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Marcus Buggert

Marcus Buggert is a Swedish immunologist and Associate Professor at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, known for his 2020 Cell study on T cell immunity in mild COVID-19.

Marcus Byrne

Marcus Byrne is a South African professor of zoology and entomology at Wits University known for discovering that dung beetles navigate by the Milky Way.

Marcus Conrad

Marcus Conrad is a German cell death and redox biology researcher, co-discoverer of ferroptosis, an iron-dependent form of cell death linked to cancer and neurodegeneration.

Marcus E. Peter

Marcus E. Peter is a cancer biologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine who identified the CD95 death-inducing signaling complex and developed the RNA-based cancer-killing mechanism DISE.

Marcus E. Raichle

Marcus E. Raichle is an American neuroscientist at Washington University in St. Louis who pioneered PET studies of brain function and discovered the default mode network.

Marcus Fändrich

Marcus Fändrich is a biochemist who has directed the Institute of Protein Biochemistry at Ulm University since 2012, known for showing that myoglobin forms amyloid fibrils.

Marcus Fislage

Marcus Fislage is a structural biologist who manages the BECM cryo-EM facility at the VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology in Brussels, studying GTPase-driven assemblies like the ribosome's codon-selection machinery.

Marcus Flather

Marcus Flather is a British cardiologist and clinical trials researcher, Emeritus Professor at the University of East Anglia, best known for leading the ART bypass surgery trial.

Marcus Groettrup

Marcus Groettrup (1964–2022) was a German immunologist who held the chair of immunology at the University of Konstanz from 2002, known for work on the immunoproteasome, FAT10, and vaccine microspheres.

Marcus Lind

Marcus Lind is a Swedish professor of diabetology at the University of Gothenburg and chief physician at the NU Hospital Group in Uddevalla, known for studies of excess mortality in diabetes.

Marcus M. Reidenberg

Marcus M. Reidenberg was an American clinical pharmacologist who spent over 40 years at Weill Cornell Medicine, studying why people respond differently to the same drug.

Marcus Mall

Marcus Mall, or Marcus A. Mall, born 1968 in Stuttgart, is a German pediatric pulmonologist known for cystic fibrosis research who directs pediatric respiratory medicine at Charité Berlin.

Marcus Maurer

Marcus Maurer (1966–2024) was a German dermatologist and allergist who co-directed Immunology and Allergology at Fraunhofer ITMP in Berlin and led pivotal urticaria drug trials.

Marcus Morton Rhoades

Marcus Morton Rhoades (1903–1991) was an American maize cytogeneticist at Indiana University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1946, known for meiotic drive and the Dotted gene.

Marcus W. Feldman

Marcus W. Feldman, born 1942 in Perth, Australia, is an Australian-born American population geneticist and Stanford professor known for applying mathematics to population genetics and originating quantitative cultural evolution theory.

Marek Basler

Marek Basler is a Czech infection biologist, professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel since 2013, known for his work on the bacterial Type VI secretion system.

Marek Michalak

Marek Michalak is a Polish-trained Canadian cell biologist and Distinguished University Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Alberta, known for defining the functions of calreticulin, a calcium-binding chaperone of the endoplasmic reticulum.

Marek Mlodzik

Marek Mlodzik is a molecular geneticist studying planar cell polarity and Wnt/Frizzled signaling in Drosophila; he chairs Cell, Developmental, and Regenerative Biology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Margaret A. Chesney

Margaret A. Chesney is an American psychologist and epidemiologist, Professor Emerita at UCSF and a National Academy of Medicine member, known for behavioral research on HIV/AIDS and cardiovascular disease.

Margaret A. Fischl

Margaret A. Fischl is an American infectious-diseases physician at the University of Miami who led the 1987 AZT trial producing the first approved HIV drug.

Margaret A. Goodell

Margaret A. Goodell, known professionally as Peggy Goodell, is an American stem-cell biologist at Baylor College of Medicine, known for the side-population assay and work on mutant NPM1 in leukemia.

Margaret A. Honein

Margaret A. Honein, known as Peggy Honein, is an American epidemiologist directing a CDC infectious disease division, with leadership roles in the H1N1, Zika, and COVID-19 responses.

Margaret A. Palmer

Margaret A. Palmer, also cited as Margaret Palmer, is an American ecologist at the University of Maryland known for river restoration science and directing SESYNC since 2011.

Margaret A. Phillips

Margaret A. Phillips (born 1959) is an American biochemist at UT Southwestern known for malaria drug discovery and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Margaret A. Shipp

Margaret A. Shipp is an American medical oncologist who leads the Division of Hematologic Neoplasia at Dana-Farber and coordinated the International Prognostic Index for lymphoma.

Margaret A. Tucker

Margaret A. Tucker is an American physician-scientist and genetic epidemiologist who led the National Cancer Institute's familial cancer research for over 40 years, quantifying BRCA1 and BRCA2 cancer risks.

Margaret Bourdeaux

Margaret Bourdeaux is an American physician and health-security researcher who leads Harvard Medical School's Program in Global Public Policy and studies health systems in conflict-affected states.

Margaret Bryan Davis

Margaret Bryan Davis (1931–2024) was an American paleoecologist who used fossil pollen in lake sediments to show tree species migrated northward individually after the ice age.

Margaret Buckingham

Margaret Buckingham (Margaret E. Buckingham, born 1945) is a developmental biologist at the CNRS and Institut Pasteur in Paris, known for skeletal muscle genetics and the second heart field.

Margaret E. Kruk

Margaret E. Kruk is a Canadian-trained physician and health systems researcher at Washington University in St. Louis, known for chairing the Lancet Commission on High Quality Health Systems.