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Monica M. Farley

Monica M. Farley is an infectious-disease physician and epidemiologist, emerita professor of medicine at Emory University, known for population-based surveillance of group B streptococcus and MRSA.

Monica Morrow

Monica Morrow is an American breast surgical oncologist, Chief of the Breast Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, known for the ACOSOG Z0011 trial.

Monika Kumari Goyal

Monika Kumari Goyal is an American pediatric emergency medicine physician and health equity researcher at Children's National Hospital, elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Monique Ernst

Monique Ernst is a neuroscientist at the NIMH in Bethesda known for the triadic model of adolescent motivated behavior and PET and fMRI studies of ADHD and anxiety.

Monique M.B. Breteler

Monique M.B. Breteler, also known as Monique Breteler, is a Dutch neuroepidemiologist who built the Rotterdam Study and, since 2011, directs Population Health Sciences at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Bonn.

Monte M. Winslow

Monte M. Winslow, also published as Monte Winslow, is a cancer biologist and Associate Professor of Genetics and of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Monte Westerfield

Monte Westerfield is an American developmental neurobiologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon who founded ZFIN, the zebrafish database, in 1994 and studies Usher syndrome.

Montgomery Slatkin

Montgomery Slatkin is an American theoretical population geneticist, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, named by the Nobel Committee as a critical contributor to the Neanderthal genome analysis.

Monto Ho

Monto Ho (何曼德) was a Chinese-born American infectious-disease physician and virologist at the University of Pittsburgh, known for research on interferon and cytomegalovirus infections in transplant recipients.

Monty Jones

Monty Jones was a Sierra Leonean plant breeder who developed NERICA, the New Rice for Africa, and in 2004 became the first African to win the World Food Prize.

Monty Krieger

Monty Krieger is an American molecular biologist, Whitehead Professor at MIT, known for genetic work on the LDL receptor pathway and for identifying SR-BI, the first molecularly defined HDL receptor.

Monya Baker

Monya Baker is a US-based science journalist who edited technology features at Nature and Nature Methods from 2007 to 2022 and led Nature's 2016 reproducibility survey of 1,576 scientists.

Moosa Mohammadi

Moosa Mohammadi is an Iranian-born structural biologist at Oujiang Laboratory known for nearly three decades of work determining structures of fibroblast growth factors and their receptors.

Mór Kaposi

Mór Kaposi, born Moriz Kohn (1837–1902), was a Hungarian-born dermatologist who led the Vienna dermatology clinic, described Kaposi's sarcoma in 1872, and pioneered lupus research.

Morag Park

Morag Park is a molecular biologist and cancer researcher at McGill University in Montreal, known for her work on the MET oncogene and the tumor microenvironment in breast cancer.

Moran Cerf

Moran Cerf is a neuroscientist who studies decision-making by recording individual neurons in epilepsy patients, and taught marketing at Northwestern's Kellogg School from 2013 to 2022.

Mordechai Choder

Mordechai Choder, known professionally as Motti Choder, is an Israeli molecular biologist and Technion professor in Haifa known for showing that mRNA synthesis and decay are coupled processes.

Moreangels M. Mbizah

Moreangels M. Mbizah is a Zimbabwean conservation biologist with a doctorate from Oxford who tracked the lion Cecil and founded Wildlife Conservation Action, winning a 2026 Whitley Award.

Morgan E. Grams

Morgan E. Grams is an American nephrologist and epidemiologist at NYU Grossman, known for predicting kidney-failure risk in living kidney donors and co-leading the CKD Prognosis Consortium.

Morgan Grove

J. Morgan Grove is an American research forester with the USDA Forest Service in Baltimore, Maryland, who studies urban ecology and co-leads the Baltimore Ecosystem Study.

Morgan Huse

Morgan Huse is an immunologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who studies how immune cells use mechanical force to kill target cells, known for a 2016 Cell paper.

Morgan Sheng

Morgan Sheng is a neuroscientist and physician-scientist known for work on AMPA receptor trafficking and PDZ scaffolds, and Co-Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Morgane Rolland

Morgane Rolland is a virologist and viral geneticist who studies HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2, known for developing sieve analysis and leading viral genomics at the US Military HIV Research Program.

Moriah Thomason

Moriah Thomason is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist who pioneered using functional MRI to measure brain connectivity in human fetuses before birth, receiving the PECASE award in 2019.

Morie A. Gertz

Morie A. Gertz is an American hematologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for his work on AL amyloidosis and multiple myeloma, including the 2012 revised staging system.

Morio Ikehara

Morio Ikehara (池原森男) was a Japanese nucleic acid chemist, professor at Osaka University, who achieved the world's first total synthesis of a transfer RNA in 1979.

Moritz Helmstaedter

Moritz Helmstaedter, born 1978 in Berlin, is a computational neuroscientist who directs the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and won the 2024 Leibniz Prize for dense connectomics.

Moritz Litten

Moritz Litten (1845–1907) was a German physician and clinical teacher at the Berlin Charité, remembered for naming Roth spots in 1878 and discovering the diaphragm phenomenon in 1891.

Moritz Roth

Moritz Roth (1839–1914) was a Swiss pathologist who held the chair of pathology at the University of Basel and is remembered for Roth's spots, retinal hemorrhages he described in 1872.

Morris Brown

Morris J. Brown, born 1951, is a British clinical pharmacologist and endocrinologist, Professor of Endocrine Hypertension at Queen Mary University of London, known for work on primary aldosteronism.