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Marlies Meisel

Marlies Meisel is an Austrian-trained cellular immunologist and microbiome researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, known for showing that bacteria inside tumors can change how cancer immunotherapy works.

Marlies Wijsenbeek

Marlies Wijsenbeek (Marlies S. Wijsenbeek-Lourens) is a Dutch pulmonologist and professor of interstitial lung diseases at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, known for the 2025 PREDMETH and FIBRONEER-IPF trials.

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.

Marsha A. Moses

Marsha A. Moses is an American biochemist and cancer researcher who directs the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital and is a Harvard Medical School professor.

Marsha Y. Morgan

Marsha Yvonne Morgan is a British clinical academic hepatologist at University College London and the Royal Free Hospital, known for research on alcohol-related liver disease, its genetics, and hepatic encephalopathy.

Marshall A. Lichtman

Marshall A. Lichtman (born 1934) is an American hematologist who spent his career at the University of Rochester, led its hematology unit and medical school, and co-edited Williams Hematology.

Marshall D. Lindheimer

Marshall D. Lindheimer is an emeritus professor at the University of Chicago known for research on the kidney and hypertension in pregnancy, and chief editor of Chesley's Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy.

Marshall E. Kadin

Marshall E. Kadin is an American dermatopathologist and hematopathologist known for work on Hodgkin's disease, lymphomatoid papulosis, and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, and for describing erythrophagocytic Tγ lymphoma in 1981.

Marshall K. Bartlett

Marshall K. Bartlett (1904–2002) was an American surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who performed early pancreatoduodenectomies and published on gallbladder surgery and pancreatitis.

Marshall M. Kaplan

Marshall M. Kaplan (1935–2012) was an American hepatologist known for widely cited New England Journal of Medicine reviews on alkaline phosphatase and primary biliary cirrhosis.

Marshall R. Posner

Marshall R. Posner is an American medical oncologist known for leading the phase 3 TAX 324 trial of TPF chemotherapy for head and neck cancer and rituximab therapy for pemphigus vulgaris.

Marshall R. Urist

Marshall R. Urist (1914–2001) was an American orthopedic surgeon and bone biologist at UCLA who discovered bone morphogenetic protein, the substance that induces new bone formation.

Marta Di Forti

Marta Di Forti is an Italian-born psychiatrist at King's College London who showed daily use of high-potency cannabis raises psychosis risk nearly fivefold and leads the UK's first Cannabis Clinic.

Marta Imamura

Marta Imamura is a Brazilian physician and researcher in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of São Paulo, elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2023.

Martha B. Pitman

Martha B. Pitman, also known as Martha Bishop Pitman, is an American cytopathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, principal author of the Papanicolaou Society system for reporting pancreatic cytology.

Martha Hickey

Martha Hickey is an Australian clinical psychologist and obstetrician-gynecologist who is Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Melbourne and led The Lancet's 2024 menopause series.

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.

Martha S. Linet

Martha S. Linet is an American physician epidemiologist who led the National Cancer Institute's Radiation Epidemiology Branch from 2002 to 2014, known for research on leukemia and radiation health effects.

Marthe R. Gold

Marthe R. Gold is an American physician and health-policy researcher, Logan Professor Emerita at the CUNY School of Medicine and a National Academy of Medicine member.

Martial G. Bourassa

Martial G. Bourassa (1931–2020) was a Canadian cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute, a pioneer of cardiology in Quebec and inventor of the Bourassa catheter.

Martin A. Cheever

Martin A. Cheever was an American oncologist and cancer immunotherapy researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle who founded the Cancer Immunotherapy Trials Network.

Martin A. Samuels

Martin A. Samuels, known as Martin Samuels, was an American neurologist who founded and led the neurology department at Brigham and Women's Hospital and studied neurocardiology.

Martin B. Leon

Martin B. Leon, also known as Martin Leon, is an American interventional cardiologist at Columbia University, founder of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation and the TCT meeting, and leader of the PARTNER TAVR trials.

Martin Bland

Martin Bland is a British medical statistician, Professor Emeritus of Health Statistics at the University of York, co-author of the 1986 Lancet paper introducing the Bland–Altman plot.

Martin C. Carey

Martin C. Carey (Martin Conrad Carey) was an Irish-born gastroenterologist and Harvard Medical School professor in Boston known for his work on cholesterol solubility in bile and gallstone formation.

Martín C. Mihm

Martin C. Mihm Jr. (1934–2022) was an American dermatopathologist and melanoma specialist at Harvard who helped define how early cutaneous melanoma is classified and staged.

Martin Dennis

Martin Dennis is a British stroke physician at the University of Edinburgh who led the FOOD feeding, CLOTS compression, and FOCUS fluoxetine trials in stroke medicine.

Martin Dichgans

Martin Dichgans is a German neurologist and physician-scientist who studies stroke, cerebral small vessel disease, and vascular dementia, and has directed the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research at LMU Klinikum since 2010.

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 F. Kagnoff

Martin F. Kagnoff (1941–2014) was an American immunologist and gastroenterologist at UC San Diego, known for his work on the immunogenetics of celiac disease and intestinal immune defense.