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Mark S. P. Sansom

Mark S. P. Sansom is Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biophysics at the University of Oxford, known for molecular dynamics simulations of membrane proteins and ion channels.

Mark S. Schlissel

Mark S. Schlissel is an American immunologist known for research on B cell development, and the 14th president of the University of Michigan from 2014 to 2022.

Mark Stitt

Mark Stitt, born 1953, is a British plant metabolic physiologist who directed the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam from 2000 to 2021.

Mark Stoneking

Mark Stoneking (born 1956) is an American molecular anthropologist and population geneticist, co-author of the 1987 "Mitochondrial Eve" paper and a Max Planck Institute group leader in Leipzig.

Mark W. Bitensky

Mark W. Bitensky was an American molecular biologist and Yale-trained physician known for work on cyclic AMP signaling, adenylate cyclase regulation, and light-activated retinal enzymes.

Mark W. Denny

Mark W. Denny is a marine biologist and emeritus professor at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station, known for applying physics and engineering to the ecology of wave-swept rocky shores.

Mark W. Dewhirst

Mark W. Dewhirst is an American cancer researcher and veterinary oncologist at Duke University Medical Center known for work on tumor hypoxia, HIF-1 signaling, and hyperthermia.

Mark W. LeChevallier

Mark W. LeChevallier is an American drinking-water microbiologist who retired in 2018 as Chief Environmental Officer of American Water and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Mark Willard

Mark Willard is an American cell biologist and neurobiologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known for work on axonal transport, the neuronal cytoskeleton, and spectrin proteins.

Mark Winey

Mark Winey is an American cell biologist known for work on centrosome duplication and the Mps1 kinase, and dean of the College of Biological Sciences at UC Davis.

Mark Yeager

Mark J. Yeager is an American physician-scientist and structural biologist known for atomic-level cryo-EM structures of the HIV capsid, and executive director of the Frost Institute at the University of Miami since 2021.

Markus A. Rüegg

Markus A. Rüegg is a Swiss molecular neurobiologist, Full Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Basel's Biozentrum, known for agrin-based muscular dystrophy therapies and mTOR muscle research.

Markus Aebi

Markus Aebi, born 1955 in Brugg, Switzerland, is a Swiss molecular biologist and ETH Zurich professor emeritus known for work on N-linked protein glycosylation and pre-mRNA splicing.

Markus Affolter

Markus Affolter, born in 1958, is a Swiss molecular and developmental biologist who led a research group at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, becoming Professor emeritus in 2025.

Markus Covert

Markus Covert is a Stanford bioengineer and systems biologist who built the first whole-cell computational model, of the bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium, published in Cell in 2012.

Markus Feuerer

Markus Feuerer is a German immunologist known for discovering regulatory T cells in fat tissue, and now directs immunology at the Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy in Regensburg.

Markus G. Manz

Markus G. Manz is a Swiss hematologist and immunologist who has been Professor of Hematology at the University of Zurich since 2009, known for humanized mouse models of human blood and immune cell development.

Markus Grompe

Markus Grompe is a German-born physician-scientist at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon, known for research on liver stem cells, Fanconi anemia, and gene therapy for inherited liver diseases.

Markus Heilig

Markus Heilig is a Swedish physician-scientist in addiction neuroscience, professor of psychiatry at Linköping University and founding director of its Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience.

Markus Hoffmann

Markus Hoffmann, born 1982 in Hannover, is a German virologist and group leader at the German Primate Center in Göttingen, known for defining SARS-CoV-2 cell entry.

Markus Meister

Markus Meister is an American-based neuroscientist and physicist who studies how large circuits of neurons work, holding a professorship at Caltech since 2015 after two decades at Harvard.

Markus Noll

Markus Noll (M. Noll), born 1945, is a Swiss molecular biologist who helped define chromatin's subunit structure and cloned the Drosophila segmentation gene paired, anchoring the PRD gene family.

Markus Sauer

Markus Sauer is a German biophysicist who has been Professor of Biotechnology and Biophysics at the University of Würzburg since 2009, known for the dSTORM super-resolution microscopy method.

Markus Zweckstetter

Markus Zweckstetter is a German biophysicist who uses NMR spectroscopy to study tau and alpha-synuclein in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, leading a DZNE group in Göttingen.

Marla Feller

Marla Feller is an American neuroscientist at UC Berkeley who studies how retinal circuits are built before vision begins, known for her work on retinal waves and direction selectivity.

Marla Spivak

Marla Spivak is an American entomologist at the University of Minnesota who bred the disease-resistant Minnesota Hygienic honey bee line and won a 2010 MacArthur Fellowship.

Marlene Behrmann

Marlene Behrmann is a South African-born cognitive neuroscientist who studies the neural bases of word, face, and object recognition, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Marlene Belfort

Marlene Belfort is a South African-born molecular geneticist who discovered introns in bacterial genes in 1984 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999.

Marlene Zuk

Marlene Zuk is an American evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist, a Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota known for the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis linking parasites to sexual selection.

Marni Boppart

Marni Boppart is an American muscle physiologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who studies how skeletal muscle responds to exercise and develops therapies for age-related muscle loss.