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Marc D. Hauser

Marc D. Hauser, also known as Marc Hauser, is an American cognitive scientist who studied animal cognition at Harvard and resigned in 2011 after research-misconduct findings.

Marc E. Lippman

Marc E. Lippman, also known as Marc Lippman, is an American medical oncologist and breast cancer researcher who is a professor at Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Marc Elliot Rothenberg

Marc Elliot Rothenberg is an American physician-scientist in allergy and immunology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, known for research on eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases and helping develop dupilumab, the first FDA-approved drug for one.

Marc Freeman

Marc R. Freeman is an American neuroscientist who studies glial biology and neuron-glia signaling in fruit flies, directing the Vollum Institute at Oregon Health & Science University since 2016.

Marc Hoemberger

Marc Hoemberger is a biochemist and enzymologist who trained in Dorothee Kern's laboratory at Brandeis University, known for ancestral enzyme reconstruction and AF-Cluster, an AlphaFold2 method predicting alternative protein conformations.

Marc J. van de Vijver

Marc J. van de Vijver (born 1959) is a Dutch pathologist and professor at Amsterdam UMC whose 2002 study showed a 70-gene profile predicts breast cancer survival.

Marc K. Jenkins

Marc K. Jenkins is an American immunologist and University of Minnesota professor known for research on CD4+ T cell activation, immune memory, and oral tolerance to food antigens.

Marc Kirschner

Marc W. Kirschner, born 1945 in Chicago, is an American cell and systems biologist at Harvard Medical School who discovered tau and founded Harvard's Cell Biology and Systems Biology departments.

Marc Lecuit

Marc Lecuit is a French microbiologist and infectious-diseases physician who directs the Biology of Infection Unit at the Institut Pasteur and studies Listeria invasion of cells.

Marc M. Greenberg

Marc M. Greenberg is an American bioorganic chemist, the Vernon K. Krieble Professor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, who studies DNA damage and repair.

Marc Montminy

Marc R. Montminy is an American biochemist and physiologist at the Salk Institute who discovered CREB, a phosphorylation-activated transcription factor, informing diabetes and obesity research.

Marc Tessier-Lavigne

Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Canadian neuroscientist and axon-guidance researcher; Genentech CSO, Rockefeller president, and Stanford's 11th president (2016-2023), resigned after a research-integrity investigation; now Xaira Therapeutics CEO.

Marc Therrien

Marc Therrien is a Canadian molecular biologist at the Université de Montréal who identified the RAS signaling protein KSR in 1995 and became Executive Director of IRIC in 2024.

Marc Timmers

Marc Timmers is a Dutch molecular biologist and professor of Medical Epigenetics at the University of Freiburg's German Cancer Consortium center, where he has held the chair since 2017.

Marc Van Montagu

Marc Van Montagu, born 1933 in Ghent, Belgium, is a Belgian plant molecular biologist who discovered the Ti plasmid, invented Agrobacterium plant transformation, and founded Plant Genetic Systems.

Marc Veldhoen

Marc Veldhoen is a Portuguese-based immunologist known for establishing how Th17 and Th9 helper T cells arise and for defining the aryl hydrocarbon receptor's role in T cells.

Marc Vidal

Marc Vidal is a Belgian-born systems biologist who directs the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and is Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School.

Marcel Méchali

Marcel Méchali (born 1949) is a French molecular biologist and CNRS research director at the Institut de Génétique Humaine in Montpellier, known for work on DNA replication origins.

Marcel Tijsterman

Marcel Tijsterman is a Dutch molecular biologist and professor of Genome Stability at the Leiden University Medical Center, whose group characterized the DNA repair pathway TMEJ and studies genome instability.

Marcello Malpighi

Marcello Malpighi (1628–1694), Italian physician and microscopist, founder of microscopic anatomy; discovered capillaries in the frog lung (1661), completing Harvey's circulation theory, and described red blood corpuscles.

Marcelo Britto Passos Amato

Marcelo Britto Passos Amato, also known as Marcelo B. P. Amato, is a Brazilian pulmonary physician-scientist at the University of São Paulo known for protective ventilation in ARDS.

Marcelo Jacobs‐Lorena

Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena is a Brazil-trained molecular biologist and Johns Hopkins professor emeritus known for the first genetically modified malaria-resistant mosquitoes and the 2023 discovery of a bacterium that suppresses malaria transmission.

Marcelo O. Dietrich

Marcelo O. Dietrich is a Brazilian physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine who studies how hypothalamic AgRP neurons, the brain's hunger circuit, shape behavior from infancy through adulthood.

Marcia K. Johnson

Marcia K. Johnson is a cognitive psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist, Sterling Professor Emerita at Yale University, known for the source monitoring and reality monitoring frameworks explaining how people determine where a memory came from.

Marcin Imieliński

Marcin Imieliński, also published as Marcin Imielinski, is a cancer genomics researcher and molecular genetic pathologist who directs cancer genetics and genomics research at NYU's Perlmutter Cancer Center.

Marcin Nowotny

Marcin Nowotny, born 1973, is a Polish structural biologist who heads the Laboratory of Protein Structure at IIMCB in Warsaw, studying DNA and RNA processing enzymes.

Marco Colonna

Marco Colonna is an Italian-born immunologist who identified the KIR, LILR, and TREM receptor families and established plasmacytoid dendritic cells as the main source of type I interferons.

Marco Conti

Marco Conti is an Italian-trained physician and reproductive biologist, professor at the University of California, San Francisco, known for work on hormonal signaling in oocyte maturation.

Marco E. Bianchi

Marco E. Bianchi, also known as Marco Bianchi, is an Italian molecular biologist who established the chromatin protein HMGB1 as an extracellular danger signal that triggers inflammation.

Marco Foiani

Marco Foiani is an Italian molecular biologist who studies DNA replication and genome integrity, leading the Genome Integrity Laboratory at IFOM and directing the CNR Institute of Molecular Genetics in Pavia.