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Martin Schlumberger

Martin Schlumberger is a French thyroid-cancer oncologist and nuclear medicine specialist who headed Gustave Roussy's nuclear medicine department from 1980 to 2019 and led the SELECT lenvatinib trial.

Martin Schrappe

Martin Schrappe is a German pediatric oncologist known for risk-adapted trials in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia, chairing the International BFM Study Group from 2001 to 2016.

Martin Spiess

Martin Spiess (born 1955 in Zürich) is a Swiss biochemist and professor emeritus at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, known for defining how multispanning membrane proteins insert into the ER membrane.

Martin Steinegger

Martin Steinegger is a computational biologist and tenured associate professor at Seoul National University known for the open-source protein tools MMseqs2, Foldseek, and ColabFold, which made AlphaFold2 freely accessible.

Martin Thanbichler

Martin Thanbichler is a microbiologist who leads the Bacterial Cell Biology group at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, known for discovering that ParB proteins are controlled by CTP.

Martin Tieder

Martin Tieder is an Israeli nephrologist affiliated with Assaf Harofeh Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, known for describing the inherited kidney and bone disorder HHRH in 1985.

Martin Turner

Martin Turner is an immunologist at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge who studies lymphocyte development and signaling, known for his 1995 Nature paper on the kinase Syk in B-cell development.

Martin Underwood

Martin Underwood is a British primary care researcher and former general practitioner who is Professor of Primary Care Research at the University of Warwick and studies back pain.

Martin Vessey

Martin Paterson Vessey, known as M P Vessey, is a British physician-epidemiologist and Emeritus Professor of Public Health at Oxford, known for oral contraceptive safety studies.

Martin W. Hetzer

Martin W. Hetzer is an Austrian molecular biologist and, since 2023, president of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, known for discovering long-lived nuclear proteins.

Martin Weigert

Martin Weigert is an immunologist and Professor of Pathology at the University of Chicago, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999, known for discovering receptor editing.

Martin Widschwendter

Martin Widschwendter is an Austrian gynecological oncologist and epigenetics researcher, Professor in Women's Cancer at University College London and director of the EUTOPS Institute in Innsbruck.

Martin Yanofsky

Martin F. Yanofsky is an American plant developmental biologist at UC San Diego who identified major genes controlling flower and fruit development in Arabidopsis, including AGAMOUS and FRUITFULL.

Martin Zenke

Martin Zenke (born 1953) is a German molecular biologist and Senior Professor of Cell Biology at RWTH Aachen University, known for work on oncoproteins and stem cells.

Martina Brueckner

Martina Brueckner is a Yale School of Medicine physician-scientist and cardiologist known for discovering how cilia establish left-right asymmetry and for gene discovery in congenital heart disease.

Martina U. Muckenthaler

Martina U. Muckenthaler is a German molecular biologist and Professor of Molecular Medicine at Heidelberg University since 2004, known for research on iron metabolism and iron overload diseases.

Martine F. Roussel

Martine F. Roussel is a French-born molecular oncologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, known for identifying the FMS oncogene as a growth-factor receptor and discovering D-type cyclins.

Martine Piccart

Martine Piccart is a Belgian medical oncologist, Scientific Director at the Institut Jules Bordet in Brussels, who led the HERA and MINDACT trials and co-founded the Breast International Group.

Martinus Beijerinck

Martinus Willem Beijerinck was a Dutch microbiologist who founded the virus concept in 1898 through tobacco mosaic experiments at Delft and developed enrichment culture, founding the Delft School of microbiology.

Martyn Goulding

Martyn Goulding is a systems neuroscientist and professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, known for identifying spinal interneurons that set walking rhythm and gate mechanical itch.

Martynas Yčas

Martynas Yčas (1917–2014) was a Lithuanian-born microbiologist and professor at SUNY Syracuse who worked on the statistical analysis of the genetic code in George Gamow's circle.

Marvin A. Rich

Marvin A. Rich was an American cancer researcher at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, known for viral leukemia research and the murine "Rich virus".

Marvin C. Gershengorn

Marvin C. Gershengorn is an American endocrinologist at NIH's NIDDK who studies the TRH and TSH receptors and received the American Thyroid Association's 2018 Stanbury Medal.

Marvin Cornblath

Marvin Cornblath was an American pediatrician who chaired Pediatrics at the University of Maryland from 1968 to 1978 and shaped the study of neonatal hypoglycemia.

Marvin D. Siperstein

Marvin D. Siperstein (1925–1997) was an American endocrinologist and Professor of Medicine at UCSF whose cholesterol research underpinned work honored with the 1985 Nobel Prize.

Marvin Edelman

Marvin Edelman is a molecular biologist and emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for his 1987 discovery of chloroplast trans-splicing.

Marvin H. Caruthers

Marvin H. Caruthers (born 1940) is an American biochemist at the University of Colorado Boulder who created the phosphoramidite method, the chemistry behind nearly every commercial DNA synthesizer.

Marvin H. Sleisenger

Marvin H. Sleisenger (1924–2017) was an American gastroenterologist who was chief of gastroenterology at Cornell, then led medicine at UCSF and the San Francisco VA.

Marvin M. Chun

Marvin M. Chun, also known as Marvin Chun, is a cognitive neuroscientist and the Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology at Yale University, known for identifying the fusiform face area.

Marvin R. Paule

Marvin R. Paule is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at Colorado State University known for his research on ribosomal RNA transcription and its regulation in growing and cancer cells.