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Mary C. Nakamura
Mary C. Nakamura is an American rheumatologist and physician-scientist, Professor in Residence at UCSF, known for research on innate immune receptors in bone biology and fracture healing.
Mary Carrington
Mary Carrington is an American immunologist and human geneticist who studies how HLA and KIR gene variation shapes susceptibility to HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, and cancer.
Mary Dasso
Mary Dasso is an American cell biologist who heads the Section on Cell Cycle Regulation at NIH's NICHD in Bethesda, Maryland, studying the Ran GTPase and SUMOylation in mitosis.
Mary E. Brunkow
Mary E. Brunkow is an American molecular biologist at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, co-recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Mary E. Hatten
Mary E. Hatten, also published as Mary Beth Hatten, is an American developmental neurobiologist at The Rockefeller University known for proving that neurons migrate along glial fibers.
Mary Ellen Conley
Mary Ellen Conley is an American immunologist and physician who defined the genetic basis of X-linked agammaglobulinemia, identifying Bruton's tyrosine kinase mutations that block B cell development.
Mary Ellen Jones (American biochemist)
Mary Ellen Jones (1922–1996) was an American biochemist who codiscovered carbamoyl phosphate, key to DNA and RNA synthesis, and became the first woman to chair a department at the UNC School of Medicine.
Mary F. Lyon
Mary F. Lyon (1925–2014) was a British mouse geneticist who spent her career at MRC Harwell and proposed X-chromosome inactivation, known as Lyonization, in a 1961 Nature paper.
Mary Jane Osborn
Mary Jane Osborn (1927–2019) was an American biochemist known for her research on lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis and the bacterial cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria, and a founding faculty member of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
Mary K. Baylies
Mary K. Baylies, also known as Mary Baylies, is an American developmental biologist who studies skeletal muscle formation and disease, leading a laboratory at the Sloan Kettering Institute since 1996.
Mary K. Estes
Mary K. Estes is an American virologist and Distinguished Service Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston who studies the gastrointestinal viruses rotavirus and human norovirus.
Mary L. Efron
Mary L. Efron (1926–1967) was an American physician at Harvard Medical School who described the inherited amino acid disorders hyperprolinemia and hydroxyprolinemia and developed a filter-paper screening test for amino acid metabolism disorders.
Mary Leakey
Mary Leakey, née Nicol, was a British paleoanthropologist whose excavations in Tanzania and Kenya produced the Zinjanthropus cranium at Olduvai Gorge and the 3.6-million-year-old Laetoli footprints.
Mary Lou Pardue
Mary Lou Pardue (1933–2024) was an American molecular biologist at MIT who codeveloped in situ hybridization for locating genes on chromosomes and showed fruit flies maintain telomeres with retrotransposons, not telomerase.
Mary Osborn
Mary Osborn, born 1940 in Darlington, England, is a British cell biologist at Max Planck Göttingen known for the Weber–Osborn method and cytoskeleton immunofluorescence, winning the 2002 L'Oréal/UNESCO Prize.
Mary-Dell Chilton
Mary-Dell Chilton (1939–2026) was an American plant biotechnologist who led the research producing the first transgenic plants, using a disarmed Agrobacterium Ti plasmid as a gene vector, and later directed Syngenta Biotechnology in North Carolina.
Mary‐Claire King
Mary-Claire King, born in Chicago in 1946, is an American geneticist at the University of Washington who showed inherited breast cancer susceptibility and named the gene BRCA1.
Mary‐Jane Gething
Mary-Jane Gething, also known as Mary-Jane H. Gething, is an Australian biochemist at the University of Melbourne known for her work on protein folding in living cells.
Masa-atsu Yamada
Masa-atsu Yamada is a Japanese cell biologist who led the Tokyo group that isolated the temperature-sensitive ts85 mouse cell line in 1980, cited in the 2004 Nobel Prize background.
Masaaki Komatsu
Masaaki Komatsu (小松 雅明) is a Japanese cell biologist and professor at Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, known for establishing p62 as a selective autophagy cargo receptor.
Masad J. Damha
Masad J. Damha is a Canadian nucleic acid chemist and Distinguished James McGill Professor at McGill University whose laboratory developed FANA, a DNA-mimicking antisense chemistry advanced toward COPD drug trials.
Masaharu Noda
Masaharu Noda (野田 昌晴), born in 1953, is a Japanese neuroscientist who cloned the voltage-gated sodium channel gene and identified Nax as the brain's sodium-level sensor.
Masahiro Shirakawa
Masahiro Shirakawa (白川 昌宏) is a Japanese structural biologist and Kyoto University professor, known since 2001 for NMR structures of methyl-CpG-binding domains bound to methylated DNA.
Masahiro Sugiura
Masahiro Sugiura (杉浦 昌弘, born 1936) is a Japanese molecular biologist at Nagoya University who sequenced the tobacco chloroplast genome in 1986 and established chloroplast engineering.
Masahiro Yamamoto (immunologist)
Masahiro Yamamoto (Yamamoto Masahiro) is a Japanese immunologist and professor at The University of Osaka known for Toll-like receptor signaling, ubiquitin-dependent immune signaling, and host defense against Toxoplasma gondii.
Masahiro Yano
Masahiro Yano (矢野 昌裕) is a Japanese rice geneticist who mapped the rice genome, cloned flowering-time and seed-shattering genes, and won the Japan Prize of Agricultural Science in 2013.
Masakazu Konishi
Masakazu Konishi (小西正一), known in the United States as Mark Konishi, was a Japanese-born American neuroethologist at Caltech who studied how barn owls localize sound.
Masami Horikoshi
Masami Horikoshi (堀越 正美) is a Japanese molecular biologist at the University of Tokyo who studies transcription initiation and chromatin, known for cloning yeast TFIID at Rockefeller University.
Masami Muramatsu
Masami Muramatsu (村松 正實) is a Japanese molecular biologist and physician known for work on gene expression in cancer and steroid hormone receptors, holding professorships at the University of Tokyo and Saitama Medical University.
Masamitsu Futai
Masamitsu Futai (二井 將光) is a Japanese biochemist known for research on F-ATPase and V-ATPase, including the 1999 direct observation of ATP synthase c-ring rotation.