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Mark H. Skolnick

Mark H. Skolnick (born 1946) is an American genetic epidemiologist at the University of Utah who led the team that identified the BRCA1 gene in 1994.

Mark H. Tuszynski

Mark H. Tuszynski, also known as Mark Tuszynski, is a physician-scientist who directs the UC San Diego Center for Neural Repair and studies spinal cord regeneration.

Mark Helm (German chemist)

Mark Helm (born 1969 in Bremen) is a professor of pharmaceutical medicinal chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, known for research on RNA modifications and the epitranscriptome.

Mark Henkemeyer

Mark Henkemeyer is an American neuroscientist and Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for showing that Eph receptors and ephrins guide axon pathfinding through bidirectional signaling.

Mark Hochstrasser

Mark Hochstrasser is an American molecular biologist at Yale University whose laboratory identified proteasome assembly chaperones and SUMO-degrading enzymes, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Mark Howarth

Mark Howarth is a protein biochemist and Sheild Professor of Pharmacology at Cambridge, known for the SpyTag/SpyCatcher protein ligation pair, monovalent streptavidin, and co-founding SpyBiotech.

Mark Hübener

Mark Hübener is a German neuroscientist who studies plasticity in the mammalian visual system and leads a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence.

Mark J. Daly

Mark J. Daly is a human geneticist and co-director of the Program in Medical and Population Genetics at the Broad Institute, known for studies of schizophrenia, autism, and IBD.

Mark J. Schnitzer

Mark J. Schnitzer, also known as Mark Schnitzer, is a Stanford neuroscientist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who developed miniature microscopes for imaging neurons in behaving animals.

Mark J. Shlomchik

Mark J. Shlomchik, also written Mark Shlomchik, is an American immunologist and physician-scientist at the University of Pittsburgh, known for work on B cells, germinal centers, and lupus.

Mark Johnston (molecular geneticist)

Mark Johnston (Henry Mark Johnston) is an American molecular geneticist known for yeast nutrient sensing, GAL gene regulation, and pioneering genomics; elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Mark Joseph Daly

Mark Joseph Daly is an American human geneticist who leads the Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and directs FIMM in Helsinki.

Mark Kirkpatrick

Mark Kirkpatrick is an American theoretical population geneticist at the University of Texas at Austin, known for work on sexual selection, quantitative genetics, and chromosome evolution.

Mark L. Andermann

Mark L. Andermann is a neuroscientist and Harvard Medical School professor who studies how hunger and thirst shape what the brain attends to and remembers.

Mark M. Davis

Mark M. Davis is an American immunologist at Stanford University known for identifying the first T-cell receptor genes and developing peptide-MHC tetramers, a widely used T-cell labeling method.

Mark Marsh

Mark Marsh, born 1953, is a cell biologist and virologist, Emeritus Group Leader at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at University College London.

Mark Mayford

Mark R. Mayford is an American neuroscientist at Scripps Research and UC San Diego known for genetically engineered mice that switch memory-holding neurons on or off.

Mark McCarthy

Mark McCarthy is a British physician-scientist who studies the genetics of type 2 diabetes and obesity, holding the Robert Turner chair at Oxford from 2002 to 2019.

Mark Mercola

Mark Mercola is a cardiovascular biologist, professor at the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute since 2015, known for showing that Wnt inhibition is a critical step in cardiogenesis and for iPSC-based heart drug discovery.

Mark N. Wu

Mark N. Wu is a neuroscientist and physician who is Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins, known for describing the first neural circuit encoding sleep drive in an animal.

Mark P. Kamps

Mark P. Kamps is an American molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor of Pathology at UC San Diego, known for the E2A-Pbx1 leukemia oncoprotein and the conditional Hoxb8 system.

Mark Peifer

Mark Peifer is an American cell and developmental biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for work on β-catenin, cell adhesion, and Wnt signaling.

Mark Petronczki

Mark Petronczki is an Austrian-based molecular biologist who studies cell division and cancer drug discovery, trained at the IMP in Vienna and now a group leader at Boehringer Ingelheim.

Mark Ptashne

Mark Ptashne is an American molecular biologist, emeritus at Memorial Sloan Kettering, who isolated the lambda repressor in 1967 and won the 1997 Lasker Award for work on gene regulation.

Mark Q. Martindale

Mark Q. Martindale, also published as M. Q. Martindale, is an American evolutionary developmental biologist known for studying animal body plans using cnidarians and ctenophores.

Mark R. Philips

Mark R. Philips is a professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine known for showing that Ras, the most frequently mutated oncogene in cancer, signals on internal membranes.

Mark S. Anderson

Mark S. Anderson is an American endocrinologist and immunologist who directs the UCSF Diabetes Center and studies immune tolerance, the AIRE gene, and autoimmune diabetes.

Mark S. Boguski

Mark S. Boguski was an American physician-scientist and computational biologist who helped build the dbEST database and human transcript maps at NCBI, and later founded the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

Mark S. Bretscher

Mark S. Bretscher, born 1940, is a British cell biologist who spent his career at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, studying membrane structure and cell migration.

Mark S. Mooseker

Mark S. Mooseker is an American cell biologist who holds a Yale professorship and is known for identifying novel myosin motor classes and the tight-junction protein ZO-1.