therapy for neurodegenerative disease.

David C. Sabiston Jr.

David C. Sabiston Jr., also known as David Coston Sabiston Jr., was an American cardiac surgeon who performed the first recorded coronary artery bypass in 1962 and led Duke's surgery department for 30 years.

David C. Spray

David C. Spray is a neuroscientist and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, known for research on gap junctions, connexins, and pannexins.

David C. Van Essen

David C. Van Essen is an American neuroscientist at Washington University in St. Louis known for co-leading the Human Connectome Project and mapping 180 cortical areas per hemisphere in 2016.

David C. Wilbur

David C. Wilbur is an American cytopathologist, Professor of Pathology, Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, who led clinical trials of the first FDA-approved automated cervical cytology screening systems.

David C. Wraith

David C. Wraith is a British immunologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham, best known for his work on autoimmunity and antigen-specific peptide immunotherapy.

David C.S. Huang

David C.S. Huang, also known as David Ching Siang Huang, is a physician-scientist and laboratory head at WEHI in Melbourne whose Bcl-2 and apoptosis research underpinned the anti-cancer drug venetoclax.

David Camarillo

David Camarillo is an American bioengineer and associate professor at Stanford University who studies concussion biomechanics, known for instrumented mouthguards that measure head impacts and brain strain.

David Cella

David Cella is a clinical psychologist at Northwestern University known for building the science of patient-reported outcomes and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.

David Chaplin

David D. Chaplin is an American immunologist known for work on lymphotoxin signaling and lymphoid organ development, and chair of microbiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from 2001.

David Chilton Phillips

David Chilton Phillips, Baron Phillips of Ellesmere (1924–1999), was a British structural biologist who determined the first three-dimensional structure of an enzyme, lysozyme, and founded molecular biophysics at Oxford.

David Clark (rehabilitation scientist)

David J. Clark is an American rehabilitation scientist who studies the neural control of walking in older adults and stroke survivors at the University of Florida.

David Clayton

David Clayton, also known as David G. Clayton, is a British statistician and genetic epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge known for generalized linear mixed models and genome-wide association studies.

David Coggon

David Coggon is a British epidemiologist of occupational and environmental disease, Emeritus Professor at the University of Southampton, known for linking metal fume to pneumonia.

David Colman

David R. Colman (1949–2011) was an American neuroscientist known for research on myelin, glial cells, and the synapse, who directed McGill's Montreal Neurological Institute from 2002.

David Cortez

David Cortez is an American molecular biologist who studies how cells protect and repair DNA during replication, and chairs the Department of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

David Craik

David J. Craik is an Australian chemist at the University of Queensland who discovered the cyclotides, ultra-stable circular plant peptides, and applies them to peptide-based drug design.

David Crews

David Crews (1947–2025) was a behavioral endocrinologist and evolutionary biologist, the Ashbel Smith Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, known for his 1988 Nature paper on reptile incubation temperature.

David Cunningham (medical oncologist)

David Cunningham is a British medical oncologist who heads the Gastrointestinal and Lymphoma Unit at The Royal Marsden, specializing in colorectal, pancreatic, and esophageal cancer.

David Cushman

David W. Cushman was an American biochemist at the E.R. Squibb Institute who, with Miguel Ondetti, co-discovered captopril, the first orally active ACE inhibitor drug.

David D. Chang

David D. Chang is an American physician-scientist in cancer immunotherapy who co-founded and leads Allogene Therapeutics and, at Kite Pharma, led development of Yescarta, the first CAR T-cell therapy approved for non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

David D. Ginty

David D. Ginty is an American neurobiologist who studies touch, chair of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and an HHMI investigator elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.

David D. Moore

David D. Moore is an American molecular biologist whose laboratory discovered the nuclear receptors CAR and SHP, and who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

David D. Roberts

David D. Roberts is an American cancer biologist who spent over 40 years at the National Cancer Institute, where he identified CD47 as the key receptor for thrombospondin-1.

David D. Sabatini

David D. Sabatini is an Argentine-born American cell biologist, born in 1931, at NYU, known for the 1971 signal hypothesis and work on intracellular protein trafficking.

David D. Waters

David D. Waters is a Canadian-born cardiologist known for clinical trials of lipid-lowering therapy and as former Chief of Cardiology at San Francisco General Hospital.

David Denlinger

David Denlinger is an American insect physiologist at Ohio State University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004, known for defining how insects enter and exit diapause.

David DeRosier

David J. DeRosier is a structural biologist who, with Aaron Klug, computed the first 3D structure from electron micrographs in 1968, then spent his career at Brandeis University.

David Dilcher

David L. Dilcher, born in 1936, is an American paleobotanist who studies the origin and evolutionary success of flowering plants, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989.

David Drew (biochemist)

David Drew is a structural biologist and Professor of Biochemistry at Stockholm University, known for determining the structures of SLC solute transporters, including the fructose transporter GLUT5 and mammalian Na+/H+ exchangers.