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Denis Le Bihan

Denis Le Bihan is a French physician and physicist who invented diffusion MRI, used to diagnose acute stroke, and co-invented diffusion tensor imaging of brain connections.

Denis Monard

Denis Monard (born 1941) is a Swiss cellular and molecular neuroscientist who discovered glia-derived nexin, a protease inhibitor promoting neurite outgrowth, and distinguished it from nerve growth factor while directing the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel.

Denis Paré

Denis Paré is a Canadian systems neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University–Newark, known for identifying amygdala intercalated neurons that regulate fear, with implications for PTSD research.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

Denis Parsons Burkitt (1911–1993) was a British surgeon who worked in Uganda, mapped the childhood cancer Burkitt lymphoma across Africa, and later campaigned for dietary fiber.

Denis Wirtz

Denis Wirtz is a cell biologist and biophysicist at Johns Hopkins University, vice provost for research since 2014, known for particle-tracking microrheology and cell migration research.

Denisa D. Wagner

Denisa D. Wagner is the Edwin Cohn Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, known for her work on von Willebrand factor and thrombosis.

Denise Austin

Denise Austin (born 1957) is an American fitness instructor and TV personality, co-host of The Jack LaLanne Show, Today show fitness expert, and host of ESPN and Lifetime workout shows, with over 25 million videos sold and 12 books.

Denise J. Jamieson

Denise J. Jamieson is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and public health researcher who became dean of the University of Iowa's Carver College of Medicine in 2023 after a CDC career.

Denise J. Montell

Denise J. Montell is an American cell and developmental biologist, Duggan Professor at UC Santa Barbara, known for collective cell migration in Drosophila and anastasis.

Denise Monack

Denise M. Monack is an American microbiologist at Stanford University School of Medicine who studies Salmonella persistence, chairs microbiology and immunology since 2022, and is known for inflammasome research.

Denise P. Barlow

Denise P. Barlow (1950–2017) was a British geneticist in Austria who discovered the first imprinted mammalian gene, Igf2r, in 1991 and the silencing RNA Airn, winning the 2014 Erwin Schrödinger Prize.

Denisovan

Denisovans are an extinct archaic human group identified in 2010 from DNA of a finger bone in Denisova Cave, Siberia; sister group to Neanderthals, contributing 4–6% ancestry to Melanesians and the high-altitude EPAS1 gene to Tibetans.

Denitrification

Denitrification: microbial respiration reducing nitrate through nitrite, NO, and N2O to N2 gas under low oxygen; carried out by over 50 genera of bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes; closes the nitrogen cycle and drives N2O emissions.

Dennis A. Carson

Dennis A. Carson is an American physician-scientist who developed the leukemia drug cladribine, discovered chromosome 9p21 deletions in cancers, and directed UC San Diego's Moores Cancer Center.

Dennis A. Dougherty

Dennis A. Dougherty is an American chemist at Caltech known for establishing the cation–π interaction in biology and for the textbook Modern Physical Organic Chemistry.

Dennis A. Powers

Dennis A. Powers (1938–2003) was an American marine molecular biologist who directed Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station from 1988 to 2000 and studied genetic adaptation in fish.

Dennis Arthur Ausiello

Dennis Arthur Ausiello is an American nephrologist who led Massachusetts General Hospital's department of medicine from 1996 to 2013 and studies epithelial water and ion transport.

Dennis Burton (immunologist)

Dennis R. Burton is a British-born immunologist, Professor and Chairman of Immunology and Microbiology at Scripps Research, known for pioneering broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV and coronaviruses.

Dennis C. Sgroi

Dennis C. Sgroi is an American pathologist and breast-cancer researcher who is Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Breast Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dennis D. Cunningham

Dennis D. Cunningham is a molecular biologist and biochemist at UC Irvine known for discovering the protease nexins and working out how thrombin signals cells to divide.

Dennis D. Spencer

Dennis D. Spencer is an American neurosurgeon and epilepsy researcher at Yale School of Medicine, known for developing the most commonly used temporal lobe epilepsy surgery technique.

Dennis D.M. O’Leary

Dennis D.M. O'Leary (1954–2024) was an American neuroscientist and professor at the Salk Institute who studied axon guidance and how the brain's sensory maps and cortical areas are built during development.

Dennis E. Discher

Dennis E. Discher is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Pennsylvania known for showing that matrix stiffness directs stem cell fate, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.

Dennis E. Hallahan

Dennis E. Hallahan is an American radiation oncologist and cancer researcher, head of Radiation Oncology at Washington University in St. Louis since 2009, known for radiation-inducible gene therapy.

Dennis E. Niewoehner

Dennis E. Niewoehner was an American pulmonary physician and COPD researcher who spent 42 years as Chief of the Pulmonary Section at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center.

Dennis E. Vance

Dennis E. Vance is a Canadian biochemist at the University of Alberta known for establishing how cells make phosphatidylcholine and how the pathway governs liver function.

Dennis G. Maki

Dennis George Maki, known as Dennis G. Maki, is an American infectious disease physician at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose work underpins worldwide prevention of central-line bloodstream infections.

Dennis H. Wright

Dennis H. Wright, full name Dennis Howard Wright, was a British pathologist and world expert in lymphoma diagnosis, Foundation Professor of Pathology at Southampton from 1972 to 1996.

Dennis J. Selkoe

Dennis J. Selkoe, also known as Dennis Selkoe, is an American neurologist and Harvard Medical School professor known for research on the molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease.

Dennis J. Slamon

Dennis J. Slamon, also known as Dennis Slamon, is an American oncologist at UCLA whose HER2 research led to Herceptin and CDK4/6 inhibitor breast cancer drugs.