Life and health

David L. Olive

David L. Olive is an American reproductive endocrinologist and gynecologist known for his New England Journal of Medicine reviews of endometriosis and for co-founding the Wisconsin Fertility Institute.

David L. Rimoin

David L. Rimoin (1936–2012) was a Canadian-born medical geneticist who founded the American Board and College of Medical Genetics, directed Cedars-Sinai's Medical Genetics Institute, and established the genetic heterogeneity of diabetes and skeletal dysplasias.

David L. Sackett

David L. Sackett, also known as D L Sackett, was a Canadian clinical epidemiologist called the father of evidence-based medicine, who founded McMaster's department of clinical epidemiology.

David L. Spector

David L. Spector is an American molecular cell biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory known for work on nuclear speckles, live-cell imaging, and long non-coding RNAs in cancer.

David L. Thomas

David L. Thomas is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University known for research on viral hepatitis, especially hepatitis C in people living with HIV.

David L. Vaux

David L. Vaux, born 1959 in Melbourne, is an Australian molecular biologist who identified BCL2, the first component of cell death found in any organism, and campaigns for research integrity.

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David Lack

David Lack (1910–1973) was a British ornithologist and ecologist who directed the Edward Grey Institute at Oxford from 1945 to 1973, known for the clutch-size principle and Darwin's Finches.

David Laid

David Laid, Estonian-American fitness influencer and Gymshark Creative Director of Lifting, famous for his viral 3 Year Natural Transformation 14-17 video; his natural status is unverified and debated (FFMI about 22.4).

David Lawrence Sacks

David Lawrence Sacks (born 1950) is an American parasitologist who studies Leishmania at NIAID and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

David Leslie Hawksworth

David Leslie Hawksworth (born 1946, Sheffield) is a British mycologist and lichenologist, former Director of the International Mycological Institute, known for fungal diversity estimates, lichen pollution scales, nomenclature, and forensic mycology.

David Levens

David Levens is a Senior Investigator and head of the Gene Regulation Section at the National Cancer Institute, studying how c-Myc and DNA topology control transcription.

David Leys

David Leys is a British-based structural biologist and biochemist, Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Manchester, known for determining the first reductive dehalogenase structure and the prenylated FMN cofactor.

David Littmann

David Littmann (1906–1981) was an American cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor who patented the lightweight two-sided Littmann stethoscope in 1966, sold by 3M from 1967.

David Luck

David Luck (1929–1998) was an American molecular geneticist and cell biologist at Rockefeller University who used the alga Chlamydomonas to dissect the genetics of mitochondria and flagella.

David Lyden

David Lyden is a physician-scientist and pediatric neuro-oncologist at Weill Cornell Medicine who defined the pre-metastatic niche, showing how tumor exosomes prepare distant organs for metastasis.

David M. Carlisle

David M. Carlisle is an American physician and health services researcher who has served as President and CEO of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles since 2011.

David M. Glover

David M. Glover, born 1948, is a cell biologist who discovered the Polo and Aurora kinase families regulating cell division, and has taught at Caltech since 2019.

David M. Goldenberg

David M. Goldenberg, born in Brooklyn, is an American physician-scientist who pioneered radiolabeled antibodies for cancer detection and therapy, and developed the FDA-approved drug Trodelvy.

David M. Greer

David M. Greer is an American neurologist and neurointensivist who has chaired neurology at Boston University since 2017 and led the World Brain Death Project and the 2023 brain death guideline.

David M. Herrington

David M. Herrington is an American cardiologist and professor of cardiovascular medicine and epidemiology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, known for the 2000 ERA hormone-therapy trial.

David M. Holtzman

David M. Holtzman is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis who studies Alzheimer's disease and directs the Knight Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.

David M. Hyman

David M. Hyman is an American oncologist specializing in precision medicine who led the vemurafenib and larotrectinib basket trials and became Eli Lilly's Chief Medical Officer in 2024.

David M. J. S. Bowman

David M. J. S. Bowman, also published as David Bowman, is an Australian fire scientist who holds the research chair in Pyrogeography and Fire Science at the University of Tasmania.

David M. Kingsley

David M. Kingsley is an American developmental and evolutionary geneticist, a Stanford professor and HHMI Investigator known for mapping genes behind bone development and stickleback evolution.

David M. Knipe

David M. Knipe is an American virologist and Higgins Professor at Harvard Medical School, known for work on herpesvirus latency and viral epigenetics, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

David M. Kranz

David M. Kranz is a professor emeritus of biochemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for co-developing yeast display to engineer high-affinity T cell receptors for cancer immunotherapy.

David M. Langenau

David M. Langenau is a cancer biologist and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Mass General, known for creating the first transgenic zebrafish cancer model.

David M. Lawrence

David M. Lawrence is an American physician-executive, board certified in preventive medicine, who led Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals as CEO and chairman from 1991 to 2002.

David M. Livingston

David M. Livingston (1941–2021) was an American molecular biologist and physician who spent nearly five decades at Dana-Farber and Harvard, known for work on RB and BRCA1/2.