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Maria Andrade
Maria Isabel Andrade, born 1958 in Cape Verde, is an agricultural scientist who breeds vitamin A-rich sweetpotatoes in Mozambique and shared the 2016 World Food Prize.
Maria Antonietta De Matteis
Maria Antonietta De Matteis is an Italian cell biologist who studies how cells move and sort cargo through the Golgi complex and endolysosomal network, and how defects cause genetic disease.
Maria Barna
Maria Barna is an American molecular and cell biologist, Associate Professor of Genetics at Stanford University, known for showing that ribosomes differ in composition and act as regulatory hubs controlling gene expression during development.
Maria Carmo-Fonseca
Maria Carmo-Fonseca is a Portuguese physician and cell biologist, Full Professor at the University of Lisbon, who studies RNA splicing in cancer and genetic disease and co-founded the Instituto de Medicina Molecular.
Maria Concetta Morrone
Maria Concetta Morrone, also published as M. Concetta Morrone, is an Italian neuroscientist and professor of Physiology at the University of Pisa who studies the human visual system.
María Domínguez (Spanish molecular biologist)
María Domínguez Castellano is a Spanish molecular biologist who studies how organs coordinate growth and how its loss causes cancer, using fruit flies, at the CSIC in Alicante.
Maria Elena Torres-Padilla
Maria Elena Torres-Padilla is a Mexican epigeneticist and stem cell biologist at Helmholtz Munich who studies totipotency in early embryos and won the 2025 Leibniz Prize.
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.
Maria Harrison
Maria Harrison is a plant molecular biologist and professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute in Ithaca, New York, known for molecular analyses of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis.
Maria Hatzoglou
Maria Hatzoglou is a molecular biologist and professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, known for her 2003 Cell paper proposing the zipper model of translational control.
Maria Jasin
Maria Jasin is an acclaimed molecular biologist at the Sloan Kettering Institute, known for discovering that double-strand breaks accelerate gene targeting and for her work on genomic integrity.
Maria Laina Urso
Maria Laina Urso is an American research physiologist known for her work on skeletal muscle injury, inflammation, and regeneration, and for receiving a 2011 Presidential Early Career Award.
Maria Lehtinen
Maria K. Lehtinen is a developmental neuroscientist who studies choroid plexus and cerebrospinal fluid signaling in the developing brain, leading a laboratory at Boston Children's Hospital since 2012.
Maria Leptin
Maria Leptin is a developmental biologist and immunologist who has been President of the European Research Council since November 2021, after leading EMBO as its first female Director.
Maria M. Mota
Maria M. Mota is a Portuguese malaria researcher who studies the liver stage of Plasmodium and leads the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine in Lisbon.
Maria New
Maria New (1928–2024) was an American pediatric endocrinologist who delineated congenital adrenal hyperplasia, discovered steroid disorders, and developed newborn screening for CAH used in all 50 states.
Maria Pia Cosma
Maria Pia Cosma is an Italian cell biologist and ICREA Research Professor at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, where since 2010 she has led research on somatic cell reprogramming and tissue regeneration.
María Rescigno
Maria Rescigno is an Italian immunologist working in mucosal immunology and microbiota, known for showing that gut dendritic cells sample bacteria and for discovering the gut-vascular barrier.
Maria S. Soengas
María S. Soengas, known as Marisol Soengas, is a Spanish cancer biologist who heads the Melanoma Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre in Madrid.
Maria Selmer
Maria Selmer is a structural biologist and Professor of Structural Biology at Uppsala University, studying bacterial ribosome function and antibiotic resistance mechanisms with cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography.
Maria Spies
Maria Spies is a biophysicist and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Iowa, known for single-molecule dissection of DNA repair machines and for her HHMI Early Career Scientist Award.
María T. Diaz‐Meco
María T. Diaz-Meco is a Spanish cancer biologist who studies how p62/SQSTM1 signaling drives cancer metabolism and therapy resistance, co-leading a lab with Jorge Moscat at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Marian Carlson
Marian Carlson is an American geneticist, Professor Emerita at Columbia University, known for discovering the SNF1/AMPK kinase pathway and the SWI-SNF chromatin-remodeling complex in yeast.
Mariana J. Kaplan
Mariana J. Kaplan is a physician-scientist and rheumatologist who leads the Systemic Autoimmunity Branch at NIH, known for showing how neutrophil extracellular traps drive lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
Mariana Wolfner
Mariana Wolfner is a Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University who studies reproduction in Drosophila fruit flies; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Mariangela Hungria da Cunha
Mariangela Hungria da Cunha is a Brazilian microbiologist at Embrapa who pioneered biological nitrogen fixation for tropical soybeans, adopted on over 40 million hectares, winning the 2025 World Food Prize.
Mariann Bienz
Mariann Bienz is a molecular biologist known for her work on Wnt signal transduction, the Wnt enhanceosome, and Dishevelled polymerisation; she worked at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.
Marianna Fontana
Marianna Fontana is an Italian cardiologist and Professor of Cardiology at University College London, known for cardiac MRI mapping of amyloidosis and 2024 NEJM trials.
Marianne Bronner
Marianne Bronner is an American developmental biologist at Caltech known for research on neural crest development and evolution, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Marianne Grunberg-Manago
Marianne Grunberg-Manago (1921–2013) was a French biochemist who, with Severo Ochoa, discovered polynucleotide phosphorylase, the enzyme that enabled deciphering the genetic code, and became the first woman president of the French Academy of Sciences.