Life and health

David Dubnau

David Dubnau is an American microbiologist and professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, known for his work on genetic competence and natural transformation in Bacillus subtilis.

David Dupret

David Dupret is a cognitive neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience at Oxford, leading an MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit group studying the brain network physiology of memory.

David Dwight Baldwin

David Dwight Baldwin was an American businessman, educator, and biologist on Maui, Hawaii, known for naming and describing Hawaiian land snails and for collecting hundreds of mollusk specimens.

David E. Cane

David E. Cane is a biological chemist at Brown University known for his work on terpenoid biosynthesis, polyketide synthases, and vitamin B6 formation in E. coli.

David E. Clapham

David E. Clapham is an American ion channel and calcium-signaling biologist, a Harvard Medical School professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator known for TRP channels and CatSper.

David E. Comings (born 1935) is an American physician and medical geneticist who headed genetics at City of Hope in Duarte, California, and later proposed contested genetic models of Tourette syndrome and ADHD.

David E. Cummings

David E. Cummings is an American endocrinologist and University of Washington professor who established ghrelin's role in mealtime hunger and helped create metabolic surgery for diabetes.

David E. Fisher

David E. Fisher is an American physician-scientist who chairs the Department of Dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital and is a Harvard professor known for melanoma research.

David E. Goldman

David E. Goldman, born David Eliot Goldman, was an American biophysicist whose 1943 constant-field equation underlies the Goldman–Hodgkin–Katz equation, still standard for interpreting membrane potentials and ion-channel selectivity.

David E. Green

David E. Green (1910–1983) was an American biochemist who codirected the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was a central figure in research on the respiratory chain and oxidative phosphorylation.

David E. Housman

David E. Housman is an American geneticist, MIT biology professor since 1975, known for identifying the Wilms' tumor gene WT1 and the trinucleotide repeat expansion causing myotonic dystrophy.

David E. Kuhl

David E. Kuhl (1929–2017) was an American physician and nuclear-medicine scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who built the first emission tomography scanners, founding SPECT and PET.

David E. Levy

David E. Levy is an American biologist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies the JAK–STAT pathway, interferon immunity, and STAT3's role in cancer metabolism.

David E. Longnecker

David E. Longnecker is an American physician-anesthesiologist who chaired Anesthesiology at the University of Pennsylvania, led Penn Medicine as corporate chief medical officer, and held national AAMC roles.

David E. Neal

David E. Neal, born 1951, is a British surgical oncologist and urologist who led the ProtecT and CAP trials that shaped prostate cancer treatment, holding chairs at Cambridge and Oxford.

David E. Newby

David E. Newby, also published as David Ernest Newby, is a British cardiologist at the University of Edinburgh who led the SCOT-HEART trial of CT coronary angiography.

David E. Poswillo

David Ernest Poswillo (1927–2003) was a New Zealand-born oral and maxillofacial surgeon and teratologist, professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London, from 1983 to 1992.

David E. Richardson

David E. Richardson is an American NOAA fishery biologist known for his 2016 discovery of an Atlantic bluefin tuna spawning ground in the Slope Sea.

David E. Salt

David E. Salt is a British plant biologist who founded ionomics, the high-throughput study of mineral composition of organisms, known for phytoremediation and work at Nottingham.

David E. Trentham

David E. Trentham is an American rheumatologist and Harvard Medical School associate professor in Boston, known for collagen autoimmunity research and the 1993 oral type II collagen rheumatoid arthritis trial.

David E. Wennberg

David E. Wennberg is an American cardiologist and health-services researcher known for a 2002 New England Journal of Medicine study linking surgical death rates to hospital volume.

David Eagleman

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist, author, and inventor who teaches at Stanford University, works on synesthesia and time perception, founded Neosensory, and wrote the book Livewired.

David Eidelberg

David Eidelberg is an American neurologist and neuroimaging researcher, professor and neuroscience center director at the Feinstein Institutes, known for network imaging biomarkers in Parkinson's disease.

David Eisenberg

David S. Eisenberg is an American biochemist and structural biologist at UCLA known for determining atomic structures of amyloid fibrils and designing inhibitors of toxic protein aggregation.

David Epel

David Epel is a marine biologist and emeritus professor at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California, where he worked from 1965 to 2009.

David Erlinge

David Erlinge (D Erlinge) is a Swedish cardiologist, Professor of Cardiology at Lund University, and head of cardiology at Skåne University Hospital, known for leading major coronary trials.

David F. Horrobin

David F. Horrobin (1939–2003) was a British physiologist and pharmaceutical entrepreneur known for the prostaglandin–schizophrenia hypothesis, his essential fatty acid research, and his critique of grant peer review.

David F. Ransohoff

David F. Ransohoff, also published as David Ransohoff, is an American professor of medicine and epidemiology at UNC Chapel Hill known for evaluating cancer screening tests.

David Feldman (American endocrinologist)

David Feldman is an American endocrinologist and Stanford professor emeritus known for showing in 1984 that the anesthetic etomidate blocks adrenal steroidogenesis, and for vitamin D receptor research.