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Matthew J. Farrer

Matthew J. Farrer, also published as Matthew Farrer, is a Canadian-based neurogeneticist known for discovering SNCA gene multiplications and LRRK2 mutations as genetic causes of Parkinson's disease.

Matthew J. Miller

Matthew J. Miller, also known as Matthew Jason Miller, is an American epidemiologist and physician at Northeastern University whose research links household firearm access to suicide risk.

Matthew J. Potthoff

Matthew J. Potthoff is an American molecular biologist and neuroscientist known for studying how the liver hormone FGF21 acts on the brain to regulate metabolism, alcohol consumption, and liver disease.

Matthew J. Walter

Matthew J. Walter is an American hematologist-oncologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis whose genome sequencing research tracks how myelodysplastic syndromes progress to acute myeloid leukemia.

Matthew Kaufman

Matthew Howard Kaufman (1942–2013) was a geneticist and anatomist who co-created the first mouse embryonic stem cells with Martin Evans and wrote The Atlas of Mouse Development.

Matthew L Shapiro

Matthew L Shapiro is a neuroscientist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai who studies how the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex encode and retrieve memory.

Matthew L. Albert

Matthew L. Albert is an American immunologist and physician-scientist known for work on cross-presentation, how dendritic cells acquire antigen from dying cells and stimulate CD8+ T cells.

Matthew L. Freedman

Matthew L. Freedman is a physician-scientist in cancer genomics, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and holder of the David Goldstein Chair at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Matthew Larkum

Matthew E. Larkum is a German neuroscientist, professor of neurobiology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2011, known for showing pyramidal neurons act as coincidence detectors.

Matthew M. Rechler

Matthew M. Rechler is an NIH researcher in endocrinology and diabetes known for defining the receptors and carrier proteins of the insulin-like growth factors, once called somatomedins.

Matthew Maenner

Matthew Maenner is a CDC epidemiologist who studies autism spectrum disorder, helped develop a faster ADDM prevalence method, and estimated about 5.4 million US adults with autism.

Matthew Mah

Matthew Mah is an American computer scientist and Senior Software Architect in the David Reich Lab at Harvard Medical School, where he processes ancient human DNA sequencing data.

Matthew Meselson

Matthew Meselson, born in 1930, is an American molecular biologist at Harvard known for the Meselson–Stahl experiment showing DNA replicates semi-conservatively and for mismatch repair.

Matthew N. Rasband

Matthew N. Rasband (born 1970) is an American neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine who studies ion channel clustering at the axon initial segment and nodes of Ranvier.

Matthew P. Frosch

Matthew P. Frosch is an American neuropathologist who directs the C.S. Kubik Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital and studies Alzheimer's disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy.

Matthew P. Scott

Matthew P. Scott is an American developmental biologist, emeritus Stanford professor and former Carnegie Institution president, known for co-discovering the homeobox and linking Hedgehog signaling to cancer.

Matthew P. Walker

Matthew P. Walker is a neuroscientist known for research on sleep-dependent memory and Alzheimer's disease, and for the 2017 book Why We Sleep, translated into more than 40 languages.

Matthew R. Smith

Matthew R. Smith, also published as Matthew Raymond Smith, is an American medical oncologist specializing in prostate cancer who directs the Genitourinary Malignancies Program at Mass General Cancer Center.

Matthew R. Sydes

Matthew R. Sydes is a British medical statistician and clinical-trials methodologist, known for the STAMPEDE prostate cancer platform trial and multi-arm multi-stage designs, now Head of Data-Driven Clinical Trials at NHS England.

Matthew S. Broadhurst

Matthew S. Broadhurst is an Australian ear, nose, and throat surgeon in Brisbane whose research centers on angiolytic laser surgery of the larynx, developed at Harvard.

Matthew Simon

Matthew D. Simon is a chemical biologist at Yale School of Medicine, a faculty member since 2012, known for RNA and chromatin methods like CHART and TimeLapse-seq.

Matthew Stephens (statistician)

Matthew Stephens is a statistician and geneticist who is the Ralph W. Gerard Professor at the University of Chicago, known for haplotype phasing, genotype imputation, and Bayesian fine-mapping.

Matthew W Johnson

Matthew W Johnson is an American behavioral pharmacologist at Johns Hopkins known for psilocybin trials in tobacco addiction and cancer distress, and 2008 psychedelic safety guidelines.

Matthew W. Semler

Matthew W. Semler is a critical care physician and clinical researcher at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who co-founded the Pragmatic Critical Care Research Group and leads large randomized trials of fluids, intubation, and oxygen targets.

Matthew W. State

Matthew W. State is an American child psychiatrist and human geneticist who chairs psychiatry at UCSF and is known for identifying autism and Tourette syndrome genes.

Matthew Waldor

Matthew Waldor is an American microbiologist at Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital, an HHMI Investigator known for work on cholera toxin phages and antibiotic resistance.

Matthew Walsh (evolutionary ecologist)

Matthew Walsh is an American evolutionary ecologist at the University of Texas at Arlington known for using resurrection ecology to study how animals adapt to predators.

Matthias A. Hediger

Matthias A. Hediger, also known as M A Hediger, is a Swiss biochemist and professor emeritus at the University of Bern known for cloning SLC transporters.

Matthias Bochtler

Matthias Bochtler is a structural biologist and professor at the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, known for crystal structures of the HslU–HslV ATP-dependent protease.

Matthias C. Rillig

Matthias C. Rillig is a soil and plant ecologist, professor of ecology at Freie Universität Berlin since 2007, known for mycorrhizal fungi research and establishing microplastics as a terrestrial research subject.