Life scientists

Melanie Freeman

Melanie Freeman is a cell and molecular biologist known for co-authoring whole-cell correlative cryogenic imaging and volume electron microscopy studies at Janelia, now at Infinimmune.

Melanie Greter

Melanie Greter is a Swiss neuroimmunologist who leads a lab at the University of Zurich, known for defining the origins and identity of microglia and other brain macrophages.

Melanie H. Cobb

Melanie H. Cobb is an American biochemist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center known for purifying, cloning, and naming the mammalian ERK MAP kinases.

Mélanie Ott

Mélanie Ott is a German-born virologist who directs the Gladstone Institute of Virology, is a professor of medicine at UCSF, and studies HIV, hepatitis C, and SARS-CoV-2.

Melike Lakadamyali is a biophysicist and microscopist at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine who develops super-resolution microscopy to study chromatin and organelle transport.

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Melissa Garren

Melissa Garren is a molecular and marine biologist known for her work on the coral microbiome and coral disease, and for co-founding the fisheries-technology company Pelagic Data Systems.

Melissa H. Little

Melissa H. Little is an Australian stem cell biologist, CEO of the reNEW stem cell medicine center in Copenhagen, known for creating the first kidney in a dish.

Melissa J. Moore

Melissa J. Moore is an American RNA biologist at UMass Chan Medical School, known for studies of the spliceosome and exon junction complex and as Moderna's mRNA platform chief scientific officer from 2016 to 2023.

Melitta Schachner

Melitta Schachner, born 1943, is a German neurobiologist and biochemist known for discovering the neural adhesion molecules L1, CHL1, and the tenascins, and for the first knockout mutant of a neural recognition molecule.

Melvin Calvin

Melvin Calvin (1911–1997) was an American biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley who won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for tracing the path of carbon in photosynthesis.

Melvin Cohn

Melvin Cohn (1922–2018) was an American immunologist and founding fellow of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, known for gene regulation work at the Institut Pasteur and theoretical immunology.

Melvin I. Simon

Melvin I. Simon is an American molecular biologist who spent most of his career at Caltech, known for showing that bacterial flagella are driven by a rotary motor.

Melvin J. Cohen

Melvin J. Cohen, also known as Melvin Joseph Cohen, was an American neurobiologist and Yale professor known for work on nerve regeneration in insects and lampreys.

Melvin L. DePamphilis

Melvin L. DePamphilis is an American molecular biologist known for research on the initiation of eukaryotic DNA replication, first in SV40 and later in mammalian chromosomes.

Melvin Martin Green

Melvin Martin Green (1916–2017) was an American geneticist who spent sixty years at UC Davis studying Drosophila mutations and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1980.

Melvyn Goodale

Melvyn Goodale is a British-born Canadian cognitive neuroscientist at Western University, best known for his 1992 two-visual-streams hypothesis, which separates visual perception from the visual control of action.

Menek Goldstein

Menek Goldstein (1926–1997) was a Polish-born neurochemist at New York University Medical Center whose laboratory defined the brain's catecholamine-synthesizing enzymes and pioneered bromocriptine therapy for Parkinson's disease.

Meng C. Wang

Meng C. Wang (Meng Wang) is a molecular biologist who studies how metabolism, organelles, and gut microbes regulate aging, and a senior group leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus.

Mercedes Paredes

Mercedes Paredes is a neurologist and physician-scientist at the University of California, San Francisco who studies perinatal human brain development, known for a 2023 single-cell cortical atlas in Science.

Meritxell Huch

Meritxell Huch is a Spanish stem cell biologist known for organoid models of liver, stomach, and pancreas, and a director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden since 2022.

Merkel Henry Jacobs

Merkel Henry Jacobs (1885–1955) was an American cell physiologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for work on cell permeability, especially red blood cells, and director of the Marine Biological Laboratory.

Merrill Chase

Merrill Wallace Chase (1905–2004) was an American immunologist who spent over 70 years at Rockefeller University and is credited with discovering cell-mediated immunity, showing in 1945 that immunity transfers by cells, not antibodies.

Merritt Lyndon Fernald

Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1873–1950) was an American systematic botanist who spent nearly sixty years at Harvard's Gray Herbarium and led the study of eastern North American plants.

Merton Bernfield

Merton Bernfield, also known as Merton R. Bernfield, was an American pediatrician and cell biologist who discovered the syndecans and taught at Harvard Medical School.

Merton F. Utter

Merton F. Utter (1917–1980) was an American biochemist at Case Western Reserve University who discovered pyruvate carboxylase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, establishing gluconeogenesis as a distinct pathway.

Messoud Ashina

Messoud Ashina is a Danish neurologist and neuroscientist who studies migraine, leading research at Rigshospitalet and serving as President of the International Headache Society from 2019 to 2021.

Meyer B. Jackson

Meyer B. Jackson is an American neuroscientist and biophysicist who holds the Kenneth S. Cole Professorship at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for treating fusion pores like ion channels.

Mi Seul Park

Mi Seul Park is a South Korean structural biologist who studies RNA regulation and Argonaute proteins, and became a Senior Scientist at Johnson & Johnson in 2025.

Michael A. Becker

Michael A. Becker is an American physician-scientist and Professor of Medicine Emeritus in rheumatology at the University of Chicago, known for purine metabolism research and gout drug trials.