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Marsha A. Moses

Marsha A. Moses is an American biochemist and cancer researcher who directs the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital and is a Harvard Medical School professor.

Marsha Rich Rosner

Marsha Rich Rosner, also known as Marsha R. Rosner, is an American molecular biologist at the University of Chicago known for research on breast cancer metastasis.

Marsha Y. Morgan

Marsha Yvonne Morgan is a British clinical academic hepatologist at University College London and the Royal Free Hospital, known for research on alcohol-related liver disease, its genetics, and hepatic encephalopathy.

Marshall A. Lichtman

Marshall A. Lichtman (born 1934) is an American hematologist who spent his career at the University of Rochester, led its hematology unit and medical school, and co-edited Williams Hematology.

Marshall Avery Howe

Marshall Avery Howe (1867–1936) was an American botanist and authority on liverworts and North American marine algae who led the New York Botanical Garden from 1935 until his death.

Marshall D. Lindheimer

Marshall D. Lindheimer is an emeritus professor at the University of Chicago known for research on the kidney and hypertension in pregnancy, and chief editor of Chesley's Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy.

Marshall E. Kadin

Marshall E. Kadin is an American dermatopathologist and hematopathologist known for work on Hodgkin's disease, lymphomatoid papulosis, and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, and for describing erythrophagocytic Tγ lymphoma in 1981.

Marshall H. Edgell

Marshall H. Edgell, full name Marshall Hall Edgell, is a molecular biologist known for the 1974 Nature paper showing mammalian mitochondrial DNA is inherited maternally.

Marshall Hatch

Marshall Davidson Hatch, born 1932 in Perth, is an Australian plant biochemist who co-discovered the C4 pathway of photosynthesis with C. Roger Slack, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1980.

Marshall K. Bartlett

Marshall K. Bartlett (1904–2002) was an American surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who performed early pancreatoduodenectomies and published on gallbladder surgery and pancreatitis.

Marshall M. Kaplan

Marshall M. Kaplan (1935–2012) was an American hepatologist known for widely cited New England Journal of Medicine reviews on alkaline phosphatase and primary biliary cirrhosis.

Marshall R. Posner

Marshall R. Posner is an American medical oncologist known for leading the phase 3 TAX 324 trial of TPF chemotherapy for head and neck cancer and rituximab therapy for pemphigus vulgaris.

Marshall R. Urist

Marshall R. Urist (1914–2001) was an American orthopedic surgeon and bone biologist at UCLA who discovered bone morphogenetic protein, the substance that induces new bone formation.

Marshall S. Horwitz

Marshall S. Horwitz is an American physician-scientist at the University of Washington who studies inherited and malignant blood disorders; his laboratory identified genes behind cyclic neutropenia, Kostmann syndrome, and acute leukemias.

Marshall W. Nirenberg

Marshall Warren Nirenberg was an American biochemist and geneticist at the National Institutes of Health who deciphered the genetic code, sharing the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Marta Di Forti

Marta Di Forti is an Italian-born psychiatrist at King's College London who showed daily use of high-potency cannabis raises psychosis risk nearly fivefold and leads the UK's first Cannabis Clinic.

Marta Imamura

Marta Imamura is a Brazilian physician and researcher in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of São Paulo, elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2023.

Marta Morey

Marta Morey is a neurobiologist and professor at the Universitat de Barcelona known for work on synaptic wiring specificity in the Drosophila visual system, including a 2008 Nature study.

Mårten Wikström

Mårten Wikström (1945–2024) was a Finnish biochemist and bioenergetics researcher at the University of Helsinki, best known for showing in 1977 that cytochrome c oxidase pumps protons.

Martha B. Pitman

Martha B. Pitman, also known as Martha Bishop Pitman, is an American cytopathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, principal author of the Papanicolaou Society system for reporting pancreatic cytology.

Martha Bulyk

Martha Bulyk is a Harvard Medical School professor of medicine and pathology known for developing universal protein binding microarrays that measure transcription factor DNA binding specificities.

Martha Chase

Martha Chase, also known as Martha Cowles Chase, was an American scientist who, as Alfred Hershey's assistant at Cold Spring Harbor, co-authored the 1952 blender experiment proving DNA carries genetic information.

Martha Constantine‐Paton

Martha Constantine-Paton is an American neuroscientist, an emerita professor at MIT and the McGovern Institute, known for showing that NMDA receptors set synapse strengths during brain development.

Martha Hickey

Martha Hickey is an Australian clinical psychologist and obstetrician-gynecologist who is Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Melbourne and led The Lancet's 2024 menopause series.

Martha L. Lepow

Martha L. Lepow (1927–2021) was an American pediatric infectious disease physician who helped test the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines and founded pediatrics at UConn.

Martha L. Ludwig

Martha L. Ludwig (1931–2006) was an American biochemist and X-ray crystallographer at the University of Michigan who solved the first flavoprotein structure and the first structure of vitamin B12 bound to a protein.

Martha M. Eibl

Martha M. Eibl (1931–2023) was an Austrian physician and immunologist specializing in immune deficiency diseases, who led the Immunological Day Clinic in Vienna from 1986.

Martha S. Linet

Martha S. Linet is an American physician epidemiologist who led the National Cancer Institute's Radiation Epidemiology Branch from 2002 to 2014, known for research on leukemia and radiation health effects.

Martha Vaughan

Martha Vaughan (1926–2018) was an American physician-biochemist who spent 60 years at the National Institutes of Health, first characterizing hormone-sensitive lipase and studying G proteins and insulin signaling.

Marthe R. Gold

Marthe R. Gold is an American physician and health-policy researcher, Logan Professor Emerita at the CUNY School of Medicine and a National Academy of Medicine member.