Life scientists

Martin Rechsteiner

Martin C. Rechsteiner is a biochemist at the University of Utah known for work on ubiquitin and proteasome biology, including the PEST hypothesis and the 11S REG (PA28) proteasome activator.

Martin Rodbell (1925–1998) was an American biochemist at the National Institutes of Health who discovered G-proteins, the cell's signal-transducing proteins, and shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Martin Rosenberg

Martin Rosenberg is a molecular biologist who spent a decade at the National Institutes of Health and two decades in industry, retiring in 2001 as senior vice president of anti-infectives drug discovery at GlaxoSmithKline.

Martin Rossor

Martin Rossor is a British clinical neurologist and dementia researcher, Professor Emeritus at UCL, who served as National Director for Dementia Research and helped identify the first familial Alzheimer's gene.

Martin Scheffner

Martin Scheffner is a biochemist and Full Professor at the University of Konstanz since 2004, known for identifying E6AP as the first HECT-family ubiquitin-protein ligase.

Martin Spiess

Martin Spiess (born 1955 in Zürich) is a Swiss biochemist and professor emeritus at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, known for defining how multispanning membrane proteins insert into the ER membrane.

Martin Steinegger

Martin Steinegger is a computational biologist and tenured associate professor at Seoul National University known for the open-source protein tools MMseqs2, Foldseek, and ColabFold, which made AlphaFold2 freely accessible.

Martin Thanbichler

Martin Thanbichler is a microbiologist who leads the Bacterial Cell Biology group at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, known for discovering that ParB proteins are controlled by CTP.

Martin Turner

Martin Turner is an immunologist at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge who studies lymphocyte development and signaling, known for his 1995 Nature paper on the kinase Syk in B-cell development.

Martin W. Hetzer

Martin W. Hetzer is an Austrian molecular biologist and, since 2023, president of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, known for discovering long-lived nuclear proteins.

Martin Weigert

Martin Weigert is an immunologist and Professor of Pathology at the University of Chicago, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999, known for discovering receptor editing.

Martin Widschwendter

Martin Widschwendter is an Austrian gynecological oncologist and epigenetics researcher, Professor in Women's Cancer at University College London and director of the EUTOPS Institute in Innsbruck.

Martin Yanofsky

Martin F. Yanofsky is an American plant developmental biologist at UC San Diego who identified major genes controlling flower and fruit development in Arabidopsis, including AGAMOUS and FRUITFULL.

Martin Zenke

Martin Zenke (born 1953) is a German molecular biologist and Senior Professor of Cell Biology at RWTH Aachen University, known for work on oncoproteins and stem cells.

Martina Brueckner

Martina Brueckner is a Yale School of Medicine physician-scientist and cardiologist known for discovering how cilia establish left-right asymmetry and for gene discovery in congenital heart disease.

Martina U. Muckenthaler

Martina U. Muckenthaler is a German molecular biologist and Professor of Molecular Medicine at Heidelberg University since 2004, known for research on iron metabolism and iron overload diseases.

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Martinus Beijerinck

Martinus Willem Beijerinck was a Dutch microbiologist who founded the virus concept in 1898 through tobacco mosaic experiments at Delft and developed enrichment culture, founding the Delft School of microbiology.

Martyn Goulding

Martyn Goulding is a systems neuroscientist and professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, known for identifying spinal interneurons that set walking rhythm and gate mechanical itch.

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Martynas Yčas

Martynas Yčas (1917–2014) was a Lithuanian-born microbiologist and professor at SUNY Syracuse who worked on the statistical analysis of the genetic code in George Gamow's circle.

Marvin A. Rich

Marvin A. Rich was an American cancer researcher at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, known for viral leukemia research and the murine "Rich virus".

Marvin Edelman

Marvin Edelman is a molecular biologist and emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for his 1987 discovery of chloroplast trans-splicing.

Marvin H. Caruthers

Marvin H. Caruthers (born 1940) is an American biochemist at the University of Colorado Boulder who created the phosphoramidite method, the chemistry behind nearly every commercial DNA synthesizer.

Marvin M. Chun

Marvin M. Chun, also known as Marvin Chun, is a cognitive neuroscientist and the Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology at Yale University, known for identifying the fusiform face area.

Marvin R. Paule

Marvin R. Paule is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at Colorado State University known for his research on ribosomal RNA transcription and its regulation in growing and cancer cells.

Marvin Tanenbaum

Marvin E. Tanenbaum is a molecular biologist and senior group leader at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, known for SunTag and single-molecule imaging of translation in living cells.

Marvin Wickens

Marvin Wickens, known as Marv Wickens, is an American molecular biologist who spent his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison studying how cells control messenger RNA.

Mary Ann Osley

Mary Ann Osley is a molecular biologist who studies chromatin structure and histone gene regulation in yeast, including H2B ubiquitylation, DNA repair, and quiescence, and is a retired Distinguished Professor at the University of New Mexico.

Mary B. Kennedy

Mary B. Kennedy, born 1947, in Pontiac, Michigan, is an American neuroscientist at Caltech who for 40 years studied the biochemistry of synaptic plasticity underlying learning and memory.

Mary Bethe Humphrey

Mary Bethe Humphrey, also published as Mary Beth Humphrey, is an American rheumatologist who leads the rheumatology division at the University of Oklahoma and studies osteoporosis.