Life and health scientists

Matthias Egger

Matthias Egger is a Swiss epidemiologist and public health physician at the University of Bern, known for the 1997 BMJ test for bias in meta-analysis.

Matthias Eikermann is a German-trained anesthesiologist and critical care researcher who became Chair of Anesthesiology at Montefiore Medical Center and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

Matthias Ernst

Matthias Ernst is an Australian cancer biologist who studies inflammation-driven gastrointestinal cancers and became the inaugural Scientific Director of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute in 2015.

Matthias H. Tschöp

Matthias H. Tschöp, born 1967, is a German physician-scientist in endocrinology known for identifying the hunger hormone ghrelin and creating multi-agonist drugs that led to tirzepatide; he has been President of LMU Munich since 2025.

Matthias Hebrok

Matthias Hebrok is a developmental biologist and diabetes researcher known for generating insulin-producing beta cells from human stem cells; he directs the Institute for Diabetes and Organoid Technology at Helmholtz Munich.

Matthias Hentze

Matthias W. Hentze is a German RNA biologist known for discovering the iron-responsive element and for riboregulation, and has directed EMBL in Heidelberg since 2013.

Matthias Mann

Matthias Mann, born 1959 in Germany, is a physicist-turned-biochemist known as a founding father of proteomics, director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry since 2005.

Matthias Merkenschlager

Matthias Merkenschlager is an immunologist and molecular biologist, Professor of Cell Biology at Imperial College London, known for work on CTCF and cohesin in genome organization.

Matthias Meyer

Matthias Meyer is a biochemist and Max Planck Research Group Leader in Leipzig who develops methods for recovering DNA from ancient material, including Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes.

Matthias Nahrendorf

Matthias Nahrendorf (born 1970) is a German-born physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who studies how immune cells drive heart injury and repair.

Matthias P. Lütolf

Matthias P. Lütolf is a Swiss stem cell bioengineer who directs Roche's Institute of Human Biology in Basel and is a Full Professor at EPFL.

Matthias Peter

Matthias Peter, born 1962 in Winterthur, Switzerland, is a Swiss molecular biologist and full Professor of Biochemistry at ETH Zurich since 2002, studying cell growth and division.

Matthias Pfisterer

Matthias E. Pfisterer is a Swiss cardiologist, former professor and head of cardiology at University Hospital Basel, known for leading the BASKET stent cost-effectiveness trials.

Matthias Preusser

Matthias Preusser is an Austrian medical oncologist and neuro-oncologist, head of oncology at the Medical University of Vienna since 2018 and a past president of EANO.

Matthias von Herrath

Matthias von Herrath is a German immunologist specializing in type 1 diabetes who founded the La Jolla Institute's Type 1 Diabetes Center and directs the Diabetes Research Institute in Miami.

Matthias Wabl

Matthias Wabl is an immunologist and Professor Emeritus of Microbiology and Immunology at UCSF, known for showing how antibody class switching occurs within a B cell clone.

Matthijs Verhage

Matthijs Verhage is a Dutch cellular neuroscientist who studies how nerve terminals release neurotransmitters, and full professor and head of Functional Genomics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam since 2000.

Matti Uusitupa

Matti Uusitupa is a Finnish physician and clinical nutrition researcher, professor emeritus at the University of Eastern Finland, best known for leading the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study.

Mattias Jakobsson

Mattias Jakobsson is a Swedish population geneticist, Professor of Genetics and Director of the Center for the Human Past at Uppsala University, known for ancient-DNA studies of human demographic history.

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Maud Slye

Maud Slye was an American pathologist at the University of Chicago whose breeding program of roughly 140,000 mice helped establish heredity as central to cancer research.

Maura L. Gillison

Maura L. Gillison (1965–2026) was a Canadian-born medical oncologist and molecular epidemiologist who established HPV as the cause of a distinct, better-prognosis subset of oropharyngeal cancers.

Maureen G. Phipps

Maureen G. Phipps is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and epidemiologist, professor emerita at Brown University and former CEO of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Maureen Hack

Maureen Hack was a neonatologist and pediatrics professor at Case Western Reserve University and Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital in Cleveland, known for following premature infants into adulthood.

Maureen M. Henderson

Maureen M. Henderson, also known as Maureen McGrath Henderson, was a British-born epidemiologist who founded Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Cancer Prevention Research Program in 1983.

Maureen Purcell

Maureen K. Purcell is an American research microbiologist with the United States Geological Survey, known for fish immune responses and pathogens, and a 2013 PECASE recipient.

Maureen R. Hanson

Maureen R. Hanson is an American plant molecular biologist at Cornell University, known for identifying the pcf mitochondrial gene causing cytoplasmic male sterility and for naming stromules.

Mauri A. Kostiainen

Mauri A. Kostiainen is a Finnish biohybrid materials scientist and full professor at Aalto University, leading a group that combines protein cages and DNA nanostructures into ordered materials.

Maurice B. Burg

Maurice B. Burg, known as Moe Burg, was an American renal physiologist at the National Institutes of Health who developed the isolated perfused kidney tubule technique.

Maurice B. Strauss

Maurice B. Strauss (1904–1974) was an American physician-scientist in Boston known for early work on vitamin B12 and pernicious anemia and for characterizing cystic disease of the renal medulla.