Life and health scientists

Lynn M. Taussig

Lynn M. Taussig (1942–2025) was an American pediatric pulmonologist who founded the Tucson Children's Respiratory Study, a landmark asthma birth cohort, and was the first physician President and CEO of National Jewish Health.

Lynn Margulis

Lynn Margulis (1938-2011), American evolutionary biologist, champion of endosymbiotic theory for mitochondria and chloroplasts, serial endosymbiosis, co-developer of the Gaia hypothesis with Lovelock, National Medal of Science 1999.

Lynna M. Hereford

Lynna M. Hereford was an American molecular biologist who worked on budding yeast RNAs and histone genes, publishing her principal papers at Brandeis University between 1977 and 1987.

Lynne Elizabeth Maquat

Lynne Elizabeth Maquat, known professionally as Lynne E. Maquat, is an American RNA biologist at the University of Rochester who discovered nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, which destroys faulty messenger RNAs.

Lynne Mofenson

Lynne Mofenson is an American pediatric infectious disease physician who led key NIH trials on preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission, then joined the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation after retiring in 2014.

Lynne Regan

Lynne Regan is a biochemist and protein designer who leads the Institute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology at the University of Edinburgh, after a Yale career from 1990 to 2018.

Lynne W. Stevenson

Lynne W. Stevenson, or Lynne Warner Stevenson, is an American cardiologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center known for the wet-dry:warm-cold heart failure profiles and INTERMACS registry leadership.

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Lytt I. Gardner

Lytt I. Gardner (Lytt Irvine Gardner, 1917–1986) was an American pediatric endocrinologist and SUNY Upstate professor whose 1950 study ended infant formula tetany; he won the 1961 E. Mead Johnson Award.

M Rhyan Puno

M Rhyan Puno (Marc Rhyan Anthony Puno) is an American structural biologist known for 2018 structures of the RNA exosome and the discovery that YTHDC2 is essential for meiosis.

M. A. R. Koehl

M. A. R. Koehl, known as Mimi Koehl, is an American marine biologist at UC Berkeley who studies the biomechanics of how organisms interact with water and air.

M. Alan Permutt

M. Alan Permutt, full name Marshall Alan Permutt (1939–2012), was an American physician and diabetes geneticist at Washington University in St. Louis who led the identification of the first type 2 diabetes gene.

M. Alfred Haynes

M. Alfred Haynes (died 2016) was an American epidemiologist who built Charles R. Drew University in Los Angeles and co-edited the 1999 report The Unequal Burden of Cancer.

M. Amin Arnaout

M. Amin Arnaout, also known as M A Arnaout, is a nephrologist and structural biologist at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital known for discovering the β2 integrin family.

M. Andrew Hoyt

M. Andrew Hoyt is an American cell biologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University known for discovering the yeast spindle checkpoint and kinesin-related mitotic spindle motors.

M. Ángela Nieto

M. Ángela Nieto, full name María Ángela Nieto Toledano, is a Spanish developmental biologist in Alicante known for defining the role of EMT and Snail factors in development and cancer.

M. Bishr Omary

M. Bishr Omary, also known as Bishr Omary, is a gastroenterologist and cell biologist who identified keratin 8 and 18 variants as genetic risk factors for liver disease.

M. Cristina Cardoso

M. Cristina Cardoso, born 1963 in Lisbon, is a Portuguese cell biologist and epigeneticist who is Professor of Cell Biology and Epigenetics at TU Darmstadt in Germany.

M. Cristina Leske

M. Cristina Leske is an ophthalmic epidemiologist who spent 30 years at Stony Brook University, leading the Barbados Eye Studies on causes of blindness in people of African descent.

M. Daniel Lane

M. Daniel Lane (Malcolm Daniel Lane, 1930–2014) was an American biochemist at Johns Hopkins who defined acetyl-CoA carboxylase, built the molecular study of fat-cell formation, and showed malonyl-CoA suppresses hunger.

M. Daniele Fallin

M. Daniele Fallin is a genetic epidemiologist and epigeneticist who is the James W. Curran Dean of Public Health at Emory University, known for autism research and elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

M. Eric Gershwin

M. Eric Gershwin is an American physician-scientist in rheumatology and immunology at UC Davis, best known for identifying the mitochondrial autoantigens of primary biliary cirrhosis.

M. Flint Beal

M. Flint Beal, full name Myron Flint Beal, was an American physician-scientist who led neurology at Weill Cornell and established the mitochondrial and oxidative-stress account of neurodegenerative disease.

M. Frederick Hawthorne

M. Frederick Hawthorne (1928–2021) was an American inorganic chemist nicknamed "Mr. Boron" who established boron cluster chemistry, pursued boron neutron capture therapy for cancer, and won the Priestley Medal and National Medal of Science.

M. G. Myriam Hunink

M. G. Myriam Hunink is a Dutch radiologist and clinical epidemiologist, professor at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam and adjunct professor at Harvard, known for decision-analytic modeling of diagnostic imaging.

M. Glenn Koenig

M. Glenn Koenig (1931–1972) was an American infectious-diseases physician-researcher who served as Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt, publishing on enterococcal endocarditis and bacterial interference.