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Michael A. Gerber

Michael A. Gerber (born 1939, Kassel) was a German-born American pathologist who studied hepatitis B in liver cells and chaired Pathology at Tulane from 1987 to 1997.

Michael A. Gimbrone

Michael A. Gimbrone Jr., born 1943 in Buffalo, New York, is an American vascular biologist and Harvard pathologist who identified the adhesion molecules E-selectin and VCAM-1, recruited by inflamed arteries in atherosclerosis.

Michael A. Grinston

Michael A. Grinston, a retired U.S. Army soldier, served as the 16th Sergeant Major of the Army from 2019 to 2023. He championed the Sergeants Major Assessment Program.

Michael A. Hess

Michael A. Hess, also known as Anthony Lee and Michael Anthony Hess, is an American lawyer and Chief Counsel at the Republican National Committee in Washington, D.C.

Michael A. Hickner

Michael A. Hickner is an American materials scientist who works on ion-containing polymers, electrochemical membranes, and additive manufacturing; he spent 2007 to 2022 at Penn State and joined Michigan State University in January 2023.

Michael A. Kamm

Michael A. Kamm is an Australian gastroenterologist, Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Gut Research Group leader at St Vincent's Hospital, specializing in inflammatory bowel disease.

Michael A. Lampson

Michael A. Lampson, also known as Michael Lampson, is an American cell biologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how chromosomes segregate in cell division.

Michael A. Long

Michael A. Long is an American neuroscientist and professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine whose lab studies the neural circuits that produce and time learned vocal behavior.

Michael A. Marletta

Michael A. Marletta, born 1951, is an American chemical biologist at UC Berkeley known for establishing how mammals make nitric oxide and how heme proteins sense gases.

Michael A. Matthay

Michael A. Matthay is an American pulmonary and critical care physician-researcher at UCSF since 1979, known for lung injury research and leading national ARDS clinical trials, including the landmark lower-tidal-volume ventilation trial.

Michael A. Monsoor

Michael A. Monsoor (1981–2006) was a U.S. Navy SEAL, Master-at-Arms 2nd Class, SEAL Team 3, killed at Ramadi, Iraq, on September 29, 2006 when he threw himself on a grenade to save two teammates; he received the posthumous Medal of Honor on April 8, 2008, and the destroyer USS Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001) is named for him.

Michael A. Moskowitz

Michael A. Moskowitz is an American physician-scientist and professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for discovering the trigeminovascular system behind migraine pain.

Michael A. Mussallem

Michael A. Mussallem is an American medical-device engineer who served as founding chairman and CEO of Edwards Lifesciences from 2000 to 2023, pioneering transcatheter heart valve replacement used in over one million patients.

Michael A. Nielsen

Michael A. Nielsen is a physicist who co-authored the standard quantum computing textbook with Ike Chuang, then left academia to advocate open science and tools for thought.

Michael A. Ponsor

Michael A. Ponsor, born 1946, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Massachusetts, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994.

Michael A. Postow

Michael A. Postow is an American medical oncologist, Chief of the Melanoma Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, known for leading the first randomized trial of nivolumab plus ipilimumab.

Michael A. Resnick

Michael A. Resnick is a molecular geneticist known for work on DNA double-strand break repair and genome stability, spent mostly at NIEHS, part of the NIH in North Carolina.

Michael A. Robb

Michael A. Robb, also published as M. A. Robb, is a theoretical and computational chemist who holds the Chair in Chemistry at Imperial College London and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Michael A. Shipp

Michael Andre Shipp is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of New Jersey since 2012, appointed by President Barack Obama.

Michael A. Simon

Michael A. Simon is a Professor of Biology at Stanford University whose Drosophila genetic screens, including a 1991 Cell paper, helped define the Ras signaling pathway.

Michael A. Sutton

Michael A. Sutton is a neuroscientist at the University of Michigan known for work on synaptic plasticity, dendritic protein synthesis, and memory, and named a 2008 Pew Biomedical Scholar.

Michael A. Teitell

Michael A. Teitell is an American physician-scientist at UCLA, director of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, known for identifying PNPASE as a regulator of RNA import into mitochondria.

Michael A. Weber

Michael A. Weber is an American cardiologist and hypertension specialist, professor and associate dean at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, and a pioneer of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.

Michael A. Weiss

Michael A. Weiss is an American biochemist and molecular endocrinologist who chairs biochemistry at Indiana University School of Medicine, known for structural studies of insulin and the SRY protein.

Michael A. Wulder

Michael A. Wulder is a Canadian senior research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service in Victoria, British Columbia, known for national forest mapping using Landsat satellite data.

Michael Abels

Michael Abels (born 1962, Phoenix) is an American composer of concert and film music, known for Jordan Peele's Get Out, Us, and Nope, the 'gospel horror' style, and the 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Omar co-written with Rhiannon Giddens.

Michael acceptor

A Michael acceptor is the electrophilic partner in a Michael reaction: an α,β-unsaturated carbonyl or similar compound whose β-carbon receives a carbon nucleophile, forming a new carbon-carbon bond.

Michael Adam

Michael Adam, born in 1961, is a British systematic trader who co-founded the trend-following firm AHL in 1987 and later co-founded London quantitative manager Aspect Capital.

Michael Adams (Kentucky politician)

Michael G. Adams is an American Republican politician and lawyer serving as Kentucky's Secretary of State since 2020, known for passing the state's first voter photo ID law.

Michael addition

The Michael addition, or Michael addition reaction, is a conjugate (1,4) addition of a nucleophile to the β-carbon of an electron-poor alkene, forming a new carbon–carbon or carbon–heteroatom bond.