Researchers in infectious disease, epidemiology, vaccines, and global health

Lorenz von Seidlein

Lorenz von Seidlein is a malaria researcher and Professor of Global Health at Oxford who led trials of the first licensed malaria vaccine and the Star Homes housing trial in Tanzania.

Lorne Babiuk is a Canadian veterinary virologist who directed the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan from 1993 to 2007, developing vaccines that save the cattle industry hundreds of millions annually.

Louis H. Miller

Louis H. Miller is an American NIH malaria researcher who showed the Duffy antigen is the receptor for Plasmodium vivax and defined var gene variation.

Louis Weinstein

Louis Weinstein (1909-2000) was an American physician regarded as a founder of infectious diseases as a medical specialty, leading the field at Tufts from 1957 to 1975.

Louis Willems

Louis Willems (1822–1907) was a Belgian physician in Hasselt who showed in 1851 that inoculating cattle with diseased lung matter protects against bovine pleuropneumonia, a forerunner of Louis Pasteur.

Louisa Degenhardt

Louisa Degenhardt is an Australian psychologist and epidemiologist who studies the prevalence and health harms of illicit drug use, and is Research Director of NDARC at UNSW Sydney.

Lowell S. Young

Lowell S. Young, also known as Lowell Sung-Yi Young, is an American infectious-disease physician and epidemiologist known for decades of mycobacterial disease research at the Kuzell Institute in San Francisco.

Lowell T. Coggeshall

Lowell T. Coggeshall, full name Lowell Thelwell Coggeshall (1901–1987), was an American physician who worked on tropical medicine and malaria and led the University of Chicago's biological sciences division.

Lucy McNamara

Lucy Alexandra McNamara is an infectious-disease epidemiologist at the CDC's Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, a PECASE recipient who deployed to the 2014 Ebola response in Guinea and Liberia.

Lucy S. Tompkins

Lucy S. Tompkins is an infectious diseases physician-scientist at Stanford, known for her 1990 paper identifying the agent of bacillary angiomatosis and for tracing Legionella outbreaks.

Lutz Gissmann

Lutz Gissmann is a German virologist who isolated HPV16 and HPV18, the main causes of cervical cancer, and developed the virus-like-particle method behind all HPV vaccines.

Lyle R. Petersen

Lyle R. Petersen is an American physician and infectious disease epidemiologist who directs the CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Diseases and led its 2016 Zika response.

Lyn Finelli

Lyn Finelli is an American CDC epidemiologist who co-authored New England Journal of Medicine studies of 2009 H1N1 influenza and childhood pneumonia, and led FluSurv-NET surveillance.

Lynne Mofenson

Lynne Mofenson is an American pediatric infectious disease physician who led key NIH trials on preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission, then joined the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation after retiring in 2014.

M. Alfred Haynes

M. Alfred Haynes (died 2016) was an American epidemiologist who built Charles R. Drew University in Los Angeles and co-edited the 1999 report The Unequal Burden of Cancer.

M. Cristina Leske

M. Cristina Leske is an ophthalmic epidemiologist who spent 30 years at Stony Brook University, leading the Barbados Eye Studies on causes of blindness in people of African descent.

M. Glenn Koenig

M. Glenn Koenig (1931–1972) was an American infectious-diseases physician-researcher who served as Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt, publishing on enterococcal endocarditis and bacterial interference.

M. Kariuki Njenga

M. Kariuki Njenga (Moses Kariuki Njenga) is a Kenyan virologist and epidemiologist, professor at Washington State University, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017.

Madhukar Pai

Madhukar Pai, also known as Madhu Pai, is a Canadian physician and epidemiologist at McGill University in Montreal who trained in India and works on tuberculosis and global health.

Mads Melbye

Mads Melbye, born 1956, is a Danish epidemiologist who led the 2002 study of 537,303 children finding no MMR-autism link, and directs the Danish Cancer Institute.

Mahesh Parmar

Mahesh Parmar, also known as Mahesh K. B. Parmar, is a British medical statistician who directs the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL and led the STAMPEDE prostate cancer trial.

Majid Ezzati

Majid Ezzati is an Iranian-born global-health epidemiologist, Professor of Global Environmental Health at Imperial College London, who quantifies how behavioral, environmental, and metabolic risk factors cause death worldwide.

Major Greenwood

Major Greenwood (1880–1949) was an English epidemiologist and statistician, the foremost medical statistician in the United Kingdom in the first half of the twentieth century.

Manish Arora

Manish Arora is an environmental epidemiologist at Mount Sinai known for using baby teeth to reconstruct early-life chemical exposure, winning a 2017 Presidential Early Career Award.

Manning Feinleib

Manning Feinleib is an American epidemiologist, adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins, who headed the NHLBI Epidemiology Branch and directed the National Center for Health Statistics from 1983 to 1995.

Manoj Duraisingh

Manoj Duraisingh is a malaria researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for work on parasite virulence genes and red blood cell invasion.

Manuel Elkin Patarroyo

Manuel Elkin Patarroyo was a Colombian pathologist and immunologist who developed SPf66, the first chemically synthesized malaria vaccine, and donated its patent to the World Health Organization.

Mara Lawniczak

Mara Lawniczak is an evolutionary geneticist and Senior Group Leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, known for the Malaria Cell Atlas, the Ag1000G mosquito genomics project, and Souporcell.

Marc J. M. Bonten

Marc J. M. Bonten is a Dutch physician-scientist in infectious diseases and clinical microbiology at University Medical Center Utrecht, known for large trials on pneumonia treatment and pneumococcal vaccination in older adults.