Life scientists

Matthew C. Gibson

Matthew C. Gibson is a developmental biologist and Investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri, known for his 2011 Cell paper on epithelial topology.

Matthew C. Whitby

Matthew C. Whitby is a Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Oxford who studies homologous recombination and genome stability, known for work on RecG helicase and Fml1.

Matthew D. Welch

Matthew D. Welch is an American cell biologist and microbiologist at UC Berkeley who studies actin polymerization, the Arp2/3 complex, and how pathogens exploit the cytoskeleton.

Matthew E. Ritchie is a computational biologist who leads the Genetics and Gene Regulation division at WEHI in Melbourne, known for the limma RNA-seq software and mixture-control benchmarks of single-cell and long-read analysis tools.

Matthew F. Krummel

Matthew F. Krummel, known as Max Krummel, is an American immunologist and UCSF professor of pathology who co-discovered CTLA-4 blockade, the basis of checkpoint cancer immunotherapy.

Matthew F. S. Rushworth

Matthew F. S. Rushworth is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Oxford who studies the neural mechanisms of decision making and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2019.

Matthew Freeman (cell biologist)

Matthew Freeman is a British cell biologist and geneticist, Professor of Pathology at Oxford, known for discovering rhomboid proteases and iRhoms, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006.

Matthew Hurles

Matthew Hurles is a British human geneticist who became Director of the Wellcome Sanger Institute in 2023, known for the Deciphering Developmental Disorders study, which identified over 100 new rare genetic diseases.

Matthew I. Banks

Matthew I. Banks is a neuroscientist and Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose research studies how anesthesia and brain connectivity alter consciousness.

Matthew J. Dalby

Matthew J. Dalby is Professor of Cell Engineering at the University of Glasgow, known for showing that nanoscale surface disorder can drive stem cells to make bone without growth factors.

Matthew J. During

Matthew J. During was a New Zealand-born neuroscientist whose 1994 work established AAV gene delivery to the brain; he died in January 2025, aged 66.

Matthew J. Potthoff

Matthew J. Potthoff is an American molecular biologist and neuroscientist known for studying how the liver hormone FGF21 acts on the brain to regulate metabolism, alcohol consumption, and liver disease.

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Matthew Kaufman

Matthew Howard Kaufman (1942–2013) was a geneticist and anatomist who co-created the first mouse embryonic stem cells with Martin Evans and wrote The Atlas of Mouse Development.

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Matthew L Shapiro

Matthew L Shapiro is a neuroscientist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai who studies how the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex encode and retrieve memory.

Matthew Larkum

Matthew E. Larkum is a German neuroscientist, professor of neurobiology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2011, known for showing pyramidal neurons act as coincidence detectors.

Matthew Mah

Matthew Mah is an American computer scientist and Senior Software Architect in the David Reich Lab at Harvard Medical School, where he processes ancient human DNA sequencing data.

Matthew Meselson

Matthew Meselson, born in 1930, is an American molecular biologist at Harvard known for the Meselson–Stahl experiment showing DNA replicates semi-conservatively and for mismatch repair.

Matthew N. Rasband

Matthew N. Rasband (born 1970) is an American neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine who studies ion channel clustering at the axon initial segment and nodes of Ranvier.

Matthew P. Scott

Matthew P. Scott is an American developmental biologist, emeritus Stanford professor and former Carnegie Institution president, known for co-discovering the homeobox and linking Hedgehog signaling to cancer.

Matthew P. Walker

Matthew P. Walker is a neuroscientist known for research on sleep-dependent memory and Alzheimer's disease, and for the 2017 book Why We Sleep, translated into more than 40 languages.

Matthew Simon

Matthew D. Simon is a chemical biologist at Yale School of Medicine, a faculty member since 2012, known for RNA and chromatin methods like CHART and TimeLapse-seq.

Matthew Stephens (statistician)

Matthew Stephens is a statistician and geneticist who is the Ralph W. Gerard Professor at the University of Chicago, known for haplotype phasing, genotype imputation, and Bayesian fine-mapping.

Matthew W. State

Matthew W. State is an American child psychiatrist and human geneticist who chairs psychiatry at UCSF and is known for identifying autism and Tourette syndrome genes.

Matthew Waldor

Matthew Waldor is an American microbiologist at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital, an HHMI Investigator known for work on cholera toxin phages and antibiotic resistance.

Matthias A. Hediger

Matthias A. Hediger, also known as M A Hediger, is a Swiss biochemist and professor emeritus at the University of Bern known for cloning SLC transporters.

Matthias Bochtler

Matthias Bochtler is a structural biologist and professor at the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, known for crystal structures of the HslU–HslV ATP-dependent protease.

Matthias Hentze

Matthias W. Hentze is a German RNA biologist known for discovering the iron-responsive element and for riboregulation, and has directed EMBL in Heidelberg since 2013.

Matthias Mann

Matthias Mann, born 1959 in Germany, is a physicist-turned-biochemist known as a founding father of proteomics, director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry since 2005.

Matthias Merkenschlager

Matthias Merkenschlager is an immunologist and molecular biologist, Professor of Cell Biology at Imperial College London, known for work on CTCF and cohesin in genome organization.