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Michelle Bell

Michelle Bell is an environmental health scientist at Yale who studies how air pollution, weather, and climate affect health, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020.

Michelle Cilia

Michelle Cilia, now publishing as Michelle Heck, is an American USDA Agricultural Research Service molecular biologist who studies how aphids and whiteflies transmit plant viruses.

Michelle Debatisse

Michelle Debatisse is a molecular biologist known for showing that fragile sites trigger gene amplification, relevant to oncogenes in cancer, and an emeritus professor at Gustave Roussy since 2016.

Michelle H. Biros

Michelle H. Biros is an American emergency physician and researcher at the University of Minnesota, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2009 for creating the exception-from-informed-consent rule for emergency research.

Michelle K. McGuire

Michelle K. McGuire, known as Shelley McGuire, is a University of Idaho nutrition scientist who showed human milk contains bacteria and was Idaho's first National Academy of Medicine member.

Michelle L. O'Donoghue

Michelle L. O'Donoghue is a cardiologist and clinical trialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for leading TIMI trials of heart disease therapies.

Michelle M. Le Beau

Michelle M. Le Beau is an American cancer geneticist who directed the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center for 17 years and later led CPRIT in Texas.

Michelle M. Mello

Michelle M. Mello is an American health law scholar at Stanford Law School, known for empirical research on medical malpractice, patient safety, and public health law.

Michelle Monje-Deisseroth

Michelle Monje-Deisseroth, published as Michelle Monje, is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Stanford University whose laboratory showed that neuronal activity drives malignant glioma growth.

Michelle P. Winn

Michelle P. Winn (1966–2014) was an American nephrologist-scientist at Duke University who discovered that TRPC6 mutations cause familial FSGS and received a 2006 Presidential Early Career Award.

Michelle Petri

Michelle Petri is an American rheumatologist and Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins, where she directs the Hopkins Lupus Center and a cohort of more than 2,000 lupus patients.

Michelle T Juarez

Michelle T. Juarez is an American geneticist known for discovering how fruit flies sense and repair skin wounds, and earlier for microRNAs that specify maize leaf polarity.

Michelle Wang

Michelle Wang is a biophysicist at Cornell University and an HHMI Investigator who studies DNA mechanics and topology at the single-molecule level, inventing the angular optical trap.

Michiaki Kubo

Michiaki Kubo (久保 充明) is a Japanese human geneticist and deputy center director of the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, known for genome-wide association studies in Japanese populations.

Michiel L. Bots

Michiel L. Bots is a Dutch physician-scientist and clinical epidemiologist at University Medical Center Utrecht, known for carotid intima-media thickness ultrasound as a trial endpoint and co-leading the CONVINCE trial.

Michiel S. van der Heijden

Michiel S. van der Heijden is a Dutch medical oncologist and research group leader at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, known for immunotherapy trials in bladder cancer.

Michiel Vermeulen

Michiel Vermeulen is a Dutch molecular biologist who holds the chair of Proteomics and Chromatin Biology at Radboud University in Nijmegen, known for applying quantitative mass spectrometry to chromatin biology.

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), created by Executive Order 2015-4 effective April 10, 2015 by merging the departments of Community Health and Human Services; Michigan's largest state agency, administering Medicaid, public health, child welfare, and public assistance in all 83 counties.

Michigan Medicine

Michigan Medicine is the University of Michigan's academic medical center in Ann Arbor, formerly the University of Michigan Health System (renamed 2017). It includes U-M Health, the Medical School, and Michigan Health Corporation; medical school founded 1850, first university-owned hospital 1869.

Michigan State University Horticulture Gardens

Michigan State University Horticulture Gardens (also MSU Horticultural Gardens), 14 acres of display and trial gardens in East Lansing, Michigan; dedicated 1993, free admission, includes the 4-H Children's Garden and Carter Trial Garden.

Michiko N. Fukuda

Michiko N. Fukuda is a glycobiologist and Emeritus Professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys in La Jolla, studying cell-surface carbohydrates in cancer, fertility, and congenital disorders.

Michio Kushi

Michio Kushi (久司道夫, 1926–2014), Japanese-born educator and student of George Ohsawa who popularized macrobiotics in America, founding the Kushi Institute, East West Journal, and Erewhon with his wife Aveline.

Michio Nomura

Michio Nomura (1927–2011) was a Japanese-born American molecular biologist who rebuilt a bacterial ribosome in a test tube and discovered how cells regulate ribosomal protein synthesis.

Michio Ui

Michio Ui (宇井理生, 1933–2025) was a Japanese biochemist and pharmacologist who named islet-activating protein, proved it was pertussis toxin, and established its ADP-ribosylation of Gi.

Michisuke Yuzaki

Michisuke Yuzaki (柚崎通介) is a Japanese molecular neuroscientist, professor at Keio University School of Medicine from 2003 to 2025, known for identifying the synapse organizer Cbln1.

Michiyuki Matsuda

Michiyuki Matsuda (松田 道行) is a Japanese cell biologist at Kyoto University known for developing FRET biosensors that visualize Ras and ERK signaling in living cells.

Mick F. Tuite

Mick F. Tuite is a British molecular biologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Kent, known for his research on the yeast prion [PSI+].

Mick McKeown

Michael (Mick) McKeown (1953–2016) was an American molecular geneticist at Brown University who showed that the Drosophila transformer gene controls female development through alternative RNA splicing.

Mickey Chopra

Mickey Chopra is a physician and global-health specialist who leads service delivery in the World Bank's health practice, previously Chief of Health at UNICEF and a South African Medical Research Council researcher.

Mickey S. Eisenberg

Mickey S. Eisenberg is an American emergency physician and resuscitation scientist, a University of Washington professor emeritus who shaped Seattle/King County's leading cardiac arrest response system.