Life and health

David Vetter

David Phillip Vetter, the "Bubble Boy" (1971–1984), was an American boy with X-linked SCID who lived twelve years in sterile plastic isolators, received a 1983 sister-donor marrow transplant, and died at 12; his cells later identified the SCID gene.

David W. Bates

David W. Bates is an American physician-scientist, Harvard Medical School professor, and director of the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice at Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for computerized physician order entry research.

David W. Christianson

David W. Christianson is an American biological chemist, the Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for structural studies of terpenoid cyclases and metalloenzymes.

David W. Denning

David W. Denning is a British infectious diseases physician-scientist and Professor at the University of Manchester, known for his work on aspergillosis, azole antifungal resistance, and echinocandin drugs.

David W. Dodick

David W. Dodick is a Canadian-trained neurologist known for headache medicine, migraine therapeutics, and concussion, now at the Atria Research Institute and Professor Emeritus at Mayo Clinic in Arizona.

David W. Dowdy

David W. Dowdy is an American physician and infectious-disease epidemiologist, Executive Vice Dean at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, known for mathematical modeling of tuberculosis diagnosis.

David W. Ehrhardt

David W. Ehrhardt is a plant cell biologist who directs a laboratory at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology in Stanford, California, studying plant cell development and morphogenesis.

David W. Eyre

David W. Eyre is an infectious diseases physician-scientist and Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Oxford, known for genomic studies of hospital outbreaks and COVID-19 transmission.

David W. Golde

David W. Golde (1940–2004) was an American hematologist and oncologist whose laboratory purified human GM-CSF and derived the KG-1 leukemia cell line, later serving as Physician-in-Chief at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.

David W. Kimberlin

David W. Kimberlin is an American pediatric infectious diseases researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, leading the NIH-funded Collaborative Antiviral Study Group and editing the 2021 Red Book.

David W. Melton

David W. Melton is a molecular biologist who holds the Chair in Somatic Cell Genetics at the University of Edinburgh and heads its DNA Repair and Cancer Research Group.

David W. Reynolds

David W. Reynolds, also published as D. W. Reynolds, was an American epidemiologist at the University of Alabama in Birmingham whose landmark papers defined congenital cytomegalovirus infection.

David W. Russell

David W. Russell is an American molecular geneticist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who defined the pathways by which the body breaks down cholesterol into bile acids and steroid hormones.

David W. Schindler

David W. Schindler (1940–2021) was an American-born Canadian limnologist who directed the Experimental Lakes Area in Ontario and proved phosphorus, not carbon, drives lake eutrophication.

David W. Talmage

David W. Talmage (1919–2014) was an American immunologist and distinguished professor at the University of Colorado, known for conceiving the clonal selection theory of antibody formation.

David W. Tank

David W. Tank is an American neuroscientist and physicist, a Princeton professor who worked at Bell Laboratories and is known for functional MRI and two-photon imaging of neural dynamics.

David Wade Clapp

David Wade Clapp is an American neonatologist and physician-scientist who chairs Pediatrics at Indiana University, leads Riley Hospital for Children, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020.

David Wallach

David Wallach, born 1946, is an Israeli immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for work on tumor necrosis factor and death receptor signaling.

David Watson (psychologist)

David Watson is an American clinical and personality psychologist, professor emeritus at Notre Dame, known for the PANAS mood scales, negative affectivity research, and co-founding HiTOP.

David Weatherall

Sir David Weatherall (1933–2018) was a British haematologist who showed that thalassaemia results from imbalanced globin chain synthesis, founded Oxford's Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, and was knighted in 1987.

David Werring

David J. Werring is a British neurologist and Professor of Clinical Neurology at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, known for research on cerebral microbleeds and intracerebral hemorrhage.

David Westaway

David Westaway is a Canadian prion disease researcher who co-discovered the prion gene encoding PrPC, co-created the TgCRND8 Alzheimer's mouse model, and directed the University of Alberta's Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases.

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David Weyhe Smith

David Weyhe Smith (1926–1981) was an American pediatrician at the University of Washington who founded dysmorphology, the study of congenital malformation patterns, and co-described fetal alcohol syndrome in 1973.

David Wotton

David Wotton is a molecular biologist and professor of biochemistry at the University of Virginia, known for identifying the TGIF corepressors in TGF-beta signaling and linking TGIF mutations to holoprosencephaly.

David Y. Mason

David Y. Mason (1941–2008) was a British immunopathologist and hematologist at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital whose 1983 study established monoclonal-antibody staining as a reliable test for lymphoma.

David Yaffe (molecular biologist)

David Yaffe (1929–2020) was an Israeli molecular biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science who helped found the study of muscle cell formation and developed the widely used C2C12 muscle cell line.

David Yi‐Yung Hsia

David Yi-Yung Hsia (1925–1972) was an American pediatrician and biochemical geneticist, born in Shanghai, who developed the phenylalanine tolerance test and newborn blood screening for phenylketonuria and studied galactosemia.

David Z. Rudner

David Z. Rudner is a microbiologist and Professor of Microbiology at Harvard Medical School since 2003, known for work on chromosome segregation and spore formation in Bacillus subtilis.

David Z.I. Cherney

David Z.I. Cherney (David Zev Isaac Cherney) is a Canadian nephrologist and University of Toronto professor who directs the Renal Physiology Laboratory and studies SGLT2 inhibitors in diabetic kidney disease.