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

Markus Loeffler

Markus Loeffler is a German physician-scientist who directed the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology at Leipzig University from 1994 to 2023, known for biometric design and analysis of large German cancer trials.

Marla E. Salmon

Marla E. Salmon is an American nurse scientist and professor of nursing and global health at the University of Washington, known for the Salmon White model of nursing practice.

Marlene L. Durand

Marlene L. Durand is an American physician-scientist specializing in eye and ENT infections, a Harvard Medical School professor who directed the infectious disease service at Mass Eye and Ear.

Maroun M. Sfeir

Maroun M. Sfeir is an infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance researcher at UConn Health who developed the eCIM test for drug-resistant bacteria and a CRISPR-based SARS-CoV-2 assay.

Martha L. Lepow

Martha L. Lepow (1927–2021) was an American pediatric infectious disease physician who helped test the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines and founded pediatrics at UConn.

Martin F. Bachmann

Martin F. Bachmann is a Swiss immunologist and vaccinologist, professor at the University of Bern and Oxford, known for virus-like particle vaccines including one against hypertension.

Martin Hirsch

Martin S. Hirsch is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist and emeritus Harvard professor at Massachusetts General Hospital whose trials established viral-load monitoring and combination therapy as the standard of HIV care.

Martín S. Cetron

Martin S. Cetron is a physician-scientist in travel medicine and migration health who directed the CDC's Division of Global Migration and Quarantine from 2003 to 2022.

Marvin Turck

Marvin Turck is an American infectious-disease physician-scientist, a University of Washington faculty member since 1964, who co-developed the Kirby–Bauer disc diffusion method and edited the Journal of Infectious Diseases from 1989 to 2002.

Marwan M. Azar

Marwan M. Azar is an American infectious disease physician and clinical mycologist who is Medical Director, Anti-infectives, at GSK and an adjunct associate professor at Yale School of Medicine.

Mary Barber (bacteriologist)

Mary Barber (1911–1965) was a British clinical bacteriologist at Hammersmith Hospital and St Thomas's who documented penicillin-resistant staphylococci and led a 1957–59 Hammersmith trial reversing hospital resistance.

Mary Ethel Florey

Mary Ethel Florey, Lady Florey (née Reed, 1900–1966), was an Australian-born physician who supervised the Oxford penicillin clinical trials and wrote a four-volume work on antibiotic therapy.

Mary Ramsay

Mary Ramsay, full name Mary Elizabeth Booth Ramsay, is a British epidemiologist who heads immunization programs at the UK Health Security Agency and received a CBE in 2022.

Mary Travis Bassett

Mary Travis Bassett is an American physician and public health researcher who led New York City's health department from 2014 to 2018 and became New York State health commissioner in 2021.

Masaru Kanekiyo

Masaru Kanekiyo is a vaccine designer and immunoengineer who leads the Molecular Immunoengineering Section at NIAID's Vaccine Research Center, known for nanoparticle influenza and EBV vaccines.

Masayuki Teramoto

Masayuki Teramoto is an epidemiologist at Northwestern University who studies coffee and green tea consumption and cardiovascular mortality in Japanese cohorts, and co-authors Global Burden of Disease studies.

Mathias Lichterfeld

Mathias Lichterfeld is an infectious-disease physician and HIV researcher who is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and studies HIV reservoir cells, the main barrier to a cure.

Mathuram Santosham

Mathuram Santosham is a pediatric epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University whose oral rehydration and Hib vaccine trials in Navajo and Apache infants changed infant diarrhea treatment worldwide.

Matt J. Keeling

Matt J. Keeling, published as Matt Keeling, is a British infectious disease modeller, professor at the University of Warwick, and director of the Zeeman Institute (SBIDER).

Matthew Berriman

Matthew Berriman, known as Matt Berriman, is a parasite genomics researcher who led the parasite genomics group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and is now Professor of Parasitology at Glasgow.

Matthew Biggerstaff

Matthew Biggerstaff is an American infectious disease epidemiologist at the CDC who leads the Influenza Division's modeling team and helped build US epidemic forecasting systems.

Matthew J. Miller

Matthew J. Miller, also known as Matthew Jason Miller, is an American epidemiologist and physician at Northeastern University whose research links household firearm access to suicide risk.

Matthew Maenner

Matthew Maenner is a CDC epidemiologist who studies autism spectrum disorder, helped develop a faster ADDM prevalence method, and estimated about 5.4 million US adults with autism.

Matthias Egger

Matthias Egger is a Swiss epidemiologist and public health physician at the University of Bern, known for the 1997 BMJ test for bias in meta-analysis.

Maureen M. Henderson

Maureen M. Henderson, also known as Maureen McGrath Henderson, was a British-born epidemiologist who founded Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Cancer Prevention Research Program in 1983.

Maurice Hilleman

Maurice Ralph Hilleman was an American microbiologist who developed over 40 vaccines at Merck, including eight of 14 then routinely recommended in the United States.

Mauricio Hernández Ávila

Mauricio Hernández Ávila is a Mexican physician and epidemiologist who twice directed the National Institute of Public Health and led research on tobacco, lead exposure, and HPV vaccination.

Mauricio L. Barreto

Mauricio L. Barreto is a Brazilian physician and epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus at the Federal University of Bahia, known for work on the social determinants of infectious disease.

Max von Gruber

Max von Gruber (1853–1927) was an Austrian bacteriologist and hygienist who co-discovered bacterial agglutination in 1896, founding serology and the Gruber–Widal test for typhoid fever, and later championed race hygiene.