Life scientists

Michel Sadelain

Michel Sadelain, born in Paris in 1960, is a French-Canadian immunologist who developed CAR T cell therapy for cancer and won the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.

Michel Strubin

Michel Strubin is a Swiss molecular biologist and associate professor at the University of Geneva, known for showing in 2016 that the SMC5/6 complex acts as a cell sentinel against hepatitis B virus.

Michela Gallagher is a behavioral neuroscientist and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University known for research on aging and memory, and founder of AgeneBio, which developed the Alzheimer's drug candidate AGB101.

Michele De Palma

Michele De Palma is an Italian cancer biologist and tenured associate professor at EPFL in Lausanne, known for discovering Tie2-expressing monocytes and engineering dendritic cell cancer therapies.

Michele Pagano (Italian biologist)

Michele Pagano, born in Naples, Italy, is an Italian cancer biologist who chairs Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at NYU and has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 2008.

Michelle Cilia

Michelle Cilia, now publishing as Michelle Heck, is an American USDA Agricultural Research Service molecular biologist who studies how aphids and whiteflies transmit plant viruses.

Michelle Debatisse

Michelle Debatisse is a molecular biologist known for showing that fragile sites trigger gene amplification, relevant to oncogenes in cancer, and an emeritus professor at Gustave Roussy since 2016.

Michelle K. McGuire

Michelle K. McGuire, known as Shelley McGuire, is a University of Idaho nutrition scientist who showed human milk contains bacteria and was Idaho's first National Academy of Medicine member.

Michelle Monje-Deisseroth

Michelle Monje-Deisseroth, published as Michelle Monje, is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Stanford University whose laboratory showed that neuronal activity drives malignant glioma growth.

Michelle P. Winn

Michelle P. Winn (1966–2014) was an American nephrologist-scientist at Duke University who discovered that TRPC6 mutations cause familial FSGS and received a 2006 Presidential Early Career Award.

Michelle T Juarez

Michelle T. Juarez is an American geneticist known for discovering how fruit flies sense and repair skin wounds, and earlier for microRNAs that specify maize leaf polarity.

Michelle Wang

Michelle Wang is a biophysicist at Cornell University and an HHMI Investigator who studies DNA mechanics and topology at the single-molecule level, inventing the angular optical trap.

Michiel Vermeulen

Michiel Vermeulen is a Dutch molecular biologist who holds the chair of Proteomics and Chromatin Biology at Radboud University in Nijmegen, known for applying quantitative mass spectrometry to chromatin biology.

Michiko N. Fukuda

Michiko N. Fukuda is a glycobiologist and Emeritus Professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys in La Jolla, studying cell-surface carbohydrates in cancer, fertility, and congenital disorders.

Michio Nomura

Michio Nomura (1927–2011) was a Japanese-born American molecular biologist who rebuilt a bacterial ribosome in a test tube and discovered how cells regulate ribosomal protein synthesis.

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Michio Ui

Michio Ui (宇井理生, 1933–2025) was a Japanese biochemist and pharmacologist who named islet-activating protein, proved it was pertussis toxin, and established its ADP-ribosylation of Gi.

Michisuke Yuzaki

Michisuke Yuzaki (柚崎通介) is a Japanese molecular neuroscientist, professor at Keio University School of Medicine from 2003 to 2025, known for identifying the synapse organizer Cbln1.

Michiyuki Matsuda

Michiyuki Matsuda (松田道行) is a Japanese cell biologist at Kyoto University known for developing FRET biosensors that visualize Ras and ERK signaling in living cells.

Mick F. Tuite

Mick F. Tuite is a British molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Kent, known for his research on the yeast prion [PSI+].

Mick McKeown

Michael (Mick) McKeown (1953–2016) was an American molecular geneticist at Brown University who showed that the Drosophila transformer gene controls female development through alternative RNA splicing.

Mickie Bhatia

Mickie Bhatia, also published as Mick Bhatia, is a Canadian stem cell biologist who directs the McMaster Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute and studies cancer stem cells.

Mien-Chie Hung

Mien-Chie Hung (洪明奇) is a Taiwanese cancer biologist known for work on the HER-2/neu oncogene and EGFR signaling, who served as president of China Medical University from 2019 to 2025.

Miguel Beato

Miguel Beato is a Spanish molecular biologist known for work on steroid hormone gene regulation through chromatin; he founded and directed the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona until 2011.

Miguel C. Seabra

Miguel C. Seabra (Miguel Pedro Pires Cardoso de Seabra), born 1962, is a Portuguese cell biologist at NOVA Medical School known for choroideremia gene therapy.

Miguel Nicolelis

Miguel Nicolelis (Miguel Angelo Laporta Nicolelis) is a Brazilian neuroscientist known for brain-machine interfaces, including the brain-controlled exoskeleton used at the 2014 World Cup opening ceremony.

Miguel Soares

Miguel Soares, also known as Miguel P. Soares, is a Portuguese immunologist at the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine known for establishing disease tolerance as a defense strategy.

Mihaela van der Schaar

Mihaela van der Schaar is the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, AI, and Medicine at Cambridge, a Royal Society Fellow elected in 2024.

Mihaela Zavolan

Mihaela Zavolan is a Romanian and Swiss computational biologist who studies how RNA-binding proteins and small non-coding RNAs control gene expression, and a professor at the University of Basel since 2014.

Mihai Netea

Mihai G. Netea, born 1968, is a Dutch-Romanian immunologist and physician, professor at Radboudumc in Nijmegen, known for discovering trained immunity and winning the 2016 Spinoza Prize.