Medical and health researchers

Miriam J. Alter

Miriam J. Alter is an American epidemiologist who led the CDC's sentinel-county hepatitis surveillance, showed hepatitis C usually becomes chronic, and later worked at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

Miriam Menkin

Miriam Menkin, born Miriam Friedman (1901–1992), was a Latvian-born American laboratory researcher who performed the first fertilization of a human egg outside the body in 1944.

Miriam Mérad

Miriam Merad is a Paris-born, Algeria-raised immunologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for discovering that tissue-resident macrophages arise from embryonic precursors and self-renew locally.

Mirjam Christ‐Crain

Mirjam Christ-Crain, born 1974, is a Swiss endocrinologist, full professor at the University of Basel, and chief of endocrinology at University Hospital Basel, known for copeptin diagnostics.

Mitchell A. Lazar

Mitchell A. Lazar is an American endocrinologist at the University of Pennsylvania who discovered the fat-cell hormone resistin and the circadian receptor REV-ERBα, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.

Mitchell D. Schnall

Mitchell D. Schnall is an American radiologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for breast and prostate imaging research and leadership of the ECOG-ACRIN cancer trials group.

Mitchell H. Gail

Mitchell H. Gail is an American biostatistician who developed the Gail Model behind the NCI's Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool, spending his 1969 to 2025 career at the NCI.

Mitchell L. Cohen

Mitchell L. Cohen is an American CDC epidemiologist whose investigations established E. coli O157:H7 as a foodborne pathogen and linked farm antibiotic use to resistant human infections.

Mitchell L. Halperin

Mitchell L. Halperin (1937–2025) was a Canadian nephrologist at St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto, known for research and teaching on fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base disorders.

Mitchell M. Levy

Mitchell M. Levy is an American critical care physician at Brown University, known for the Surviving Sepsis Campaign and sepsis research, and president of the Society of Critical Care Medicine in 2009.

Mitchell S. Albert

Mitchell S. Albert is a physical chemist and medical imaging scientist who co-invented hyperpolarized noble gas MRI, which makes the lung's air spaces visible to MRI.

Mitchell S. Golbus

Mitchell S. Golbus is an American perinatologist-geneticist who pioneered prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapy at UCSF, co-authoring the textbook The Unborn Patient and helping establish fetal surgery.

Mitchell S.V. Elkind

Mitchell S.V. Elkind is an American neurologist and stroke epidemiologist, Columbia professor emeritus and American Heart Association chief science officer, who led the Northern Manhattan Study and the ARCADIA trial.

Mitchell T. Rabkin

Mitchell T. Rabkin is an American endocrinology and diabetes researcher, trained at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital, who led Boston's Beth Israel Hospital for three decades from 1966.

Mitsuhashi Susumu

Mitsuhashi Susumu (三橋進) was a Japanese microbiologist who named R factors, the plasmids carrying transferable antibiotic resistance, proved their transfer required cell-to-cell contact, and led research on drug-resistant Shigella in Japan.

Mitsuru Hashida

Mitsuru Hashida (橋田充) is a Japanese pharmaceutics scientist at Kyoto University known for drug delivery systems research, honored with the 2017 Hoest Madsen Medal and a 2025 Order of the Sacred Treasure.

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Mkhitar Heratsi

Mkhitar Heratsi (Մխիթար Հերացի, c. 1120, Her, now Khoy in Iran – 1200) was a medieval Armenian physician, founder of the Armenian classical and Cilician medical schools and author of Consolation of Fevers.

Mogens Schou

Mogens Schou (1918–2005) was a Danish medical researcher at Aarhus University who established lithium as the first proven prophylactic treatment in psychiatry through trials from 1954 to 1970.

Mohamed Bentires-Alj

Mohamed Bentires-Alj, born 1972, is a Moroccan-Belgian cancer biologist and professor of experimental surgical oncology at the University of Basel, known for work on breast cancer metastasis and therapy resistance.

Mohammad Sultan Khuroo

Mohammad Sultan Khuroo (M. S. Khuroo) is an Indian gastroenterologist and hepatologist from Kashmir, known for describing hepatobiliary and pancreatic ascariasis in a 1990 Lancet paper.

Mohammed K. Ali

Mohammed K. Ali is an Emory University physician-epidemiologist and National Academy of Medicine member who researches diabetes prevention and care in low- and middle-income countries.

Mohsen Naghavi

Mohsen Naghavi is an Iranian-born epidemiologist, professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington's IHME, who led the Global Burden of Disease estimates of bacterial antimicrobial resistance.

Mone Zaidi

Mone Zaidi is a physician-scientist in endocrinology and bone biology at Mount Sinai in New York, known for showing that the pituitary hormone FSH regulates bone mass.

Monica Elizabeth Peek

Monica Elizabeth Peek is an American general internist and health equity researcher at the University of Chicago, known for research on diabetes disparities and structural racism in medical care.

Monica M. Bertagnolli

Monica M. Bertagnolli is an American surgical oncologist and colorectal cancer researcher who was the 16th director of the National Cancer Institute and the 17th director of the NIH.

Monica M. Farley

Monica M. Farley is an infectious-disease physician and epidemiologist, emerita professor of medicine at Emory University, known for population-based surveillance of group B streptococcus and MRSA.

Monika Kumari Goyal

Monika Kumari Goyal is an American pediatric emergency medicine physician and health equity researcher at Children's National Hospital, elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Monique M.B. Breteler

Monique M.B. Breteler, also known as Monique Breteler, is a Dutch neuroepidemiologist who built the Rotterdam Study and, since 2011, directs Population Health Sciences at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Bonn.

Mór Kaposi

Mór Kaposi, born Moriz Kohn (1837–1902), was a Hungarian-born dermatologist who led the Vienna dermatology clinic, described Kaposi's sarcoma in 1872, and pioneered lupus research.