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Michiel L. Bots

Michiel L. Bots is a Dutch physician-scientist and clinical epidemiologist at University Medical Center Utrecht, known for carotid intima-media thickness ultrasound as a trial endpoint and co-leading the CONVINCE trial.

Michiel S. van der Heijden

Michiel S. van der Heijden is a Dutch medical oncologist and research group leader at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, known for immunotherapy trials in bladder cancer.

Mickey Chopra

Mickey Chopra is a physician and global-health specialist who leads service delivery in the World Bank's health practice, previously Chief of Health at UNICEF and a South African Medical Research Council researcher.

Mignon L. Loh

Mignon L. Loh is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist and leukemia researcher who directs the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Seattle Children's Hospital.

Miguel A. Hernán

Miguel A. Hernán is a physician-epidemiologist and biostatistician, Kolokotrones Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for target trial emulation and the textbook Causal Inference: What If.

Miguel Ángel Martínez‐González

Miguel Ángel Martínez-González, born 1957, is a Spanish physician and epidemiologist at the University of Navarra and Harvard, known for the PREDIMED Mediterranean diet trial.

Miguel López (Spanish physiologist)

Miguel López is a Spanish physiologist and neuroendocrinology researcher, Full Professor at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela since 2023, known for work on hypothalamic AMPK and energy balance.

Miguel Martín (oncologist)

Miguel Martín Jiménez is a Spanish medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer, head of medical oncology at the Gregorio Marañón hospital in Madrid since 2009.

Miguel Ondetti

Miguel Angel Ondetti (1930–2004) was an Argentine-born chemist at Squibb who, with David Cushman, discovered captopril, the first orally active ACE inhibitor, sharing the 1999 Lasker Award.

Mihai Gheorghiade

Mihai Gheorghiade was a cardiologist and professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine who chaired international heart failure trials and defined the modern study of acute heart failure and the post-discharge vulnerable phase.

Miikka Vikkula

Miikka Vikkula is a Finnish-born human geneticist, professor at UCLouvain and director of the de Duve Institute in Brussels, known for identifying mutations that cause vascular malformations.

Mika Kivimäki

Mika Kivimäki is a Finnish epidemiologist who is Professor and Chair of Social Epidemiology at University College London, known for meta-analyses of work stress, long working hours, and heart disease.

Mikaël J. Pittet

Mikaël J. Pittet, also published as Mikael Pittet, is an onco-immunologist at the University of Geneva who studies how myeloid immune cells control tumor growth.

Mikala Egeblad

Mikala Egeblad is a Danish cancer biologist known for studies of the tumor microenvironment and neutrophils in metastasis, and for co-developing intravital microscopy of living tumors.

Mikhail Kosiborod

Mikhail N. Kosiborod is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist who led the STEP-HFpEF trials of semaglutide in obesity-related heart failure, contributing to Science's 2023 Breakthrough of the Year.

Milan Sonka

Milan Sonka is a Czech-born medical image analysis researcher, professor and Battershell Chair holder at the University of Iowa, known for graph-theoretic segmentation of retinal, cardiac, and vascular scans.

Miles Weinberger

Miles M. Weinberger was an American pediatric allergist and pulmonologist at the University of Iowa whose theophylline dosing research made it the standard childhood asthma treatment.

Milford Fulop

Milford Fulop was an American nephrologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, known for research on acid–base disorders, potassium disturbances, and the comas of uncontrolled diabetes.

Milo Gibaldi

Milo Gibaldi was a pharmaceutical scientist and pioneer of pharmacokinetics and biopharmaceutics who served as dean of the University of Washington School of Pharmacy for 17 years.

Milton Alter

Milton Alter, known in Hebrew as Meir Alter (1929–2016), was an American neurologist and neuroepidemiologist who chaired Neurology at Temple University and was a founder of neuroepidemiology.

Milton C. Weinstein

Milton C. Weinstein is an American health economist at Harvard who developed cost-effectiveness analysis and decision science in medicine, co-chairing the 1996 U.S. Panel on Cost-Effectiveness.

Milton H. Erickson

Milton H. Erickson (1901–1980), American psychiatrist, father of modern clinical hypnosis and founder of Ericksonian hypnotherapy; permissive, indirect, utilization-based hypnosis; founded the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis; influenced brief, strategic, and solution-focused therapy.

Milton Packer

Milton Packer (M. Packer) is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, known for landmark heart failure trials and the neurohormonal hypothesis.

Min Chiu Li

Min Chiu Li (李敏求; 1919–1980) was an oncologist who produced the first drug cure of a solid cancer, metastatic choriocarcinoma, at the National Cancer Institute in 1956.

Min Yu

Min Yu is a Chinese-born physician-scientist studying circulating tumor cells, whose blood-based liquid biopsy work guides treatment of metastatic cancer; she won a 2015 NIH New Innovator Award.

Minesh P. Mehta

Minesh P. Mehta is a radiation oncologist and physician-scientist, deputy director and chief of radiation oncology at Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute, and a brain tumor clinical trials leader.

Ming T. Tsuang

Ming T. Tsuang, also known as Ming Tsuang, was a Taiwanese-American psychiatrist and psychiatric geneticist whose family, twin, and adoption studies established schizophrenia as partly genetic.

Ming‐Sound Tsao

Ming-Sound Tsao is a Canadian thoracic pathologist and University of Toronto professor who studies lung cancer biomarkers at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto.

Minglin Ma

Minglin Ma (马明林) is a professor of biological and environmental engineering at Cornell University whose lab develops islet encapsulation devices for type 1 diabetes and co-founded Persista Bio.

Mintu P. Turakhia

Mintu P. Turakhia, also known as Mintu Turakhia, is an American cardiac electrophysiologist at Stanford University and the VA Palo Alto, known for the 2019 Apple Heart Study.