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David J. Mangelsdorf
David J. Mangelsdorf (1958–2025) was an American molecular biologist and pharmacologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center who discovered the retinoid X receptor and characterized orphan nuclear receptors regulating metabolism.
David J. Pinsky
David J. Pinsky is an American physician-scientist and cardiologist who has led cardiovascular medicine at the University of Michigan since 2003, studying protection against ischemic injury.
David J. Prezant
David J. Prezant is an American pulmonologist, FDNY Chief Medical Officer, known for defining World Trade Center cough syndrome after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
David J. Sahn
David J. Sahn (1945–2021) was an American pediatric cardiologist who performed the first real-time two-dimensional echocardiogram in the United States in 1972 and pioneered Doppler color flow mapping.
David J. Salant
David J. Salant is a South African–trained nephrologist at Boston University whose 2009 discovery of the PLA2R antigen turned membranous nephropathy diagnosis from biopsy to blood test.
David J. Sherratt
David J. Sherratt is a British molecular biologist known for work on bacterial plasmids, site-specific recombination, and chromosome replication and segregation, appointed to Oxford's Iveagh Chair of Microbiology in 1994.
David J. Wyler
David J. Wyler is an American physician-scientist in infectious disease and geographic medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for research on malaria immunology.
David J.P. Barker
David J.P. Barker (1938–2013) was a British physician and epidemiologist at the University of Southampton, known for the Barker hypothesis that fetal undernutrition permanently programs susceptibility to chronic disease in later life.
David Jablonski
David Jablonski is an American paleobiologist and University of Chicago professor who studies macroevolution, mass extinction, and marine bivalves, and coined the concept of dead clade walking.
David Jackson (plant geneticist)
David Jackson, also published as David P. Jackson, is a British plant developmental geneticist and professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who studies maize stem-cell genes controlling yield.
David Jonathan Casarett
David Jonathan Casarett is an American physician-scientist in hospice and palliative medicine who leads palliative care at Duke University and created the Measuring What Matters quality indicators.
David Julius
David Julius is an American physiologist at UCSF known for identifying the capsaicin receptor TRPV1, work honored with the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
David K. Detweiler
David K. Detweiler (1919–2009) was an American veterinary cardiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, called the "Father of Veterinary Cardiology" and elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1974.
David Kabat
David Kabat is a virologist and Professor Emeritus of biochemistry at Oregon Health & Science University, known for work on Friend murine erythroleukemia virus and retroviral receptors.
David Keilin
David Keilin (1887–1963) was a British scientist, born in Moscow to a Polish family, who discovered cytochrome at Cambridge in 1925 and identified carbonic anhydrase as the first zinc-containing enzyme.
David Kendal Stevenson
David Kendal Stevenson is an American neonatologist and physician-scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for neonatal jaundice research and multiomics prediction of pregnancy complications.
David Kimelman
David Kimelman is a developmental biologist and professor at the University of Washington whose laboratory defined how FGF and TGF-β induce mesoderm and how Wnt signaling builds the vertebrate body axis.
David Kipnis
David M. Kipnis (1927–2014) was an American endocrinologist at Washington University in St. Louis whose 1967 quantification of the incretin effect underlies GLP-1 diabetes drugs.
David Kirk
David L. Kirk (1934–2018) was an American molecular biologist and professor emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, known for making Volvox a model system for studying multicellularity.
David Kirsch
David G. Kirsch is an American radiation oncologist and cancer biologist, a University of Toronto professor known for sarcoma mouse models and the SU2C-SARC032 immunotherapy trial.
David Klatzmann
David Klatzmann (born 1954) is a French immunologist and physician-scientist at Sorbonne Université and Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, known for identifying the AIDS virus's cellular target and pioneering low-dose interleukin-2 therapy.
David Kleinfeld
David Kleinfeld is an American physicist and systems neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego, known for applying lasers and optics to rodent whisker sensing and cortical blood flow.
David Komander
David Komander is a German-born biochemist and structural biologist who studies the ubiquitin system, discovered the deubiquitinase OTULIN, and has led the Ubiquitin Signalling Division at WEHI in Melbourne since 2018.
David Korn (pathologist)
David Korn (1933–2024) was an American pathologist and research-policy leader who was dean of the Stanford School of Medicine and Harvard's inaugural vice provost for research.
David L Stern
David L Stern is an American developmental and evolutionary biologist and HHMI Investigator known for showing that morphological evolution often acts through gene regulatory DNA.
David L. DeMets
David L. DeMets, born David Leon DeMets, is an American biostatistician who founded the biostatistics department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and co-developed the alpha spending function.
David L. Eaton
David L. Eaton is an American biochemical toxicologist at the University of Washington whose research explained how the body activates and detoxifies cancer-causing chemicals, especially aflatoxin B1.
David L. Garbers
David L. Garbers (1944–2006) was an American biochemist who defined the guanylyl cyclase receptor family and studied sperm–egg communication, spending 30 years as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
David L. Heymann
David L. Heymann is an American infectious disease epidemiologist who spent two decades at the World Health Organization, leading the global response to the 2003 SARS outbreak.
David L. Katz
David L. Katz, American physician and nutrition researcher; founder of Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, True Health Initiative, and Diet ID; past president of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.