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M. Reza Ghadiri

M. Reza Ghadiri is a chemist who chairs the Department of Chemistry at Scripps Research, known for cyclic peptide nanotubes, the first peptide self-replication, and antibacterial cyclic peptides.

M. S. Swaminathan

M. S. Swaminathan, also known as Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, was an Indian plant geneticist who led India's Green Revolution and received the first World Food Prize in 1987.

M. Thomas P. Gilbert

M. Thomas P. Gilbert, known as Tom Gilbert, is a British geneticist and palaeogenomicist at the University of Copenhagen who recovers ancient DNA from degraded biological material.

M.‐Marsel Mesulam

M.-Marsel Mesulam, born 1945 in Istanbul, is an American behavioral neurologist at Northwestern University who identified and named primary progressive aphasia, a language-based dementia, and founded its Mesulam Center.

M.A. Ferguson‐Smith

Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith (1931–2026) was a Scottish cytogeneticist who established the first human-chromosome diagnostic laboratory in the United States and pioneered prenatal diagnosis in the United Kingdom.

M.C. Wahl

Markus C. Wahl is a German structural biochemist, professor at Freie Universität Berlin since 2009, known for his work on the spliceosome and the Mg²⁺-independent kinase CASK.

M.R. Sawaya

Michael R. Sawaya is an American structural biologist and X-ray crystallographer who has been research faculty at UCLA since 2000, known for the 2007 steric-zipper amyloid structures and the Amyloid Atlas.

Maarten A.D.H. Schalekamp

Maarten A.D.H. Schalekamp is a Dutch cardiovascular researcher, professor emeritus at Erasmus University Rotterdam, known for work on inactive renin, essential hypertension, and the DRASTIC trial.

Maarten Boers

Maarten Boers is a Dutch rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist, full professor at Amsterdam UMC and a rheumatologist at Reade, known for the 1997 COBRA trial and co-founding OMERACT.

Maarten J. Chrispeels

Maarten J. Chrispeels is a plant biologist who spent his career at UC San Diego, where his laboratory discovered aquaporins, the water channel proteins of plants.

Maarten Koornneef

Maarten Koornneef is a Dutch plant geneticist who helped establish Arabidopsis thaliana as the model plant for genetics, working at Wageningen University and the Max Planck Institute in Cologne.

Maarten L. Simoons

Maarten L. Simoons is a Dutch cardiologist and emeritus professor at the Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, who led trials comparing thrombolysis with primary angioplasty in acute coronary syndromes.

Maarten Naesens

Maarten Naesens is a Belgian nephrologist and transplantation researcher who is Clinical Director of Nephrology at University Hospitals Leuven and a professor at KU Leuven, working on kidney transplant rejection.

Maarten van Lohuizen

Maarten van Lohuizen (M. van Lohuizen) is a Dutch molecular biologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute known for provirus-tagging screens and for establishing Bmi1 as an oncogene regulating stem cell self-renewal.

Mac Callum

Mac Callum, born William George MacCallum, was an American physician and pathologist who in 1897 observed the sexual reproduction of a malaria-like bird parasite at Johns Hopkins.

Mackenzie Walser

Mackenzie Walser was an American nephrologist and Johns Hopkins professor of medicine who pioneered nitrogen-free keto analog therapy for kidney failure and urea-cycle disorders, and died in 2006.

Maclyn McCarty

Maclyn McCarty (1911–2005) was an American physician-scientist who, with Oswald Avery and Colin MacLeod, provided the first experimental evidence that DNA, rather than protein, carries hereditary information.

Macrae F. Linton

Macrae F. Linton is a Vanderbilt University Medical Center physician-scientist studying macrophage cholesterol metabolism in atherosclerosis, and a 1997 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award.

Madeline Lancaster

Madeline A. Lancaster is a developmental biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for pioneering the first method for growing brain organoids from human stem cells.

Madge Macklin

Madge Thurlow Macklin (1893–1962) was an American-born physician and geneticist who helped establish medical genetics and led the American Society of Human Genetics in 1959.

Madhav Gadgil

Madhav Gadgil (1942–2026) was an Indian ecologist who founded the Centre for Ecological Sciences at IISc Bangalore and chaired the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel, known as the Gadgil Commission.

Madhav V. Dhodapkar

Madhav V. Dhodapkar is an American hematologist-oncologist and cancer immunologist who studies how the immune system controls progression of premalignant plasma cell disorders to multiple myeloma.

Madhukar H. Trivedi

Madhukar H. Trivedi is an American psychiatrist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for leading the STAR*D depression treatment study and the 2021 ADAPT-2 trial.

Madhukar Pai

Madhukar Pai, also known as Madhu Pai, is a Canadian physician and epidemiologist at McGill University in Montreal who trained in India and works on tuberculosis and global health.

Mads Melbye

Mads Melbye, born 1956, is a Danish epidemiologist who led the 2002 study of 537,303 children finding no MMR-autism link, and directs the Danish Cancer Institute.

Mads Tang-Christensen

Mads Tang-Christensen is a Danish physician-scientist who helped establish GLP-1 as a brain-mediated satiety signal, then spent over 15 years at Novo Nordisk developing obesity drugs like liraglutide.

Magda Konarska

Magda Konarska (Maria Magdalena Konarska) is a Polish RNA biochemist known for her work on pre-mRNA splicing; since 2021 she has been professor and deputy director at IMol, Warsaw.

Magdalena Götz

Magdalena Götz is a neuroscientist, director of the Institute of Stem Cell Research at Helmholtz Munich since 2004, known for discovering radial glia as neural stem cells and pioneering glial reprogramming into neurons.

Magdalena Zernicka‐Goetz

Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz is a Polish-British developmental biologist, Bren Professor at Caltech since 2019, known for showing early embryo cells differ and building embryo models from stem cells.

Magdalini Polymenidou

Magdalini Polymenidou is a Greek-trained molecular biologist and Associate Professor at the University of Zurich who studies ALS and frontotemporal dementia, focusing on the RNA-binding protein TDP-43.