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Mary K. Estes
Mary K. Estes is an American virologist and Distinguished Service Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston who studies the gastrointestinal viruses rotavirus and human norovirus.
Mary K. Firestone
Mary K. Firestone is a soil microbial ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for work on microbial control of nitrogen cycling and the rhizosphere, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.
Mary L. Efron
Mary L. Efron (1926–1967) was an American physician at Harvard Medical School who described the inherited amino acid disorders hyperprolinemia and hydroxyprolinemia and developed a filter-paper screening test for amino acid metabolism disorders.
Mary L. Phillips
Mary L. Phillips is a British-born psychiatrist and neuroimaging researcher, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, known for identifying neural biomarkers of bipolar disorder risk.
Mary Leakey
Mary Leakey, née Nicol, was a British paleoanthropologist whose excavations in Tanzania and Kenya produced the Zinjanthropus cranium at Olduvai Gorge and the 3.6-million-year-old Laetoli footprints.
Mary Lou Pardue
Mary Lou Pardue (1933–2024) was an American molecular biologist at MIT who codeveloped in situ hybridization for locating genes on chromosomes and showed fruit flies maintain telomeres with retrotransposons, not telomerase.
Mary Mcdermott
Mary McDermott is an American physician-scientist at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, known for clinical research on peripheral artery disease and winner of the American Heart Association's 2023 Clinical Research Prize.
Mary Osborn
Mary Osborn, born 1940 in Darlington, England, is a British cell biologist at Max Planck Göttingen known for the Weber–Osborn method and cytoskeleton immunofluorescence, winning the 2002 L'Oréal/UNESCO Prize.
Mary Ramsay
Mary Ramsay, full name Mary Elizabeth Booth Ramsay, is a British epidemiologist who heads immunization programs at the UK Health Security Agency and received a CBE in 2022.
Mary Therese Kalin Arroyo
Mary Therese Kalin Arroyo is a New Zealand-born plant ecologist at the Universidad de Chile, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 1999.
Mary Toft
Mary Toft (c. 1703–1763), Englishwoman of Godalming, Surrey, behind the 1726 rabbit-births hoax; fooled eminent doctors via maternal imagination theory, confessed 7 December 1726.
Mary Travis Bassett
Mary Travis Bassett is an American physician and public health researcher who led New York City's health department from 2014 to 2018 and became New York State health commissioner in 2021.
Mary V. Relling
Mary V. Relling is a clinical pharmacologist and pharmacogenomics researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital who co-founded CPIC and helped move pharmacogenetic testing into routine care.
Mary Wakefield
Mary Wakefield is an American nurse and health policy scholar who served as Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration from 2009 to 2015 and as Acting Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Mary-Dell Chilton
Mary-Dell Chilton (1939–2026) was an American plant biotechnologist who led the research producing the first transgenic plants, using a disarmed Agrobacterium Ti plasmid as a gene vector, and later directed Syngenta Biotechnology in North Carolina.
Mary-Elizabeth Patti
Mary-Elizabeth Patti is an American physician-scientist and endocrinologist at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston who studies how obesity causes insulin resistance and how early nutrition programs diabetes risk across generations.
Mary‐Claire King
Mary-Claire King, born in Chicago in 1946, is an American geneticist at the University of Washington who showed inherited breast cancer susceptibility and named the gene BRCA1.
Mary‐Jane Gething
Mary-Jane Gething, also known as Mary-Jane H. Gething, is an Australian biochemist at the University of Melbourne known for her work on protein folding in living cells.
Masa-atsu Yamada
Masa-atsu Yamada is a Japanese cell biologist who led the Tokyo group that isolated the temperature-sensitive ts85 mouse cell line in 1980, cited in the 2004 Nobel Prize background.
Masaaki Komatsu
Masaaki Komatsu (小松 雅明) is a Japanese cell biologist and professor at Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, known for establishing p62 as a selective autophagy cargo receptor.
Masad J. Damha
Masad J. Damha is a Canadian nucleic acid chemist and Distinguished James McGill Professor at McGill University whose laboratory developed FANA, a DNA-mimicking antisense chemistry advanced toward COPD drug trials.
Masafumi Kitakaze
Masafumi Kitakaze (北風 政史) is a Japanese cardiologist and physician-scientist known for the J-WIND trials of cardioprotective drugs in acute myocardial infarction, reported in The Lancet in 2007.
Masaharu Noda
Masaharu Noda (野田 昌晴), born in 1953, is a Japanese neuroscientist who cloned the voltage-gated sodium channel gene and identified Nax as the brain's sodium-level sensor.
Masahiro Shirakawa
Masahiro Shirakawa (白川 昌宏) is a Japanese structural biologist and Kyoto University professor, known since 2001 for NMR structures of methyl-CpG-binding domains bound to methylated DNA.
Masahiro Sugiura
Masahiro Sugiura (杉浦 昌弘, born 1936) is a Japanese molecular biologist at Nagoya University who sequenced the tobacco chloroplast genome in 1986 and established chloroplast engineering.
Masahiro Yamamoto (immunologist)
Masahiro Yamamoto (Yamamoto Masahiro) is a Japanese immunologist and professor at The University of Osaka known for Toll-like receptor signaling, ubiquitin-dependent immune signaling, and host defense against Toxoplasma gondii.
Masahiro Yano
Masahiro Yano (矢野 昌裕) is a Japanese rice geneticist who mapped the rice genome, cloned flowering-time and seed-shattering genes, and won the Japan Prize of Agricultural Science in 2013.
Masakazu Konishi
Masakazu Konishi (小西正一), known in the United States as Mark Konishi, was a Japanese-born American neuroethologist at Caltech who studied how barn owls localize sound.
Masaki Mori
Masaki Mori (森 正樹) is a Japanese digestive surgeon and physician-scientist, chairman professor of gastroenterological surgery at Osaka University from 2008, known for gastrointestinal cancer research.
Masami Horikoshi
Masami Horikoshi (堀越 正美) is a Japanese molecular biologist at the University of Tokyo who studies transcription initiation and chromatin, known for cloning yeast TFIID at Rockefeller University.