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Matthias Eikermann

Matthias Eikermann is a German-trained anesthesiologist and critical care researcher who became Chair of Anesthesiology at Montefiore Medical Center and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

Matthias Ernst

Matthias Ernst is an Australian cancer biologist who studies inflammation-driven gastrointestinal cancers and became the inaugural Scientific Director of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute in 2015.

Matthias H. Tschöp

Matthias H. Tschöp, born 1967, is a German physician-scientist in endocrinology known for identifying the hunger hormone ghrelin and creating multi-agonist drugs that led to tirzepatide; he has been President of LMU Munich since 2025.

Matthias Hebrok

Matthias Hebrok is a developmental biologist and diabetes researcher known for generating insulin-producing beta cells from human stem cells; he directs the Institute for Diabetes and Organoid Technology at Helmholtz Munich.

Matthias Nahrendorf

Matthias Nahrendorf (born 1970) is a German-born physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who studies how immune cells drive heart injury and repair.

Matthias Pfisterer

Matthias E. Pfisterer is a Swiss cardiologist, former professor and head of cardiology at University Hospital Basel, known for leading the BASKET stent cost-effectiveness trials.

Matthias Preusser

Matthias Preusser is an Austrian medical oncologist and neuro-oncologist, head of oncology at the Medical University of Vienna since 2018 and a past president of EANO.

Matti Uusitupa

Matti Uusitupa is a Finnish physician and clinical nutrition researcher, professor emeritus at the University of Eastern Finland, best known for leading the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study.

Maud Slye

Maud Slye was an American pathologist at the University of Chicago whose breeding program of roughly 140,000 mice helped establish heredity as central to cancer research.

Maura L. Gillison

Maura L. Gillison (1965–2026) was a Canadian-born medical oncologist and molecular epidemiologist who established HPV as the cause of a distinct, better-prognosis subset of oropharyngeal cancers.

Maureen G. Phipps

Maureen G. Phipps is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and epidemiologist, professor emerita at Brown University and former CEO of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Maureen Hack

Maureen Hack was a neonatologist and pediatrics professor at Case Western Reserve University and Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital in Cleveland, known for following premature infants into adulthood.

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 B. Strauss

Maurice B. Strauss (1904–1974) was an American physician-scientist in Boston known for early work on vitamin B12 and pernicious anemia and for characterizing cystic disease of the renal medulla.

Maurice C. Bondurant

Maurice C. Bondurant is a hematology researcher at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who, with Mark J. Koury, showed in 1986 that hypoxia raises erythropoietin production mainly by increasing EPO mRNA accumulation.

Maurice Enriquez‐Sarano

Maurice Enriquez-Sarano is a cardiologist and valvular heart disease researcher, formerly Professor of Medicine and founding director of the Valvular Heart Disease Clinic at Mayo Clinic, now at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation.

Maurice Goldenhar

Maurice Goldenhar (1924–2001) was an ophthalmologist whose 1952 paper described Goldenhar syndrome, a congenital condition of the eyes, ears, face, and spine now often called oculo-auriculo-vertebral spectrum.

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.

Maurice J. Mahoney

Maurice J. Mahoney, MD, JD, is an American clinical geneticist and Yale professor who pioneered prenatal diagnosis, including fetal blood sampling and Down syndrome screening.

Maurice S. Segal

Maurice S. Segal was an American physician and pulmonary researcher in Boston who pioneered inhalational aerosol drug therapy for bronchial asthma at Boston City Hospital and Tufts.

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.

Maurits A. Allessie

Maurits A. Allessie (born 1945) is a Dutch physiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist at Maastricht University who developed the leading circle model and showed that atrial fibrillation begets atrial fibrillation.

Maurizio Fava

Maurizio Fava is an Italian-trained psychiatrist who chairs the Mass General Brigham Department of Psychiatry and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.

Maurizio Scaltriti

Maurizio Scaltriti is an Italian cancer biologist who has led translational medicine in early oncology at AstraZeneca since 2020, after research at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

Max A. Viergever

Max A. Viergever is a Dutch medical image analysis researcher who led medical imaging at Utrecht University from 1988 to 2018 and founded its Image Sciences Institute.

Max Askanazy

Max Askanazy (1865–1940) was a German-born pathologist who spent most of his career as professor of pathology at the University of Geneva and described the thyroid cells now called Askanazy cells.

Max Harry Weil

Max Harry Weil, also known as Max H. Weil, was a Swiss-born American physician regarded as a father of critical care medicine, coining the specialty's name.

Max Nieuwdorp

Max Nieuwdorp (born 1977) is a Dutch internist-endocrinologist and professor at Amsterdam UMC whose research links the gut microbiome to obesity, type 2 diabetes, and fatty liver disease.

Max Nonne

Max Nonne (1861–1959) was a German neurologist in Hamburg who built the Eppendorf neurological university clinic, introduced the Nonne-Apelt cerebrospinal-fluid test, and dominated the World War I debate on war neuroses.