Life and health scientists

Marianna Fontana

Marianna Fontana is an Italian cardiologist and Professor of Cardiology at University College London, known for cardiac MRI mapping of amyloidosis and 2024 NEJM trials.

Marianne Bronner

Marianne Bronner is an American developmental biologist at Caltech known for research on neural crest development and evolution, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Marianne Grunberg-Manago (1921–2013) was a French biochemist who, with Severo Ochoa, discovered polynucleotide phosphorylase, the enzyme that enabled deciphering the genetic code, and became the first woman president of the French Academy of Sciences.

Marianne Hafting Fyhn

Marianne Hafting Fyhn is a Norwegian neuroscientist who co-discovered grid cells, the brain's spatial-map neurons, and leads the Centre for Integrative Neuroplasticity at the University of Oslo.

Mariano A. García-Blanco

Mariano A. García-Blanco is an RNA biologist and virologist who chairs microbiology at the University of Virginia and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Mariano Barbacid

Mariano Barbacid is a Spanish molecular oncologist who isolated the first human oncogene, H-RAS, in 1982 and founded the Spanish National Cancer Research Center in Madrid.

Mariano Luigi Patrizi

Mariano Luigi Patrizi (1866–1935) was an Italian physiologist and criminologist who held physiology chairs at Ferrara, Sassari, Modena, and Bologna, succeeded Cesare Lombroso at Turin, and invented the volumetric glove.

Mariano Provencio

Mariano Provencio Pulla is a Spanish medical oncologist, head of Medical Oncology at Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro in Madrid, known for the NADIM lung cancer trials.

Mariano Sigman

Mariano Sigman is an Argentine neuroscientist, author, and broadcaster who studies decision-making, consciousness, and language, and directs the Integrative Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Buenos Aires.

Marie Celeste Simon

Marie Celeste Simon, usually published as M. Celeste Simon, is an American cancer biologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for research on hypoxia-inducible factors and tumor growth.

Marie J. Stuart

Marie J. Stuart, also known as Marie Stuart, is an American physician-scientist in pediatric hematology whose New England Journal of Medicine studies shaped aspirin and platelet transfusion practice.

Marie Malissen

Marie Malissen is a French immunologist and Research Director at the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy who mapped the mouse T cell receptor genes in the 1980s and won the CNRS silver medal in 2008.

Marie Manceau

Marie Manceau (born 1979) is a French developmental biologist who leads a group at the Collège de France in Paris, studying how periodic bird plumage color patterns form in the embryo.

Marie R. Griffin

Marie R. Griffin, also known as Marie Griffin, is an American physician and epidemiologist at Vanderbilt whose studies of influenza and pneumococcal vaccines shaped United States vaccine policy.

Marie Scully

Marie Scully is a British hematologist, professor at University College London, known for research on thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and for describing vaccine-induced blood clotting in 2021.

Marie‐Germaine Bousser

Marie-Germaine Bousser (born 1943) is a French neurologist and stroke researcher, emeritus professor at Université Paris-Diderot, known for identifying the hereditary small-vessel disease CADASIL and winning the 2019 Brain Prize.

Marie‐Louise Newell

Marie-Louise Newell is an infectious disease epidemiologist whose research on HIV in pregnancy and childhood, especially mother-to-child transmission, informed policies credited with reducing vertically acquired HIV infection.

Marie‐Paule Lefranc

Marie-Paule Lefranc is a French immunologist and emeritus professor at the University of Montpellier who founded IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system, in 1989, the global reference standard in immunogenetics.

Mariella Gruber Filbin

Mariella Gruber Filbin is an Austrian-trained pediatric neuro-oncologist and cancer researcher who studies and treats childhood brain tumors at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital.

Marilyn D. Resh

Marilyn D. Resh is an American cell biologist and biochemist, emeritus at Memorial Sloan Kettering, known for how fatty acids attached to proteins regulate their structure and function.

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Marilyn Diaz

Marilyn Diaz is an American immunologist known for research on antibody diversification and lupus autoreactivity, a Principal Investigator at NIH's NIEHS in Durham, North Carolina, from 2002 to 2015.

Marilyn G. Farquhar

Marilyn G. Farquhar, also known as Marilyn Gist Farquhar, was an American cell biologist and electron microscopist who defined intercellular junctions and the kidney's filtration barrier.

Marilyn Kozak

Marilyn Kozak is a biochemist and molecular biologist known for the scanning model of translation initiation and the Kozak consensus sequence, defined by her 1986 Cell paper.

Marilyn Monk

Marilyn Monk is a molecular embryologist and geneticist, Emerita Professor of Molecular Embryology at University College London, known for pioneering preimplantation genetic diagnosis and establishing DNA methylation as an epigenetic mechanism.

Marilyn Stovall

Marilyn Stovall is a radiation physicist and epidemiologist who spent 64 years at MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for quantifying second-cancer risk and reconstructing radiation doses for over 100,000 survivors.

Marin H. Kollef

Marin H. Kollef is an American critical care physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine, where he directs intensive care research at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and studies ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Marin van Heel

Marin van Heel (born 1949) is a biophysicist who pioneered single-particle cryo-EM, introducing multivariate statistical classification and angular reconstitution, and sharing the 2017 Wiley Prize with Joachim Frank.

Marina Cella

Marina Cella is an Italian-trained immunologist and physician known for her work on plasmacytoid dendritic cells and innate lymphoid cells producing IL-22 at mucosal surfaces, long at Washington University in St. Louis.

Marina Chiara Garassino

Marina Chiara Garassino is an Italian medical oncologist specializing in thoracic cancers, and Professor of Medicine and Director of Thoracic Programs at the University of Chicago, known for leading the KEYNOTE-189 trial.