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Michael A. Lampson

Michael A. Lampson, also known as Michael Lampson, is an American cell biologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how chromosomes segregate in cell division.

Michael A. Long

Michael A. Long is an American neuroscientist and professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine whose lab studies the neural circuits that produce and time learned vocal behavior.

Michael A. Marletta

Michael A. Marletta, born 1951, is an American chemical biologist at UC Berkeley known for establishing how mammals make nitric oxide and how heme proteins sense gases.

Michael A. Resnick

Michael A. Resnick is a molecular geneticist known for work on DNA double-strand break repair and genome stability, spent mostly at NIEHS, part of the NIH in North Carolina.

Michael A. Simon

Michael A. Simon is a Professor of Biology at Stanford University whose Drosophila genetic screens, including a 1991 Cell paper, helped define the Ras signaling pathway.

Michael A. Sutton

Michael A. Sutton is a neuroscientist at the University of Michigan known for work on synaptic plasticity, dendritic protein synthesis, and memory, and named a 2008 Pew Biomedical Scholar.

Michael A. Teitell

Michael A. Teitell is an American physician-scientist at UCLA, director of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, known for identifying PNPASE as a regulator of RNA import into mitochondria.

Michael A. Weiss

Michael A. Weiss is an American biochemist and molecular endocrinologist who chairs biochemistry at Indiana University School of Medicine, known for structural studies of insulin and the SRY protein.

Michael Andrew Fischbach

Michael A. Fischbach is the Liu Family Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University, where he directs the Microbiome Therapies Initiative and co-founded Revolution Medicines and Azalea.

Michael Ashburner

Michael Ashburner (1942–2023) was a British geneticist and bioinformatician at the University of Cambridge who studied gene regulation in the fruit fly Drosophila and built FlyBase, helped found the EMBL-EBI, and created the Gene Ontology.

Michael B Reiser

Michael B Reiser is a systems neuroscientist and Senior Group Leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, where since 2007 his lab has studied visual motion and color processing in fruit flies.

Michael B. A. Oldstone

Michael B. A. Oldstone (1932–2023) was an American virologist and immunologist who spent his career at Scripps Research, pioneering viral pathogenesis through LCMV studies and molecular mimicry.

Michael B. Brenner

Michael B. Brenner is an immunologist and rheumatologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for discovering γδ T cells and the CD1 antigen presentation system.

Michael B. Mathews

Michael B. Mathews is an American molecular biologist at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School known for discovering adenovirus VA RNAs and for work on translational control.

Michael B. Miller

Michael B. Miller is an American cognitive neuroscientist and professor at UC Santa Barbara, known for split-brain research showing a small intact section of the corpus callosum can unify consciousness.

Michael B. O’Connor

Michael B. O'Connor is a developmental geneticist at the University of Minnesota known for his work on TGFβ and BMP signaling and steroid hormone biology in Drosophila.

Michael B. Sporn

Michael B. Sporn (1933–2022) was an American cancer pharmacologist who coined "chemoprevention" in 1976, led the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Chemoprevention, and developed synthetic triterpenoid drugs at Dartmouth.

Michael B. Yaffe

Michael B. Yaffe is a physician-scientist at MIT, a professor since 2000, known for work on phospho-motif signaling and the DNA damage response in cancer cells.

Michael Bate

Michael Bate is a British developmental neurobiologist at Cambridge, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1997, known for studying how the fruit fly nervous system develops.

Michael Birnbaum

Michael Birnbaum, also known as Michael E. Birnbaum, is an American immunologist who studies how T cells recognize their antigen targets, holding the Underwood-Prescott Professorship at MIT.

Michael Boutros

Michael Boutros is a molecular biologist who heads the Division of Signaling and Functional Genomics at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, known for discovering Wntless and building genome-wide CRISPR screening.

Michael Boyce (biochemist)

Michael Scott Boyce is an American biochemist and Associate Professor at Duke University School of Medicine who studies O-GlcNAcylation, a sugar-based signaling mechanism, and received a 2017 PECASE award.

Michael Brand (developmental biologist)

Michael Brand is a German developmental biologist, professor at TU Dresden, known for zebrafish research on how the vertebrate brain and retina develop and regenerate.

Michael Brecht

Michael Brecht (born 1967) is a German cellular and systems neuroscientist, professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2006, known for single-neuron recording in rats, hide-and-seek experiments, and elephant neurobiology.

Michael Brownlee

Michael Brownlee is a diabetes researcher and Professor Emeritus at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, known for his 2001 Nature paper unifying how high blood sugar damages blood vessels.

Michael Brownstein

Michael J. Brownstein is an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist known for research on neuropeptides and hormone receptors, for directing high-throughput gene-cloning programs at the NIH, and for co-founding Azevan Pharmaceuticals.

Michael Brunner

Michael Brunner is a professor at the Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center since 2000, known for work on the Neurospora crassa circadian clock and earlier on mitochondrial protein import.

Michael Bustin

Michael Bustin (1937–2025) was a Romanian-born molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute who pioneered antibody-based studies of chromatin structure and discovered new HMGN nucleosome-binding protein variants.

Michael Buszczak

Michael Buszczak is a molecular biologist and professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who studies how stem cells keep their identity using fruit flies.

Michael C. Bassik

Michael C. Bassik is an American geneticist and Associate Professor of Genetics at Stanford University whose lab develops CRISPR and RNAi libraries for genome-wide screens.