Life and health scientists

Michel Bornens

Michel Bornens (1938–2022) was a French cell biologist and CNRS research director who made the centrosome a central research object, working at Institut Pasteur and Institut Curie.

Michel Brunet (paleontologist)

Michel Brunet, born 1940, is a French paleontologist at the University of Poitiers and Collège de France known for discovering the 7-million-year-old hominid Toumaï in Chad.

Michel C. Nussenzweig

Michel C. Nussenzweig, born 1955, is an immunologist who heads the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology at Rockefeller University, known for HIV-1 antibody therapies tested in clinical trials.

Michel D. Ferrari

Michel D. Ferrari, also known as MD Ferrari, is a Dutch neurologist born in 1954 who identified the first migraine gene and led key triptan and CGRP treatment trials.

Michel Desjardins is a Canadian cell biologist and professeur titulaire at Université de Montréal, known for research on phagocytosis and for showing that the immune system may drive Parkinson's disease.

Michel Ducreux

Michel Ducreux is a French medical oncologist and gastroenterologist who heads digestive oncology at Gustave Roussy in Villejuif and is known for authoring the ESMO pancreatic cancer guidelines.

Michel Goedert

Michel Goedert, born 1954 in Luxembourg, is a neuroscientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who identified tau and alpha-synuclein as the filament proteins of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

Michel Lazdunski

Michel Lazdunski (born 1938) is a French biochemist and molecular pharmacologist, a CNRS researcher and member of the Académie des sciences known for his work on ion channels.

Michel Loreau

Michel Loreau, born 1954 in Uccle, Belgium, is a Belgian theoretical ecologist who founded biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research, works at CNRS in France, and has written over 400 publications.

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Michel M Dugon

Michel M Dugon is an Irish-based zoologist and venom researcher who founded and heads the Venom Systems Lab at the University of Galway, studying venomous animals.

Michel P. Coleman

Michel P. Coleman is a British cancer epidemiologist, Professor of Epidemiology and Vital Statistics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine since 1995.

Michel Revel

Michel Revel, born 1938 in Strasbourg, is a molecular biologist and physician, emeritus professor at Israel's Weizmann Institute, known for cloning interferon-beta and interleukin-6 and developing the multiple sclerosis drug Rebif.

Michel Sadelain

Michel Sadelain, born in Paris in 1960, is a French-Canadian immunologist who developed CAR T cell therapy for cancer and won the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.

Michel Strubin

Michel Strubin is a Swiss molecular biologist and associate professor at the University of Geneva, known for showing in 2016 that the SMC5/6 complex acts as a cell sentinel against hepatitis B virus.

Michela Gallagher

Michela Gallagher is a behavioral neuroscientist and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University known for research on aging and memory, and founder of AgeneBio, which developed the Alzheimer's drug candidate AGB101.

Michele Baccarani

Michele Baccarani (1942–2021) was an Italian hematologist at the University of Bologna who led European chronic myeloid leukemia guidelines, chaired GIMEMA's CML working party, and led the DASISION trial.

Michèle Cavo

Michele Cavo is an Italian hematologist and Full Professor of Hematology at the University of Bologna, where he heads the Seràgnoli Institute of Hematology and researches multiple myeloma.

Michele De Palma

Michele De Palma is an Italian cancer biologist and tenured associate professor at EPFL in Lausanne, known for discovering Tie2-expressing monocytes and engineering dendritic cell cancer therapies.

Michele Heisler

Michele Heisler is an American physician-investigator at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022 for research on health, human rights, and health equity.

Michele Pagano (Italian biologist)

Michele Pagano, born in Naples, Italy, is an Italian cancer biologist who chairs Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at NYU and has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 2008.

Michele Solimena

Michele Solimena is an Italian-born physician-scientist in diabetology, Professor of Molecular Diabetology at TU Dresden and Director of the Institute for Pancreatic Islet Research, known for discovering GAD autoantibodies in stiff-man syndrome.

Michelle A. Williams

Michelle A. Williams is an American perinatal epidemiologist, a Harvard Chan School dean for seven years who moved to Stanford School of Medicine in 2025 and studies pregnancy complications.

Michelle Bell

Michelle Bell is an environmental health scientist at Yale who studies how air pollution, weather, and climate affect health, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020.

Michelle Cilia

Michelle Cilia, now publishing as Michelle Heck, is an American USDA Agricultural Research Service molecular biologist who studies how aphids and whiteflies transmit plant viruses.

Michelle Debatisse

Michelle Debatisse is a molecular biologist known for showing that fragile sites trigger gene amplification, relevant to oncogenes in cancer, and an emeritus professor at Gustave Roussy since 2016.

Michelle K. McGuire

Michelle K. McGuire, known as Shelley McGuire, is a University of Idaho nutrition scientist who showed human milk contains bacteria and was Idaho's first National Academy of Medicine member.

Michelle L. O'Donoghue

Michelle L. O'Donoghue is a cardiologist and clinical trialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for leading TIMI trials of heart disease therapies.

Michelle M. Le Beau

Michelle M. Le Beau is an American cancer geneticist who directed the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center for 17 years and later led CPRIT in Texas.

Michelle M. Mello

Michelle M. Mello is an American health law scholar at Stanford Law School, known for empirical research on medical malpractice, patient safety, and public health law.