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Mark Smyth

Mark J. Smyth, born 1963 in Hobart, is an Australian immunologist known for cancer immunosurveillance and NK cell biology, who resigned from QIMR Berghofer in 2021 after misconduct findings.

Mark Stitt

Mark Stitt, born 1953, is a British plant metabolic physiologist who directed the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam from 2000 to 2021.

Mark Stoneking

Mark Stoneking (born 1956) is an American molecular anthropologist and population geneticist, co-author of the 1987 "Mitochondrial Eve" paper and a Max Planck Institute group leader in Leipzig.

Mark Sulkowski

Mark S. Sulkowski is an American physician-scientist in hepatology and infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins University, known for clinical trials that moved hepatitis C treatment from interferon-based regimens to all-oral direct-acting antivirals.

Mark T. Dransfield

Mark T. Dransfield, also cited as Mark Dransfield, is an American pulmonologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, chair of its Department of Medicine since 2025, known for COPD exacerbation research.

Mark T. Gladwin

Mark T. Gladwin, also known as Mark Gladwin, is an American physician-scientist and the 31st Dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine since 2022.

Mark T. Keating

Mark T. Keating is an American molecular cardiologist who discovered the first arrhythmia genes and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004.

Mark T. Nelson

Mark T. Nelson is an American physiologist and pharmacologist at the University of Vermont, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019 for work on calcium sparks and brain blood flow.

Mark Tenforde

Mark Tenforde is an epidemiologist with the CDC COVID-19 Response Team in Atlanta, known for vaccine effectiveness research on COVID-19, influenza, and RSV, and earlier HIV work in Africa.

Mark Thursz

Mark R. Thursz is a British hepatologist, professor at Imperial College London and consultant at St Mary's Hospital, who led EASL from 2011 to 2013 and researches viral hepatitis and alcoholic liver disease.

Mark van Kleunen

Mark van Kleunen (born 1973) is a Dutch ecologist and professor of ecology at the University of Konstanz, Germany, known for research on plant invasions.

Mark van Ommeren

Mark van Ommeren (M. van Ommeren) is a Dutch public mental health researcher who has led the WHO's Mental Health and Substance Use Unit in Geneva since 2025.

Mark W. Bitensky

Mark W. Bitensky was an American molecular biologist and Yale-trained physician known for work on cyclic AMP signaling, adenylate cyclase regulation, and light-activated retinal enzymes.

Mark W. Denny

Mark W. Denny is a marine biologist and emeritus professor at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station, known for applying physics and engineering to the ecology of wave-swept rocky shores.

Mark W. Dewhirst

Mark W. Dewhirst is an American cancer researcher and veterinary oncologist at Duke University Medical Center known for work on tumor hypoxia, HIF-1 signaling, and hyperthermia.

Mark W. LeChevallier

Mark W. LeChevallier is an American drinking-water microbiologist who retired in 2018 as Chief Environmental Officer of American Water and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Mark W. Moffett

Mark W. Moffett, born in 1958, is an American tropical biologist and photographer known for research on ant societies, his book The Human Swarm, and his work with E. O. Wilson.

Mark W. Tyndall

Mark W. Tyndall is a Canadian physician-epidemiologist and UBC professor who led the scientific evaluation of Insite, North America's first supervised injection facility, and advocates safe supply opioids.

Mark Westoby

Mark Westoby, born 1947 in the UK, is an Australian evolutionary ecologist at Macquarie University who pioneered trait-based ecology, arranging the world's plant species into functional types by measurable traits.

Mark Willard

Mark Willard is an American cell biologist and neurobiologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known for work on axonal transport, the neuronal cytoskeleton, and spectrin proteins.

Mark Winey

Mark Winey is an American cell biologist known for work on centrosome duplication and the Mps1 kinase, and dean of the College of Biological Sciences at UC Davis.

Mark Woodward

Mark Woodward is a medical statistician and cardiovascular epidemiologist who holds a chair at Imperial College London and is known for showing diabetes and smoking confer greater cardiovascular risk in women than men.

Mark Woolhouse

Mark E. J. Woolhouse is an infectious disease epidemiologist and professor at the University of Edinburgh, known for work on schistosomiasis, zoonotic emerging infections, and the UK's COVID-19 response.

Mark Yeager

Mark J. Yeager is an American physician-scientist and structural biologist known for atomic-level cryo-EM structures of the HIV capsid, and executive director of the Frost Institute at the University of Miami since 2021.

Markku Laakso

Markku Laakso, born 1949, is a Finnish physician-scientist and professor of internal medicine at the University of Eastern Finland who researches the genetics of type 2 diabetes.

Markus A. Rüegg

Markus A. Rüegg is a Swiss molecular neurobiologist, Full Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Basel's Biozentrum, known for agrin-based muscular dystrophy therapies and mTOR muscle research.

Markus Aebi

Markus Aebi, born 1955 in Brugg, Switzerland, is a Swiss molecular biologist and ETH Zurich professor emeritus known for work on N-linked protein glycosylation and pre-mRNA splicing.

Markus Affolter

Markus Affolter, born in 1958, is a Swiss molecular and developmental biologist who led a research group at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, becoming Professor emeritus in 2025.

Markus Borner

Markus Borner (1945–2020) was a Swiss zoologist and conservationist who spent 43 years in African conservation, leading the Frankfurt Zoological Society's Africa program from the Serengeti.

Markus Covert

Markus Covert is a Stanford bioengineer and systems biologist who built the first whole-cell computational model, of the bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium, published in Cell in 2012.