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Michael J. Welsh

Michael J. Welsh is an American physician-scientist at the University of Iowa who showed the CFTR protein is a chloride channel, enabling CFTR-modulator drugs for cystic fibrosis.

Michael J.G. Farthing

Michael J.G. Farthing, also known as M.J.G. Farthing, is a British gastroenterologist and parasitologist, honorary professor at UCL, editor of Gut, and founding chairman of COPE.

Michael James Denham White

Michael James Denham White (1910–1983) was a British-born zoologist and geneticist, a leading figure in animal cytogenetics and foundation professor of genetics at the University of Melbourne.

Michael John Bevan

Michael John Bevan, born in 1945, is a cellular immunologist known for discovering positive selection of T cells in the thymus and cross-priming, and a University of Washington professor.

Michael K. Gilson

Michael K. Gilson is a computational chemist, Professor and Chair in Computer-Aided Drug Design at UC San Diego since 2010, known for creating BindingDB and the Mining Minima method.

Michael K. Gould

Michael K. Gould is an American pulmonologist and health services researcher at Kaiser Permanente in California, known for his 2014 New England Journal of Medicine review of low-dose CT lung-cancer screening.

Michael K. Mansour

Michael K. Mansour is an infectious-diseases physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for research on how the immune system recognizes fungal pathogens and for a 2020 tocilizumab Covid-19 trial.

Michael K. Schwartz

Michael K. Schwartz is an American conservation geneticist who directs the National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation at the USDA Forest Service in Missoula, Montana.

Michael Kaliner

Michael Kaliner is an American allergist who directed the Allergic Diseases Section at NIH and founded the Institute for Asthma & Allergy in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Michael Karin

Michael Karin is a molecular biologist who discovered the IKK-NF-κB and JNK-AP-1 signaling pathways, spent nearly 40 years at UC San Diego, and joined Sanford Burnham Prebys in 2025.

Michael Kessel

Michael Kessel is a molecular biologist known for transgenic mouse experiments showing that the homeobox gene Hox-1.1 can reshape vertebrae and the face when expressed in the wrong places.

Michael Klagsbrun

Michael Klagsbrun was a Harvard Medical School professor and tumor angiogenesis researcher at Boston Children's Hospital who purified the first angiogenesis stimulator, basic fibroblast growth factor.

Michael Klompas

Michael Klompas is a Canadian-trained infectious disease physician and hospital epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard whose EHR-based sepsis surveillance shaped CDC definitions.

Michael L Dustin

Michael L Dustin is an American immunologist at the University of Oxford known for defining the immunological synapse, the junction between a T cell and an antigen-presenting cell.

Michael L Middlebrooks

Michael L Middlebrooks is an American invertebrate zoologist and associate professor at the University of Tampa who studies photosynthetic sea slugs, kleptoplasty, and Tampa Bay seagrass restoration.

Michael L. Barnett

Michael L. Barnett is an American physician and health services researcher who studies opioid prescribing, payment reform, and post-acute care, and is a professor at Brown University.

Michael L. Bennish

Michael L. Bennish is an infectious disease researcher whose cholera and shigellosis research spans Bangladesh and South Africa; he led the 2006 New England Journal of Medicine trial establishing single-dose azithromycin for adult cholera.

Michael L. Shelanski

Michael L. Shelanski is a physician-scientist at Columbia University, Henry Taub Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, whose research moved from the neuronal cytoskeleton to how amyloid-beta disrupts synapses in Alzheimer's disease.

Michael L. Steer

Michael L. Steer (1939–2019) was an American surgeon-scientist at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel who pioneered pancreatitis cell biology, establishing that acute pancreatitis begins within acinar cells.

Michael Lanzer

Michael Lanzer (born 1959 in Düsseldorf) is a German parasitologist who studies the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, heading Parasitology at Heidelberg University Hospital since 1999.

Michael Laposata

Michael Laposata is an American pathologist and laboratory medicine specialist in blood coagulation, chair of pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston since 2014.

Michael Lee Roukes

Michael Lee Roukes is an American physicist at Caltech who created the first nanoelectromechanical systems in 1990 and now develops single-molecule mass spectrometry to map every protein in a single cell.

Michael Lesch

Michael Lesch (1939–2008) was an American cardiologist who co-described Lesch–Nyhan syndrome at Johns Hopkins in 1964 and later served as chief of internal medicine at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center.

Michael Levin (medical researcher)

Michael Levin is a pediatric infectious diseases consultant and Chair in Paediatrics and International Child Health at Imperial College London, known for research on meningococcal disease and childhood tuberculosis.

Michael Levin (molecular biologist)

Michael Levin is a developmental biologist at Tufts University who studies bioelectricity, how cells' electrical signals coordinate the construction and repair of the body, including regeneration and cancer reprogramming.

Michael Levine (developmental biologist)

Michael S. Levine is a developmental biologist and director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton, known for work on gene regulation and enhancers in the early Drosophila embryo.

Michael Levitt (biophysicist)

Michael Levitt, born 1947 in South Africa, is a computational biologist at Stanford University who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for multiscale models of complex chemical systems.

Michael Lichten

Michael Lichten is a molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute who studies homologous recombination during meiosis in budding yeast, leading a research group there since 1987.

Michael Lynch (evolutionary geneticist)

Michael Lynch (born 1951) is an American evolutionary geneticist who explains genome complexity through population genetics, and directs the Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution at Arizona State University.

Michael M. Cox

Michael M. Cox, also cited as M. M. Cox, is an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for work on recombinational DNA repair and RecA.