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Donald S. Baim
Donald S. Baim was an American interventional cardiologist who founded Beth Israel Hospital's cardiology program, edited Grossman's cardiac catheterization textbook, and became Boston Scientific's chief medical officer.
Donald S. Burke
Donald S. Burke is an American epidemiologist and vaccinologist who developed the first HIV diagnostic tests and served as dean of the University of Pittsburgh's public health school.
Donald S. Coffey
Donald S. Coffey (1932–2017) was an American cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins University who discovered the nuclear matrix, directed research at the Brady Urological Institute, and served as president of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Donald S. Faber
Donald S. Faber (1943–2025) was an American neuroscientist who studied synaptic transmission and sensorimotor behavior, chiefly on the goldfish Mauthner cell, and chaired neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Donald S. Fredrickson
Donald S. Fredrickson was an American physician who discovered Tangier disease and cholesteryl ester storage disease, created the hyperlipoproteinemia classification adopted by the WHO in 1972, and directed NIH from 1975 to 1981.
Donald S. Kaufman
Donald S. Kaufman was an American genitourinary oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for more than 40 years, where he directed the Genitourinary Oncology Disease Center and taught at Harvard Medical School.
Donald Shreffler
Donald Shreffler was an American immunogeneticist whose studies of the mouse H2 major histocompatibility complex shaped immunology in the 1960s and 1970s; he chaired genetics at Washington University.
Donald Sinclair (veterinary surgeon)
Donald Vaughan Sinclair (1911–1995), British veterinary surgeon at 23 Kirkgate, Thirsk, who hired Alf Wight in 1940 and inspired Siegfried Farnon in the James Herriot books; died by barbiturate overdose two weeks after his wife Audrey's death.
Donald T. Dubin
Donald T. Dubin was a molecular biologist at Rutgers University known for work on RNA methylation, including mitochondrial ribosomal RNA in hamster cells and the capped RNA of Sindbis virus.
Donald Triplett
Donald Gray Triplett (1933-2023), Forest, Mississippi banker known as 'Case 1, Donald T.', the first person formally diagnosed with autism in Leo Kanner's 1943 paper; worked 65 years at a bank, traveled widely, died at 89.
Donald Trump (buffalo)
Donald Trump (buffalo): albino water buffalo in Bangladesh named for his blond tuft resembling the US president; spared Eid al-Adha slaughter by government order and displayed at Bangladesh National Zoo in Dhaka.
Donald W. Hilgemann
Donald W. Hilgemann is an American physiologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center who studies ion transport in cell membranes, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Donald W. Landry
Donald W. Landry is an American physician-scientist and Hamilton Southworth Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, known for identifying vasopressin deficiency in vasodilatory shock and creating the first artificial enzyme that degrades cocaine.
Donald Warne
Donald Warne is an Oglala Lakota physician and public health scientist who co-directs the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Donald Y.M. Leung
Donald Y.M. Leung is an American pediatric allergist-immunologist who has led pediatric allergy at National Jewish Health in Denver since 1989 and led the first anti-IgE peanut allergy trial.
Donanemab
Donanemab (Kisunla, donanemab-azbt) is Eli Lilly's anti-amyloid monoclonal antibody for early symptomatic Alzheimer's disease, FDA-approved July 2, 2024; given monthly by IV with limited-duration dosing, it slows decline by about a third but carries a boxed warning for ARIA.
Donaperminogene seltoplasmid
Donaperminogene seltoplasmid (VM202, Engensis, PCK-HGFX7) is a naked plasmid DNA gene therapy encoding two hepatocyte growth factor isoforms, injected intramuscularly; developed by ViroMed/Helixmith, tested in diabetic neuropathy and CLTI, approved in China as Huasuoling in 2026.
Donath–Landsteiner hemolytic anemia
Donath–Landsteiner hemolytic anemia, or paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria (PCH), is a rare autoimmune hemolytic anemia caused by a biphasic IgG anti-P antibody that binds red cells in the cold and lyses them via complement on rewarming; today mostly a postinfectious pediatric disease diagnosed by the Donath–Landsteiner test.
Donax trunculus
Donax trunculus, the wedge clam or truncated wedgeshell (coquina, telline), is a small donacid bivalve of eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Black Sea sandy beaches, harvested commercially and used as a bioindicator of metal, PAH, and microplastic pollution.
Donepezil
Donepezil, sold as Aricept, is a reversible acetylcholinesterase inhibitor used to treat dementia in mild, moderate, and severe Alzheimer's disease. Developed by Eisai and approved in 1996, it eases symptoms but does not slow the disease.
Dong Xu
Dong Xu is a bioinformatician and Curators' Distinguished Professor in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Missouri, known for the scGNN framework and protein localization prediction.
Dong-Seon Chang
Dong-Seon Chang is a South Korean neuroscientist who studies how people perceive others' actions, and a science communicator with a Spiegel bestseller and a popular YouTube channel.
Dong‐Er Zhang
Dong-Er Zhang is a cancer biologist and professor of pathology and biological sciences at UC San Diego, known for her work on AML1-ETO in acute myeloid leukemia and on ISG15 and USP18.
Dongsheng Cai
Dongsheng Cai is a physician-scientist and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, known for showing that hypothalamic inflammation drives obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and aging.
Dongui Bogam
Dongui Bogam (동의보감) is a Korean medical encyclopedia compiled by court physician Heo Jun, completed in 1610 and listed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
Dongyuan Shixiao Fang
Dongyuan Shixiao Fang (东垣试效方, Proven Formulas of Dongyuan), a nine-juan Chinese formulary by Jin dynasty physician Li Gao (李杲), compiled by disciple Luo Tianyi, completed 1266; 20 essays, 240+ formulas, source of Puji Xiaodu Yin.
Donislecel
Donislecel, marketed as Lantidra, is a pancreatic islet cell therapy approved by the FDA in June 2023 for adults with type 1 diabetes and repeated severe hypoglycemia.
Donkey
Donkey (Equus asinus), domesticated form of the African wild ass, also called ass or burro. Domesticated once in Africa around 5000 BCE; earliest clear evidence at Abydos, Egypt, ~5000 years ago; key pack animal and mule parent.
Donna Diers
Donna Kaye Diers (1938–2013) was an American nurse, researcher, and educator who spent over 40 years at Yale School of Nursing, serving as its sixth dean.
Donna L. Färber
Donna L. Farber is an American immunologist at Columbia University known for defining tissue-resident memory T cells and for building an organ-donor program mapping human immunity.