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Motoo Kimura

Motoo Kimura (木村 資生) was a Japanese population geneticist at the National Institute of Genetics, best known for proposing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968.

Mriganka Sur

Mriganka Sur is an Indian-born American neuroscientist at MIT, known for experiments that rewired visual input into the auditory cortex and for work on autism and Rett syndrome.

Mrinal M. Gounder

Mrinal M. Gounder is an American medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center specializing in sarcomas and desmoid tumors, and led the nirogacestat trials.

Mu-ming Poo

Mu-ming Poo (蒲慕明), born 1948 in Nanjing, is a neuroscientist known for discovering spike-timing-dependent plasticity and for building the Institute of Neuroscience of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai.

Muhammad Mamdani

Muhammad Mamdani, also known as Muhammad M. Mamdani, is a Canadian pharmacoepidemiology and drug policy researcher who directs the University of Toronto's T-CAIREM center for artificial intelligence in medicine.

Muhammad Walji

Muhammad F. Walji is a dental and biomedical informatics scientist at UTHealth Houston, a Presidential Early Career Award recipient who leads the BigMouth dental data repository.

Muin J. Khoury

Muin J. Khoury is a Lebanese-American physician and genetic epidemiologist who founded and directed the CDC's Office of Public Health Genomics from 1998 to 2024.

Muneesh Tewari

Muneesh Tewari is an American physician-scientist in hematology/oncology and biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan, known for pioneering circulating microRNAs as blood-based cancer biomarkers.

Munir Pirmohamed

Munir Pirmohamed is a British clinical pharmacologist and pharmacogenomicist at the University of Liverpool known for work linking HLA genes to severe reactions to medicines such as abacavir and carbamazepine.

Muniswamy Madesh

Muniswamy Madesh, also published as Madesh Muniswamy, is an American mitochondrial physiologist at UT Health San Antonio known for identifying MICU1 as the mitochondrial calcium gatekeeper.

Murat Günel

Murat Günel is a neurosurgeon and geneticist who has led Yale's Department of Neurosurgery since 2014 and studies the genetic causes of brain tumors and vascular disease.

Muredach P. Reilly

Muredach P. Reilly is an Irish-trained cardiologist and physician-scientist at Columbia University, recruited from Penn in 2016, known for identifying the ADAMTS7 gene locus for coronary atherosclerosis.

Muriel R. Gillick

Muriel R. Gillick, also known as Muriel Gillick, is an American physician specializing in geriatrics and palliative care at Harvard Medical School, born in 1951.

Murray A. Mittleman

Murray A. Mittleman is a physician and cardiovascular epidemiologist, professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and co-developer of the case-crossover study design.

Murray B. Gardner

Murray B. Gardner is an American physician-scientist and virologist known for research on cancer-causing retroviruses of wild mice and cats and on the retroviruses that cause AIDS.

Murray B. Stein

Murray B. Stein is an American psychiatrist and researcher at the University of California San Diego known for research on anxiety disorders, PTSD, and psychiatric genetics.

Murray Barr

Murray Barr, also known as Murray Llewellyn Barr, was a Canadian physician and geneticist who co-discovered the Barr body, the inactivated X chromosome in female cells.

Murray Esler

Murray D. Esler is an Australian cardiovascular neuroscientist and Senior Director of the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, known for developing norepinephrine spillover methodology.

Murray F. Brennan

Murray F. Brennan is a New Zealand-born surgical oncologist who chaired surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from 1985 to 2006 and built a database of over 9,000 sarcoma patients.

Murray Korc

Murray Korc is an American endocrinologist and pancreatic cancer researcher known for defining the role of growth factors and their receptors, especially EGFR, in pancreatic cancer.

Murray L Whitelaw

Murray L Whitelaw is an Australian professor of biochemistry at the University of Adelaide, best known for 2002 papers identifying the hypoxic switch that regulates hypoxia-inducible factor.

Murray P. Deutscher

Murray P. Deutscher is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at the University of Miami whose laboratory identified several bacterial ribonucleases, including RNase T, D, and PH.

Murray Rabinowitz

Murray Rabinowitz (1927–1983) was an American physician-biochemist at the University of Chicago known for work on mitochondrial molecular biology and cardiac hypertrophy, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983.

Murray Sanders

Murray Sanders was an American bacteriologist and Army colonel who investigated Japan's Unit 731 biological warfare program in 1945 and helped win amnesty for its scientists.

Murray Stewart

Murray John Stewart is a structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for working out the structural basis of nucleocytoplasmic transport between cytoplasm and nucleus.

Mustafa Sahin

Mustafa Sahin is a Turkish-American clinical neurologist and neuroscientist who chairs Neurology at Boston Children's Hospital and studies the neurobiology of autism and tuberous sclerosis.

Muthiah Vaduganathan

Muthiah Vaduganathan is a cardiologist and clinical trialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for quantifying how drug combinations change heart failure outcomes.

Muthu Periasamy

Muthu Periasamy is a muscle physiologist and cardiovascular researcher known for identifying sarcolipin, a protein regulating the SERCA calcium pump, as a driver of muscle heat production and metabolism.

Mutsuhito Ohno

Mutsuhito Ohno (大野 睦人) is a Japanese molecular biologist and professor at Kyoto University known for identifying PHAX, a mediator of U snRNA export from the nucleus.

Muzlifah Haniffa

Muzlifah Haniffa is a Malaysian-born dermatologist and immunologist at Newcastle University and the Wellcome Sanger Institute who maps the human immune system with single-cell genomics.