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Maria Elena Torres-Padilla
Maria Elena Torres-Padilla is a Mexican epigeneticist and stem cell biologist at Helmholtz Munich who studies totipotency in early embryos and won the 2025 Leibniz Prize.
Maria Falkenberg
Maria Falkenberg is a Swedish molecular biologist and professor of medical biochemistry at the University of Gothenburg who studies mitochondrial DNA replication and transcription, and co-founded Pretzel Therapeutics.
Maria G. Masucci
Maria G. Masucci (Maria Grazia Masucci) is an Italian-trained virologist and Senior Professor at Karolinska Institutet, known for her work on how Epstein-Barr virus evades immunity.
Maria Harrison
Maria Harrison is a plant molecular biologist and professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute in Ithaca, New York, known for molecular analyses of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis.
Maria Hatzoglou
Maria Hatzoglou is a molecular biologist and professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, known for her 2003 Cell paper proposing the zipper model of translational control.
Maria Inês Schmidt
Maria Inês Schmidt is a Brazilian epidemiologist who spent her career at UFRGS in Porto Alegre, described the dawn phenomenon, and led the EBDG and ELSA-Brasil studies.
Maria J. Wawer
Maria J. Wawer is an American physician-epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins who co-founded the Rakai Health Sciences Program in Uganda and led trials showing male circumcision reduces HIV risk.
Maria Jasin
Maria Jasin is an acclaimed molecular biologist at the Sloan Kettering Institute, known for discovering that double-strand breaks accelerate gene targeting and for her work on genomic integrity.
Maria Laina Urso
Maria Laina Urso is an American research physiologist known for her work on skeletal muscle injury, inflammation, and regeneration, and for receiving a 2011 Presidential Early Career Award.
Maria Lehtinen
Maria K. Lehtinen is a developmental neuroscientist who studies choroid plexus and cerebrospinal fluid signaling in the developing brain, leading a laboratory at Boston Children's Hospital since 2012.
Maria Leptin
Maria Leptin is a developmental biologist and immunologist who has been President of the European Research Council since November 2021, after leading EMBO as its first female Director.
Maria M. Mota
Maria M. Mota is a Portuguese malaria researcher who studies the liver stage of Plasmodium and leads the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine in Lisbon.
Maria Martinez‐Lage
Maria Martinez-Lage Alvarez is a Spanish-trained neuropathologist and Assistant Professor of Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for research on the immune microenvironment of gliomas.
Maria New
Maria New (1928–2024) was an American pediatric endocrinologist who delineated congenital adrenal hyperplasia, discovered steroid disorders, and developed newborn screening for CAH used in all 50 states.
Maria Pia Cosma
Maria Pia Cosma is an Italian cell biologist and ICREA Research Professor at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, where since 2010 she has led research on somatic cell reprogramming and tissue regeneration.
María Rescigno
Maria Rescigno is an Italian immunologist working in mucosal immunology and microbiota, known for showing that gut dendritic cells sample bacteria and for discovering the gut-vascular barrier.
Maria S. Soengas
María S. Soengas, known as Marisol Soengas, is a Spanish cancer biologist who heads the Melanoma Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre in Madrid.
Maria Selmer
Maria Selmer is a structural biologist and Professor of Structural Biology at Uppsala University, studying bacterial ribosome function and antibiotic resistance mechanisms with cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography.
Maria Sibilia
Maria Sibilia is an Austrian cancer biologist who heads the Center for Cancer Research at the Medical University of Vienna and studies how EGFR signaling drives tumor development.
Maria Spies
Maria Spies is a biophysicist and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Iowa, known for single-molecule dissection of DNA repair machines and for her HHMI Early Career Scientist Award.
María T. Diaz‐Meco
María T. Diaz-Meco is a Spanish cancer biologist who studies how p62/SQSTM1 signaling drives cancer metabolism and therapy resistance, co-leading a lab with Jorge Moscat at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Maria Van Kerkhove
Maria Van Kerkhove is an American infectious disease epidemiologist who served as the World Health Organization's technical lead for COVID-19, becoming one of the pandemic's most recognizable scientists.
Maria Zambon
Maria Zambon is a British clinical virologist who directs reference microbiology and respiratory virus work at the UK Health Security Agency, leading its National Influenza Centre.
María‐Victoria Mateos
María-Victoria Mateos (María Victoria Mateos Manteca) is a Spanish hematologist and multiple myeloma researcher at Salamanca, known for the ALCYONE trial and bispecific antibody studies.
Marian Betz
Marian Betz is an American emergency physician and injury-prevention researcher at the University of Colorado, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.
Marian Carlson
Marian Carlson is an American geneticist, Professor Emerita at Columbia University, known for discovering the SNF1/AMPK kinase pathway and the SWI-SNF chromatin-remodeling complex in yeast.
Mariana J. Kaplan
Mariana J. Kaplan is a physician-scientist and rheumatologist who leads the Systemic Autoimmunity Branch at NIH, known for showing how neutrophil extracellular traps drive lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
Mariana Wolfner
Mariana Wolfner is a Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University who studies reproduction in Drosophila fruit flies; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Mariangela Hungria da Cunha
Mariangela Hungria da Cunha is a Brazilian microbiologist at Embrapa who pioneered biological nitrogen fixation for tropical soybeans, adopted on over 40 million hectares, winning the 2025 World Food Prize.
Mariann Bienz
Mariann Bienz is a molecular biologist known for her work on Wnt signal transduction, the Wnt enhanceosome, and Dishevelled polymerisation; she worked at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.