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Mark Richards (cardiologist)

A. Mark Richards (Arthur Mark Richards) is a New Zealand cardiologist and professor at the University of Otago Christchurch, known for research that made NT-proBNP a global heart failure test.

Mark Roth

Mark Roth is a biochemist at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle who reported in 2005 that hydrogen sulfide put mice into reversible suspended animation, winning a MacArthur Fellowship.

Mark S. Klempner

Mark S. Klempner is an American infectious diseases physician-researcher who led the 2001 trials showing prolonged antibiotics do not relieve persistent Lyme symptoms, and later directed MassBiologics.

Mark S. Lachs

Mark S. Lachs, also published as Mark Lachs, is an American geriatrician and elder-abuse researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he leads geriatrics and palliative medicine.

Mark S. Link

Mark S. Link is an American cardiac electrophysiologist, Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for his 1998 commotio cordis model.

Mark Siegler

Mark Siegler is an American physician at the University of Chicago credited with creating and naming the field of clinical medical ethics and founding its MacLean Center.

Mark Smyth

Mark J. Smyth, born 1963 in Hobart, is an Australian immunologist known for cancer immunosurveillance and NK cell biology, who resigned from QIMR Berghofer in 2021 after misconduct findings.

Mark Sulkowski

Mark S. Sulkowski is an American physician-scientist in hepatology and infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins University, known for clinical trials that moved hepatitis C treatment from interferon-based regimens to all-oral direct-acting antivirals.

Mark T. Dransfield

Mark T. Dransfield, also cited as Mark Dransfield, is an American pulmonologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, chair of its Department of Medicine since 2025, known for COPD exacerbation research.

Mark T. Gladwin

Mark T. Gladwin, also known as Mark Gladwin, is an American physician-scientist and the 31st Dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine since 2022.

Mark T. Keating

Mark T. Keating is an American molecular cardiologist who discovered the first arrhythmia genes and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004.

Mark T. Nelson

Mark T. Nelson is an American physiologist and pharmacologist at the University of Vermont, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019 for work on calcium sparks and brain blood flow.

Mark Tenforde

Mark Tenforde is an epidemiologist with the CDC COVID-19 Response Team in Atlanta, known for vaccine effectiveness research on COVID-19, influenza, and RSV, and earlier HIV work in Africa.

Mark Thursz

Mark R. Thursz is a British hepatologist, professor at Imperial College London and consultant at St Mary's Hospital, who led EASL from 2011 to 2013 and researches viral hepatitis and alcoholic liver disease.

Mark van Ommeren

Mark van Ommeren (M. van Ommeren) is a Dutch public mental health researcher who has led the WHO's Mental Health and Substance Use Unit in Geneva since 2025.

Mark W. Tyndall

Mark W. Tyndall is a Canadian physician-epidemiologist and UBC professor who led the scientific evaluation of Insite, North America's first supervised injection facility, and advocates safe supply opioids.

Mark Woodward

Mark Woodward is a medical statistician and cardiovascular epidemiologist who holds a chair at Imperial College London and is known for showing diabetes and smoking confer greater cardiovascular risk in women than men.

Mark Woolhouse

Mark E. J. Woolhouse is an infectious disease epidemiologist and professor at the University of Edinburgh, known for work on schistosomiasis, zoonotic emerging infections, and the UK's COVID-19 response.

Markku Laakso

Markku Laakso, born 1949, is a Finnish physician-scientist and professor of internal medicine at the University of Eastern Finland who researches the genetics of type 2 diabetes.

Markus F. Neurath

Markus F. Neurath is a German gastroenterologist and immunologist who heads Department of Medicine 1 at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, known for cytokine research and endomicroscopy in inflammatory bowel disease.

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.

Markus Müschen

Markus Müschen (Markus Muschen) is a German-born hematologist-oncologist and cancer biologist who directs the Center of Molecular and Cellular Oncology at Yale, studying B-cell signaling and metabolism in leukemia and lymphoma.

Markus Raderer

Markus Raderer is an Austrian oncologist and associate professor at the Medical University of Vienna, known for his research on MALT lymphoma and gastrointestinal tumors.

Markus Schwaiger

Markus Schwaiger is a German nuclear medicine physician who established PET for detecting viable heart muscle and led TUM's nuclear medicine department from 1993 to 2017.

Markus Stoffel

Markus Stoffel, born 1962 in Cologne, Germany, is a Swiss physician-scientist and professor at ETH Zurich known for introducing antagomirs for silencing microRNAs in living animals.

Markus W. Büchler

Markus W. Büchler is a German pancreatic surgeon who led Heidelberg University Hospital's surgery department from 2001 to 2023 and now directs the Botton-Champalimaud Pancreatic Cancer Centre in Lisbon.

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.

Marleen Temmerman

Marleen Temmerman is a Belgian gynecologist and women's health researcher, Professor Emerita at Ghent University, who led WHO reproductive health research from 2012 to 2015.

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.

Marlene Rabinovitch

Marlene Rabinovitch is a Canadian-trained American physician-scientist, the Dwight and Vera Dunlevie Professor of Pediatric Cardiology at Stanford since 2002, known for pulmonary hypertension research.