Life and health scientists

Minor J. Coon

Minor J. Coon (1921–2018) was an American biochemist at the University of Michigan who resolved and reconstituted the liver microsomal cytochrome P450 system central to drug metabolism.

Minoru Fukuda

Minoru Fukuda is a Japanese-born American glycobiologist who discovered sialyl Lewis X and directs the Glycobiology Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys in La Jolla, California.

Minoru Kanehisa, born 1948 in Nagasaki, Japan, is a Japanese bioinformatician and project professor at Kyoto University, known as the creator of the KEGG database and a 2018 Clarivate Citation Laureate.

Minoru Koyama

Minoru Koyama is a neuroscientist studying how neural circuits are built during development in larval zebrafish, and a Janelia Research Campus lab head selected in 2013.

Minoru Yoshida

Minoru Yoshida (吉田稔) is a Japanese chemical biologist at RIKEN whose 1990 work on trichostatin A helped establish epigenetics, earning the Japan Academy Prize in 2015.

Mintu P. Turakhia

Mintu P. Turakhia, also known as Mintu Turakhia, is an American cardiac electrophysiologist at Stanford University and the VA Palo Alto, known for the 2019 Apple Heart Study.

Miquel Coll

Miquel Coll is a Spanish structural biologist, a CSIC Research Professor at the Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, known for structures of DNA-drug complexes and ARF transcription factors.

Miranda Lim

Miranda M. Lim is an American physician-scientist at Oregon Health & Science University and the VA Portland Health Care System who studies how sleep shapes brain health.

Mircea Steriade

Mircea Steriade (1924–2006) was a Romanian-born Canadian systems neuroscientist who spent nearly four decades at Université Laval in Québec City, studying thalamocortical oscillations, sleep spindles, and the cortical slow oscillation.

Miriam H. Meisler

Miriam H. Meisler is an American human geneticist at the University of Michigan who identified the epilepsy genes SCN8A and SCN1A and received the American Epilepsy Society's 2020 Basic Science Research Award.

Miriam J. Alter

Miriam J. Alter is an American epidemiologist who led the CDC's sentinel-county hepatitis surveillance, showed hepatitis C usually becomes chronic, and later worked at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

Miriam M. Salpeter

Miriam M. Salpeter, also published as M. M. Salpeter, was an American neurobiologist at Cornell University who developed quantitative electron-microscope autoradiography to study the neuromuscular junction.

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Miriam Menkin

Miriam Menkin, born Miriam Friedman (1901–1992), was a Latvian-born American laboratory researcher who performed the first fertilization of a human egg outside the body in 1944.

Miriam Mérad

Miriam Merad is a Paris-born, Algeria-raised immunologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for discovering that tissue-resident macrophages arise from embryonic precursors and self-renew locally.

Miriam Rothschild

Dame Miriam Rothschild (1908-2005), British naturalist and entomologist, world authority on fleas, butterflies, and pyrazines; discovered the rabbit flea's hormone-controlled breeding cycle and the flea jumping mechanism; Bletchley Park code breaker; FRS 1985.

Mirjam Christ‐Crain

Mirjam Christ-Crain, born 1974, is a Swiss endocrinologist, full professor at the University of Basel, and chief of endocrinology at University Hospital Basel, known for copeptin diagnostics.

Mirko Trajkovski

Mirko Trajkovski is a professor at the University of Geneva's Faculty of Medicine who studies the molecular mechanisms of obesity, insulin resistance, and gut microbiota.

Miroslav Radman

Miroslav Radman, born 1944 in Split, Croatia, is a Croatian-French geneticist who discovered the SOS response, codiscovered DNA mismatch repair, and explained radiation resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans.

Misha B. Ahrens

Misha B. Ahrens is a neuroscientist and Senior Group Leader at Janelia Research Campus, HHMI, known for whole-brain imaging of larval zebrafish at single-cell resolution.

Misha Tsodyks

Misha Tsodyks is a theoretical neuroscientist, a professor at the Weizmann Institute in Israel and the Institute for Advanced Study, known for his 1996 Nature paper on synaptic plasticity.

Mitch Dowsett

Mitch Dowsett is a British biochemical endocrinologist who initiated the ATAC trial of anastrozole versus tamoxifen and developed the Ki67 response test for breast cancer.

Mitchell A. Lazar

Mitchell A. Lazar is an American endocrinologist at the University of Pennsylvania who discovered the fat-cell hormone resistin and the circadian receptor REV-ERBα, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.

Mitchell D. Schnall

Mitchell D. Schnall is an American radiologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for breast and prostate imaging research and leadership of the ECOG-ACRIN cancer trials group.

Mitchell Guttman

Mitchell Guttman is an American molecular biologist and professor at Caltech who established long noncoding RNAs as regulators of gene expression and developed SPRITE, a method mapping RNA and DNA inside the cell nucleus.

Mitchell H. Gail

Mitchell H. Gail is an American biostatistician who developed the Gail Model behind the NCI's Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool, spending his 1969 to 2025 career at the NCI.

Mitchell J. Weiss

Mitchell J. Weiss is an American hematologist who chairs hematology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

Mitchell Kronenberg

Mitchell Kronenberg is an American immunologist and President Emeritus of the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, known for work on natural killer T cells and mucosal defense.

Mitchell L. Cohen

Mitchell L. Cohen is an American CDC epidemiologist whose investigations established E. coli O157:H7 as a foodborne pathogen and linked farm antibiotic use to resistant human infections.

Mitchell L. Halperin

Mitchell L. Halperin (1937–2025) was a Canadian nephrologist at St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto, known for research and teaching on fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base disorders.