Life and health

Douglas K. Bishop

Douglas K. Bishop is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Chicago who studies homologous recombination and discovered the meiosis-specific protein Dmc1 in 1992.

Douglas K. Rex is an American gastroenterologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University School of Medicine, known for colonoscopy quality measurement and colorectal cancer screening.

Douglas Koshland

Douglas E. Koshland is an American molecular biologist and UC Berkeley professor known for identifying cohesins and for work on chromosome structure and segregation in budding yeast.

Douglas L. Arnold

Douglas L. Arnold is a neurologist and MRI researcher at the Montreal Neurological Institute known for imaging research in multiple sclerosis and drug development, including ocrelizumab trials.

Douglas L. Black

Douglas L. Black is an American RNA biologist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA, known for research on alternative pre-mRNA splicing by the Rbfox and PTB protein families.

Douglas L. Brutlag

Douglas L. Brutlag (born 1946) is an American molecular and computational biologist, emeritus professor of biochemistry at Stanford University who developed protein motif methods and co-founded IntelliGenetics.

Douglas L. Coleman

Douglas L. Coleman (1931–2014) was a Canadian-born scientist at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, whose mouse parabiosis experiments predicted the hormone leptin, earning him the 2010 Lasker Award.

Douglas L. Mann

Douglas L. Mann is an American cardiologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for research on inflammation in heart failure and for leading the RENEWAL and RENAISSANCE anticytokine trials.

Douglas M. Fowler

Douglas M. Fowler is an American biochemist and geneticist at the University of Washington who developed deep mutational scanning, a method for measuring hundreds of thousands of protein mutations at once.

Douglas Melton

Douglas A. Melton is an American developmental biologist known for deriving human embryonic stem cell lines and generating insulin-producing beta cells as a potential cure for type 1 diabetes.

Douglas P. Zipes

Douglas P. Zipes, born 1939, is an American cardiac electrophysiologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University School of Medicine who pioneered the implantable cardioverter and led major cardiology societies.

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Douglas Prasher

Douglas Prasher is an American molecular biologist who cloned the green fluorescent protein gene in 1992, enabling the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Chalfie, Shimomura, and Tsien.

Douglas R. Green

Douglas R. Green is an immunologist and cell-death researcher who chairs the Department of Immunology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and is known for apoptosis research.

Douglas R. Lowy

Douglas R. Lowy is a virologist and cancer researcher who leads the Laboratory of Cellular Oncology at the National Cancer Institute and developed the technology behind HPV vaccines.

Douglas S Kim

Douglas S Kim is a neuroscientist known for co-authorship on genetically encoded calcium indicators, including the GCaMP6 family, and for a 2015 study of ultraviolet vision in mouse visual cortex.

Douglas S. Kwon

Douglas S. Kwon, also cited as Douglas Kwon, is a physician-scientist in mucosal immunology at the Ragon Institute and Harvard Medical School who studies HIV acquisition.

Douglas S. Lee

Douglas S. Lee is a Canadian cardiologist and clinician-scientist at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre in Toronto, a University of Toronto professor known for heart failure risk prediction tools including EHMRG.

Douglas S. Robinson

Douglas S. Robinson is a physician-scientist in asthma immunology and Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College London, known for a landmark 1992 New England Journal of Medicine paper on TH2 cells in asthma.

Douglas squirrel

Douglas squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii), also called chickaree or pine squirrel, a small vocal tree squirrel of Pacific Northwest conifer forests from British Columbia to the Sierra Nevada, feeding mainly on conifer seeds and fungi and larder-hoarding cones in middens.

Douglas T. Fearon

Douglas T. Fearon, born in 1942, is an American medical immunologist who showed that complement C3 links innate and adaptive immunity, and later studied tumor immunology at Cambridge.

Douglas T. Golenbock

Douglas T. Golenbock is an American immunologist and physician-scientist who leads the Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology at UMass Chan Medical School, known for defining the TLR4/MD-2 endotoxin receptor.

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Douglas T. Prehn

Douglas T. Prehn, also known as Douglas Theodore Prehn, was an American United States Navy urologist who described Prehn's sign, used to distinguish testicular torsion from epididymitis.

Douglas Tompkins

Douglas Tompkins (1943-2015), American co-founder of The North Face and Esprit, became a conservationist who bought and rewilded about 2.2 million acres in Chilean and Argentine Patagonia, creating Pumalín and Patagonia national parks before dying in a 2015 kayaking accident.

Douglas W. Dockery

Douglas W. Dockery is an American environmental epidemiologist at Harvard, best known as Principal Investigator of the Harvard Six Cities Study on air pollution and mortality.

Douglas W. Losordo

Douglas W. Losordo is an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular regenerative medicine who led pioneering CD34+ stem cell trials for refractory angina and later held biotech chief medical officer roles.

Douglas W. Wilmore

Douglas W. Wilmore is an American surgeon-scientist who directed the Nutrition Support Service at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, known for work on surgical metabolism and clinical nutrition.

Douglass J. Forbes

Douglass J. Forbes is an American cell biologist and Emeritus Professor at UC San Diego, known for work on nuclear transport and nuclear pore complex assembly.

Douglass M. Turnbull

Douglass M. Turnbull is a British neurologist and mitochondrial-disease researcher at Newcastle University whose mitochondrial donation technique required a change in UK law and produced eight babies by 2025.