Life and health

David Relman

David A. Relman is an American microbiologist and physician at Stanford University whose sequence-based methods identified uncultured disease-causing bacteria and opened the modern study of the human microbiome.

David Rimm

David L. Rimm is an American pathologist and the Anthony N. Brady Professor at Yale School of Medicine, known for inventing the AQUA quantitative pathology method and founding HistoRx.

David Rittenberg

David Rittenberg (1906–1970) was an American biochemist at Columbia University who, with Rudolph Schoenheimer, developed isotopic tracer techniques showing that body proteins and fats are constantly broken down and resynthesized.

David Ron

David Ron, born 1955 in Israel, is a physician-scientist and professor at the University of Cambridge known for defining the unfolded protein response and identifying PERK, CHOP, and mammalian IRE1.

David Rosner

David Rosner was an American historian of public health at Columbia University whose research on silicosis and lead poisoning was used in litigation over lead paint.

David Russel

David Russel, or David William Russell, is an American physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington known for hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy and gene targeting.

David S. Alberts

David S. Alberts, also known as David Alberts, was an American oncologist at the University of Arizona whose 1996 trial established intraperitoneal cisplatin for advanced ovarian cancer.

David S. Baldwin

David S. Baldwin (1921–2013) was an American physician-scientist in nephrology at NYU School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital, known for studies of glomerular disease, drug-induced interstitial nephritis, and poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis.

David S. Bredt

David S. Bredt is an American molecular neuroscientist who discovered neuronal nitric oxide synthase, defined PSD-95's scaffolding role at synapses, and later led neuroscience drug discovery at Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson.

David S. Celermajer

David S. Celermajer is an Australian cardiologist and Scandrett Professor of Cardiology at the University of Sydney, known for developing a non-invasive ultrasound technique for measuring arterial endothelial function and leading Australia's congenital heart disease registry.

David S. Cooper

David S. Cooper is an American thyroid endocrinologist, a Johns Hopkins professor for more than 30 years, known for work on Graves' disease, subclinical thyroid disease, and thyroid cancer guidelines.

David S. Hogness

David S. Hogness was an American molecular biologist and biochemist at Stanford whose Drosophila methods, including colony hybridization and chromosomal walking, made genome mapping possible.

David S. Hong

David S. Hong is an American medical oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center known for leading clinical trials of sotorasib, the first approved KRAS G12C drug.

David S. Ludwig

David S. Ludwig is an American endocrinologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard known for research on sugary drinks and the carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity.

David S. Park

David S. Park, also known as David Park, is a molecular neuroscientist who studies Parkinson's disease and stroke, and who led the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary.

David S. Roos

David S. Roos is an American biologist and E. Otis Kendall Professor at the University of Pennsylvania known for discovering the apicoplast and leading the PlasmoDB and EuPathDB databases.

David S. Siscovick

David S. Siscovick is an American physician and cardiovascular epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, known for research on sudden cardiac death and exercise.

David S. Stephens

David S. Stephens, also published as David Stephens, is an American infectious disease physician-scientist at Emory University, known for research on meningococcal and pneumococcal disease and vaccines.

David S. Wilcove

David S. Wilcove is a conservation ecologist, professor of ecology and public affairs at Princeton University, and author of The Condor's Shadow, known for research on deforestation and biodiversity loss.

David S. Wilkes

David S. Wilkes is an American pulmonary physician-scientist known for establishing autoimmunity's role in lung transplant rejection and dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine from 2015 to 2021.

David S. Wishart

David S. Wishart is a Canadian biochemist at the University of Alberta who led the Human Metabolome Project, built HMDB and DrugBank, and won the 2025 Herzberg Gold Medal.

David Saadoun

David Saadoun is a French professor of internal medicine and clinical immunology at Sorbonne Université and Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris, known for research on cryoglobulinemic vasculitis and Behçet's syndrome.

David Sancho

David Sancho is a Spanish immunologist who leads the Immunobiology Laboratory at the Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) in Madrid, known for identifying the dendritic cell receptor CLEC9A/DNGR-1.

David Savage

David Savage, also known as David F. Savage, is an American biochemist and genome engineer who is a professor at UC Berkeley and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

David Schlessinger

David Schlessinger is a Canadian-born molecular geneticist at the National Institute on Aging known for mapping the human X chromosome and the SardiNIA aging study.

David Schubert

David Schubert (1943–2020) was an American cell biologist and neurobiologist who founded and led the Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute, developing the Alzheimer's drug candidate J147.

David Self

David Self is an addiction neuroscientist known for laboratory work on cocaine relapse, a PECASE award recipient, and Professor of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

David Shaffer

David Shaffer (1936-2023), South African-born Columbia child psychiatrist and Irving Philips Professor, pioneered psychological autopsy studies of teen suicide, created Columbia TeenScreen, and led development of the DISC and C-GAS; ex-husband of Anna Wintour.

David Shalloway

David Shalloway is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at Cornell University who trained in theoretical physics and studies aberrant PTPalpha splicing in breast and colon cancers.