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Murray B. Stein

Murray B. Stein is an American psychiatrist and researcher at the University of California San Diego known for research on anxiety disorders, PTSD, and psychiatric genetics.

Murray Barr

Murray Barr, also known as Murray Llewellyn Barr, was a Canadian physician and geneticist who co-discovered the Barr body, the inactivated X chromosome in female cells.

Murray Esler

Murray D. Esler is an Australian cardiovascular neuroscientist and Senior Director of the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, known for developing norepinephrine spillover methodology.

Murray F. Brennan

Murray F. Brennan is a New Zealand-born surgical oncologist who chaired surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from 1985 to 2006 and built a database of over 9,000 sarcoma patients.

Murray Korc

Murray Korc is an American endocrinologist and pancreatic cancer researcher known for defining the role of growth factors and their receptors, especially EGFR, in pancreatic cancer.

Murray Sanders

Murray Sanders was an American bacteriologist and Army colonel who investigated Japan's Unit 731 biological warfare program in 1945 and helped win amnesty for its scientists.

Mustafa Sahin

Mustafa Sahin is a Turkish-American clinical neurologist and neuroscientist who chairs Neurology at Boston Children's Hospital and studies the neurobiology of autism and tuberous sclerosis.

Muthiah Vaduganathan

Muthiah Vaduganathan is a cardiologist and clinical trialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for quantifying how drug combinations change heart failure outcomes.

Muthu Periasamy

Muthu Periasamy is a muscle physiologist and cardiovascular researcher known for identifying sarcolipin, a protein regulating the SERCA calcium pump, as a driver of muscle heat production and metabolism.

Muzlifah Haniffa

Muzlifah Haniffa is a Malaysian-born dermatologist and immunologist at Newcastle University and the Wellcome Sanger Institute who maps the human immune system with single-cell genomics.

Mykola Amosov

Mykola Amosov (1913–2002) was a Ukrainian cardiac surgeon, biocyberneticist, and writer who founded cardiac surgery in Ukraine and led the Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery in Kyiv.

Myles A. Brown

Myles A. Brown is an American physician-scientist who directs the Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics at Dana-Farber and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

Myles Wolf

Myles Wolf, also known as Myles S. Wolf, is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist who became chair of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine in 2024, known for FGF23 research.

Myriam Chalabi

Myriam Chalabi is a Dutch medical oncologist and clinical group leader of gastrointestinal oncology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, known for the NICHE immunotherapy trials.

Myrna M. Weissman

Myrna M. Weissman is an American psychiatric epidemiologist at Columbia University who co-developed interpersonal psychotherapy and has run a three-generation study of depression risk for four decades.

Myron J. Tong

Myron J. Tong (Myron Tong) is an American hepatologist credited as the first to link hepatitis B with liver cancer, and a longtime UCLA liver program director who practices in Pasadena, California.

Myron L. Weisfeldt

Myron L. Weisfeldt is an American cardiologist who chaired the Department of Medicine at Columbia University and Johns Hopkins and served as president of the American Heart Association.

Myron M. Levine

Myron M. Levine is an American physician-scientist who built the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and led creation of the first single-dose cholera vaccine.

Myron Pollycove

Myron Pollycove (1921–2013) was an American hematologist and nuclear medicine physician, a UCSF professor known for radiotracer studies of vitamin B12 absorption and iron kinetics and for arguing low-dose radiation can be beneficial.

Myron S. Cohen

Myron S. Cohen is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at the University of North Carolina who led the HPTN 052 trial showing HIV treatment prevents transmission.

Myrtle Aydelotte

Myrtle Aydelotte, known as Myrtle K. Aydelotte, was an American nurse-researcher who was founding dean of the University of Iowa College of Nursing and led the American Nurses' Association.

N. Scott Adzick

N. Scott Adzick is an American pediatric surgeon and fetal surgery pioneer who served 31 years as Surgeon-in-Chief of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and led the MOMS trial.

N.A. Mark Estes

N.A. Mark Estes, full name Mark Nathan Anthony Estes, is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directed the New England Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at Tufts for three decades.

N.E. Miller

Norman E. Miller is a pathologist and metabolic disorders specialist at St Thomas' Hospital, London, whose 1975 Lancet paper proposed that low HDL is a coronary risk factor.

Nabeel Bardeesy

Nabeel Bardeesy is a Canadian-trained cancer biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for research on pancreatic and hepatobiliary cancers and tumor suppressor metabolism.

Nabih I. Abdou

Nabih I. Abdou (1934–2024) was an Egyptian-born physician-scientist in rheumatology, allergy, and clinical immunology, trained at Cairo and McGill, known for his lupus and malakoplakia research.

Nabil Djouder

Nabil Djouder is a French molecular biologist who heads the Growth Factors, Nutrients and Cancer Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre in Madrid, studying the URI oncogene.

Nader Sanai

Nader Sanai is an American neurosurgeon and brain tumor researcher who is Chief of Neurosurgical Oncology at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, and founded the Ivy Brain Tumor Center.

Nader Shaikh

Nader Shaikh is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh whose research on childhood ear infections shaped antibiotic treatment guidelines and produced an AI diagnostic app.

Nadia Harbeck

Nadia Harbeck is a German breast oncologist who directs the Breast Center of the LMU women's hospital in Munich and led the IMpassion031 trial of atezolizumab in triple-negative breast cancer.