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Researchers in cardiovascular, metabolic, and endocrine research

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Max Rubner

Max Rubner (1854–1932) was a German physiologist and hygienist, founder of scientific nutrition physiology, who determined the metabolizable energy of nutrients and formulated the law of surface area.

Md Shajedur Rahman Shawon

Md Shajedur Rahman Shawon is a Bangladeshi physician and cardiovascular epidemiologist, trained at Dhaka Medical College and Oxford, who studies non-communicable disease in Bangladesh and cardiovascular big data at UNSW Sydney.

Mehdi Saeed Hazari

Mehdi Saeed Hazari is an American research physiologist at the U.S. EPA who studies how inhaled pollutants like particulate matter trigger heart arrhythmia, winning a 2011 Presidential Early Career Award.

Meinrad Gawaz

Meinrad Gawaz is a German cardiologist and physician-scientist, Medical Director of Cardiology at the University Hospital of Tübingen since 2004, known for showing that platelets drive atherosclerosis.

Melanie J. Davies

Melanie J. Davies, also known as Melanie Davies, is a British physician-scientist who is Professor of Diabetes Medicine at the University of Leicester and Co-Director of the Leicester Diabetes Centre.

Melena Bellin

Melena Bellin is an American pediatric endocrinologist at the University of Minnesota who studies and treats chronic pancreatitis and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Melvin L. Marcus

Melvin L. Marcus was an American cardiologist at the University of Iowa whose 1984 New England Journal of Medicine study showed visual reading of coronary arteriograms poorly predicts stenosis severity.

Melvin M. Scheinman

Melvin M. Scheinman is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist, Professor Emeritus at UCSF, who performed the first catheter ablation in humans in 1981 and helped found cardiac electrophysiology.

Michael A. Gimbrone

Michael A. Gimbrone Jr., born 1943 in Buffalo, New York, is an American vascular biologist and Harvard pathologist who identified the adhesion molecules E-selectin and VCAM-1, recruited by inflamed arteries in atherosclerosis.

Michael A. Weber

Michael A. Weber is an American cardiologist and hypertension specialist, professor and associate dean at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, and a pioneer of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.

Michael C. Sanguinetti

Michael C. Sanguinetti is a cardiac electrophysiologist and professor emeritus at the University of Utah whose work identified the hERG channel underlying long QT syndrome and drug safety testing.

Michael D. Dake

Michael D. Dake is an American interventional radiologist who implanted the first thoracic aortic stent-graft in the United States at Stanford in 1992, and later led the University of Arizona Health Sciences.

Michael D. Ezekowitz

Michael D. Ezekowitz is a South African-trained American cardiologist whose 1992 warfarin trial established stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation and who co-led the RE-LY dabigatran trial.

Michael D. Jensen

Michael D. Jensen is an American endocrinologist and obesity researcher at Mayo Clinic, known for his 1999 Science study on nonexercise activity and fat gain.

Michael Davis (biomedical engineer)

Michael E. Davis is an American biomedical engineer, professor at Georgia Tech and Emory, who directs the HeRO Center and works on cardiac regeneration with biomaterials and stem cells.

Michael E. Farkouh

Michael E. Farkouh is a cardiologist and clinical trialist who directs research at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and led the FREEDOM trial showing bypass surgery beats stenting for diabetic patients with multivessel disease.

Michael E. Mendelsohn

Michael E. Mendelsohn, also published as Michael Mendelsohn, is an American physician-scientist in vascular biology and cardiology known for research on estrogen and nitric oxide signaling in blood vessels.

Michael F. Holick

Michael F. Holick is an American endocrinologist and vitamin D researcher, professor of medicine at Boston University who chaired the Endocrine Society's 2011 vitamin D guidelines.

Michael G. Ziegler

Michael G. Ziegler is an American physician-scientist at the University of California, San Diego, known for studies of sympathetic blood pressure control, sleep apnea hypertension, and NASA astronaut cardiovascular research.

Michael H. Criqui

Michael H. Criqui (born 1944) is an American cardiovascular epidemiologist and preventive cardiologist at UC San Diego, known for establishing peripheral artery disease as a strong predictor of cardiovascular mortality.

Michael H. Gollob

Michael H. Gollob is a Canadian cardiac electrophysiologist and geneticist who holds the Peter Munk Chair at Toronto General Hospital and is known for gene discoveries in Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome and atrial fibrillation.

Michael J. Ackerman

Michael J. Ackerman is an American physician-scientist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who directs the Long QT Syndrome Clinic and leads the Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory.

Michael Lesch

Michael Lesch (1939–2008) was an American cardiologist who co-described Lesch–Nyhan syndrome at Johns Hopkins in 1964 and later served as chief of internal medicine at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center.

Michael Nauck

Michael Nauck is a German physician and diabetes researcher at Ruhr University Bochum whose work on incretin hormones GIP and GLP-1 shaped type 2 diabetes therapy.

Michael O. Thorner

Michael O. Thorner is a British-trained neuroendocrinologist who joined the University of Virginia in 1977, known for growth hormone research, GHRH discovery work, and pegvisomant studies.

Michael P. Czech

Michael P. Czech is an American molecular biologist and biochemist at UMass Chan Medical School known for work on insulin signaling and RNAi and CRISPR therapies for diabetes.

Michael P. Whyte

Michael P. Whyte is an American physician-scientist at Washington University in St. Louis whose work on hypophosphatasia led to enzyme-replacement therapy approved for pediatric-onset cases since 2015.

Michael R. Bristow

Michael R. Bristow (1946–c. 2026) was an American cardiologist at the University of Colorado Denver whose work on beta-adrenergic receptors established beta-blocker therapy for heart failure.

Michael R. Zile

Michael R. Zile is an American cardiologist at the Medical University of South Carolina whose research centers on heart failure mechanisms, especially heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

Michael Roden

Michael Roden, born 1961 in Vienna, is an Austrian physician-scientist who leads the German Diabetes Center in Düsseldorf and studies insulin resistance and mitochondrial energy metabolism in type 2 diabetes.