Life scientists

Mikael Simons

Mikael Simons is a neurologist and neuroscientist, professor and institute director at TU Munich since 2016, known for work on myelin formation and a 2020 Science paper on SARS-CoV-2 cell entry.

Mike Fainzilber

Mike Fainzilber is an Israeli molecular neuroscientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for work on how injured neurons signal from the axon back to the nucleus.

Mike Fried

Mike Fried is a molecular biologist and cancer researcher known for work on polyomavirus middle T antigen and the ARF–p53 tumor suppressor pathway, trained at Caltech under Renato Dulbecco.

Mike Mueckler

Mike Mueckler (1953–2021) was an American cell biologist at Washington University in St. Louis who identified the first glucose transporter gene and characterized the GLUT family.

Mike O’Donnell

Mike O'Donnell is an American biochemist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Rockefeller University known for discovering that sliding clamp proteins encircle DNA during replication.

Mike Rothe

Mike Rothe is a biochemist known for discovering the TRAF proteins and identifying an IκB kinase, work that mapped the pathway from TNF receptors to the transcription factor NF-κB.

Mike Tyers

Mike Tyers is a molecular biologist who studies how cells control division, known for work on ubiquitin-proteasome regulation of the cell cycle, and a Senior Scientist at SickKids since 2022.

Mikel Valle

Mikel Valle is a Spanish structural biologist who has led the CryoEM of Biological Macromolecules Lab at CIC bioGUNE since 2006, after postdoctoral work with Joachim Frank.

Mikhail Kashlev (Михаил Кашлев) is a molecular biologist who studies transcription elongation and fidelity as a Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland, and is known for discovering RNA polymerase backtracking.

Mikhail M. Savitski

Mikhail M. Savitski is a proteomics and mass spectrometry scientist who heads the Proteomics Core Facility at EMBL Heidelberg and developed thermal proteome profiling for drug target identification.

Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvett

Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvett (Михаил Цвет; also Tsvet or Tswett), 1872 to 1919, was a Russian botanist who invented adsorption chromatography, a method ignored for 25 years before becoming a standard biochemical tool.

Mikhail Stepanovich Voronin

Mikhail Stepanovich Voronin (Михаил Степанович Воронин; 1838–1903) was a Russian botanist and mycologist, founder of Russian mycology, who identified the cause of clubroot of cabbage and became an academician in 1898.

Mikhail Tsvet

Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet (Михаил Цвет) was a Russian botanist who invented adsorption chromatography in 1901, first separating chlorophyll a and b; the method was revived in 1931.

Mikiko C. Siomi

Mikiko C. Siomi (塩見美喜子) is a Japanese RNA biologist and professor at the University of Tokyo known for her work on piRNAs, small RNAs that silence transposons.

Mikko Taipale

Mikko Taipale is a molecular biology professor at the University of Toronto who studies how proteins fold and localize in cells, including a 2024 map of disease mutations that misplace proteins.

Milan Hašek

Milan Hašek was a Czech immunologist who co-discovered acquired immunological tolerance in chick embryos in 1953, independently of Peter Medawar, and was omitted from the 1960 Nobel Prize.

Mildred Cohn

Mildred Cohn (1913–2009) was an American biochemist who pioneered stable isotope tracers and NMR spectroscopy to study enzyme catalysis, winning the National Medal of Science in 1982.

Miles Wilkinson

Miles Wilkinson is a Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego whose laboratory has defined the nonsense-mediated RNA decay pathway and identified the Rhox homeobox gene cluster.

Milislav Demerec

Milislav Demerec (1895–1966) was an American geneticist, born in Austria-Hungary, who directed the Carnegie Department of Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, from 1943 to 1960.

Milton H. Saier

Milton H. Saier is a professor of molecular biology at the University of California San Diego, known for the Transporter Classification Database and the major facilitator superfamily of transport proteins.

Milton H. Werner

Milton H. Werner is an American molecular biologist and structural biologist known for determining NMR solution structures of protein–DNA complexes, including the human SRY–DNA complex, and later founded Inhibikase Therapeutics.

Milton J. Cormier

Milton J. Cormier is an American biochemist and Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia whose laboratory performed the first cloning of a bioluminescent protein gene.

Milton J. Schlesinger

Milton J. Schlesinger was an American molecular biologist and virologist, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis whose 1979 work led to the discovery of protein S-palmitoylation.

Milton W. Slein

Milton W. Slein was an American biochemist at Washington University in St. Louis who co-authored the 1947 discovery that insulin counteracts pituitary inhibition of the hexokinase reaction.

Miltos Tsiantis

Miltos Tsiantis is a plant developmental biologist studying leaf shape evolution, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne since 2013.

Min Chueh Chang

Min Chueh Chang (1908–1991) was a Chinese-born American reproductive biologist who co-discovered sperm capacitation, achieved the first mammal in vitro fertilization in rabbits in 1959, and enabled the contraceptive pill.

Min Dong

Min Dong is a microbiologist and Associate Professor of Surgery at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for identifying C. difficile toxin receptors and engineering botulinum toxins.

Min Gyu Lee

Min Gyu Lee is a South Korean-trained molecular biologist who studies histone methylation and demethylation in cancer, and is a Professor of Molecular Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Min Han

Min Han is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, an HHMI Investigator from 1997 to 2018 known for Ras signaling and nutrient-sensing research in C. elegans.