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Domperidone

Domperidone (Motilium) is a peripheral dopamine D2 antagonist antiemetic and prokinetic, synthesized 1974, marketed 1982; unapproved in the US, EU-restricted to 30 mg/day for nausea and vomiting over cardiac QT risks.

Domvanalimab

Domvanalimab (AB154) is an Fc-silent humanized IgG1 anti-TIGIT monoclonal antibody from Arcus/Gilead, tested with zimberelimab in NSCLC and gastroesophageal cancers; phase 3 STAR-221 and STAR-121 were discontinued for futility.

Don C. Rockey

Don C. Rockey, also known as Don Rockey, is an American hepatologist at the Medical University of South Carolina known for research on liver fibrosis and portal hypertension.

Don C. Wiley

Don C. Wiley was an American structural biologist at Harvard who solved the structures of influenza hemagglutinin and MHC molecules, winning the 1995 Lasker Award.

Don Craig Wiley

Don Craig Wiley (1944–2001) was an American structural biologist and Harvard professor best known for determining the structures of influenza hemagglutinin and peptide-bound MHC proteins.

Don D. Sin

Don D. Sin (Don Sin) is a Canadian respirologist known for research linking COPD to systemic inflammation and cardiovascular disease, and Director of the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation at the University of British Columbia.

Don Ganem

Don Ganem is an American virologist who spent about 30 years at UCSF studying hepatitis B virus and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, then led infectious disease research at Novartis.

Don Kirkham

Don Kirkham (1908–1998) was an American physicist and soil physicist at Iowa State University, described by the Soil Science Society of America as probably the best-known soil physicist of the 20th century.

Don Mason (immunologist)

Don Mason, or Donald W. Mason, was a British immunologist at Oxford who used monoclonal antibodies and flow cytometry to split T cells into functional subsets.

Don Poldermans

Don Poldermans (born 1956) is a Dutch cardiologist at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam whose 1999 bisoprolol trial shaped international guidelines.

Don W. Cleveland

Don W. Cleveland is an American cell biologist, professor and chair at UC San Diego, known for discovering tau and CENP-E and winning the 2018 Breakthrough Prize.

Don W. Fawcett

Don W. Fawcett (1917–2009) was an American anatomist and cell biologist, a pioneer of biological electron microscopy who described the fine structure of cilia, sperm, and intercellular junctions and helped found modern cell biology.

Donafenib tosylate

Donafenib tosylate (甲苯磺酸多纳非尼片, Zepsun) is a Chinese-approved oral multi-kinase inhibitor related to sorafenib; first-line therapy for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma and radioactive iodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer.

Donal S. Luse

Donal S. Luse is a molecular biologist at the Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute who studies transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II and its control by nucleosomes.

Donald A. Berry

Donald A. Berry (born 1940) is an American biostatistician at MD Anderson Cancer Center known for pioneering Bayesian adaptive designs for clinical trials in oncology.

Donald A. Bryant

Donald A. Bryant (1950–2024) was an American biochemist and microbial physiologist at Penn State who studied photosynthetic bacteria, discovered new phototrophs in Yellowstone hot springs, and identified the enzyme that makes chlorophyll f.

Donald A. Goldmann

Donald A. Goldmann is an American pediatric infectious-diseases physician and epidemiologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard, known for work on healthcare-associated infections, antibiotic resistance, and hospital infection control.

Donald A. Henderson

Donald A. Henderson (1928–2016) was an American physician who directed the WHO smallpox eradication program from 1966 to 1977, then served as dean at Johns Hopkins.

Donald A. Redelmeier

Donald A. Redelmeier is a Canadian physician-scientist in internal medicine and medical decision science at Sunnybrook and the University of Toronto, known for the 1997 cell-phone driving study.

Donald A.B. Lindberg

Donald A.B. Lindberg (1933–2019) was an American physician and pathologist who led the U.S. National Library of Medicine for over 30 years, launching PubMed and MedlinePlus.

Donald Armstrong

Donald Armstrong (1931–2018) was an American infectious-disease physician and hospital epidemiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a national authority on infections in people with cancer and AIDS.

Donald B. Calne

Donald B. Calne is a British-born Canadian neurologist at the University of British Columbia who pioneered drug treatment for Parkinson's disease and helped define the D1 and D2 dopamine receptors.

Donald B. Kohn

Donald B. Kohn is an American physician-scientist at UCLA who develops blood stem cell gene therapies for immune disorders, including the first FDA-approved therapy for LAD-I.

Donald B. Louria

Donald B. Louria is an American physician known for work in medical mycology, alcohol and immune defenses, and lead poisoning, based from Bellevue Hospital to Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Donald C. Harrison

Donald C. Harrison is an American cardiologist who was the physician for the first adult heart transplant in the United States and president of the American Heart Association.

Donald C. Malins

Donald C. Malins is a biochemist known for linking toxic chemicals in Puget Sound sediments to cancer in fish, and for reading structural changes in DNA by infrared spectroscopy.

Donald C. Nabseth

Donald C. Nabseth was an academic surgeon based in Boston and affiliated with Tufts University, known for landmark papers on renal artery surgery, transplantation, and abscess drainage.

Donald C. Rio

Donald C. Rio is an American biochemist and molecular biologist at UC Berkeley known for his studies of Drosophila P element transposition and RNA binding proteins in splicing.

Donald Caspar

Donald Caspar (1927–2021) was an American structural biologist credited with coining the term, who developed the quasi-equivalence theory of virus shells with Aaron Klug and helped determine the structure of tobacco mosaic virus.

Donald Chi

Donald Chi is an American pediatric dentist and oral health services researcher at the University of Washington School of Dentistry, who received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2025.