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Michel A. J. Georges
Michel A. J. Georges (born 1959) is a Belgian geneticist and veterinarian, professor at the University of Liège, known for discovering polar overdominance in sheep and the double-muscling gene in cattle.
Michelle P. Winn
Michelle P. Winn (1966–2014) was an American nephrologist-scientist at Duke University who discovered that TRPC6 mutations cause familial FSGS and received a 2006 Presidential Early Career Award.
Michelle T Juarez
Michelle T. Juarez is an American geneticist known for discovering how fruit flies sense and repair skin wounds, and earlier for microRNAs that specify maize leaf polarity.
Mick McKeown
Michael (Mick) McKeown (1953–2016) was an American molecular geneticist at Brown University who showed that the Drosophila transformer gene controls female development through alternative RNA splicing.
Milislav Demerec
Milislav Demerec (1895–1966) was an American geneticist, born in Austria-Hungary, who directed the Carnegie Department of Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, from 1943 to 1960.
Minoo Rassoulzadegan
Minoo Rassoulzadegan is a geneticist and epigeneticist known for demonstrating RNA-mediated non-Mendelian inheritance in mice, first reported in Nature in 2006, and has worked at Inserm and CNRS in Nice.
Miriam H. Meisler
Miriam H. Meisler is an American human geneticist at the University of Michigan who identified the epilepsy genes SCN8A and SCN1A and received the American Epilepsy Society's 2020 Basic Science Research Award.
Miroslav Radman
Miroslav Radman, born 1944 in Split, Croatia, is a Croatian-French geneticist who discovered the SOS response, codiscovered DNA mismatch repair, and explained radiation resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans.
Mitzi I. Kuroda
Mitzi I. Kuroda, born 1958, is an American molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School known for discovering the MSL dosage compensation complex and roX noncoding RNAs.
Mogens Christian Wanning Westergaard
Mogens Christian Wanning Westergaard (1912–1975) was a Danish geneticist who showed how chromosomes determine sex in flowering plants, and became the University of Copenhagen's first professor of genetics.
Molly Przeworski
Molly Przeworski is an American-born population and evolutionary geneticist, professor of biological sciences at Columbia University, known for showing recombination landscapes evolve rapidly and selective sweeps were rare in recent human evolution.
Monte Westerfield
Monte Westerfield is an American developmental neurobiologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon who founded ZFIN, the zebrafish database, in 1994 and studies Usher syndrome.
Moshe Szyf
Moshe Szyf is an epigeneticist and professor of pharmacology at McGill University, known for work on DNA methylation and for helping to found behavioral epigenetics.
Motoo Kimura
Motoo Kimura (木村 資生) was a Japanese population geneticist at the National Institute of Genetics, best known for proposing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968.
Muin J. Khoury
Muin J. Khoury is a Lebanese-American physician and genetic epidemiologist who founded and directed the CDC's Office of Public Health Genomics from 1998 to 2024.
N. Ronald Morris
Nils Ronald Morris (1933–2025), published as N. Ronald Morris, was an American molecular geneticist at Rutgers who turned Aspergillus nidulans into a leading model for the genetics of mitosis.
Nadav Ahituv
Nadav Ahituv is a human geneticist at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies regulatory elements, directs its Institute for Human Genetics, and pioneered cis-regulation therapy.
Nancy A. Jenkins
Nancy A. Jenkins is an American cancer geneticist at MD Anderson Cancer Center known for using mouse models and the Sleeping Beauty transposon to find cancer genes.
Nancy Kleckner
Nancy Kleckner is a molecular biologist and Herchel Smith Professor at Harvard known for work on E. coli chromosome dynamics and meiotic recombination, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.
Nancy L. Craig
Nancy L. Craig is an American molecular biologist, long a Howard Hughes investigator and professor at Johns Hopkins, known for showing how transposable elements move within genomes.
Naomi Datta
Naomi Datta, born Naomi Goddard, was a British bacteriologist and microbial geneticist who discovered plasmids carrying antibiotic resistance genes and built their classification into compatibility groups.
Naomi Wray
Naomi Wray is an Australian statistical geneticist, Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, known for methods in SNP-based heritability and polygenic risk prediction for psychiatric disorders.
Naomichi Matsumoto
Naomichi Matsumoto (松本 直通) is a Japanese human geneticist, professor and chair at Yokohama City University, known for identifying more than 90 disease-causing genes, including NSD1 in Sotos syndrome.
Nat Sternberg
Nat Sternberg was a molecular biologist who discovered the Cre–lox recombination system of bacteriophage P1, now a widely used tool for genetic engineering in mice and plants.
Nathan A. Ellis
Nathan A. Ellis is an American molecular geneticist at the University of Arizona known for his work leading to the cloning of BLM, the Bloom's syndrome gene.
Neil A. Holtzman
Neil A. Holtzman, born 1934, is an American physician-geneticist and Johns Hopkins professor known for phenylketonuria screening research and for chairing the federal Task Force on Genetic Testing.
Neil Brockdorff
Neil Brockdorff is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018, known for showing that Xist RNA controls X chromosome inactivation.
Neil Hunter
Neil Hunter is a British molecular biologist at the University of California, Davis and an HHMI Investigator, known for research on meiotic recombination and DNA repair.
Neil Risch
Neil Risch is an American statistical geneticist and genetic epidemiologist who directs human genetics at UCSF, co-leads a large Kaiser Permanente biobank, and won the 2023 ASHG Lifetime Achievement Award.
Nelson B. Freimer
Nelson B. Freimer is an American psychiatrist and human geneticist at UCLA who directs the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge and studies the genetics of depression.