Life scientists

Lutz Birnbaumer

Lutz Birnbaumer, born in Vienna in 1939, is an Argentine-American biochemist and National Academy of Sciences member who helped discover G protein signaling and the TRPC channel family.

Lydia Finley

Lydia Finley is an American cancer biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who studies how metabolism controls cell fate in stem and cancer cells.

Lynda Chin is an American cancer genomic scientist and board-certified dermatologist known for leadership in The Cancer Genome Atlas, melanoma genomics, and founding MD Anderson's Department of Genomic Medicine.

Lyndon Emsley

Lyndon Emsley is a solid-state NMR spectroscopist and professor of physical chemistry at EPFL, where he has led the Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance since 2014, developing NMR crystallography methods.

Lynn Cooley

Lynn Cooley is an American molecular geneticist at Yale who studies how germline cells form connected clusters in fruit flies, and has been dean of its Graduate School since 2014.

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Lynn J. Rothschild

Lynn J. Rothschild is an astrobiologist and synthetic biologist at NASA's Ames Research Center since 1987, known for research on the limits of life and synthetic biology for space.

Lynn M. Corcoran

Lynn M. Corcoran is an Australian immunologist at WEHI in Melbourne, known for 1980s research establishing the MYC oncogene as the driver of Burkitt's lymphoma.

Lynn M. Matrisian

Lynn M. Matrisian is an American cancer biologist known for her work on matrix metalloproteinases in tumor growth, founding Vanderbilt's Department of Cancer Biology, and later leading research at PanCAN.

Lynn M. Riddiford

Lynn M. Riddiford, born 1936, is an American insect endocrinologist and developmental biologist, professor emerita at the University of Washington, known for work on hormonal control of molting and metamorphosis.

Lynna M. Hereford

Lynna M. Hereford was an American molecular biologist who worked on budding yeast RNAs and histone genes, publishing her principal papers at Brandeis University between 1977 and 1987.

Lynne Elizabeth Maquat

Lynne Elizabeth Maquat, known professionally as Lynne E. Maquat, is an American RNA biologist at the University of Rochester who discovered nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, which destroys faulty messenger RNAs.

Lynne Regan

Lynne Regan is a biochemist and protein designer who leads the Institute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology at the University of Edinburgh, after a Yale career from 1990 to 2018.

M Rhyan Puno

M Rhyan Puno (Marc Rhyan Anthony Puno) is an American structural biologist known for 2018 structures of the RNA exosome and the discovery that YTHDC2 is essential for meiosis.

M. A. R. Koehl

M. A. R. Koehl, known as Mimi Koehl, is an American marine biologist at UC Berkeley who studies the biomechanics of how organisms interact with water and air.

M. Andrew Hoyt

M. Andrew Hoyt is an American cell biologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University known for discovering the yeast spindle checkpoint and kinesin-related mitotic spindle motors.

M. Ángela Nieto

M. Ángela Nieto, full name María Ángela Nieto Toledano, is a Spanish developmental biologist in Alicante known for defining the role of EMT and Snail factors in development and cancer.

M. Bishr Omary

M. Bishr Omary, also known as Bishr Omary, is a gastroenterologist and cell biologist who identified keratin 8 and 18 variants as genetic risk factors for liver disease.

M. Cristina Cardoso

M. Cristina Cardoso, born 1963 in Lisbon, is a Portuguese cell biologist and epigeneticist who is Professor of Cell Biology and Epigenetics at TU Darmstadt in Germany.

M. Daniel Lane

M. Daniel Lane (Malcolm Daniel Lane, 1930–2014) was an American biochemist at Johns Hopkins who defined acetyl-CoA carboxylase, built the molecular study of fat-cell formation, and showed malonyl-CoA suppresses hunger.

M. Daniele Fallin

M. Daniele Fallin is a genetic epidemiologist and epigeneticist who is the James W. Curran Dean of Public Health at Emory University, known for autism research and elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

M. Flint Beal

M. Flint Beal, full name Myron Flint Beal, was an American physician-scientist who led neurology at Weill Cornell and established the mitochondrial and oxidative-stress account of neurodegenerative disease.

M. Luisa Iruela‐Arispe

M. Luisa Iruela-Arispe is a Spanish-born cell and developmental biologist known for work on angiogenesis and VEGF signaling, and chair of Cell and Developmental Biology at Northwestern.

M. Madan Babu

M. Madan Babu is a computational biologist who spent 14 years at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge before becoming St. Jude's first Chief Data Scientist in 2024.

M. Reza Ghadiri

M. Reza Ghadiri is a chemist who chairs the Department of Chemistry at Scripps Research, known for cyclic peptide nanotubes, the first peptide self-replication, and antibacterial cyclic peptides.

M. S. Swaminathan

M. S. Swaminathan, also known as Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, was an Indian plant geneticist who led India's Green Revolution and received the first World Food Prize in 1987.

M. Thomas P. Gilbert

M. Thomas P. Gilbert, known as Tom Gilbert, is a British geneticist and palaeogenomicist at the University of Copenhagen who recovers ancient DNA from degraded biological material.

M.‐Marsel Mesulam

M.-Marsel Mesulam, born 1945 in Istanbul, is an American behavioral neurologist at Northwestern University who identified and named primary progressive aphasia, a language-based dementia, and founded its Mesulam Center.

M.A. Ferguson‐Smith

Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith (1931–2026) was a Scottish cytogeneticist who established the first human-chromosome diagnostic laboratory in the United States and pioneered prenatal diagnosis in the United Kingdom.

M.C. Wahl

Markus C. Wahl is a German structural biochemist, professor at Freie Universität Berlin since 2009, known for his work on the spliceosome and the Mg²⁺-independent kinase CASK.