Life scientists

Marianne Hafting Fyhn

Marianne Hafting Fyhn is a Norwegian neuroscientist who co-discovered grid cells, the brain's spatial-map neurons, and leads the Centre for Integrative Neuroplasticity at the University of Oslo.

Mariano A. García-Blanco

Mariano A. García-Blanco is an RNA biologist and virologist who chairs microbiology at the University of Virginia and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Mariano Barbacid

Mariano Barbacid is a Spanish molecular oncologist who isolated the first human oncogene, H-RAS, in 1982 and founded the Spanish National Cancer Research Center in Madrid.

Mariano Sigman is an Argentine neuroscientist, author, and broadcaster who studies decision-making, consciousness, and language, and directs the Integrative Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Buenos Aires.

Marie Celeste Simon

Marie Celeste Simon, usually published as M. Celeste Simon, is an American cancer biologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for research on hypoxia-inducible factors and tumor growth.

Marie Malissen

Marie Malissen is a French immunologist and Research Director at the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy who mapped the mouse T cell receptor genes in the 1980s and won the CNRS silver medal in 2008.

Marie Manceau

Marie Manceau (born 1979) is a French developmental biologist who leads a group at the Collège de France in Paris, studying how periodic bird plumage color patterns form in the embryo.

Marie‐Paule Lefranc

Marie-Paule Lefranc is a French immunologist and emeritus professor at the University of Montpellier who founded IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system, in 1989, the global reference standard in immunogenetics.

Marilyn D. Resh

Marilyn D. Resh is an American cell biologist and biochemist, emeritus at Memorial Sloan Kettering, known for how fatty acids attached to proteins regulate their structure and function.

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Marilyn Diaz

Marilyn Diaz is an American immunologist known for research on antibody diversification and lupus autoreactivity, a Principal Investigator at NIH's NIEHS in Durham, North Carolina, from 2002 to 2015.

Marilyn G. Farquhar

Marilyn G. Farquhar, also known as Marilyn Gist Farquhar, was an American cell biologist and electron microscopist who defined intercellular junctions and the kidney's filtration barrier.

Marilyn Kozak

Marilyn Kozak is a biochemist and molecular biologist known for the scanning model of translation initiation and the Kozak consensus sequence, defined by her 1986 Cell paper.

Marilyn Monk

Marilyn Monk is a molecular embryologist and geneticist, Emerita Professor of Molecular Embryology at University College London, known for pioneering preimplantation genetic diagnosis and establishing DNA methylation as an epigenetic mechanism.

Marin van Heel

Marin van Heel (born 1949) is a biophysicist who pioneered single-particle cryo-EM, introducing multivariate statistical classification and angular reconstitution, and sharing the 2017 Wiley Prize with Joachim Frank.

Marina Cella

Marina Cella is an Italian-trained immunologist and physician known for her work on plasmacytoid dendritic cells and innate lymphoid cells producing IL-22 at mucosal surfaces, long at Washington University in St. Louis.

Marina Noris

Marina Noris is an Italian immunologist and human geneticist who heads the Center of Human Genetics at the Mario Negri Institute in Ranica, Bergamo, and established the genetic basis of atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome.

Marina Rodnina

Marina V. Rodnina, born 1960 in Kiev, is a biochemist and biophysicist directing physical biochemistry at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, known for ribosome research.

Marinka Zitnik

Marinka Zitnik (Marinka Žitnik) is a computer scientist and associate professor of biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School, known for TxGNN, a graph AI model for drug repurposing.

Marino Zerial

Marino Zerial, born 1958 in Trieste, is an Italian cell biologist known for his work on Rab GTPases and endocytosis, and co-founded the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden.

Mario de Bono

Mario de Bono is a neuroscientist who studies how neural circuits generate behavior in C. elegans, known for showing that the npr-1 gene switches worms between solitary and social feeding.

Mario Halić

Mario Halić, born 1976, is a Croatian-born molecular and structural biologist who leads a lab at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, known for discovering Dicer-independent primal small RNAs in fission yeast.

Mario Mikulincer

Mario Mikulincer is an Israeli social psychologist known for his experimental research on attachment theory in adulthood, and a Full Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Mario R. Capecchi

Mario R. Capecchi, born 1937 in Verona, Italy, is an Italian-born American molecular geneticist who pioneered gene targeting and shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Mario Roederer

Mario Roederer is an American immunologist who heads the ImmunoTechnology Section at the NIAID Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and pioneered polychromatic flow cytometry.

Mario Stevenson

Mario Stevenson is a Scottish molecular virologist who studies HIV persistence during antiretroviral therapy and directs the Institute of AIDS and Emerging Infectious Diseases at the University of Miami.

Marion Pepper

Marion Pepper is an American immunologist and chair of Immunology at the University of Washington who studies how T cells and B cells form immune memory.

Marisa Bartolomei

Marisa Bartolomei is an American developmental geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine known for working out how genomic imprinting operates in mammals.

Marisa Carrasco

Marisa Carrasco, full name Marisa Carrasco-Queijeiro, is a Mexican-born cognitive neuroscientist at New York University who studies visual perception and attention, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.