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Michael J. Caterina
Michael J. Caterina is a sensory neurobiologist and Solomon H. Snyder Professor at Johns Hopkins University who identified TRPV1, the capsaicin receptor, the first heat-gated ion channel cloned.
Michael J. Chamberlin
Michael J. Chamberlin (1937–2025) was an American molecular biologist at UC Berkeley who transformed the understanding of transcription; his T7 RNA polymerase is used to make COVID vaccine RNA.
Michael J. Comb
Michael J. Comb is an American biotechnology executive who founded Cell Signaling Technology in 1999, after directing the Molecular Neurobiology Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Michaël J. Crumpton
Michaël J. Crumpton, born Michael Joseph Crumpton in 1929, is a British biochemist and immunologist known for characterizing human HLA antigens and leading research at the ICRF Laboratories in London.
Michael J. Frank
Michael J. Frank is an American cognitive and computational neuroscientist at Brown University known for research on reinforcement learning, decision making, and dopamine in Parkinson's disease.
Michael J. Gale
Michael J. Gale is an American immunologist who defined the RIG-I pathway of viral RNA sensing and directs the University of Minnesota Institute on Infectious Diseases.
Michael J. Getz
Michael J. Getz (1944–1999) was an American molecular biologist who spent his career at Mayo Clinic, known for RNA sequence complexity work and retroviral LTR gene regulation.
Michael J. Hayman
Michael J. Hayman is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University, known for identifying the erbB oncogene product as a membrane glycoprotein.
Michael J. Kahana
Michael J. Kahana, also known as Michael Kahana, is a cognitive neuroscientist and professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how the brain forms and retrieves memories.
Michael J. Krashes
Michael J. Krashes is an American neuroscientist who studies the brain circuits driving hunger, leading a research section at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Michael J. Kuhar
Michael J. Kuhar is an American neuropharmacologist who mapped opiate receptors and showed in 1987 that cocaine binds the dopamine transporter, then spent his career at Emory University.
Michael J. Lenardo
Michael J. Lenardo is an American physician-scientist and molecular immunologist at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, known for discovering the genetic basis and treatment of congenital immune disorders.
Michael J. Meaney
Michael J. Meaney, also known as Michael Meaney, is a Canadian behavioral neuroscientist at McGill University known for showing how maternal care shapes stress responses for life.
Michael J. Smerdon
Michael J. Smerdon is an American biochemist who founded the study of DNA repair in chromatin, the packaged form of DNA, during a long career at Washington State University.
Michael J. Weber
Michael J. Weber (1942–2021) was an American molecular biologist and cancer biologist who helped discover MAP kinase and directed the University of Virginia Cancer Center from 2000 to 2013.
Michael James Denham White
Michael James Denham White (1910–1983) was a British-born zoologist and geneticist, a leading figure in animal cytogenetics and foundation professor of genetics at the University of Melbourne.
Michael John Bevan
Michael John Bevan, born in 1945, is a cellular immunologist known for discovering positive selection of T cells in the thymus and cross-priming, and a University of Washington professor.
Michael K. Gilson
Michael K. Gilson is a computational chemist, Professor and Chair in Computer-Aided Drug Design at UC San Diego since 2010, known for creating BindingDB and the Mining Minima method.
Michael Karin
Michael Karin is a molecular biologist who discovered the IKK-NF-κB and JNK-AP-1 signaling pathways, spent nearly 40 years at UC San Diego, and joined Sanford Burnham Prebys in 2025.
Michael Kessel
Michael Kessel is a molecular biologist known for transgenic mouse experiments showing that the homeobox gene Hox-1.1 can reshape vertebrae and the face when expressed in the wrong places.
Michael Klagsbrun
Michael Klagsbrun was a Harvard Medical School professor and tumor angiogenesis researcher at Boston Children's Hospital who purified the first angiogenesis stimulator, basic fibroblast growth factor.
Michael L Dustin
Michael L Dustin is an American immunologist at the University of Oxford known for defining the immunological synapse, the junction between a T cell and an antigen-presenting cell.
Michael L Middlebrooks
Michael L Middlebrooks is an American invertebrate zoologist and associate professor at the University of Tampa who studies photosynthetic sea slugs, kleptoplasty, and Tampa Bay seagrass restoration.
Michael L. Bennish
Michael L. Bennish is an infectious disease researcher whose cholera and shigellosis research spans Bangladesh and South Africa; he led the 2006 New England Journal of Medicine trial establishing single-dose azithromycin for adult cholera.
Michael L. Shelanski
Michael L. Shelanski is a physician-scientist at Columbia University, Henry Taub Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, whose research moved from the neuronal cytoskeleton to how amyloid-beta disrupts synapses in Alzheimer's disease.
Michael Lee Roukes
Michael Lee Roukes is an American physicist at Caltech who created the first nanoelectromechanical systems in 1990 and now develops single-molecule mass spectrometry to map every protein in a single cell.
Michael Levin (molecular biologist)
Michael Levin is a developmental biologist at Tufts University who studies bioelectricity, how cells' electrical signals coordinate the construction and repair of the body, including regeneration and cancer reprogramming.
Michael Levine (developmental biologist)
Michael S. Levine is a developmental biologist and director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton, known for work on gene regulation and enhancers in the early Drosophila embryo.
Michael Levitt (biophysicist)
Michael Levitt, born 1947 in South Africa, is a computational biologist at Stanford University who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for multiscale models of complex chemical systems.
Michael Lichten
Michael Lichten is a molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute who studies homologous recombination during meiosis in budding yeast, leading a research group there since 1987.