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Morten Otto Alexander Sommer
Morten Otto Alexander Sommer, born 1981, is a Danish synthetic biologist and professor at the Technical University of Denmark known for work on antibiotic resistance.
Mortimer Mishkin
Mortimer Mishkin (1926–2021) was an American neuropsychologist at the National Institute of Mental Health whose monkey lesion studies established how the brain organizes perception and memory.
Morton N. Swartz
Morton N. Swartz (1923–2013) was an American infectious-diseases physician and Harvard professor who founded and led Massachusetts General Hospital's Division of Infectious Diseases for 34 years, from 1956.
Moses V. Chao
Moses V. Chao is an American neuroscientist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine whose laboratory defined the NGF receptor genes and how neurotrophins act through a two-receptor system.
Moshe Szyf
Moshe Szyf is an epigeneticist and professor of pharmacology at McGill University, known for work on DNA methylation and for helping to found behavioral epigenetics.
Moshé Yaniv
Moshé Yaniv, also known as Moshe Yaniv, is a molecular biologist at the Institut Pasteur in Paris known for work on DNA tumor virus chromatin and transcription control.
Motoharu Seiki
Motoharu Seiki (清木 元治) is a Japanese cancer researcher born in 1949, known for discovering MT1-MMP, a key enzyme in cancer invasion and metastasis, and for early work on HTLV-I.
Motomasa Tanaka
Motomasa Tanaka (田中 元雅) is a Japanese molecular biologist and Team Director at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science, known for showing that prion strain properties are encoded in amyloid conformation.
Motoo Kimura
Motoo Kimura (木村 資生) was a Japanese population geneticist at the National Institute of Genetics, best known for proposing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968.
Mriganka Sur
Mriganka Sur is an Indian-born American neuroscientist at MIT, known for experiments that rewired visual input into the auditory cortex and for work on autism and Rett syndrome.
Mu-ming Poo
Mu-ming Poo (蒲慕明), born 1948 in Nanjing, is a neuroscientist known for discovering spike-timing-dependent plasticity and for building the Institute of Neuroscience of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai.
Muin J. Khoury
Muin J. Khoury is a Lebanese-American physician and genetic epidemiologist who founded and directed the CDC's Office of Public Health Genomics from 1998 to 2024.
Muniswamy Madesh
Muniswamy Madesh, also published as Madesh Muniswamy, is an American mitochondrial physiologist at UT Health San Antonio known for identifying MICU1 as the mitochondrial calcium gatekeeper.
Murat Günel
Murat Günel is a neurosurgeon and geneticist who has led Yale's Department of Neurosurgery since 2014 and studies the genetic causes of brain tumors and vascular disease.
Murray B. Gardner
Murray B. Gardner is an American physician-scientist and virologist known for research on cancer-causing retroviruses of wild mice and cats and on the retroviruses that cause AIDS.
Murray L Whitelaw
Murray L Whitelaw is an Australian professor of biochemistry at the University of Adelaide, best known for 2002 papers identifying the hypoxic switch that regulates hypoxia-inducible factor.
Murray P. Deutscher
Murray P. Deutscher is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at the University of Miami whose laboratory identified several bacterial ribonucleases, including RNase T, D, and PH.
Murray Rabinowitz
Murray Rabinowitz (1927–1983) was an American physician-biochemist at the University of Chicago known for work on mitochondrial molecular biology and cardiac hypertrophy, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983.
Murray Stewart
Murray John Stewart is a structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for working out the structural basis of nucleocytoplasmic transport between cytoplasm and nucleus.
Mutsuhito Ohno
Mutsuhito Ohno (大野 睦人) is a Japanese molecular biologist and professor at Kyoto University known for identifying PHAX, a mediator of U snRNA export from the nucleus.
Myriam Gorospe
Myriam Gorospe is a molecular biologist who leads the RNA Regulation Section at the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore, studying mRNA control in aging.
Myron Brakke
Myron Brakke (1921–2007) was an American biochemist and virologist who invented sucrose density-gradient centrifugation, a routine laboratory tool key to modern virology and molecular biology.
Myron F. Goodman
Myron F. Goodman is a molecular biologist and biochemist, Professor of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, and Gerontology at USC, known for work on DNA polymerase V and AID.
Myron J. Levin
Myron J. Levin, also known as Myron Levin, is a pediatric infectious diseases and virology physician at the University of Colorado, known for the shingles vaccine.
N Louise Glass
N Louise Glass is an American fungal biologist, Professor Emerita at UC Berkeley, known for her work on nonself recognition and biomass deconstruction in Neurospora crassa.
N. Edward Tolbert
N. Edward Tolbert, known as Ed Tolbert, was an American plant biochemist who discovered the glycolate pathway and identified peroxisomes in plant leaves, establishing their role in photorespiration.
N. Justin Marshall
N. Justin Marshall, or Justin Marshall, is an Australian visual ecologist at the Queensland Brain Institute who discovered the mantis shrimp's exceptionally complex color vision system.
N. Ronald Morris
Nils Ronald Morris (1933–2025), published as N. Ronald Morris, was an American molecular geneticist at Rutgers who turned Aspergillus nidulans into a leading model for the genetics of mitosis.
N.C.J. Strynadka
Natalie C. J. Strynadka is a Canadian structural biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of British Columbia who determines the structures of bacterial proteins behind antibiotic resistance.
Naama Barkai
Naama Barkai is an Israeli systems biologist and professor of molecular genetics at the Weizmann Institute of Science since 2009, known for the robustness principle in biological circuits.