Manuel Buchwald, OC FRSC (born June 7, 1940) is a Canadian geneticist and academic.
Born in Lima, Peru, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude in 1962 from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in 1967 from Brandeis University.
His research interests are human molecular genetics, Fanconi anemia, cystic fibrosis and gene cloning and function.
He is part of the team which holds the United States patent for "Methods of detecting cystic fibrosis gene by nucleic acid hybridization" [1], filed in 1995.
In 1991, he was made an officer of the Order of Canada for "major molecular biological thrust into cystic fibrosis research".