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Michael R. Lassen

Michael R. Lassen, also known as Michael Rud Lassen, is a Danish physician and thrombosis researcher at Hørsholm Hospital who led the international ADVANCE trials of apixaban after hip and knee replacement.

Michael R. Lucey

Michael R. Lucey is an Irish-born hepatologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin who researches alcohol-associated liver disease and liver transplantation, co-authoring the AASLD's 2019 guidance.

Michael R. Phillips

Michael R. Phillips (费立鹏, Fei Lipeng) is a Canadian psychiatrist and epidemiologist who has worked in China for over 35 years, documenting its suicide rate.

Michael R. Wilson

Michael R. Wilson is an American neurologist and physician-scientist at UCSF who developed metagenomic sequencing of spinal fluid as a diagnostic test for meningitis and encephalitis.

Michael R. Zile

Michael R. Zile is an American cardiologist at the Medical University of South Carolina whose research centers on heart failure mechanisms, especially heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

Michael Roden

Michael Roden, born 1961 in Vienna, is an Austrian physician-scientist who leads the German Diabetes Center in Düsseldorf and studies insulin resistance and mitochondrial energy metabolism in type 2 diabetes.

Michael Rosenblatt

Michael Rosenblatt is an American endocrinologist known for mapping parathyroid hormone's structure and developing PTH 7-34, the first peptide hormone antagonist shown to block hormone action in living animals.

Michael Rutledge DeBaun

Michael Rutledge DeBaun is an American pediatric hematologist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2009 for changing stroke prevention in sickle cell disease.

Michael S. Brown

Michael S. Brown, born 1941, is an American molecular geneticist who co-discovered the LDL receptor with Joseph Goldstein, earning the 1985 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Michael S. Feld

Michael S. Feld (1940–2010) was an American MIT physicist who directed the Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory and founded the Laser Biomedical Research Center, pioneering optical cancer diagnostics.

Michael S. German

Michael S. German is a diabetes researcher and physician-scientist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for showing that serotonin controls beta cell expansion during pregnancy.

Michael S. Glickman

Michael S. Glickman is an American infectious-disease physician and mycobacteriologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, known for research on how tuberculosis bacteria survive immune attack and antibiotics.

Michael S. Kramer

Michael S. Kramer, also known as Michael Kramer, is a perinatal epidemiologist and professor emeritus at McGill University in Montreal, best known for leading the PROBIT breastfeeding trial.

Michael S. Lauer

Michael S. Lauer is an American cardiologist and clinical epidemiologist who led NIH extramural research from 2015 to 2025 and studied heart-rate recovery after exercise.

Michael S. Neuberger

Michael S. Neuberger (1953–2013) was a British molecular immunologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who proved how the enzyme AID diversifies antibody genes and helped pioneer humanized antibody therapies.

Michael S. Okun

Michael S. Okun is an American neurologist and movement-disorders specialist at the University of Florida, known for deep-brain stimulation research in Parkinson's disease and Tourette syndrome.

Michael S. Saag

Michael S. Saag is an American infectious-diseases physician and HIV researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he founded the 1917 HIV Clinic and led early antiretroviral trials.

Michael S. Wolfe

Michael S. Wolfe is an American medicinal chemist and neuroscientist known for discovering γ-secretase, the amyloid-producing enzyme in Alzheimer's disease, and teaches at the University of Kansas.

Michael Schätz

Michael Schätz is an American allergist-immunologist at Kaiser Permanente San Diego, chief of its Allergy Department from 2000 to 2011, who helped develop the Asthma Control Test.

Michael Sendtner

Michael Sendtner is a German cellular and molecular neuroscientist and physician who heads the Institute of Clinical Neurobiology at Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, studying neurotrophic factors in ALS and spinal muscular atrophy.

Michael Sharpe (liaison psychiatrist)

Michael Sharpe is a British liaison psychiatrist and Emeritus Professor of Psychological Medicine at Oxford, known for research on functional somatic symptoms and chronic fatigue syndrome.

Michael Simon Avidan

Michael Simon Avidan is a South African-born anesthesiologist and perioperative outcomes researcher who leads anesthesiology at Washington University and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.

Michael Stümvoll

Michael Stumvoll is a German endocrinologist who directs the Helmholtz Institute for Metabolic, Obesity and Vascular Research in Leipzig and created widely used insulin sensitivity indices.

Michael Swash

Michael Swash (born 1939) is a British neurologist known for work on diagnosing ALS, or motor neuron disease, and for founding the neurophysiological study of the pelvic floor.

Michael T. Heneka

Michael T. Heneka is a German neurologist and clinician-scientist known for research on neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease, and director of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine since 2022.

Michael T. Longaker

Michael T. Longaker is an American plastic and reconstructive surgeon and stem cell biologist at Stanford University, known for identifying the mouse and human skeletal stem cells.

Michael T. Newhouse

Michael T. Newhouse (1935–2023) was a Canadian respirologist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, known for developing the AeroChamber inhaler spacer and founding the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health.

Michael Trauner

Michael Trauner (born 1964 in Linz) is an Austrian hepatologist who has been professor and chair of gastroenterology and hepatology at the Medical University of Vienna since 2010.

Michael Tymianski

Michael Tymianski is a Canadian neurosurgeon-scientist at the University of Toronto and University Health Network whose laboratory identified the PSD95 protein as a mediator of stroke damage.

Michael Untch

Michael Untch, born 1957 in Transylvania, is a German gynecologic oncologist who led the breast cancer center at Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch and shaped treatment for HER2-positive breast cancer.