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Maya Schuldiner

Maya Schuldiner is an Israeli molecular geneticist and organelle biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science who studies how proteins are delivered to organelles in yeast.

Mayank Mehta

Mayank R. Mehta is a neurophysicist and professor at UCLA who studies how the hippocampus represents space, time, and learning, leading the W. M. Keck Center for Neurophysics.

Maynard V. Olson

Maynard V. Olson is a University of Washington geneticist and Human Genome Project founder who developed YAC cloning and STS mapping, winning the 2007 Gruber Genetics Prize.

Mayowa Ojo Owolabi

Mayowa Ojo Owolabi is a Nigerian professor of medicine and neurology at the University of Ibadan, elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2025.

Mayumi Ito

Mayumi Ito is a Japanese-born cell biologist and dermatology researcher at NYU Grossman School of Medicine known for showing new hair follicles can form in adult wounds.

Mazen Noureddin

Mazen Noureddin is a hepatologist and Professor of Medicine at Houston Methodist Hospital since 2022 who founded Cedars-Sinai's Fatty Liver Program and led 2025 efruxifermin trials in MASH cirrhosis.

Mazhar Adli

Mazhar Adli is a molecular biologist and cancer epigeneticist who directs the Center for Genome Engineering at Northwestern University and is known for CRISPR-STOP, a gene-silencing method that disables genes without cutting DNA.

Maziar Divangahi

Maziar Divangahi is a Canadian pulmonary immunologist and McGill University professor whose work on trained innate immunity identified hematopoietic stem cells as targets for vaccines against tuberculosis and influenza.

Md Shajedur Rahman Shawon

Md Shajedur Rahman Shawon is a Bangladeshi physician and cardiovascular epidemiologist, trained at Dhaka Medical College and Oxford, who studies non-communicable disease in Bangladesh and cardiovascular big data at UNSW Sydney.

Meave Leakey

Meave Leakey, born Meave Epps in 1942, is a British-born Kenyan paleoanthropologist known for describing Australopithecus anamensis and Kenyanthropus platyops, and for leading the Koobi Fora Research Project.

Meenakshi Madhur

Meenakshi (Meena) Madhur is an American physician-scientist best known for establishing that T cells drive hypertension; she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Meg Jay

Meg Jay is an American clinical psychologist and University of Virginia faculty member who specializes in twentysomethings; her TED talk "Why 30 Is Not the New 20" has over ten million views.

Megan Sykes

Megan Sykes is a Canadian-born transplantation immunologist at Columbia University, founding director of its Center for Translational Immunology, known for work on transplant tolerance and xenotransplantation.

Megerditch Kiledjian

Megerditch Kiledjian is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University known for identifying mammalian mRNA decapping enzymes and the NAD+ RNA cap that promotes RNA decay.

Mehdi Saeed Hazari

Mehdi Saeed Hazari is an American research physiologist at the U.S. EPA who studies how inhaled pollutants like particulate matter trigger heart arrhythmia, winning a 2011 Presidential Early Career Award.

Mehrdad Jazayeri

Mehrdad Jazayeri is a systems neuroscientist at MIT who studies how the brain keeps time and makes decisions; he became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator in 2024.

Mei Lin Neo

Mei Lin Neo is a Singaporean marine ecologist and science communicator known for research on giant clams, based at Singapore's St John's Island National Marine Laboratory since 2006.

Mei Zhen

Mei Zhen is a Canadian neurobiologist at Sinai Health's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and the University of Toronto, known for mapping the C. elegans brain across development.

MeiLan K. Han

MeiLan K. Han is an American pulmonologist and clinical researcher who is Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the University of Michigan, known for COPD research.

Meinhart H. Zenk

Meinhart H. Zenk (1933–2011) was a German plant biochemist who discovered phytochelatins, the heavy-metal-binding peptides of higher plants, and held chairs at Bochum and Munich.

Meinrad Busslinger

Meinrad Busslinger, born 1952, is a Swiss molecular biologist and immunologist at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, known for defining Pax5 as the decisive factor of B-cell identity.

Meinrad Gawaz

Meinrad Gawaz is a German cardiologist and physician-scientist, Medical Director of Cardiology at the University Hospital of Tübingen since 2004, known for showing that platelets drive atherosclerosis.

Meir J. Stampfer

Meir J. Stampfer is an American physician-epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health known for large cohort studies of diet, hormones, and chronic disease.

Meir Wilchek

Meir Wilchek is an Israeli biochemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, born in Warsaw in 1935, known for affinity chromatography and the avidin–biotin system.

Mel Greaves

Mel Greaves, born 1941, is a British leukemia researcher at the Institute of Cancer Research in London who proposed that common infections trigger childhood leukemia in susceptible children.

Mel Β. Feany

Mel B. Feany is a physician scientist and Professor of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for building fruit fly models of Parkinson's disease.

Melanie Calvert

Melanie J. Calvert is a British health services researcher and Professor of Outcomes Methodology at the University of Birmingham, known for her work on patient-reported outcomes in clinical trials.

Melanie Ehrlich

Melanie Ehrlich is a molecular biologist and Professor of Genetics at Tulane University School of Medicine, known for early discoveries in DNA methylation and cancer epigenetics.

Melanie Freeman

Melanie Freeman is a cell and molecular biologist known for co-authoring whole-cell correlative cryogenic imaging and volume electron microscopy studies at Janelia, now at Infinimmune.

Melanie Greter

Melanie Greter is a Swiss neuroimmunologist who leads a lab at the University of Zurich, known for defining the origins and identity of microglia and other brain macrophages.