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David M. Nathan

David M. Nathan is an American endocrinologist who directed the Clinical Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and led the DCCT and Diabetes Prevention Program trials.

David M. Ornitz

David M. Ornitz is a molecular biologist and physician-scientist, the Alumni Endowed Professor of Developmental Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, known for his work on FGF signaling in development.

David M. Prescott

David M. Prescott (1926–2011) was an American molecular biologist at the University of Colorado Boulder who discovered DNA sequence diminution and internal eliminated segments in ciliate genomes.

David M. Sabatini

David M. Sabatini is an American biochemist who discovered mTOR as a Johns Hopkins student in 1994, mapped the mTORC1 and mTORC2 complexes, and now leads a lab at IOCB Prague.

David M. Shahian

David M. Shahian is a cardiac surgeon and outcomes researcher, Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for leading the Society of Thoracic Surgeons public reporting programs.

David M. Tarlinton

David M. Tarlinton is an Australian immunologist who heads Immunology and Pathology at Monash University in Melbourne, known for showing that Mcl-1 is essential for B cell memory.

David M. Tobin

David M. Tobin is a molecular geneticist at Duke University who uses zebrafish and Mycobacterium marinum to find host genes governing tuberculosis susceptibility, showing genotype-tailored therapy may help.

David M. Underhill

David M. Underhill is an immunologist, professor, and chair of Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, known for defining how the innate immune receptor Dectin-1 detects fungi.

David M. Virshup

David M. Virshup is an American physician-scientist and cancer biologist known for research on Wnt signaling, and a professor at Duke University School of Medicine.

David M. Weinstock

David M. Weinstock is a physician-scientist in hematologic oncology who led a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute laboratory from 2008 to 2022 and created the PRoXe leukemia model repository.

David M.J. Lilley

David M.J. Lilley (born 1948) is a British biochemist at the University of Dundee known for his work on branched nucleic acids, especially the Holliday junction.

David Mabey

David Mabey is a British physician and Professor of Communicable Diseases at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine whose research shaped trachoma treatment.

David Mahlon Bonner

David Mahlon Bonner (1916–1964) was an American biochemical geneticist whose work on Neurospora crassa helped establish the one gene–one enzyme view; he was professor of microbiology at Yale and founding chair of biology at UCSD.

David Mant

David Mant is a British public-health physician and emeritus Professor of General Practice at the University of Oxford, known for research on early diagnosis in primary care.

David Marine

David Marine (1880–1976) was an American pathologist whose animal experiments and Akron, Ohio school-based iodine trial showed iodine prevents simple goiter, the finding behind iodized table salt.

David Masopust

David Masopust is an American immunologist at the University of Minnesota known for identifying tissue-resident memory T cells, a major component of the immune system.

David Mataix‐Cols

David Mataix-Cols is a clinical psychologist and professor of child and adolescent psychiatric science at Karolinska Institutet, known for reshaping how obsessive-compulsive disorder is classified and treated.

David Mervyn Blow

David Mervyn Blow (1931–2004) was a British biophysicist who helped found protein crystallography, developing isomorphous replacement and molecular replacement, and was professor of biophysics at Imperial College London from 1977.

David Meyers

David Meyers was an American family physician and health services researcher who served as Deputy Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality until his death in 2023.

David Molyneux

David Molyneux, born in 1943, is a British parasitologist and emeritus professor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine known for pioneering work on neglected tropical diseases.

David Mooney (bioengineer)

David J. Mooney is a bioengineer, the Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor at Harvard SEAS and a Wyss Institute founding core faculty member, known for the first implantable biomaterial cancer vaccine.

David Morens

David M. Morens, epidemiologist and NIAID senior advisor 2006-2022 under Anthony Fauci, co-authored landmark pandemic influenza papers with Jeffery Taubenberger; in 2026 he pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the U.S. by hiding COVID-19 grant records on personal Gmail to evade FOIA.

David Mouillot

David Mouillot (born 1970) is a French marine ecologist and professor at the Université de Montpellier, known for his 2016 Nature paper on coral reef bright spots.

David N. Herndon

David N. Herndon (born 1950) is an American burn surgeon, Chief of Staff at Shriners Galveston, known for burn metabolism research and editing Total Burn Care.

David N. Juurlink

David N. Juurlink is a Canadian physician-scientist in clinical pharmacology and medical toxicology at the University of Toronto, known for population-based studies of adverse drug events and opioid safety.

David N. Orth

David N. Orth, born 1933, is an American endocrinologist who directed Vanderbilt's endocrinology division from 1968 to 1997, trained under Grant Liddle, and served as president of the Endocrine Society.

David N. Reznick

David N. Reznick (born 1952) is an American evolutionary biologist and Distinguished Professor at UC Riverside whose Trinidadian guppy experiments showed evolution by natural selection can be remarkably fast.

David Nabarro

Sir David Nabarro (1949–2025) was a British physician and public health specialist who served 18 years in senior UN and WHO crisis-response posts, including Ebola envoy.

David Nachmansohn

David Nachmansohn (1899–1983) was a German-born American biochemist who worked at Columbia University on the biochemistry of nerve activity, especially the role of acetylcholine in bioelectricity.

David Neal Franz

David Neal Franz, also published as David N. Franz, is an American child neurologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital who founded its Tuberous Sclerosis Clinic in 1992.