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Masami Muramatsu
Masami Muramatsu (村松 正實) is a Japanese molecular biologist and physician known for work on gene expression in cancer and steroid hormone receptors, holding professorships at the University of Tokyo and Saitama Medical University.
Masamitsu Futai
Masamitsu Futai (二井 將光) is a Japanese biochemist known for research on F-ATPase and V-ATPase, including the 1999 direct observation of ATP synthase c-ring rotation.
Masanobu Kano
Masanobu Kano (狩野 方伸) is a Japanese neuroscientist who studies how neural circuits in the cerebellum adjust through activity, work honored with the 2023 Japan Academy Prize.
Masanori Hatakeyama
Masanori Hatakeyama (畠山 昌則, born 1956) is a Japanese molecular oncologist known for establishing the Helicobacter pylori CagA protein as the first bacterium-derived oncoprotein in gastric cancer.
Masao Itō
Masao Itō (伊藤正男, 1928–2018) was a Japanese neuroscientist at the University of Tokyo and RIKEN who worked out how the cerebellum learns, discovering Purkinje cell inhibition and cerebellar long-term depression.
Masao Omata
Masao Omata (小俣 政男) is a Japanese hepatologist, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, who showed interferon can cure acute hepatitis C and led Asia-Pacific liver cancer guidelines.
Masaomi Nangaku
Masaomi Nangaku (南學 正臣) is a Japanese nephrologist and physician-scientist, professor and dean at the University of Tokyo whose research established chronic kidney hypoxia as a pathway to kidney failure.
Masaru Kanekiyo
Masaru Kanekiyo is a vaccine designer and immunoengineer who leads the Molecular Immunoengineering Section at NIAID's Vaccine Research Center, known for nanoparticle influenza and EBV vaccines.
Masaru Taniguchi
Masaru Taniguchi (谷口 克) was a Japanese immunologist who identified the invariant antigen receptor of natural killer T cells and was founding director of the RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology.
Masaru Yamaizumi
Masaru Yamaizumi (山泉克) is a Japanese molecular biologist known for a 1978 Cell paper showing that one molecule of diphtheria toxin fragment A kills a cell.
Masashi Narita
Masashi Narita is a Japan-trained, British-based cell biologist known for identifying senescence-associated heterochromatin foci, and a Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.
Masashi Yanagisawa
Masashi Yanagisawa (柳沢 正史), born in 1960, is a Japanese neuroscientist who discovered endothelin and orexin, showed orexin deficiency causes narcolepsy, and directs the sleep institute at the University of Tsukuba.
Masasuke Yoshida
Masasuke Yoshida (吉田賢右) is a Japanese molecular biologist known for filming the rotation of F1-ATPase, the motor part of ATP synthase, in 1997, and for discovering the chaperone ClpB.
Masato Hasegawa
Masato Hasegawa (長谷川成人) is a Japanese neuroscientist at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science whose 2006 work identified TDP-43 as a signature of ALS and frontotemporal degeneration.
Masato Kasuga
Masato Kasuga (春日雅人), born 1948 in Tokyo, is a Japanese physician-scientist who showed the insulin receptor is a tyrosine kinase and led diabetes research at Kobe University.
Masatoshi Hagiwara
Masatoshi Hagiwara (萩原 正敏) is a Japanese molecular biologist and chemical biologist at Kyoto University who works on RNA splicing, genetic disease, and antiviral drug discovery.
Masatoshi Makuuchi
Masatoshi Makuuchi (幕内雅敏), born 1946, is a Japanese hepatobiliary surgeon and Emeritus Professor of the University of Tokyo who pioneered liver resection techniques and living-donor liver transplantation.
Masatoshi Nei
Masatoshi Nei (1931–2023) was a Japanese-born American population geneticist who founded molecular evolutionary genetics, developed Nei's genetic distance and the neighbor-joining method, and won the 2013 Kyoto Prize.
Masatoshi Takeichi
Masatoshi Takeichi (竹市 雅俊) is a Japanese cell and developmental biologist who discovered the cadherins, the cell adhesion molecules that sort cells into tissues, winning the 2005 Japan Prize.
Masatsugu Hori
Masatsugu Hori (堀正二) is a Japanese cardiologist whose research established adenosine as an endogenous cardioprotective substance and clarified ischemic preconditioning at Osaka University, where he was the first professor of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine.
Masayasu Kojima
Masayasu Kojima (児島 将康) is a Japanese researcher best known as first author of the 1999 Nature paper reporting the discovery of ghrelin, the growth hormone secretagogue receptor's natural ligand.
Masayori Inouye
Masayori Inouye, born 1934, is a Japanese-born American biochemist and molecular biologist at Rutgers known for discovering antisense RNA gene regulation and mRNA interferases such as MazF.
Masayoshi Mishina
Masayoshi Mishina (三品昌美, born 1947) is a Japanese molecular neuroscientist who cloned neurotransmitter receptors, defined NMDA receptor diversity, and won the 2016 Japan Academy Prize for studies on synaptic molecules, learning, and memory.
Masayuki Amagai
Masayuki Amagai is a Japanese dermatologist-scientist, Professor and Chair of Dermatology at Keio University School of Medicine, known for work defining pemphigus autoantigens and immune tolerance.
Masayuki Miura
Masayuki Miura (三浦 正幸) is a Japanese molecular biologist at the University of Tokyo known for research on caspases and programmed cell death in Drosophila.
Masayuki Teramoto
Masayuki Teramoto is an epidemiologist at Northwestern University who studies coffee and green tea consumption and cardiovascular mortality in Japanese cohorts, and co-authors Global Burden of Disease studies.
Masayuki Yamamoto
Masayuki Yamamoto (山本雅之, born 1954) is a Japanese molecular biologist who discovered the Keap1-Nrf2 system, the cell's principal defense against oxidative stress, and won the Japan Academy Prize in 2014.
Massimiliano Mazzone
Massimiliano Mazzone is an Italian tumor immunologist and full professor at KU Leuven who heads the Laboratory of Tumor Inflammation and Angiogenesis at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology in Belgium.
Massimo Chiariello
Massimo Chiariello was an Italian cardiologist, professor and chief of cardiology at the University of Naples Federico II and past president of the Italian Society of Cardiology.
Massimo Colombo
Massimo Colombo, born 1946 in Vigevano, Italy, is an Italian hepatologist known for defining the link between hepatitis C and liver cancer and for a landmark 1991 cirrhosis study.