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Masanori Hatakeyama

Masanori Hatakeyama (畠山 昌則, born 1956) is a Japanese molecular oncologist known for establishing the Helicobacter pylori CagA protein as the first bacterium-derived oncoprotein in gastric cancer.

Masao Omata

Masao Omata (小俣 政男) is a Japanese hepatologist, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, who showed interferon can cure acute hepatitis C and led Asia-Pacific liver cancer guidelines.

Masaomi Nangaku

Masaomi Nangaku (南學 正臣) is a Japanese nephrologist and physician-scientist, professor and dean at the University of Tokyo whose research established chronic kidney hypoxia as a pathway to kidney failure.

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.

Masashi Yanagisawa

Masashi Yanagisawa (柳沢 正史), born in 1960, is a Japanese neuroscientist who discovered endothelin and orexin, showed orexin deficiency causes narcolepsy, and directs the sleep institute at the University of Tsukuba.

Masato Hasegawa

Masato Hasegawa (長谷川成人) is a Japanese neuroscientist at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science whose 2006 work identified TDP-43 as a signature of ALS and frontotemporal degeneration.

Masato Kasuga

Masato Kasuga (春日雅人), born 1948 in Tokyo, is a Japanese physician-scientist who showed the insulin receptor is a tyrosine kinase and led diabetes research at Kobe University.

Masatoshi Makuuchi

Masatoshi Makuuchi (幕内雅敏), born 1946, is a Japanese hepatobiliary surgeon and Emeritus Professor of the University of Tokyo who pioneered liver resection techniques and living-donor liver transplantation.

Masatsugu Hori

Masatsugu Hori (堀正二) is a Japanese cardiologist whose research established adenosine as an endogenous cardioprotective substance and clarified ischemic preconditioning at Osaka University, where he was the first professor of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine.

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.

Massimiliano Mazzone

Massimiliano Mazzone is an Italian tumor immunologist and full professor at KU Leuven who heads the Laboratory of Tumor Inflammation and Angiogenesis at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology in Belgium.

Massimo Chiariello

Massimo Chiariello was an Italian cardiologist, professor and chief of cardiology at the University of Naples Federico II and past president of the Italian Society of Cardiology.

Massimo Colombo

Massimo Colombo, born 1946 in Vigevano, Italy, is an Italian hepatologist known for defining the link between hepatitis C and liver cancer and for a landmark 1991 cirrhosis study.

Massimo Cristofanilli

Massimo Cristofanilli is an Italian-born American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer and liquid biopsy, known for his landmark 2004 New England Journal of Medicine study.

Massimo Filippi

Massimo Filippi is an Italian neurologist and Full Professor at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, known for applying MRI to the study of multiple sclerosis.

Massimo Imazio

Massimo Imazio, born 1969 in Turin, is an Italian cardiologist whose randomized trials established colchicine as standard treatment for pericarditis; he is Full Professor of Cardiology at the University of Udine.

Massimo Loda

Massimo Loda is an Italian-born American molecular pathologist who chairs pathology at Weill Cornell Medicine and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024 for showing prostate tumors depend on lipids.

Massimo Pinzani

Massimo Pinzani is an Italian clinical hepatologist, Emeritus Professor at University College London and, from February 2024, Scientific Director of the transplant center UPMC ISMETT in Palermo.

Massimo Volpe

Massimo Volpe (born 1952) is an Italian cardiologist and Emeritus Professor of Sapienza University of Rome, known for work on hypertension, heart failure, and natriuretic peptides.

Masud Husain

Masud Husain, British neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist, Professor of Neurology & Cognitive Neuroscience at Oxford, Editor-in-Chief of Brain, Royal Society Fellow (2026), researcher on attention, memory and apathy.

Mathias Basner

Mathias Basner is a physician and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how sleep loss and transportation noise affect human performance and health.

Mathias Heikenwälder

Mathias Heikenwälder, born 1976, is a German molecular biologist and immunologist who heads the Division of Chronic Inflammation and Cancer at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.

Mathias Jucker

Mathias Jucker is a neuroscientist who studies brain aging and Alzheimer's disease, known for work showing that misfolded amyloid-β can seed its own aggregation like a prion.

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.

Mathieu Lupien

Mathieu Lupien is a French-Canadian cancer researcher and Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre who studies how the epigenome controls gene activity in cancer.

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.

Matija Snuderl

Matija Snuderl is a neuropathologist and molecular pathologist who is Professor of Pathology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Director of Molecular Pathology at NYU Langone Health.

Matilda White Riley

Matilda White Riley (1911–2004) was an American sociologist and gerontologist who developed the aging-and-life-course perspective and led behavioral research at the National Institute on Aging.

Mats Nilsson

Mats Nilsson is a Swedish molecular biologist who invented padlock probes for detecting DNA in cells, and is Professor of Biochemistry at Stockholm University and SciLifeLab.

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).