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Morris F. White

Morris F. White is an American biochemist, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, known for discovering the insulin receptor substrate (IRS) proteins central to insulin action.

Morris Goodman (molecular evolutionist)

Morris Goodman (1925–2010) was an American molecular evolutionist and founder of molecular anthropology at Wayne State University, who showed humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas are closest relatives.

Morris J. Birnbaum

Morris J. Birnbaum is an American physician-scientist in diabetes research, credited with cloning GLUT4 and defining insulin signaling through Akt, and a Senior Vice President at Pfizer since 2014.

Morris J. Karnovsky

Morris J. Karnovsky (1926–2018) was a South African-born American pathologist at Harvard Medical School who created the DAB tracer method and established the blood-brain barrier's endothelial nature.

Morris Pollard

Morris Pollard (1916–2011) was an American veterinary virologist and cancer researcher who directed the Lobund Laboratory at Notre Dame, studying leukemia and prostate cancer in germfree animals.

Morris Reichlin

Morris Reichlin (1934–2018) was an American rheumatologist and immunologist who discovered antibodies associated with lupus, including anti-Ro (SSA), and created the Reichlin Profile diagnostic test.

Morris Schambelan

Morris Schambelan is an American endocrinologist and Professor Emeritus at UCSF, based at San Francisco General Hospital, known for hyporeninemic hypoaldosteronism and HIV wasting research.

Morris Schnitzer

Morris Schnitzer, born Moritz Israel, was a Canadian soil chemist at Agriculture Canada who shared the 1995 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his work on humic substances.

Morris Siegel

Morris Siegel was an American epidemiologist at the New York City Department of Health and SUNY Downstate who studied household polio spread and maternal virus diseases.

Morris Ziff

Morris Ziff (1913–2005) was an American rheumatologist who founded the Rheumatic Diseases Division at UT Southwestern in Dallas, traced rheumatoid factor to inflamed joints, and trained 131 fellows.

Morten Frisch

Morten Frisch is a Danish epidemiologist and physician at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, known for linking sexual behavior, infection, and cancer, including a 1997 anal cancer study.

Morten Meldal

Morten Meldal, born 1954 in Copenhagen, is a Danish chemist at the University of Copenhagen who shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing click chemistry.

Morten Otto Alexander Sommer

Morten Otto Alexander Sommer, born 1981, is a Danish synthetic biologist and professor at the Technical University of Denmark known for work on antibiotic resistance.

Morten Simonsen

Morten Simonsen (1921–2002) was a Danish physician and immunologist who described the graft-versus-host reaction, known as the Simonsen phenomenon, and built the first quantitative test of T lymphocytes.

Mortimer B. Lipsett

Mortimer B. Lipsett (1921–1985) was an American endocrinologist and physician-scientist at the NIH who helped make choriocarcinoma the first cancer cured by chemotherapy alone, and held three NIH directorships.

Mortimer Mishkin

Mortimer Mishkin (1926–2021) was an American neuropsychologist at the National Institute of Mental Health whose monkey lesion studies established how the brain organizes perception and memory.

Mortimer Poncz

Mortimer Poncz is an American pediatric hematologist and physician-scientist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, known for research on congenital platelet disorders.

Morton I. Grossman

Morton I. Grossman (1919–1981) was an American gastroenterologist and gastrointestinal physiologist who led research on gastrin and founded the first NIH digestive diseases center, CURE, in 1974.

Morton N. Swartz

Morton N. Swartz (1923–2013) was an American infectious-diseases physician and Harvard professor who founded and led Massachusetts General Hospital's Division of Infectious Diseases for 34 years, from 1956.

Moses Rodriguez

Moses Rodriguez is an American neurologist and immunologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for multiple sclerosis research and for identifying rHIgM22, an antibody developed to promote myelin repair.

Moses V. Chao

Moses V. Chao is an American neuroscientist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine whose laboratory defined the NGF receptor genes and how neurotrophins act through a two-receptor system.

Moshe Arditi

Moshe Arditi is a physician-scientist in pediatric infectious diseases and immunology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, known for research on Kawasaki disease and innate immune signaling.

Moshe Oren

Moshe Oren is an Israeli cancer molecular biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for his work on the p53 tumor suppressor protein and elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Moshe Phillip

Moshe Phillip (Hebrew: משה פיליפ) is an Israeli pediatric endocrinologist who has directed the National Center for Childhood Diabetes at Schneider Children's Medical Center, Petah Tikva, since 1997.

Moshe Szyf

Moshe Szyf is an epigeneticist and professor of pharmacology at McGill University, known for work on DNA methylation and for helping to found behavioral epigenetics.

Moshe Talpaz

Moshe Talpaz is a physician-scientist and professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan whose work transformed treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia through interferon-alpha and imatinib.

Moshe Wolman

Moshe Wolman (1914–2009) was an Israeli physician and histochemistry researcher who co-described the fatal lipid storage disorder Wolman disease in 1956 and established Israel's first electron microscopy unit.

Moshé Yaniv

Moshé Yaniv, also known as Moshe Yaniv, is a molecular biologist at the Institut Pasteur in Paris known for work on DNA tumor virus chromatin and transcription control.

Motoharu Seiki

Motoharu Seiki (清木 元治) is a Japanese cancer researcher born in 1949, known for discovering MT1-MMP, a key enzyme in cancer invasion and metastasis, and for early work on HTLV-I.

Motomasa Tanaka

Motomasa Tanaka (田中 元雅) is a Japanese molecular biologist and Team Director at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science, known for showing that prion strain properties are encoded in amyloid conformation.