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Axel Brennicke
Axel Brennicke (1953–2017) was a German molecular biologist who led the Institut für Molekulare Botanik at Universität Ulm and studied RNA editing in plant mitochondria.
Daniel Bogenhagen
Daniel F. Bogenhagen is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University known for work on mitochondrial DNA replication, transcription, and repair in animal cells.
David A. Clayton
David A. Clayton is an American molecular biologist known for the transcription-priming model of mitochondrial DNA replication, in which RNA transcripts serve as primers for DNA synthesis.
David C. Chan
David C. Chan, also published as David Chan, is a molecular biologist at Caltech known for the HIV gp41 core structure and for showing mitochondrial fusion protects mitochondrial DNA.
David R. Wolstenholme
David R. Wolstenholme, also known as D R Wolstenholme, was a British-born molecular biologist at the University of Utah known for his work on mitochondrial DNA structure and evolution.
Gerald W. Dorn
Gerald W. Dorn, also known as Gerald W. Dorn II, is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at Washington University in St. Louis who studies how genes affect heart failure drug response.
Giuseppe Attardi
Giuseppe Attardi (1923–2008) was an Italian-born American molecular biologist at Caltech who mapped the human mitochondrial genome, discovered mTERF, and linked mitochondrial DNA mutations to aging.
György Hajnóczky
György Hajnóczky, trained in medicine at Semmelweis University in Budapest, is a professor at Thomas Jefferson University who directs its Mitochondrial Research Center and studies mitochondrial calcium signaling.
Hans Ris
Hans Ris (1914–2004) was a Swiss-born cytologist and electron microscopist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, best known for demonstrating that chloroplasts contain their own DNA.
Heidi M. McBride
Heidi M. McBride, also published as Heidi McBride, is a cell biologist and Canada Research Chair at McGill's Montreal Neurological Institute, known for mitochondrial-derived vesicles.
Henk F. Tabak
Henk F. Tabak (1941–2026) was a Dutch biochemist known for work on RNA splicing in yeast mitochondria and on peroxisome formation from the endoplasmic reticulum.
Hiromi Sesaki
Hiromi Sesaki is a Japanese-born cell biologist and professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who studies mitochondrial fusion and division, including a 2025 Nature finding on Parkin and OMA1.
Howard T. Jacobs
Howard T. Jacobs, known as Howy Jacobs, is a London-born molecular biologist who studies mitochondrial DNA replication and disease, and is Professor Emeritus at Tampere University in Finland.
John J. Lemasters
John J. Lemasters is an American cell biologist and mitochondrial physiologist at the Medical University of South Carolina, known for work on the mitochondrial permeability transition.
Leslie A. Grivell
Leslie A. Grivell, also published as L.A. Grivell, is a molecular biologist at the University of Amsterdam who studied yeast mitochondrial DNA and mitochondrial gene expression.
Maria Falkenberg
Maria Falkenberg is a Swedish molecular biologist and professor of medical biochemistry at the University of Gothenburg who studies mitochondrial DNA replication and transcription, and co-founded Pretzel Therapeutics.
Piet Borst
Piet Borst, born 1934 in Amsterdam, is a Dutch physician-biochemist who directed the Netherlands Cancer Institute and is known for mitochondrial DNA, trypanosome immune evasion, and P-glycoprotein knockout studies, winning the 2023 Lasker-Koshland Award.
Ronald A. Butow
Ronald A. Butow is a molecular biologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center known for discovering retrograde signaling from yeast mitochondria to the nucleus.
Rudolf J. Schweyen
Rudolf J. Schweyen (1941 to 2009) was an Austrian-based molecular biologist who studied yeast mitochondrial genes, first RNA splicing and later magnesium transport, and helped found the University of Vienna's Institute of Microbiology and Genetics.
Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa
Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa (黒岩常祥) is a Japanese cell biologist known for discovering how chloroplasts and mitochondria divide and for sequencing the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae genome.