Medical and health researchers

Morie A. Gertz

Morie A. Gertz is an American hematologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for his work on AL amyloidosis and multiple myeloma, including the 2012 revised staging system.

Moritz Litten

Moritz Litten (1845–1907) was a German physician and clinical teacher at the Berlin Charité, remembered for naming Roth spots in 1878 and discovering the diaphragm phenomenon in 1891.

Moritz Roth

Moritz Roth (1839–1914) was a Swiss pathologist who held the chair of pathology at the University of Basel and is remembered for Roth's spots, retinal hemorrhages he described in 1872.

Morris Brown

Morris J. Brown, born 1951, is a British clinical pharmacologist and endocrinologist, Professor of Endocrine Hypertension at Queen Mary University of London, known for work on primary aldosteronism.

Morris J. Birnbaum

Morris J. Birnbaum is an American physician-scientist in diabetes research, credited with cloning GLUT4 and defining insulin signaling through Akt, and a Senior Vice President at Pfizer since 2014.

Morris J. Karnovsky

Morris J. Karnovsky (1926–2018) was a South African-born American pathologist at Harvard Medical School who created the DAB tracer method and established the blood-brain barrier's endothelial nature.

Morris Pollard

Morris Pollard (1916–2011) was an American veterinary virologist and cancer researcher who directed the Lobund Laboratory at Notre Dame, studying leukemia and prostate cancer in germfree animals.

Morris Reichlin

Morris Reichlin (1934–2018) was an American rheumatologist and immunologist who discovered antibodies associated with lupus, including anti-Ro (SSA), and created the Reichlin Profile diagnostic test.

Morris Schambelan

Morris Schambelan is an American endocrinologist and Professor Emeritus at UCSF, based at San Francisco General Hospital, known for hyporeninemic hypoaldosteronism and HIV wasting research.

Morris Siegel

Morris Siegel was an American epidemiologist at the New York City Department of Health and SUNY Downstate who studied household polio spread and maternal virus diseases.

Morris Ziff

Morris Ziff (1913–2005) was an American rheumatologist who founded the Rheumatic Diseases Division at UT Southwestern in Dallas, traced rheumatoid factor to inflamed joints, and trained 131 fellows.

Morten Frisch

Morten Frisch is a Danish epidemiologist and physician at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, known for linking sexual behavior, infection, and cancer, including a 1997 anal cancer study.

Morten Simonsen (1921–2002) was a Danish physician and immunologist who described the graft-versus-host reaction, known as the Simonsen phenomenon, and built the first quantitative test of T lymphocytes.

Mortimer B. Lipsett

Mortimer B. Lipsett (1921–1985) was an American endocrinologist and physician-scientist at the NIH who helped make choriocarcinoma the first cancer cured by chemotherapy alone, and held three NIH directorships.

Mortimer Poncz

Mortimer Poncz is an American pediatric hematologist and physician-scientist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, known for research on congenital platelet disorders.

Morton I. Grossman

Morton I. Grossman (1919–1981) was an American gastroenterologist and gastrointestinal physiologist who led research on gastrin and founded the first NIH digestive diseases center, CURE, in 1974.

Moses Rodriguez

Moses Rodriguez is an American neurologist and immunologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for multiple sclerosis research and for identifying rHIgM22, an antibody developed to promote myelin repair.

Moshe Arditi

Moshe Arditi is a physician-scientist in pediatric infectious diseases and immunology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, known for research on Kawasaki disease and innate immune signaling.

Moshe Oren

Moshe Oren is an Israeli cancer molecular biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for his work on the p53 tumor suppressor protein and elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Moshe Phillip

Moshe Phillip (Hebrew: משה פיליפ) is an Israeli pediatric endocrinologist who has directed the National Center for Childhood Diabetes at Schneider Children's Medical Center, Petah Tikva, since 1997.

Moshe Talpaz

Moshe Talpaz is a physician-scientist and professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan whose work transformed treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia through interferon-alpha and imatinib.

Moshe Wolman

Moshe Wolman (1914–2009) was an Israeli physician and histochemistry researcher who co-described the fatal lipid storage disorder Wolman disease in 1956 and established Israel's first electron microscopy unit.

Mrinal M. Gounder

Mrinal M. Gounder is an American medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center specializing in sarcomas and desmoid tumors, and led the nirogacestat trials.

Muhammad Mamdani

Muhammad Mamdani, also known as Muhammad M. Mamdani, is a Canadian pharmacoepidemiology and drug policy researcher who directs the University of Toronto's T-CAIREM center for artificial intelligence in medicine.

Muhammad Walji

Muhammad F. Walji is a dental and biomedical informatics scientist at UTHealth Houston, a Presidential Early Career Award recipient who leads the BigMouth dental data repository.

Muneesh Tewari

Muneesh Tewari is an American physician-scientist in hematology/oncology and biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan, known for pioneering circulating microRNAs as blood-based cancer biomarkers.

Munir Pirmohamed

Munir Pirmohamed is a British clinical pharmacologist and pharmacogenomicist at the University of Liverpool known for work linking HLA genes to severe reactions to medicines such as abacavir and carbamazepine.

Muredach P. Reilly

Muredach P. Reilly is an Irish-trained cardiologist and physician-scientist at Columbia University, recruited from Penn in 2016, known for identifying the ADAMTS7 gene locus for coronary atherosclerosis.

Muriel R. Gillick

Muriel R. Gillick, also known as Muriel Gillick, is an American physician specializing in geriatrics and palliative care at Harvard Medical School, born in 1951.