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Mykola Amosov

Mykola Amosov (1913–2002) was a Ukrainian cardiac surgeon, biocyberneticist, and writer who founded cardiac surgery in Ukraine and led the Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery in Kyiv.

Myles A. Brown

Myles A. Brown is an American physician-scientist who directs the Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics at Dana-Farber and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

Myles Wolf

Myles Wolf, also known as Myles S. Wolf, is an American nephrologist and physician-scientist who became chair of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine in 2024, known for FGF23 research.

Myriam Chalabi

Myriam Chalabi is a Dutch medical oncologist and clinical group leader of gastrointestinal oncology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, known for the NICHE immunotherapy trials.

Myriam Gorospe

Myriam Gorospe is a molecular biologist who leads the RNA Regulation Section at the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore, studying mRNA control in aging.

Myrna M. Weissman

Myrna M. Weissman is an American psychiatric epidemiologist at Columbia University who co-developed interpersonal psychotherapy and has run a three-generation study of depression risk for four decades.

Myron Brakke

Myron Brakke (1921–2007) was an American biochemist and virologist who invented sucrose density-gradient centrifugation, a routine laboratory tool key to modern virology and molecular biology.

Myron F. Goodman

Myron F. Goodman is a molecular biologist and biochemist, Professor of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, and Gerontology at USC, known for work on DNA polymerase V and AID.

Myron J. Levin

Myron J. Levin, also known as Myron Levin, is a pediatric infectious diseases and virology physician at the University of Colorado, known for the shingles vaccine.

Myron J. Tong

Myron J. Tong (Myron Tong) is an American hepatologist credited as the first to link hepatitis B with liver cancer, and a longtime UCLA liver program director who practices in Pasadena, California.

Myron L. Weisfeldt

Myron L. Weisfeldt is an American cardiologist who chaired the Department of Medicine at Columbia University and Johns Hopkins and served as president of the American Heart Association.

Myron M. Levine

Myron M. Levine is an American physician-scientist who built the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and led creation of the first single-dose cholera vaccine.

Myron Pollycove

Myron Pollycove (1921–2013) was an American hematologist and nuclear medicine physician, a UCSF professor known for radiotracer studies of vitamin B12 absorption and iron kinetics and for arguing low-dose radiation can be beneficial.

Myron S. Cohen

Myron S. Cohen is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at the University of North Carolina who led the HPTN 052 trial showing HIV treatment prevents transmission.

Myrtle Aydelotte

Myrtle Aydelotte, known as Myrtle K. Aydelotte, was an American nurse-researcher who was founding dean of the University of Iowa College of Nursing and led the American Nurses' Association.

N Louise Glass

N Louise Glass is an American fungal biologist, Professor Emerita at UC Berkeley, known for her work on nonself recognition and biomass deconstruction in Neurospora crassa.

N. Edward Tolbert

N. Edward Tolbert, known as Ed Tolbert, was an American plant biochemist who discovered the glycolate pathway and identified peroxisomes in plant leaves, establishing their role in photorespiration.

N. Justin Marshall

N. Justin Marshall, or Justin Marshall, is an Australian visual ecologist at the Queensland Brain Institute who discovered the mantis shrimp's exceptionally complex color vision system.

N. Ronald Morris

Nils Ronald Morris (1933–2025), published as N. Ronald Morris, was an American molecular geneticist at Rutgers who turned Aspergillus nidulans into a leading model for the genetics of mitosis.

N. Scott Adzick

N. Scott Adzick is an American pediatric surgeon and fetal surgery pioneer who served 31 years as Surgeon-in-Chief of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and led the MOMS trial.

N.A. Mark Estes

N.A. Mark Estes, full name Mark Nathan Anthony Estes, is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who directed the New England Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at Tufts for three decades.

N.C.J. Strynadka

Natalie C. J. Strynadka is a Canadian structural biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of British Columbia who determines the structures of bacterial proteins behind antibiotic resistance.

N.E. Miller

Norman E. Miller is a pathologist and metabolic disorders specialist at St Thomas' Hospital, London, whose 1975 Lancet paper proposed that low HDL is a coronary risk factor.

Naama Barkai

Naama Barkai is an Israeli systems biologist and professor of molecular genetics at the Weizmann Institute of Science since 2009, known for the robustness principle in biological circuits.

Nabeel Bardeesy

Nabeel Bardeesy is a Canadian-trained cancer biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for research on pancreatic and hepatobiliary cancers and tumor suppressor metabolism.

Nabih I. Abdou

Nabih I. Abdou (1934–2024) was an Egyptian-born physician-scientist in rheumatology, allergy, and clinical immunology, trained at Cairo and McGill, known for his lupus and malakoplakia research.

Nabiha Saklayen

Nabiha Saklayen is a physicist and biotechnology entrepreneur who developed laser-based cellular editing during her PhD at Harvard and co-founded Cellino, which manufactures patient-specific stem cell therapies.

Nabil Djouder

Nabil Djouder is a French molecular biologist who heads the Growth Factors, Nutrients and Cancer Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre in Madrid, studying the URI oncogene.

Nabil Seidah

Nabil G. Seidah, born 1949 in Cairo, is a Canadian biochemist who directs biochemical neuroendocrinology research at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute and discovered PCSK9.

Nace Leon Golding

Nace Leon Golding is a neuroscientist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin who studies how brainstem neurons localize sound with microsecond precision.