Life and health scientists

Mihaela Zavolan

Mihaela Zavolan is a Romanian and Swiss computational biologist who studies how RNA-binding proteins and small non-coding RNAs control gene expression, and a professor at the University of Basel since 2014.

Mihai Gheorghiade

Mihai Gheorghiade was a cardiologist and professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine who chaired international heart failure trials and defined the modern study of acute heart failure and the post-discharge vulnerable phase.

Mihai Netea

Mihai G. Netea, born 1968, is a Dutch-Romanian immunologist and physician, professor at Radboudumc in Nijmegen, known for discovering trained immunity and winning the 2016 Spinoza Prize.

Miikka Vikkula

Miikka Vikkula is a Finnish-born human geneticist, professor at UCLouvain and director of the de Duve Institute in Brussels, known for identifying mutations that cause vascular malformations.

Mika Kivimäki

Mika Kivimäki is a Finnish epidemiologist who is Professor and Chair of Social Epidemiology at University College London, known for meta-analyses of work stress, long working hours, and heart disease.

Mikaël J. Pittet

Mikaël J. Pittet, also published as Mikael Pittet, is an onco-immunologist at the University of Geneva who studies how myeloid immune cells control tumor growth.

Mikael Knip

Mikael Knip, born 1950 in Kvevlax, Finland, is a Finnish pediatric researcher and emeritus professor at the University of Helsinki known for type 1 diabetes prediction, prevention, and infant-diet trials.

Mikael Simons

Mikael Simons is a neurologist and neuroscientist, professor and institute director at TU Munich since 2016, known for work on myelin formation and a 2020 Science paper on SARS-CoV-2 cell entry.

Mikala Egeblad

Mikala Egeblad is a Danish cancer biologist known for studies of the tumor microenvironment and neutrophils in metastasis, and for co-developing intravital microscopy of living tumors.

Mike Fainzilber

Mike Fainzilber is an Israeli molecular neuroscientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for work on how injured neurons signal from the axon back to the nucleus.

Mike Fried

Mike Fried is a molecular biologist and cancer researcher known for work on polyomavirus middle T antigen and the ARF–p53 tumor suppressor pathway, trained at Caltech under Renato Dulbecco.

Mike Mueckler

Mike Mueckler (1953–2021) was an American cell biologist at Washington University in St. Louis who identified the first glucose transporter gene and characterized the GLUT family.

Mike O’Donnell

Mike O'Donnell is an American biochemist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Rockefeller University known for discovering that sliding clamp proteins encircle DNA during replication.

Mike Rothe

Mike Rothe is a biochemist known for discovering the TRAF proteins and identifying an IκB kinase, work that mapped the pathway from TNF receptors to the transcription factor NF-κB.

Mike Tyers

Mike Tyers is a molecular biologist who studies how cells control division, known for work on ubiquitin-proteasome regulation of the cell cycle, and a Senior Scientist at SickKids since 2022.

Mikel Valle

Mikel Valle is a Spanish structural biologist who has led the CryoEM of Biological Macromolecules Lab at CIC bioGUNE since 2006, after postdoctoral work with Joachim Frank.

Mikhail Kashlev

Mikhail Kashlev (Михаил Кашлев) is a molecular biologist who studies transcription elongation and fidelity as a Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland, and is known for discovering RNA polymerase backtracking.

Mikhail Kosiborod

Mikhail N. Kosiborod is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist who led the STEP-HFpEF trials of semaglutide in obesity-related heart failure, contributing to Science's 2023 Breakthrough of the Year.

Mikhail M. Savitski

Mikhail M. Savitski is a proteomics and mass spectrometry scientist who heads the Proteomics Core Facility at EMBL Heidelberg and developed thermal proteome profiling for drug target identification.

Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvett

Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvett (Михаил Цвет; also Tsvet or Tswett), 1872 to 1919, was a Russian botanist who invented adsorption chromatography, a method ignored for 25 years before becoming a standard biochemical tool.

Mikhail Stepanovich Voronin

Mikhail Stepanovich Voronin (Михаил Степанович Воронин; 1838–1903) was a Russian botanist and mycologist, founder of Russian mycology, who identified the cause of clubroot of cabbage and became an academician in 1898.

Mikhail Tsvet

Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet (Михаил Цвет) was a Russian botanist who invented adsorption chromatography in 1901, first separating chlorophyll a and b; the method was revived in 1931.

Mikiko C. Siomi

Mikiko C. Siomi (塩見美喜子) is a Japanese RNA biologist and professor at the University of Tokyo known for her work on piRNAs, small RNAs that silence transposons.

Mikko Taipale

Mikko Taipale is a molecular biology professor at the University of Toronto who studies how proteins fold and localize in cells, including a 2024 map of disease mutations that misplace proteins.

Milan Hašek

Milan Hašek was a Czech immunologist who co-discovered acquired immunological tolerance in chick embryos in 1953, independently of Peter Medawar, and was omitted from the 1960 Nobel Prize.

Milan Sonka

Milan Sonka is a Czech-born medical image analysis researcher, professor and Battershell Chair holder at the University of Iowa, known for graph-theoretic segmentation of retinal, cardiac, and vascular scans.

Mildred Cohn

Mildred Cohn (1913–2009) was an American biochemist who pioneered stable isotope tracers and NMR spectroscopy to study enzyme catalysis, winning the National Medal of Science in 1982.

Miles Weinberger

Miles M. Weinberger was an American pediatric allergist and pulmonologist at the University of Iowa whose theophylline dosing research made it the standard childhood asthma treatment.

Miles Wilkinson

Miles Wilkinson is a Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego whose laboratory has defined the nonsense-mediated RNA decay pathway and identified the Rhox homeobox gene cluster.