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Michael Lynch (evolutionary geneticist)

Michael Lynch (born 1951) is an American evolutionary geneticist who explains genome complexity through population genetics, and directs the Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution at Arizona State University.

Michael M. Cox

Michael M. Cox, also cited as M. M. Cox, is an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for work on recombinational DNA repair and RecA.

Michael M. Desai

Michael M. Desai is Fisher Professor of Natural History at Harvard University, an evolutionary geneticist known for theoretical and experimental work on selection in asexual populations.

Michael M. Halassa

Michael M. Halassa is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who studies thalamocortical circuits in attention and decision-making, and is a professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech.

Michael M. Kozlov

Michael M. Kozlov, also published as M. M. Kozlov, is a theoretical biophysicist and emeritus professor at Tel Aviv University known for theories of membrane fusion, fission, and curvature.

Michael M. Lederman

Michael M. Lederman is an American physician-scientist in virology and immunology whose work helped define HIV's immunologic damage; he spent his career at Case Western Reserve University.

Michael M. Shen

Michael M. Shen is a developmental biologist and cancer researcher at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, known for studies of prostate development, Nodal signaling, and bladder cancer organoids.

Michael McClelland

Michael McClelland is a microbiologist and professor at the University of California, Irvine, known for inventing arbitrarily primed PCR genome fingerprinting and sequencing the Salmonella Typhimurium genome.

Michael Meisterernst

Michael Meisterernst is a German biochemist and professor who has held the chair of the Institute of Molecular Tumor Biology at the University of Münster since January 2008.

Michael Menaker

Michael Menaker (1934–2021) was an Austrian-born American circadian biologist and Commonwealth Professor at the University of Virginia who showed circadian clocks exist throughout mammalian tissues.

Michael Merzenich

Michael M. Merzenich, born 1942 in Lebanon, Oregon, is an American neuroscientist and UCSF professor emeritus known for brain plasticity research, cochlear implant development, and the 2016 Kavli Prize.

Michael N. Hall

Michael N. Hall, born 1953 in Puerto Rico, is a Swiss biochemist at the University of Basel who discovered TOR in yeast in 1991, work recognized by the Lasker and Balzan prizes.

Michael N. Nitabach

Michael N. Nitabach is a neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine who studies the genetic and electrical control of sleep, circadian rhythms, and decision-making in fruit flies.

Michael N. Shadlen

Michael N. Shadlen is a neuroscientist at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute and an HHMI Investigator, known for showing that parietal neurons accumulate noisy sensory evidence into decisions.

Michael O. Hengartner

Michael O. Hengartner is a Swiss molecular biologist known for research on programmed cell death in C. elegans, and rector of the University of Zurich from 2014 to 2020.

Michael O. Hottiger

Michael O. Hottiger is a Swiss biochemist who heads the Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease at the University of Zurich, studying ADP-ribosylation and inflammation.

Michael O'Donnell (biochemist)

Michael O'Donnell is an American biochemist who heads the Laboratory of DNA Replication at The Rockefeller University and is known for discovering the DNA sliding clamp.

Michael O‘Donovan

Michael O'Donovan is a psychiatric geneticist and Emeritus Professor at Cardiff University who co-led landmark GWAS identifying 108 and then 287 genetic regions linked to schizophrenia.

Michael Ohh

Michael Ohh is a Canadian cancer biologist and professor at the University of Toronto whose laboratory studies the VHL tumor suppressor protein, RAS, and oxygen sensing in tumors.

Michael Overduin

Michael Overduin is a structural biologist and biochemist who has been a professor at the University of Alberta since 2015, directing NANUC, Canada's national biomolecular NMR facility in Edmonton.

Michael P. Doyle

Michael P. Doyle is an American food microbiologist, Regents Professor at the University of Georgia, and founding director of its Center for Food Safety, elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Michael P. H. Stumpf

Michael P. H. Stumpf is a German-born Australian theoretical systems biologist, professor at the University of Melbourne since 2018 and a 2025 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

Michael P. Lisanti

Michael P. Lisanti, also known as Michael Lisanti, is a cell biologist and cancer researcher known for work on caveolae, caveolin proteins, and the Reverse Warburg Effect in tumor metabolism.

Michael P. Milham

Michael P. Milham is an American neuroscientist and child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Child Mind Institute in New York, known for advancing resting-state fMRI and open neuroimaging data-sharing.

Michael P. Rout

Michael P. Rout is a molecular biologist who heads the Laboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology at Rockefeller University, known for mapping the nuclear pore complex.

Michael P. Stryker

Michael P. Stryker, also known as Michael Stryker, is an American neuroscientist and UCSF professor known for research on visual cortex development, plasticity, and critical periods.

Michael P. Terns

Michael P. Terns is an American molecular biologist at the University of Georgia known for the 2009 Cell paper first describing a type III CRISPR effector complex.

Michael R. Blatt

Michael R. Blatt is a plant cell electrophysiologist and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow, known for research on stomatal guard cells.

Michael R. Botchan

Michael R. Botchan is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley who studies eukaryotic DNA replication, discovered the CMG helicase, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.

Michael R. Bruchas

Michael R. Bruchas is a neuroscientist and professor at the University of Washington who studies brain circuits underlying addiction, stress, and pain, and builds wireless brain implants.