Life and health scientists

Milislav Demerec

Milislav Demerec (1895–1966) was an American geneticist, born in Austria-Hungary, who directed the Carnegie Department of Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, from 1943 to 1960.

Milo Gibaldi

Milo Gibaldi was a pharmaceutical scientist and pioneer of pharmacokinetics and biopharmaceutics who served as dean of the University of Washington School of Pharmacy for 17 years.

Milton Alter

Milton Alter, known in Hebrew as Meir Alter (1929–2016), was an American neurologist and neuroepidemiologist who chaired Neurology at Temple University and was a founder of neuroepidemiology.

Milton C. Weinstein

Milton C. Weinstein is an American health economist at Harvard who developed cost-effectiveness analysis and decision science in medicine, co-chairing the 1996 U.S. Panel on Cost-Effectiveness.

Milton H. Erickson (1901–1980), American psychiatrist, father of modern clinical hypnosis and founder of Ericksonian hypnotherapy; permissive, indirect, utilization-based hypnosis; founded the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis; influenced brief, strategic, and solution-focused therapy.

Milton H. Saier

Milton H. Saier is a professor of molecular biology at the University of California San Diego, known for the Transporter Classification Database and the major facilitator superfamily of transport proteins.

Milton H. Werner

Milton H. Werner is an American molecular biologist and structural biologist known for determining NMR solution structures of protein–DNA complexes, including the human SRY–DNA complex, and later founded Inhibikase Therapeutics.

Milton J. Cormier

Milton J. Cormier is an American biochemist and Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia whose laboratory performed the first cloning of a bioluminescent protein gene.

Milton J. Schlesinger

Milton J. Schlesinger was an American molecular biologist and virologist, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis whose 1979 work led to the discovery of protein S-palmitoylation.

Milton Packer

Milton Packer (M. Packer) is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, known for landmark heart failure trials and the neurohormonal hypothesis.

Milton W. Slein

Milton W. Slein was an American biochemist at Washington University in St. Louis who co-authored the 1947 discovery that insulin counteracts pituitary inhibition of the hexokinase reaction.

Miltos Tsiantis

Miltos Tsiantis is a plant developmental biologist studying leaf shape evolution, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne since 2013.

Min Chiu Li

Min Chiu Li (李敏求; 1919–1980) was an oncologist who produced the first drug cure of a solid cancer, metastatic choriocarcinoma, at the National Cancer Institute in 1956.

Min Chueh Chang

Min Chueh Chang (1908–1991) was a Chinese-born American reproductive biologist who co-discovered sperm capacitation, achieved the first mammal in vitro fertilization in rabbits in 1959, and enabled the contraceptive pill.

Min Dong

Min Dong is a microbiologist and Associate Professor of Surgery at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for identifying C. difficile toxin receptors and engineering botulinum toxins.

Min Gyu Lee

Min Gyu Lee is a South Korean-trained molecular biologist who studies histone methylation and demethylation in cancer, and is a Professor of Molecular Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Min Han

Min Han is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, an HHMI Investigator from 1997 to 2018 known for Ras signaling and nutrient-sensing research in C. elegans.

Min Yu

Min Yu is a Chinese-born physician-scientist studying circulating tumor cells, whose blood-based liquid biopsy work guides treatment of metastatic cancer; she won a 2015 NIH New Innovator Award.

Min Zhuo

Min Zhuo is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist and professor of physiology at the University of Toronto, known for research on the synaptic mechanisms of chronic pain, memory, and emotion.

Mina Bissell

Mina Bissell is an Iranian-born biologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who showed that a cell's microenvironment helps determine whether it becomes cancerous, proposing the dynamic reciprocity model.

Mina J. Bissell

Mina J. Bissell is an Iranian-born American cell and cancer biologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who showed that the extracellular matrix and microenvironment can restrain or reverse malignancy.

Minesh P. Mehta

Minesh P. Mehta is a radiation oncologist and physician-scientist, deputy director and chief of radiation oncology at Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute, and a brain tumor clinical trials leader.

Ming O. Li

Ming O. Li is a Chinese-born American immunologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who defined TGF-β as a central regulator of T cell immunity and cancer immunosurveillance.

Ming T. Tsuang

Ming T. Tsuang, also known as Ming Tsuang, was a Taiwanese-American psychiatrist and psychiatric geneticist whose family, twin, and adoption studies established schizophrenia as partly genetic.

Ming-Feng Tsai

Ming-Feng Tsai is a Taiwanese-born American physiologist and Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, known for defining how the mitochondrial calcium uniporter channel is regulated.

Ming‐Hui Zou

Ming-Hui Zou (邹明辉) is a Chinese-born cardiovascular biologist who studies how oxidative stress damages blood vessels in diabetes and how AMPK protects against it, at Georgia State University.

Ming‐Jer Tsai

Ming-Jer Tsai (蔡明哲, 1943–2023) was a Taiwanese-born molecular endocrinologist who spent his career at Baylor College of Medicine and discovered the orphan nuclear receptor COUP-TFII, central to metabolism and development research.

Ming‐Sound Tsao

Ming-Sound Tsao is a Canadian thoracic pathologist and University of Toronto professor who studies lung cancer biomarkers at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto.

Minglin Ma

Minglin Ma (马明林) is a professor of biological and environmental engineering at Cornell University whose lab develops islet encapsulation devices for type 1 diabetes and co-founded Persista Bio.