edgepedia

Medical and health researchers

8,517 articles

Michael V. Drake

Michael V. Drake is an American ophthalmologist and academic administrator who served as president of the University of California from 2020 to 2025, after leading Ohio State.

Michael V. Herman

Michael V. Herman, also known as Michael Herman, is an American cardiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for work on ventricular asynergy.

Michael V. Sefton

Michael V. Sefton is a Canadian biomaterials and tissue engineering researcher at the University of Toronto, an early pioneer of combining living cells with synthetic polymers.

Michael V. Seiden

Michael V. Seiden is an American oncologist known for ovarian cancer research and as president and CEO of Fox Chase Cancer Center from 2007 to 2013.

Michael W. Deininger

Michael W. Deininger is a German-trained hematologist whose research established how chronic myeloid leukemia resists tyrosine kinase inhibitors; he leads the Versiti Blood Research Institute in Milwaukee.

Michael W. Weiner

Michael W. Weiner is a UCSF physician-scientist who leads the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, the largest longitudinal biomarker study of Alzheimer's disease, launched in 2004.

Michael Wang (hematologist-oncologist)

Michael (Luhua) Wang is a Chinese-American hematologist-oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center who directs its Mantle Cell Lymphoma Program of Excellence and has published over 150 papers.

Michael Weller

Michael Weller is a German-born neuro-oncologist, professor and clinic director of neurology at University Hospital Zurich since 2008, known for phase III glioblastoma trials and EANO glioma guidelines.

Michael Worobey

Michael Worobey is a Canadian evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who uses viral genomes to pinpoint how HIV, the 1918 influenza, and SARS-CoV-2 emerged and spread.

Michael Zasloff

Michael A. Zasloff is an American immunologist and biotechnology entrepreneur known for discovering magainin peptides in frog skin and squalamine, and is a professor at Georgetown University.

Michail S. Lionakis

Michail S. Lionakis is a Greek-born American infectious diseases physician-scientist who is Chief of the Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology at NIAID, studying immunity to fungi such as Candida and Aspergillus.

Michel Aguet

Michel Aguet, born 1947, is a Swiss physician-scientist and professor emeritus at EPFL who cloned the human interferon-γ receptor in 1988 and directed ISREC from 1996 to 2009.

Michel Attal

Michel Attal is a French hematologist and professor at Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, known for trials establishing transplantation and lenalidomide maintenance as standard myeloma treatment.

Michel Aubier

Michel Aubier, born 1947, is a French pulmonologist and member of the Académie nationale de médecine known for research on severe asthma, COPD, and air pollution.

Michel D. Ferrari

Michel D. Ferrari, also known as MD Ferrari, is a Dutch neurologist born in 1954 who identified the first migraine gene and led key triptan and CGRP treatment trials.

Michel Ducreux

Michel Ducreux is a French medical oncologist and gastroenterologist who heads digestive oncology at Gustave Roussy in Villejuif and is known for authoring the ESMO pancreatic cancer guidelines.

Michel Goedert

Michel Goedert, born 1954 in Luxembourg, is a neuroscientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who identified tau and alpha-synuclein as the filament proteins of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

Michel P. Coleman

Michel P. Coleman is a British cancer epidemiologist, Professor of Epidemiology and Vital Statistics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine since 1995.

Michel Revel

Michel Revel, born 1938 in Strasbourg, is a molecular biologist and physician, emeritus professor at Israel's Weizmann Institute, known for cloning interferon-beta and interleukin-6 and developing the multiple sclerosis drug Rebif.

Michele Baccarani

Michele Baccarani (1942–2021) was an Italian hematologist at the University of Bologna who led European chronic myeloid leukemia guidelines, chaired GIMEMA's CML working party, and led the DASISION trial.

Michèle Cavo

Michele Cavo is an Italian hematologist and Full Professor of Hematology at the University of Bologna, where he heads the Seràgnoli Institute of Hematology and researches multiple myeloma.

Michele Heisler

Michele Heisler is an American physician-investigator at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022 for research on health, human rights, and health equity.

Michele Solimena

Michele Solimena is an Italian-born physician-scientist in diabetology, Professor of Molecular Diabetology at TU Dresden and Director of the Institute for Pancreatic Islet Research, known for discovering GAD autoantibodies in stiff-man syndrome.

Michelle A. Williams

Michelle A. Williams is an American perinatal epidemiologist, a Harvard Chan School dean for seven years who moved to Stanford School of Medicine in 2025 and studies pregnancy complications.

Michelle Bell

Michelle Bell is an environmental health scientist at Yale who studies how air pollution, weather, and climate affect health, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020.

Michelle L. O'Donoghue

Michelle L. O'Donoghue is a cardiologist and clinical trialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for leading TIMI trials of heart disease therapies.

Michelle M. Le Beau

Michelle M. Le Beau is an American cancer geneticist who directed the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center for 17 years and later led CPRIT in Texas.

Michelle M. Mello

Michelle M. Mello is an American health law scholar at Stanford Law School, known for empirical research on medical malpractice, patient safety, and public health law.

Michelle Petri

Michelle Petri is an American rheumatologist and Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins, where she directs the Hopkins Lupus Center and a cohort of more than 2,000 lupus patients.

Michiaki Kubo

Michiaki Kubo (久保 充明) is a Japanese human geneticist and deputy center director of the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, known for genome-wide association studies in Japanese populations.