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Marina Rodnina

Marina V. Rodnina, born 1960 in Kiev, is a biochemist and biophysicist directing physical biochemistry at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, known for ribosome research.

Marinka Zitnik

Marinka Zitnik (Marinka Žitnik) is a computer scientist and associate professor of biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School, known for TxGNN, a graph AI model for drug repurposing.

Marino Zerial

Marino Zerial, born 1958 in Trieste, is an Italian cell biologist known for his work on Rab GTPases and endocytosis, and co-founded the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden.

Marinos C. Dalakas

Marinos C. Dalakas is a Greek neurologist and neuroimmunologist known for defining the inflammatory myopathies and establishing high-dose IVIg treatment for dermatomyositis and stiff-person syndrome.

Mario A. Eisenberger

Mario A. Eisenberger is a medical oncologist and Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins whose TAX 327 docetaxel trial established chemotherapy as survival-prolonging treatment for metastatic prostate cancer.

Mario Baldini

Mario Baldini (Mario G. Baldini, 1917–1986) was an American hematologist and platelet researcher known for his 1966 New England Journal of Medicine review of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.

Mario Boccadoro

Mario Boccadoro (born 1950) is an Italian hematologist and emeritus professor at the University of Turin who led landmark multiple myeloma trials, including a 2006 Lancet study of melphalan, prednisone, and thalidomide.

Mario Cazzola

Mario Cazzola, born in 1947, is an Italian hematologist who was Professor of Hematology at the University of Pavia from 2001 to 2017 and created the WPSS prognostic system for myelodysplastic syndromes.

Mario Clerici

Mario Clerici is an Italian immunologist, full professor at the University of Milan and Scientific Director of the Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi IRCCS, known for HIV resistance research.

Mario de Bono

Mario de Bono is a neuroscientist who studies how neural circuits generate behavior in C. elegans, known for showing that the npr-1 gene switches worms between solitary and social feeding.

Mario Gaudino

Mario Gaudino is an Italian cardiac surgeon and clinical trialist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, known for the 2018 radial artery bypass study and the ROMA trials.

Mario Halić

Mario Halić, born 1976, is a Croatian-born molecular and structural biologist who leads a lab at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, known for discovering Dicer-independent primal small RNAs in fission yeast.

Mario L. Suvà

Mario L. Suvà is a physician-scientist, Vice-Chair of Pathology for Research at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard associate professor, known for single-cell studies of glioma cellular states.

Mario Mikulincer

Mario Mikulincer is an Israeli social psychologist known for his experimental research on attachment theory in adulthood, and a Full Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Mario R. Capecchi

Mario R. Capecchi, born 1937 in Verona, Italy, is an Italian-born American molecular geneticist who pioneered gene targeting and shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Mario Raviǵlione

Mario Raviǵlione, also known as Mario C. Raviglione, is an Italian physician who directed the WHO Global Tuberculosis Programme from 2003 to 2017, developing the End TB Strategy.

Mario Rizzetto

Mario Rizzetto (born 1945) is an Italian hepatologist who discovered the delta antigen of the hepatitis D virus in 1977 and won the 1985 King Faisal Prize.

Mario Roederer

Mario Roederer is an American immunologist who heads the ImmunoTechnology Section at the NIAID Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and pioneered polychromatic flow cytometry.

Mario Sims

Mario Sims is an American social epidemiologist and medical sociologist, a distinguished professor at UC Riverside elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.

Mario Spagnuolo

Mario Spagnuolo was an American public health researcher at New York University's School of Medicine and Irvington House, known for his 1971 study of rheumatic fever recurrence after streptococcal infections.

Mario Stevenson

Mario Stevenson is a Scottish molecular virologist who studies HIV persistence during antiretroviral therapy and directs the Institute of AIDS and Emerging Infectious Diseases at the University of Miami.

Marion Campbell

Marion K. Campbell is a British medical statistician and clinical trialist, Professor of Health Services Research at the University of Aberdeen, known for surgical trial design.

Marion Koopmans

Marion Koopmans is a Dutch public health virologist at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, known for her work on noroviruses, avian influenza outbreaks, and SARS-CoV-2 surveillance and origins research.

Marion Pepper

Marion Pepper is an American immunologist and chair of Immunology at the University of Washington who studies how T cells and B cells form immune memory.

Marisa Bartolomei

Marisa Bartolomei is an American developmental geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine known for working out how genomic imprinting operates in mammals.

Marisa Carrasco

Marisa Carrasco, full name Marisa Carrasco-Queijeiro, is a Mexican-born cognitive neuroscientist at New York University who studies visual perception and attention, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Marisela Morales (neuroscientist)

Marisela Morales is a neuroscientist who studies the brain circuits of drug addiction at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Baltimore, where she leads the Integrative Neuroscience Research Branch.

Marissa Zwald

Marissa L. Zwald is an American epidemiologist at the CDC whose research tracks mental health, substance use, suicide, and firearm-injury trends using near-real-time emergency care data.

Marius M. Hoeper

Marius M. Hoeper is a German pulmonologist, director of respiratory medicine at Hannover Medical School, who helped develop most drugs approved for pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Marius Pachiţariu

Marius Pachiţariu, also spelled Marius Pachitariu, is a Romanian-American computational neuroscientist who leads a group at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, studying large-scale cortical activity and developing open-source analysis software.