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Menek Goldstein

Menek Goldstein (1926–1997) was a Polish-born neurochemist at New York University Medical Center whose laboratory defined the brain's catecholamine-synthesizing enzymes and pioneered bromocriptine therapy for Parkinson's disease.

Meng C. Wang

Meng C. Wang (Meng Wang) is a molecular biologist who studies how metabolism, organelles, and gut microbes regulate aging, and a senior group leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus.

Menna R. Clatworthy

Menna R. Clatworthy is a British nephrologist and clinician scientist who has been Professor of Translational Immunology at the University of Cambridge since 2019, directing CITIID and studying tissue immunity.

Menno Schilthuizen

Menno Schilthuizen is an evolutionary biologist at Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Leiden University who studies rapid evolution in insects and land snails, and wrote Darwin Comes to Town.

Menno V. Huisman

Menno V. Huisman, born 1956, is a Dutch internist and professor emeritus at Leiden University Medical Center, known for the YEARS algorithm and Hestia rule for pulmonary embolism.

Mercedes Bustamante

Mercedes Bustamante is a Brazilian ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist, titular professor at the Universidade de Brasília, known for her research on the Cerrado savanna and land-use change.

Mercedes Paredes

Mercedes Paredes is a neurologist and physician-scientist at the University of California, San Francisco who studies perinatal human brain development, known for a 2023 single-cell cortical atlas in Science.

Mercedes Pascual

Mercedes Pascual is a Uruguayan theoretical ecologist at New York University who models infectious diseases, known for linking cholera to El Niño and winning the 2014 MacArthur Award.

Meredith M. Regan

Meredith M. Regan is a biostatistician and Professor of Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School who leads the International Breast Cancer Study Group's statistical center.

Merit Cudkowicz

Merit E. Cudkowicz is an American neurologist who leads ALS research at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is Chief of Neurology and directs the HEALEY ALS Platform Trial.

Meritxell Huch

Meritxell Huch is a Spanish stem cell biologist known for organoid models of liver, stomach, and pancreas, and a director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden since 2022.

Merkel Henry Jacobs

Merkel Henry Jacobs (1885–1955) was an American cell physiologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for work on cell permeability, especially red blood cells, and director of the Marine Biological Laboratory.

Merle A. Sande

Merle A. Sande (1939–2007) was an American infectious-diseases physician-researcher who led San Francisco General Hospital's early AIDS response, co-developed universal precautions, and built HIV treatment capacity in Uganda.

Merrill Chase

Merrill Wallace Chase (1905–2004) was an American immunologist who spent over 70 years at Rockefeller University and is credited with discovering cell-mediated immunity, showing in 1945 that immunity transfers by cells, not antibodies.

Merritt Lyndon Fernald

Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1873–1950) was an American systematic botanist who spent nearly sixty years at Harvard's Gray Herbarium and led the study of eastern North American plants.

Merton Bernfield

Merton Bernfield, also known as Merton R. Bernfield, was an American pediatrician and cell biologist who discovered the syndecans and taught at Harvard Medical School.

Merton F. Utter

Merton F. Utter (1917–1980) was an American biochemist at Case Western Reserve University who discovered pyruvate carboxylase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, establishing gluconeogenesis as a distinct pathway.

Mervyn Singer

Mervyn Singer is a British intensive care physician, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London, known for the Sepsis-3 definitions and for inventing the esophageal Doppler monitor.

Mervyn Susser

Mervyn Susser (1921–2014) was a South African-born epidemiologist at Columbia University known for linking disease to social conditions and for Dutch Hunger Winter famine studies.

Meryam Sugulle

Meryam Sugulle is a Norwegian physician-scientist, Professor II in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Oslo and a consultant obstetrician at Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål.

Messoud Ashina

Messoud Ashina is a Danish neurologist and neuroscientist who studies migraine, leading research at Rigshospitalet and serving as President of the International Headache Society from 2019 to 2021.

Meta Roestenberg

Meta Roestenberg is a Dutch infectious-diseases physician and professor of vaccinology at Leiden University Medical Center, known for controlled human infection models for malaria and vaccine testing.

Mette Kalager

Mette Kalager is a Norwegian physician and researcher known for work on cancer screening and overdiagnosis, whose 2010 study found mammography explained only a third of Norway's breast-cancer mortality decline.

Meyer B. Jackson

Meyer B. Jackson is an American neuroscientist and biophysicist who holds the Kenneth S. Cole Professorship at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for treating fusion pores like ion channels.

Mi Seul Park

Mi Seul Park is a South Korean structural biologist who studies RNA regulation and Argonaute proteins, and became a Senior Scientist at Johnson & Johnson in 2025.

Michael A. Becker

Michael A. Becker is an American physician-scientist and Professor of Medicine Emeritus in rheumatology at the University of Chicago, known for purine metabolism research and gout drug trials.

Michael A. Caligiuri

Michael A. Caligiuri is an American medical oncologist known for research on interleukin-15 and natural killer cells, and a professor at City of Hope since 2023.

Michael A. Dyer

Michael A. Dyer is a developmental biologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital who studies how the retina develops and how those programs go wrong in retinoblastoma.

Michael A. Gerber

Michael A. Gerber (born 1939, Kassel) was a German-born American pathologist who studied hepatitis B in liver cells and chaired Pathology at Tulane from 1987 to 1997.

Michael A. Gimbrone

Michael A. Gimbrone Jr., born 1943 in Buffalo, New York, is an American vascular biologist and Harvard pathologist who identified the adhesion molecules E-selectin and VCAM-1, recruited by inflamed arteries in atherosclerosis.