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Michel B. Tolédano

Michel B. Tolédano, also written Michel B. Toledano, is a French molecular biologist who leads the Oxidative Stress and Cancer Laboratory at the CEA and discovered sulfiredoxin.

Michel Baudry

Michel Baudry is a French-born American neuroscientist at Western University of Health Sciences, known for the calpain theory of memory proposed with Gary Lynch in the early 1980s.

Michel Bornens

Michel Bornens (1938–2022) was a French cell biologist and CNRS research director who made the centrosome a central research object, working at Institut Pasteur and Institut Curie.

Michel Brunet (paleontologist)

Michel Brunet, born 1940, is a French paleontologist at the University of Poitiers and Collège de France known for discovering the 7-million-year-old hominid Toumaï in Chad.

Michel C. Milinkovitch

Michel C. Milinkovitch is an evolutionary biologist, professor of genetics and evolution at the University of Geneva, known for showing that crocodile head scales form by physical self-organization.

Michel C. Nussenzweig

Michel C. Nussenzweig, born 1955, is an immunologist who heads the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology at Rockefeller University, known for HIV-1 antibody therapies tested in clinical trials.

Michel D. Ferrari

Michel D. Ferrari, also known as MD Ferrari, is a Dutch neurologist born in 1954 who identified the first migraine gene and led key triptan and CGRP treatment trials.

Michel Desjardins

Michel Desjardins is a Canadian cell biologist and professeur titulaire at Université de Montréal, known for research on phagocytosis and for showing that the immune system may drive Parkinson's disease.

Michel Ducreux

Michel Ducreux is a French medical oncologist and gastroenterologist who heads digestive oncology at Gustave Roussy in Villejuif and is known for authoring the ESMO pancreatic cancer guidelines.

Michel Goedert

Michel Goedert, born 1954 in Luxembourg, is a neuroscientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who identified tau and alpha-synuclein as the filament proteins of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

Michel Haïssaguerre

Michel Haïssaguerre, French cardiologist born 1955 in Bayonne; Bordeaux electrophysiologist who discovered pulmonary vein triggers of atrial fibrillation, pioneered pulmonary vein isolation, and identified Purkinje triggers of ventricular fibrillation.

Michel Lazdunski

Michel Lazdunski (born 1938) is a French biochemist and molecular pharmacologist, a CNRS researcher and member of the Académie des sciences known for his work on ion channels.

Michel Loreau

Michel Loreau, born 1954 in Uccle, Belgium, is a Belgian theoretical ecologist who founded biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research, works at CNRS in France, and has written over 400 publications.

Michel M Dugon

Michel M Dugon is an Irish-based zoologist and venom researcher who founded and heads the Venom Systems Lab at the University of Galway, studying venomous animals.

Michel O. Steinmetz

Michel O. Steinmetz is a Swiss structural biologist and professor at the Paul Scherrer Institut known for work on microtubule tips, centriole symmetry, and tubulin-targeting drugs.

Michel P. Coleman

Michel P. Coleman is a British cancer epidemiologist, Professor of Epidemiology and Vital Statistics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine since 1995.

Michel Revel

Michel Revel, born 1938 in Strasbourg, is a molecular biologist and physician, emeritus professor at Israel's Weizmann Institute, known for cloning interferon-beta and interleukin-6 and developing the multiple sclerosis drug Rebif.

Michel Sadelain

Michel Sadelain, born in Paris in 1960, is a French-Canadian immunologist who developed CAR T cell therapy for cancer and won the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.

Michel Strubin

Michel Strubin is a Swiss molecular biologist and associate professor at the University of Geneva, known for showing in 2016 that the SMC5/6 complex acts as a cell sentinel against hepatitis B virus.

Michela

Michela is an extinct Eocene genus of turrid sea snails (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Turridae) established by Gardner in 1945, with the type species Michela trabeatoides (Harris, 1895) known from Gulf Coast fossil localities in Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama.

Michela Gallagher

Michela Gallagher is a behavioral neuroscientist and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University known for research on aging and memory, and founder of AgeneBio, which developed the Alzheimer's drug candidate AGB101.

Michele Baccarani

Michele Baccarani (1942–2021) was an Italian hematologist at the University of Bologna who led European chronic myeloid leukemia guidelines, chaired GIMEMA's CML working party, and led the DASISION trial.

Michèle Cavo

Michele Cavo is an Italian hematologist and Full Professor of Hematology at the University of Bologna, where he heads the Seràgnoli Institute of Hematology and researches multiple myeloma.

Michele De Palma

Michele De Palma is an Italian cancer biologist and tenured associate professor at EPFL in Lausanne, known for discovering Tie2-expressing monocytes and engineering dendritic cell cancer therapies.

Michele Heisler

Michele Heisler is an American physician-investigator at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022 for research on health, human rights, and health equity.

Michele Pagano (Italian biologist)

Michele Pagano, born in Naples, Italy, is an Italian cancer biologist who chairs Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at NYU and has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 2008.

Michele Solimena

Michele Solimena is an Italian-born physician-scientist in diabetology, Professor of Molecular Diabetology at TU Dresden and Director of the Institute for Pancreatic Islet Research, known for discovering GAD autoantibodies in stiff-man syndrome.

Michelinia

Michelinia (de Koninck, 1841) is an extinct tabulate coral genus of massive cerioid colonies with large prismatic corallites, tabulae, and weak septa, typical of Devonian and Mississippian (Carboniferous) faunas.

Michelle A. Williams

Michelle A. Williams is an American perinatal epidemiologist, a Harvard Chan School dean for seven years who moved to Stanford School of Medicine in 2025 and studies pregnancy complications.

Michelle Barbieri

Michelle Barbieri is an American wildlife veterinarian who leads NOAA's Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program and runs the world's only wild vaccination program for a marine mammal species.