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Max Hartmann
Max Hartmann (1876–1962) was a German zoologist and protistologist who directed the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin-Dahlem and proposed the law of relative sexuality.
Max Kleiber
Max Kleiber (1893–1976) was a Swiss-born agricultural chemist and animal physiologist at UC Davis who showed in 1932 that mammal metabolic rate scales with body weight to the 3/4 power, known as Kleiber's law.
Max L. Birnstiel
Max L. Birnstiel (1933–2014) was a Brazilian-born, Swiss-based molecular biologist who purified the first single genes by physical methods and founded the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.
Max M. Burger
Max M. Burger (1933–2019) was a Swiss biochemist and cell biologist known for showing that cancer cell surfaces differ in lectin binding, and director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel from 1987 to 2000.
Max Theiler
Max Theiler was a South African-born virologist at the Rockefeller Foundation who developed the 17D yellow fever vaccine, winning the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Max Verworn
Max Verworn (1863–1921) was a German physiologist who helped establish general physiology, held chairs at Jena, Göttingen, and Bonn, and proposed the controversial Biogen hypothesis of life.
Maxence V. Nachury
Maxence V. Nachury is a French-trained cell biologist and professor of Ophthalmology at UCSF since 2017, known for discovering the BBSome, a protein complex linked to Bardet-Biedl syndrome.
Maxime Schwartz
Maxime Schwartz, born in 1940, is a French molecular biologist who researched positive transcriptional regulation in bacteria and directed the Institut Pasteur from 1988 to 1999.
Maximilian Muenke
Maximilian Muenke is a German-born American medical geneticist who identified genetic causes of craniosynostosis and holoprosencephaly, and led the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics from 2019.
Maximilian Nierenstein
Maximilian Nierenstein, born Moses Nierenstein, was a Baltic German-born tannin chemist and biochemist at the University of Bristol, known for the 1915 Nierenstein reaction and for proposing the name Vitamine.
Maxine L. Linial
Maxine L. Linial is an American virologist and Professor Emeritus at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, known for her work on retroviral RNA packaging and foamy viruses.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer (1931–2024) was an American molecular biologist who worked on the genetic code at NIH, co-organized the 1975 Asilomar conference, and led the Carnegie Institution.
Maxwell Finland
Maxwell Finland (1902–1987) was an American infectious disease specialist at Harvard and Boston City Hospital and the first president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
May R. Berenbaum
May R. Berenbaum is an American entomologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for work on chemical coevolution of plants and insects and for honey bee health research.
May-Britt Moser
May-Britt Moser, born 1963 in Fosnavåg, Norway, is a neuroscientist at NTNU in Trondheim known for the discovery of grid cells and a 2014 Nobel Prize.
Maya Saleh
Maya Saleh is a Canadian immunologist who studies innate immunity, inflammasomes, and cell death, and has been a Full Professor at INRS Armand-Frappier in Laval, Québec since 2023.
Maya Schuldiner
Maya Schuldiner is an Israeli molecular geneticist and organelle biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science who studies how proteins are delivered to organelles in yeast.
Mayank Mehta
Mayank R. Mehta is a neurophysicist and professor at UCLA who studies how the hippocampus represents space, time, and learning, leading the W. M. Keck Center for Neurophysics.
Maynard V. Olson
Maynard V. Olson is a University of Washington geneticist and Human Genome Project founder who developed YAC cloning and STS mapping, winning the 2007 Gruber Genetics Prize.
Mazhar Adli
Mazhar Adli is a molecular biologist and cancer epigeneticist who directs the Center for Genome Engineering at Northwestern University and is known for CRISPR-STOP, a gene-silencing method that disables genes without cutting DNA.
Maziar Divangahi
Maziar Divangahi is a Canadian pulmonary immunologist and McGill University professor whose work on trained innate immunity identified hematopoietic stem cells as targets for vaccines against tuberculosis and influenza.
Meave Leakey
Meave Leakey, born Meave Epps in 1942, is a British-born Kenyan paleoanthropologist known for describing Australopithecus anamensis and Kenyanthropus platyops, and for leading the Koobi Fora Research Project.
Meenakshi Madhur
Meenakshi (Meena) Madhur is an American physician-scientist best known for establishing that T cells drive hypertension; she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Megerditch Kiledjian
Megerditch Kiledjian is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University known for identifying mammalian mRNA decapping enzymes and the NAD+ RNA cap that promotes RNA decay.
Mehrdad Jazayeri
Mehrdad Jazayeri is a systems neuroscientist at MIT who studies how the brain keeps time and makes decisions; he became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator in 2024.
Mei Zhen
Mei Zhen is a Canadian neurobiologist at Sinai Health's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and the University of Toronto, known for mapping the C. elegans brain across development.
Meinhart H. Zenk
Meinhart H. Zenk (1933–2011) was a German plant biochemist who discovered phytochelatins, the heavy-metal-binding peptides of higher plants, and held chairs at Bochum and Munich.
Meinrad Busslinger
Meinrad Busslinger, born 1952, is a Swiss molecular biologist and immunologist at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, known for defining Pax5 as the decisive factor of B-cell identity.
Meir Wilchek
Meir Wilchek is an Israeli biochemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, born in Warsaw in 1935, known for affinity chromatography and the avidin–biotin system.
Melanie Ehrlich
Melanie Ehrlich is a molecular biologist and Professor of Genetics at Tulane University School of Medicine, known for early discoveries in DNA methylation and cancer epigenetics.