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Michael V. Sofroniew

Michael V. Sofroniew is a neuroscientist and Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology at UCLA whose research on reactive astrocytes reframed glial scarring as protective and applicable to spinal cord injury repair.

Michael W Martynowycz

Michael W Martynowycz is a structural biologist and physicist who develops MicroED methods for atomic-resolution protein structures, and is an assistant professor at the University at Buffalo since 2025.

Michael W. Lieberman

Michael W. Lieberman is an American molecular biologist and pathologist known for research on how mammalian cells repair DNA damage from carcinogens and ultraviolet radiation.

Michael W. McBurney

Michael W. McBurney is a Canadian molecular biologist and Emeritus Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, known for the P19 embryonal carcinoma cell line and sirtuin research.

Michael W. Salter

Michael W. Salter is a Canadian neuroscientist, a Senior Scientist at the SickKids Research Institute in Toronto and Professor at the University of Toronto, known for work on microglia and chronic pain.

Michael W. Schwartz

Michael W. Schwartz is an American physician-scientist at the University of Washington who studies how the brain regulates body weight and blood glucose, and led its diabetes institute.

Michael W. W. Adams

Michael W. W. Adams is a biochemist at the University of Georgia known for studying hyperthermophiles, microbes that grow near 100 °C, and their metalloenzymes.

Michael W. Young

Michael W. Young, born 1949 in Miami, is a geneticist at Rockefeller University who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize for discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.

Michael Waterman

Michael Waterman is an American mathematician and computational biologist at the University of Southern California, co-developer of the Smith–Waterman algorithm and Lander–Waterman model that underpinned the Human Genome Project.

Michael Way (cell biologist)

Michael Way is a cell biologist and virologist who leads a laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute and is Professor of Virology at Imperial College London.

Michael Wegner

Michael Wegner is a German molecular biologist who directs the Institute of Biochemistry at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and is known for showing that Sox10 regulates glial development.

Michael Whitaker

Michael Whitaker is a British physiologist and Emeritus Professor of Physiology at Newcastle University, known for work on calcium signaling in eggs, secretion, and the cell cycle.

Michael Wigler

Michael Wigler is an American molecular biologist and geneticist who is a professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, known for isolating human oncogenes and single-cell genomic technologies.

Michael Y. Galperin

Michael Y. Galperin is a computational biologist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Maryland, known for the COG database of orthologous genes and for microbial genomics research.

Michael Yartsev

Michael M. Yartsev is a neuroscientist and HHMI Investigator who is an associate professor of bioengineering at UC Berkeley, studying how the brain supports natural behaviors using bats.

Michael Yarus

Michael Yarus is an American biochemist at the University of Colorado Boulder known for work on transfer RNA, catalytic RNA, and the genetic code's origin.

Michael Zimmermann

Michael Zimmermann is a Swiss microbiome researcher and group leader at EMBL Heidelberg since 2019, known for a 2019 Nature study showing gut bacteria metabolize most of 271 drugs tested.

Michaela Ulrike Gack

Michaela Ulrike Gack, who publishes as Michaela U. Gack, is a German-born virologist and innate immunologist who leads the Cleveland Clinic Florida Research and Innovation Center in Port St. Lucie.

Michal Linial

Michal Linial is an Israeli computational biologist, a professor of biological chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for ProteinBERT and the PWAS method linking genetic variation to disease.

Michal Schwartz

Michal Schwartz (מיכל שוורץ), born 1950, is an Israeli neuroimmunologist and professor at the Weizmann Institute, known for showing immune cells support brain repair and for Alzheimer's immunotherapy.

Michale S. Fee

Michale S. Fee is a neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns and generates complex sequential behaviors using songbirds; he heads MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Michalis Averof

Michalis Averof is a comparative developmental biologist, a CNRS research director at the Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, known for Hox gene work and limb regeneration research.

Michel A. J. Georges

Michel A. J. Georges (born 1959) is a Belgian geneticist and veterinarian, professor at the University of Liège, known for discovering polar overdominance in sheep and the double-muscling gene in cattle.

Michel B. Tolédano

Michel B. Tolédano, also written Michel B. Toledano, is a French molecular biologist who leads the Oxidative Stress and Cancer Laboratory at the CEA and discovered sulfiredoxin.

Michel Baudry

Michel Baudry is a French-born American neuroscientist at Western University of Health Sciences, known for the calpain theory of memory proposed with Gary Lynch in the early 1980s.

Michel Bornens

Michel Bornens (1938–2022) was a French cell biologist and CNRS research director who made the centrosome a central research object, working at Institut Pasteur and Institut Curie.

Michel C. Nussenzweig

Michel C. Nussenzweig, born 1955, is an immunologist who heads the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology at Rockefeller University, known for HIV-1 antibody therapies tested in clinical trials.

Michel Desjardins

Michel Desjardins is a Canadian cell biologist and professeur titulaire at Université de Montréal, known for research on phagocytosis and for showing that the immune system may drive Parkinson's disease.

Michel Lazdunski

Michel Lazdunski (born 1938) is a French biochemist and molecular pharmacologist, a CNRS researcher and member of the Académie des sciences known for his work on ion channels.

Michel M Dugon

Michel M Dugon is an Irish-based zoologist and venom researcher who founded and heads the Venom Systems Lab at the University of Galway, studying venomous animals.