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Marvin Tanenbaum

Marvin E. Tanenbaum is a molecular biologist and senior group leader at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, known for SunTag and single-molecule imaging of translation in living cells.

Marvin Turck

Marvin Turck is an American infectious-disease physician-scientist, a University of Washington faculty member since 1964, who co-developed the Kirby–Bauer disc diffusion method and edited the Journal of Infectious Diseases from 1989 to 2002.

Marvin Wickens

Marvin Wickens, known as Marv Wickens, is an American molecular biologist who spent his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison studying how cells control messenger RNA.

Marwan M. Azar

Marwan M. Azar is an American infectious disease physician and clinical mycologist who is Medical Director, Anti-infectives, at GSK and an adjunct associate professor at Yale School of Medicine.

Mary A. Whooley

Mary A. Whooley is an American primary care physician and UCSF professor known for research linking depression and cardiovascular disease and for the two-question Whooley depression screen.

Mary Ann Moran

Mary Ann Moran is a marine microbial ecologist at the University of Georgia whose laboratory studies how ocean bacteria drive carbon and sulfur cycling and greenhouse gas production.

Mary Ann Osley

Mary Ann Osley is a molecular biologist who studies chromatin structure and histone gene regulation in yeast, including H2B ubiquitylation, DNA repair, and quiescence, and is a retired Distinguished Professor at the University of New Mexico.

Mary B. Kennedy

Mary B. Kennedy, born 1947, in Pontiac, Michigan, is an American neuroscientist at Caltech who for 40 years studied the biochemistry of synaptic plasticity underlying learning and memory.

Mary Barber (bacteriologist)

Mary Barber (1911–1965) was a British clinical bacteriologist at Hammersmith Hospital and St Thomas's who documented penicillin-resistant staphylococci and led a 1957–59 Hammersmith trial reversing hospital resistance.

Mary Bethe Humphrey

Mary Bethe Humphrey, also published as Mary Beth Humphrey, is an American rheumatologist who leads the rheumatology division at the University of Oklahoma and studies osteoporosis.

Mary C. Beckerle

Mary C. Beckerle is an American cancer cell biologist at the University of Utah who discovered the protein zyxin and served as CEO of Huntsman Cancer Institute from 2006 to 2025.

Mary C. Nakamura

Mary C. Nakamura is an American rheumatologist and physician-scientist, Professor in Residence at UCSF, known for research on innate immune receptors in bone biology and fracture healing.

Mary Carrington

Mary Carrington is an American immunologist and human geneticist who studies how HLA and KIR gene variation shapes susceptibility to HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, and cancer.

Mary Cushman

Mary Cushman is an American hematologist and cardiovascular epidemiologist at the University of Vermont, known for Women's Health Initiative findings on hormone therapy and for co-leading the REGARDS stroke study.

Mary Dasso

Mary Dasso is an American cell biologist who heads the Section on Cell Cycle Regulation at NIH's NICHD in Bethesda, Maryland, studying the Ran GTPase and SUMOylation in mitosis.

Mary E. Brunkow

Mary E. Brunkow is an American molecular biologist at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, co-recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Mary E. Hannah

Mary E. Hannah is a Canadian physician-scientist in maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Toronto whose Term Breech Trial of 2000 changed practice for breech and post-term pregnancies.

Mary E. Hatten

Mary E. Hatten, also published as Mary Beth Hatten, is an American developmental neurobiologist at The Rockefeller University known for proving that neurons migrate along glial fibers.

Mary E. Norton

Mary E. Norton is an American maternal-fetal medicine physician and clinical geneticist at the University of California, San Francisco, an expert in cell-free DNA prenatal testing and former department chair.

Mary E. Power

Mary E. Power is an American river and food-web ecologist, Professor Emerita at UC Berkeley, known for river food-web experiments and long-term research on the South Fork Eel River in California.

Mary E. Tinetti

Mary E. Tinetti, also known as Mary Tinetti, is an American geriatric physician and epidemiologist at Yale whose research established that falls in older adults are preventable.

Mary Ellen Avery

Mary Ellen Avery was an American pediatrician who showed in 1959 that respiratory distress syndrome in premature infants is caused by a lack of lung surfactant.

Mary Ellen Conley

Mary Ellen Conley is an American immunologist and physician who defined the genetic basis of X-linked agammaglobulinemia, identifying Bruton's tyrosine kinase mutations that block B cell development.

Mary Ellen Jones (American biochemist)

Mary Ellen Jones (1922–1996) was an American biochemist who codiscovered carbamoyl phosphate, key to DNA and RNA synthesis, and became the first woman to chair a department at the UNC School of Medicine.

Mary Ethel Florey

Mary Ethel Florey, Lady Florey (née Reed, 1900–1966), was an Australian-born physician who supervised the Oxford penicillin clinical trials and wrote a four-volume work on antibiotic therapy.

Mary F. Lyon

Mary F. Lyon (1925–2014) was a British mouse geneticist who spent her career at MRC Harwell and proposed X-chromosome inactivation, known as Lyonization, in a 1961 Nature paper.

Mary Jane Ferraro

Mary Jane Ferraro, also known as M. J. Ferraro, was an American clinical microbiologist who directed Massachusetts General Hospital's microbiology laboratory and shaped national antibiotic susceptibility testing standards.

Mary Jane Osborn

Mary Jane Osborn (1927–2019) was an American biochemist known for her research on lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis and the bacterial cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria, and a founding faculty member of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.

Mary Jeanne Kreek

Mary Jeanne Kreek (1937–2021) was an American physician-scientist at The Rockefeller University who helped establish methadone maintenance as a treatment for heroin addiction and pioneered the genetics of addiction vulnerability.

Mary K. Baylies

Mary K. Baylies, also known as Mary Baylies, is an American developmental biologist who studies skeletal muscle formation and disease, leading a laboratory at the Sloan Kettering Institute since 1996.