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Mina Bissell

Mina Bissell is an Iranian-born biologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who showed that a cell's microenvironment helps determine whether it becomes cancerous, proposing the dynamic reciprocity model.

Mina J. Bissell

Mina J. Bissell is an Iranian-born American cell and cancer biologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who showed that the extracellular matrix and microenvironment can restrain or reverse malignancy.

Ming O. Li

Ming O. Li is a Chinese-born American immunologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who defined TGF-β as a central regulator of T cell immunity and cancer immunosurveillance.

Ming-Feng Tsai

Ming-Feng Tsai is a Taiwanese-born American physiologist and Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, known for defining how the mitochondrial calcium uniporter channel is regulated.

Ming‐Hui Zou

Ming-Hui Zou (邹明辉) is a Chinese-born cardiovascular biologist who studies how oxidative stress damages blood vessels in diabetes and how AMPK protects against it, at Georgia State University.

Ming‐Jer Tsai

Ming-Jer Tsai (蔡明哲, 1943–2023) was a Taiwanese-born molecular endocrinologist who spent his career at Baylor College of Medicine and discovered the orphan nuclear receptor COUP-TFII, central to metabolism and development research.

Minoo Rassoulzadegan

Minoo Rassoulzadegan is a geneticist and epigeneticist known for demonstrating RNA-mediated non-Mendelian inheritance in mice, first reported in Nature in 2006, and has worked at Inserm and CNRS in Nice.

Minor J. Coon

Minor J. Coon (1921–2018) was an American biochemist at the University of Michigan who resolved and reconstituted the liver microsomal cytochrome P450 system central to drug metabolism.

Minoru Fukuda

Minoru Fukuda is a Japanese-born American glycobiologist who discovered sialyl Lewis X and directs the Glycobiology Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys in La Jolla, California.

Minoru Kanehisa

Minoru Kanehisa, born 1948 in Nagasaki, Japan, is a Japanese bioinformatician and project professor at Kyoto University, known as the creator of the KEGG database and a 2018 Clarivate Citation Laureate.

Minoru Koyama

Minoru Koyama is a neuroscientist studying how neural circuits are built during development in larval zebrafish, and a Janelia Research Campus lab head selected in 2013.

Minoru Yoshida

Minoru Yoshida (吉田稔) is a Japanese chemical biologist at RIKEN whose 1990 work on trichostatin A helped establish epigenetics, earning the Japan Academy Prize in 2015.

Miquel Coll

Miquel Coll is a Spanish structural biologist, a CSIC Research Professor at the Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, known for structures of DNA-drug complexes and ARF transcription factors.

Miranda Lim

Miranda M. Lim is an American physician-scientist at Oregon Health & Science University and the VA Portland Health Care System who studies how sleep shapes brain health.

Mircea Steriade

Mircea Steriade (1924–2006) was a Romanian-born Canadian systems neuroscientist who spent nearly four decades at Université Laval in Québec City, studying thalamocortical oscillations, sleep spindles, and the cortical slow oscillation.

Miriam H. Meisler

Miriam H. Meisler is an American human geneticist at the University of Michigan who identified the epilepsy genes SCN8A and SCN1A and received the American Epilepsy Society's 2020 Basic Science Research Award.

Miriam M. Salpeter

Miriam M. Salpeter, also published as M. M. Salpeter, was an American neurobiologist at Cornell University who developed quantitative electron-microscope autoradiography to study the neuromuscular junction.

Mirko Trajkovski

Mirko Trajkovski is a professor at the University of Geneva's Faculty of Medicine who studies the molecular mechanisms of obesity, insulin resistance, and gut microbiota.

Miroslav Radman

Miroslav Radman, born 1944 in Split, Croatia, is a Croatian-French geneticist who discovered the SOS response, codiscovered DNA mismatch repair, and explained radiation resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans.

Misha B. Ahrens

Misha B. Ahrens is a neuroscientist and Senior Group Leader at Janelia Research Campus, HHMI, known for whole-brain imaging of larval zebrafish at single-cell resolution.

Misha Tsodyks

Misha Tsodyks is a theoretical neuroscientist, a professor at the Weizmann Institute in Israel and the Institute for Advanced Study, known for his 1996 Nature paper on synaptic plasticity.

Mitch Dowsett

Mitch Dowsett is a British biochemical endocrinologist who initiated the ATAC trial of anastrozole versus tamoxifen and developed the Ki67 response test for breast cancer.

Mitchell Guttman

Mitchell Guttman is an American molecular biologist and professor at Caltech who established long noncoding RNAs as regulators of gene expression and developed SPRITE, a method mapping RNA and DNA inside the cell nucleus.

Mitchell J. Weiss

Mitchell J. Weiss is an American hematologist who chairs hematology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

Mitchell Kronenberg

Mitchell Kronenberg is an American immunologist and President Emeritus of the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, known for work on natural killer T cells and mucosal defense.

Mitinori Saitou

Mitinori Saitou (斎藤 通紀) is a Japanese developmental biologist and physician at Kyoto University known for reconstituting the origin of eggs and sperm from stem cells in culture.

Mitsuhiro Shibayama

Mitsuhiro Shibayama (柴山充弘) is a Japanese soft matter physicist known for small-angle neutron scattering studies of polymer gels, including tetra-PEG gels, and professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo.

Mitsuhiro Yanagida

Mitsuhiro Yanagida (柳田 充弘) is a Japanese molecular biologist known for deciphering how chromosomes segregate during cell division, working on fission yeast at Kyoto University and OIST.

Mitsuo Kawato

Mitsuo Kawato (川人光男), born 1953, is a Japanese computational neuroscientist at ATR in Kyoto, known for the cerebellar internal-model theory, decoded neurofeedback, and brain-machine interfaces.

Mitzi I. Kuroda

Mitzi I. Kuroda, born 1958, is an American molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School known for discovering the MSL dosage compensation complex and roX noncoding RNAs.