Life scientists

Maarten J. Chrispeels

Maarten J. Chrispeels is a plant biologist who spent his career at UC San Diego, where his laboratory discovered aquaporins, the water channel proteins of plants.

Maarten Koornneef

Maarten Koornneef is a Dutch plant geneticist who helped establish Arabidopsis thaliana as the model plant for genetics, working at Wageningen University and the Max Planck Institute in Cologne.

Maarten van Lohuizen (M. van Lohuizen) is a Dutch molecular biologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute known for provirus-tagging screens and for establishing Bmi1 as an oncogene regulating stem cell self-renewal.

Maclyn McCarty

Maclyn McCarty (1911–2005) was an American physician-scientist who, with Oswald Avery and Colin MacLeod, provided the first experimental evidence that DNA, rather than protein, carries hereditary information.

Madeline Lancaster

Madeline A. Lancaster is a developmental biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for pioneering the first method for growing brain organoids from human stem cells.

Magda Konarska

Magda Konarska (Maria Magdalena Konarska) is a Polish RNA biochemist known for her work on pre-mRNA splicing; since 2021 she has been professor and deputy director at IMol, Warsaw.

Magdalena Götz

Magdalena Götz is a neuroscientist, director of the Institute of Stem Cell Research at Helmholtz Munich since 2004, known for discovering radial glia as neural stem cells and pioneering glial reprogramming into neurons.

Magdalena Zernicka‐Goetz

Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz is a Polish-British developmental biologist, Bren Professor at Caltech since 2019, known for showing early embryo cells differ and building embryo models from stem cells.

Magdalini Polymenidou

Magdalini Polymenidou is a Greek-trained molecular biologist and Associate Professor at the University of Zurich who studies ALS and frontotemporal dementia, focusing on the RNA-binding protein TDP-43.

Oct 10, 2026

Magnus Blix

Magnus Gustaf Blix was a Swedish physiologist who demonstrated separate skin sensory points for cold, warmth, and pressure at Uppsala in 1882–83, and later served as Lund University's vice-chancellor.

Magnus Höök

Magnus Höök, born 1946, is a Swedish-born biochemist and cell biologist at Texas A&M University in Houston known for discovering MSCRAMMs, bacterial surface proteins that mediate infection.

Magnus Nordborg

Magnus Nordborg is a population and evolutionary geneticist, Scientific Director of the Gregor Mendel Institute in Vienna since 2009, known for Arabidopsis genomics and the 1001 Genomes project.

Mahfuzur Sarker

Mahfuzur R. Sarker is a Bangladeshi-born American bacteriologist and professor at Oregon State University known for his work on Clostridium perfringens toxin typing and spore biology.

Mahlon Hoagland

Mahlon Hoagland (1921–2009) was an American biochemist who co-discovered amino acid activation and transfer RNA with Paul Zamecnik, and led the Worcester Foundation from 1970 to 1985.

Maiken Nedergaard

Maiken Nedergaard is a neuroscientist known for discovering the glymphatic system, the brain network that clears metabolic waste during sleep, and for her research on astrocytes.

Maimon M. Cohen

Maimon M. Cohen (1935–2007) was an American human geneticist and cytogeneticist known for 1967 studies linking LSD-25 to chromosomal damage, and for leading human genetics departments in Maryland.

Maital Neta

Maital Neta is an American cognitive and affective neuroscientist who studies how the brain resolves emotionally ambiguous signals, and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2025.

Makkuni Jayaram

Makkuni Jayaram is an Indian-born molecular biologist at the University of Texas at Austin known for work on site-specific DNA recombination and the yeast 2 micron plasmid.

Makoto Komiyama

Makoto Komiyama, born 1947 in Utsunomiya, Japan, is a Japanese chemist known for ARCUT, a chemistry-based system that cuts human genomic DNA at one chosen site.

Makoto M. Taketo

Makoto M. Taketo, also known as Makoto Mark Taketo (武藤誠), is a Japanese cancer geneticist who created the ApcΔ716 mouse model and showed COX-2 inhibition suppresses intestinal polyps.

Makoto Matsuoka

Makoto Matsuoka (松岡信) is a Japanese plant scientist at Fukushima University who identified sd1, the semi-dwarf gene behind rice's Green Revolution, and the gibberellin receptor GID1.

Makoto Nakanishi

Makoto Nakanishi (中西真), born 1960, is a Japanese molecular biologist at the University of Tokyo known for research on eliminating senescent cells to extend healthy lifespan.

Maksim V. Plikus

Maksim V. Plikus is a stem cell and skin regeneration biologist, professor of Developmental & Cell Biology at UC Irvine, and co-founder of the hair-growth company Amplifica.

Mala Maini

Mala K. Maini is a virologist and physician who is Professor of Viral Immunology at University College London, known for work on the immunopathogenesis of chronic hepatitis B.

Mala Murthy

Mala Murthy is an American neuroscientist at Princeton University who studies how fruit fly brains generate courtship song, and who co-led FlyWire's first whole-brain connectome.

Malcolm A. MacIver

Malcolm A. MacIver is an American neuroscientist and engineer, a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University who studies how animals sense and move, from weakly electric fish to the evolution of planning.

Malcolm A. Martin

Malcolm A. Martin is an American virologist who has led NIAID's Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology since 1981, known for HIV molecular clones and the SHIV macaque model.

Malcolm Bennett

Malcolm J. Bennett is a British plant biologist at the University of Nottingham who studies how roots grow in soil and was elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2020.

Oct 10, 2026

Malcolm Cameron (entomologist)

Malcolm Cameron (1873–1954) was a British entomologist and former naval surgeon who described 4,136 rove beetle species and wrote the Staphylinidae volumes of the Fauna of British India.