Life and health

David Shemin

David Shemin (1911–1991) was an American biochemist who pioneered stable-isotope tracers in human metabolism, tracing glycine into his own hemoglobin and discovering δ-aminolevulinic acid and the heme biosynthesis pathway.

David Sinclair (aging researcher)

David Sinclair is an Australian-born molecular geneticist and aging biologist, a tenured professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School known for work on sirtuins and NAD+.

Oct 10, 2026

David Sloan Wilson

David Sloan Wilson, born 1949, is an American evolutionary biologist and SUNY Distinguished Professor emeritus at Binghamton University known for reopening the group selection debate and developing multilevel selection theory.

David Smith (American microbiologist)

David J. Smith is an American NASA microbiologist who founded the Aerobiology Laboratory at Ames Research Center and won the Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.

David Solit

David B. Solit is an American medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who leads the Kravis Center for Molecular Oncology and its Extraordinary Responder Initiative.

David Spiegel

David Spiegel is an American psychiatrist at Stanford University School of Medicine, known for a 1989 Lancet trial linking group therapy to survival in metastatic breast cancer.

Oct 10, 2026

David Starr Jordan

David Starr Jordan (1851–1931) was an American ichthyologist credited with more than 2,500 fish species and the founding president of Stanford University from 1891 to 1913, who also led the early American eugenics movement.

David Stückler

David Stückler, who publishes as David Stuckler, is a political economy and public health researcher at Bocconi University, known for work linking austerity and privatization to mortality.

David Sulzer

David Sulzer, also known as the composer and performer Dave Soldier, is an American neuroscientist and professor at Columbia University who studies dopamine synapses, α-synuclein, and Parkinson's disease.

David Suzuki

David Takayoshi Suzuki (born 1936, Vancouver) is a Canadian geneticist, UBC zoology professor, CBC broadcaster hosting The Nature of Things from 1979, and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation in 1990.

David T. Bonthron

David T. Bonthron is a professor of molecular medicine at the University of Leeds and consultant clinical geneticist, known for imprinting research and rare disease gene discovery.

David T. Breault

David T. Breault is an American pediatric endocrinologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for stem cell research and the 2010 PECASE award.

David T. Burke

David T. Burke is an American geneticist at the University of Michigan who studies quantitative genetics of complex traits and received the 1996 PECASE award.

David T. Denhardt

David T. Denhardt (died 2020) was an American molecular biologist and emeritus Rutgers professor known for Denhardt's solution, work on phage φX-174 DNA replication, and decades of osteopontin research.

David T. Felson

David T. Felson is an American rheumatologist and epidemiologist at Boston University and the University of Manchester, known for research on osteoarthritis and bone density.

David T. Gibson

David T. Gibson (1938–2014) was a British-born American microbiologist who showed how bacteria degrade petroleum's aromatic hydrocarbons and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.

David T. Scadden

David T. Scadden is a Harvard stem cell biologist affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, known for showing that niches regulate blood-forming stem cells.

David T. Yue

David T. Yue (1957–2014) was an American biophysicist and physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University known for showing how calmodulin regulates voltage-gated calcium and sodium channels.

Oct 10, 2026

David Tillerson Smith

David Tillerson Smith (born 1898) was an American bacteriologist and pathologist at Duke University School of Medicine, known for research on tuberculosis, lung abscess, and fungal infections.

David Tilman

David Tilman is an American ecologist at the University of Minnesota, known for resource competition theory and Cedar Creek grassland experiments showing that plant diversity drives productivity and stability.

David Tollervey

David Tollervey is an RNA biologist and Professor of RNA Biology at the University of Edinburgh, known for work on ribosome synthesis and the exosome, elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004.

David Torgerson

David J. Torgerson is a British health economist and trials methodologist at the University of York, who directed the York Trials Unit from 2002 to 2023.

David Traver

David Traver is a stem cell biologist at UC San Diego who showed that blood-forming stem cells arise directly from the zebrafish dorsal aorta, winning a 2018 NIH award.

David Tuveson

David A. Tuveson is an American cancer biologist and medical oncologist, director of the Cancer Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, known for the first mouse models of pancreatic cancer.

David U. Himmelstein

David U. Himmelstein is an American physician and health-policy researcher, a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, CUNY, known for research on medical bankruptcy and health care administrative costs.

David V. Schaffer

David V. Schaffer is an American bioengineer at the University of California, Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his work on viral gene therapy vectors.

David Valle

David Valle is an American human geneticist and physician at Johns Hopkins, where he directed the McKusick-Nathans Institute and founded the Center for Inherited Disease Research.

David Van Vactor

David Van Vactor is an American neuroscientist and Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School, known for work on axon guidance and neuromuscular wiring in fruit flies.

David Veesler

David Veesler is a French-trained structural biologist, professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington, whose lab determined early atomic-level structures of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.