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Matthias P. Lütolf

Matthias P. Lütolf is a Swiss stem cell bioengineer who directs Roche's Institute of Human Biology in Basel and is a Full Professor at EPFL.

Matthias Peter

Matthias Peter, born 1962 in Winterthur, Switzerland, is a Swiss molecular biologist and full Professor of Biochemistry at ETH Zurich since 2002, studying cell growth and division.

Matthias von Herrath

Matthias von Herrath is a German immunologist specializing in type 1 diabetes who founded the La Jolla Institute's Type 1 Diabetes Center and directs the Diabetes Research Institute in Miami.

Matthias Wabl

Matthias Wabl is an immunologist and Professor Emeritus of Microbiology and Immunology at UCSF, known for showing how antibody class switching occurs within a B cell clone.

Matthijs Verhage

Matthijs Verhage is a Dutch cellular neuroscientist who studies how nerve terminals release neurotransmitters, and full professor and head of Functional Genomics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam since 2000.

Mattias Jakobsson

Mattias Jakobsson is a Swedish population geneticist, Professor of Genetics and Director of the Center for the Human Past at Uppsala University, known for ancient-DNA studies of human demographic history.

Maureen Purcell

Maureen K. Purcell is an American research microbiologist with the United States Geological Survey, known for fish immune responses and pathogens, and a 2013 PECASE recipient.

Maureen R. Hanson

Maureen R. Hanson is an American plant molecular biologist at Cornell University, known for identifying the pcf mitochondrial gene causing cytoplasmic male sterility and for naming stromules.

Mauri A. Kostiainen

Mauri A. Kostiainen is a Finnish biohybrid materials scientist and full professor at Aalto University, leading a group that combines protein cages and DNA nanostructures into ordered materials.

Maurice B. Burg

Maurice B. Burg, known as Moe Burg, was an American renal physiologist at the National Institutes of Health who developed the isolated perfused kidney tubule technique.

Maurice Bolks Visscher

Maurice Bolks Visscher (1901–1983) was an American physiologist who led the University of Minnesota's physiology department for three decades and introduced the term "active transport".

Maurice Green

Maurice Green (1926–2017) was an American biochemist and virologist who spent six decades at Saint Louis University, founding its Institute for Molecular Virology and helping establish tumor virology as a field.

Maurice Hofnung

Maurice Hofnung (1942–2001) was a French molecular microbiologist at the Institut Pasteur who devised the SOS Chromotest for genotoxic agents and helped define the ABC transporter family.

Maurice S. Fox

Maurice S. Fox, also known as Maurice Sanford Fox, was an American geneticist and molecular biologist at MIT who helped establish modern understanding of DNA mutation, recombination, and mismatch repair.

Maurice Sanford Fox

Maurice Sanford Fox (1924–2020) was an American geneticist and molecular biologist at MIT who studied bacterial transformation and DNA mismatch repair, and co-founded the Council for a Livable World.

Maurice Wilkins

Maurice Wilkins (1916–2004), New Zealand-born British biophysicist at King's College London; shared the 1962 Nobel Prize with Crick and Watson for X-ray diffraction studies revealing DNA's double-helix structure.

Maurice Yonge

Maurice Yonge, full name Charles Maurice Yonge, was an English marine zoologist (1899–1986) who led the Great Barrier Reef Expedition of 1928–29 and established bivalve functional morphology as a research field.

Maurille J. Fournier

Maurille J. Fournier is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for defining the two major families of small nucleolar RNAs.

Maurizio Brunori

Maurizio Brunori, born in Rome in 1937, is an Italian biochemist and biophysicist known for work on hemoglobin allostery and neuroglobin, and professor emeritus at Sapienza University of Rome.

Maurizio Corbetta

Maurizio Corbetta, born 1961, is an Italian cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist at the University of Padua known for identifying the brain's dorsal and ventral attention networks.

Maurizio Molinari

Maurizio Molinari is a cell biologist who leads the Protein Folding and Quality Control group at IRB Bellinzona, studying how misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum are degraded.

Mauro Costa‐Mattioli

Mauro Costa-Mattioli is a Uruguayan-born neuroscientist who studies how protein synthesis and the gut microbiome control memory, known for showing the integrated stress response regulates long-term memory.

Mauro Giacca

Mauro Giacca is an Italian molecular biologist, Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences at King's College London, known for microRNA-based cardiac regeneration and viral gene therapy, and ICGEB director-general until 2019.

Max Bergmann

Max Bergmann (1886–1944) was a German biochemist who devised the carbobenzoxy method of peptide synthesis and led the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Leather Research in Dresden.

Max D. Summers

Max D. Summers is an American molecular biologist and entomologist at Texas A&M University, known for developing the Baculovirus Expression Vector System and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989.

Max Dale Cooper

Max Dale Cooper is an American immunologist at Emory University known for discovering the T cell and B cell lineages of adaptive immunity, honored with the 2019 Lasker Award.

Max Delbrück

Max Delbrück was a German-born American biologist and molecular genetics pioneer who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries about virus replication and structure.

Max E. Gottesman

Max E. Gottesman, born in 1935, is an American molecular biologist and emeritus professor at Columbia University known for his work on transcription antitermination in bacteriophage lambda.

Max Essex

Max Essex, born Myron Essex in 1939, is an American virologist at Harvard who helped establish HIV as the cause of AIDS and chairs the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute.

Max F. Perutz

Max F. Perutz (1914–2002) was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist and crystallographer who determined the structure of hemoglobin and shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Kendrew.