Life and health scientists

Melanie H. Cobb

Melanie H. Cobb is an American biochemist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center known for purifying, cloning, and naming the mammalian ERK MAP kinases.

Melanie J. Davies, also known as Melanie Davies, is a British physician-scientist who is Professor of Diabetes Medicine at the University of Leicester and Co-Director of the Leicester Diabetes Centre.

Mélanie Ott

Mélanie Ott is a German-born virologist who directs the Gladstone Institute of Virology, is a professor of medicine at UCSF, and studies HIV, hepatitis C, and SARS-CoV-2.

Melanie Pellecchia

Melanie Pellecchia is an American psychologist and implementation scientist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who studies community delivery of early autism interventions and received the 2025 PECASE award.

Melena Bellin

Melena Bellin is an American pediatric endocrinologist at the University of Minnesota who studies and treats chronic pancreatitis and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Meletios Α. Dimopoulos

Meletios A. Dimopoulos is a Greek hematologist and multiple myeloma researcher who led landmark myeloma drug trials and served as Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Melike Lakadamyali

Melike Lakadamyali is a biophysicist and microscopist at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine who develops super-resolution microscopy to study chromatin and organelle transport.

Melinda A. Lee

Melinda A. Lee, MD, was an American physician-researcher in public health and end-of-life care who worked at Oregon Health Sciences University and the Portland Veterans Affairs medical center.

Melis N. Anahtar

Melis N. Anahtar, also known as Melis Anahtar, is a physician-scientist in clinical microbiology and pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who co-founded Day Zero Diagnostics.

Melissa Cregger

Melissa Cregger is an American microbial ecologist and senior staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who studies plant-microbe-soil interactions and won the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.

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Melissa Garren

Melissa Garren is a molecular and marine biologist known for her work on the coral microbiome and coral disease, and for co-founding the fisheries-technology company Pelagic Data Systems.

Melissa H. Little

Melissa H. Little is an Australian stem cell biologist, CEO of the reNEW stem cell medicine center in Copenhagen, known for creating the first kidney in a dish.

Melissa J. Moore

Melissa J. Moore is an American RNA biologist at UMass Chan Medical School, known for studies of the spliceosome and exon junction complex and as Moderna's mRNA platform chief scientific officer from 2016 to 2023.

Melissa J. Spencer

Melissa J. Spencer is a scientist who is Professor of Neurology at UCLA, directs its Neuromuscular Program, studies muscular dystrophies including Duchenne, and received a 2001 PECASE award.

Melissa M. Hudson

Melissa M. Hudson is a pediatric oncologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital who directs its Cancer Survivorship Division and studies long-term outcomes of childhood cancer survivors.

Melitta Schachner

Melitta Schachner, born 1943, is a German neurobiologist and biochemist known for discovering the neural adhesion molecules L1, CHL1, and the tenascins, and for the first knockout mutant of a neural recognition molecule.

Melvin Calvin

Melvin Calvin (1911–1997) was an American biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley who won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for tracing the path of carbon in photosynthesis.

Melvin Cohn

Melvin Cohn (1922–2018) was an American immunologist and founding fellow of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, known for gene regulation work at the Institut Pasteur and theoretical immunology.

Melvin H. Van Woert

Melvin H. Van Woert, also published as M. H. Van Woert, is a neurologist and neuropharmacologist known for the 1967 Brookhaven paper introducing high-dose D,L-dopa therapy for Parkinson's disease.

Melvin I. Simon

Melvin I. Simon is an American molecular biologist who spent most of his career at Caltech, known for showing that bacterial flagella are driven by a rotary motor.

Melvin J. Cohen

Melvin J. Cohen, also known as Melvin Joseph Cohen, was an American neurobiologist and Yale professor known for work on nerve regeneration in insects and lampreys.

Melvin L. DePamphilis

Melvin L. DePamphilis is an American molecular biologist known for research on the initiation of eukaryotic DNA replication, first in SV40 and later in mammalian chromosomes.

Melvin L. Marcus

Melvin L. Marcus was an American cardiologist at the University of Iowa whose 1984 New England Journal of Medicine study showed visual reading of coronary arteriograms poorly predicts stenosis severity.

Melvin M. Grumbach

Melvin M. Grumbach (1925–2016) was an American pediatric endocrinologist who chaired pediatrics at UCSF, made it a top world program, and pioneered growth hormone treatment for short stature.

Melvin M. Scheinman

Melvin M. Scheinman is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist, Professor Emeritus at UCSF, who performed the first catheter ablation in humans in 1981 and helped found cardiac electrophysiology.

Melvin Martin Green

Melvin Martin Green (1916–2017) was an American geneticist who spent sixty years at UC Davis studying Drosophila mutations and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1980.

Melvin P. Osborne

Melvin P. Osborne was an American surgeon and surgical scientist who worked at Boston City Hospital's Harvard teaching services, researching gastric secretion and hypersecretion after massive bowel resection.

Melvin Spigelman

Melvin Spigelman is a physician and tuberculosis drug-development researcher who serves as President and CEO of the TB Alliance, which developed pretomanid, approved by the FDA in 2019.

Melvyn F. Greaves

Melvyn F. Greaves, born 1941, is a British cancer biologist at London's Institute of Cancer Research known for classifying leukemias and showing childhood ALL starts before birth.