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Dean M. Wingerchuk
Dean M. Wingerchuk is a neurologist and Chair of Neurology at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, known for the diagnostic criteria that defined NMOSD as distinct from multiple sclerosis.
Dean R. Hewish
Dean R. Hewish is a molecular biologist who reported in 1973 that nuclease digestion of chromatin DNA yields regularly spaced fragments, key evidence for the nucleosome model.
Dean Sheppard
Dean Sheppard is an American physician-scientist and UCSF professor of medicine whose laboratory showed that integrins such as αvβ6 activate latent TGF-β, driving pulmonary fibrosis.
Dean T. Jamison
Dean T. Jamison, also known as Dean Jamison, is an American health economist who led the World Bank's 1993 World Development Report, Investing in Health, and the Disease Control Priorities project.
Dean T. Mason
Dean T. Mason is an American cardiologist who founded the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at UC Davis in 1968 and served as president of the American College of Cardiology.
Dean V. Buonomano
Dean V. Buonomano, also published as Dean Buonomano, is a neuroscientist and professor of neurobiology and psychology at UCLA known for research on how the brain tells time.
Dean W. Felsher
Dean W. Felsher, also cited as Dean Felsher, is an American physician-scientist and Stanford oncology professor known for oncogene addiction, the finding that inactivating MYC can make tumors regress.
Dean Y. Li
Dean Y. Li is an American cardiologist and vascular biologist who leads Merck Research Laboratories, after two decades at the University of Utah studying blood vessel stability.
Deane F. Mosher
Deane F. Mosher is a professor of biomolecular chemistry and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose laboratory studies fibronectin, thrombospondins, and vitronectin in blood plasma and platelets.
Deanna L. Kroetz
Deanna L. Kroetz is an American pharmacogenomicist and dean of the College of Pharmacy at The Ohio State University, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2025.
Death
Death: permanent cessation of organism function, determined medically by circulatory-respiratory or neurologic (brain death) criteria under the 1981 UDDA; covers Harvard criteria, 2023 BD/DNC guidelines, DCD donation, and global mortality statistics.
Death by coconut
Death by coconut: fatalities from coconuts falling from 24–35 m palms, weighing 1–4 kg. The famous 150-deaths-per-year claim is an urban legend from a 2002 quote; documented injuries are real but deaths rare.
Death domain
Death domain (DD): a six-helical protein interaction module, first named in 1993 from TNFR1, that with its DED, CARD, and PYD subfamilies scaffolds apoptotic and inflammatory signaling complexes such as the DISC, apoptosome, PIDDosome, and Myddosome.
Death during consensual sex
Death during consensual sex, usually sudden cardiac death from myocardial infarction or arrhythmia triggered by the modest 3-5 MET exertion of intercourse; rare, about 0.2% of sudden cardiac deaths, mostly older men with coronary disease.
Death from laughter
Death from laughter: fatal collapse during intense laughter, chiefly through cardiac events such as torsade de pointes in long QT syndrome, or via laughter-induced (gelastic) syncope; famous case is Chrysippus, who reportedly died laughing at a donkey eating figs.
Death of Alexis Martínez
Death of Alexis Martínez, Spanish orca trainer (Alexis Martínez Hernández) killed 24 December 2009 by the SeaWorld-loaned orca Keto at Loro Parque, Tenerife; autopsy showed compression fractures and bite marks, two months before Dawn Brancheau's death.
Death of Gloria Ramirez
Death of Gloria Ramirez, the 1994 "Toxic Lady" case at Riverside General Hospital, California, where ER staff fell ill from fumes during her treatment; official cause was kidney failure from cervical cancer, with disputed mass-hysteria and DMSO-to-dimethyl-sulfate explanations.
Death of Leah Betts
Leah Betts (Leah Sarah Betts, 1977–1995) was an Essex schoolgirl who died in 1995 of water intoxication after taking an ecstasy tablet at her 18th birthday party.
Death of Steve Irwin
The death of Steve Irwin occurred on 4 September 2006, when a stingray barb pierced the "Crocodile Hunter's" heart while he snorkeled at Batt Reef, Queensland.
Death Receptor Signaling
Death Receptor Signaling: apoptosis pathway from TNFRSF death receptors (TNFR1, Fas/CD95, TRAIL-R1/2, DR3, DR6) via death domains, FADD, DISC, caspase-8; also NF-kappaB survival signaling.
Death-grip syndrome
Death-grip syndrome is slang for penile desensitization from frequent, high-pressure masturbation, making partnered climax difficult; not a formal diagnosis, it maps onto delayed ejaculation and is managed by masturbatory retraining.
Death-inducing signaling complex
Death-inducing signaling complex (DISC): the Fas/CD95 and TRAIL receptor (DR4/DR5) membrane platform of FADD, caspase-8/-10, and c-FLIP that activates caspase-8 by proximity-induced dimerization to start extrinsic apoptosis; structurally a 7:5 Fas-FADD DD oligomer with DED filaments.
Death's-head hawkmoth
Death's-head hawkmoth, any of three Acherontia species (atropos, styx, lachesis) of Old World sphingid moths with a skull-like thorax mark, honeybee kleptoparasitism, and a pharyngeal squeak of ca. 200 ms peaking near 8 kHz.
Deathstalker
Deathstalker (Leiurus quinquestriatus), also called Egyptian or yellow scorpion, a highly venomous buthid scorpion of North Africa and the Middle East, with mouse LD50 around 0.25–0.33 mg/kg and venom used to derive chlorotoxin for cancer research.
Debabrata Mukhopadhyay
Debabrata Mukhopadhyay, known professionally as Dev Mukhopadhyay, is a molecular biologist and professor at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, who studies the tumor microenvironment, angiogenesis, and nanomedicine.
Debarati Guha-Sapir
Debarati Guha-Sapir, born 1953, is a Belgian epidemiologist who directed CRED at UCLouvain from 1992 to 2021 and built EM-DAT, the standard international disaster database.
Debaryomyces
Debaryomyces, a genus of ascomycetous budding yeasts (family Debaryomycetaceae, synonym Wingea); its type species D. hansenii is a halotolerant, Na+-including yeast of cheese, sausages, and brines, growing up to 4 M NaCl.
Debashish Bhattacharya
Debashish Bhattacharya is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University known for algal genomics, the origin of the plastid, and single-cell genomics of marine protists, including the 2012 Cyanophora paradoxa genome paper.
Debbie A. Lawlor
Debbie A. Lawlor, also published as Deborah Lawlor, is a British epidemiologist and BHF Professor at the University of Bristol, known for Mendelian randomization and perinatal health research.
Debby Reynolds
Debby Reynolds (Debby Reynolds BVSc PhD MRCVS) is a British veterinary surgeon; UK Chief Veterinary Officer and Defra Director General Animal Health and Welfare 2004–2007, succeeding Jim Scudamore, handing over to Fred Landeg; distinct from the Tennessee and Toronto veterinarians of the same name.