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Magnus Blix

Magnus Gustaf Blix was a Swedish physiologist who demonstrated separate skin sensory points for cold, warmth, and pressure at Uppsala in 1882–83, and later served as Lund University's vice-chancellor.

Magnus Höök

Magnus Höök, born 1946, is a Swedish-born biochemist and cell biologist at Texas A&M University in Houston known for discovering MSCRAMMs, bacterial surface proteins that mediate infection.

Magnus Nordborg

Magnus Nordborg is a population and evolutionary geneticist, Scientific Director of the Gregor Mendel Institute in Vienna since 2009, known for Arabidopsis genomics and the 1001 Genomes project.

Maha Hussain

Maha Hussain is an Iraqi-born American medical oncologist specializing in prostate and bladder cancer who leads genitourinary oncology at Northwestern University and led the PROSPER and PROfound prostate cancer trials.

Mahesh Parmar

Mahesh Parmar, also known as Mahesh K. B. Parmar, is a British medical statistician who directs the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL and led the STAMPEDE prostate cancer trial.

Mahfuzur Sarker

Mahfuzur R. Sarker is a Bangladeshi-born American bacteriologist and professor at Oregon State University known for his work on Clostridium perfringens toxin typing and spore biology.

Mahlon DeLong

Mahlon Robert DeLong (1938–2024) was an American neurologist at Emory whose basal ganglia research led to deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease, earning the 2014 Lasker Award.

Mahlon Hoagland

Mahlon Hoagland (1921–2009) was an American biochemist who co-discovered amino acid activation and transfer RNA with Paul Zamecnik, and led the Worcester Foundation from 1970 to 1985.

Mai P. Hoang

Mai P. Hoang (Mai Hoang) is an American dermatopathologist, Director of Dermatopathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, known for research on immunohistochemistry in rare skin tumors.

Maike Sander

Maike Sander is a German-born physician-scientist who has led the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin since 2022 and researches pancreatic beta cell development and diabetes.

Maikel P. Peppelenbosch

Maikel P. Peppelenbosch (born 1967) is a Dutch cell biologist and physician-scientist, professor of Experimental Gastroenterology and head of laboratory at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam since 2009.

Maiken Nedergaard

Maiken Nedergaard is a neuroscientist known for discovering the glymphatic system, the brain network that clears metabolic waste during sleep, and for her research on astrocytes.

Maimon M. Cohen

Maimon M. Cohen (1935–2007) was an American human geneticist and cytogeneticist known for 1967 studies linking LSD-25 to chromosomal damage, and for leading human genetics departments in Maryland.

Maital Neta

Maital Neta is an American cognitive and affective neuroscientist who studies how the brain resolves emotionally ambiguous signals, and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2025.

Majic S. Potsaid

Majic S. Potsaid (1916–1994) was an American radiologist and nuclear medicine physician who directed nuclear medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and published on motion-picture x-ray imaging.

Majid Ezzati

Majid Ezzati is an Iranian-born global-health epidemiologist, Professor of Global Environmental Health at Imperial College London, who quantifies how behavioral, environmental, and metabolic risk factors cause death worldwide.

Major Greenwood

Major Greenwood (1880–1949) was an English epidemiologist and statistician, the foremost medical statistician in the United Kingdom in the first half of the twentieth century.

Makio Shozu

Makio Shozu is a Japanese physician-scientist in obstetrics and gynecology, a professor at Chiba University known for research on aromatase and the genetics of gestational trophoblastic disease.

Makkuni Jayaram

Makkuni Jayaram is an Indian-born molecular biologist at the University of Texas at Austin known for work on site-specific DNA recombination and the yeast 2 micron plasmid.

Makoto Komiyama

Makoto Komiyama, born 1947 in Utsunomiya, Japan, is a Japanese chemist known for ARCUT, a chemistry-based system that cuts human genomic DNA at one chosen site.

Makoto M. Taketo

Makoto M. Taketo, also known as Makoto Mark Taketo (武藤 誠), is a Japanese cancer geneticist who created the ApcΔ716 mouse model and showed COX-2 inhibition suppresses intestinal polyps.

Makoto Matsuoka

Makoto Matsuoka (松岡 信) is a Japanese plant scientist at Fukushima University who identified sd1, the semi-dwarf gene behind rice's Green Revolution, and the gibberellin receptor GID1.

Makoto Mayumi

Makoto Mayumi (真弓 忠) is a Japanese virologist and physician-scientist who worked on hepatitis B and C and co-discovered TT virus in 1997 from posttransfusion hepatitis.

Makoto Murakami

Makoto Murakami (村上 誠) is a Japanese pharmacologist and professor at the University of Tokyo known for his work on the secreted phospholipase A2 enzyme family.

Makoto Nakanishi

Makoto Nakanishi (中西 真), born 1960, is a Japanese molecular biologist at the University of Tokyo known for research on eliminating senescent cells to extend healthy lifespan.

Maksim V. Plikus

Maksim V. Plikus is a stem cell and skin regeneration biologist, professor of Developmental & Cell Biology at UC Irvine, and co-founder of the hair-growth company Amplifica.

Mala Maini

Mala K. Maini is a virologist and physician who is Professor of Viral Immunology at University College London, known for work on the immunopathogenesis of chronic hepatitis B.

Mala Murthy

Mala Murthy is an American neuroscientist at Princeton University who studies how fruit fly brains generate courtship song, and who co-led FlyWire's first whole-brain connectome.

Malcolm A. MacIver

Malcolm A. MacIver is an American neuroscientist and engineer, a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University who studies how animals sense and move, from weakly electric fish to the evolution of planning.

Malcolm A. Martin

Malcolm A. Martin is an American virologist who has led NIAID's Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology since 1981, known for HIV molecular clones and the SHIV macaque model.