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T cell development and signaling

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Steven J. Burakoff

Steven J. Burakoff is an American immunologist and cancer researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for T-cell activation research and founding the Tisch Cancer Institute.

Steven L. Reiner

Steven L. Reiner is an immunologist and Charles H. Revson Professor at Columbia University, known for T-bet, eomesodermin's control of CD8 T cells, and asymmetric lymphocyte division.

Stuart Schlossman

Stuart Franklin Schlossman (1935–2023) was an American immunologist who defined the surface molecules of human T lymphocytes and co-founded the international CD nomenclature at Harvard and Dana-Farber.

Susan L. Swain

Susan L. Swain is an American immunologist known for her work on CD4 T-cell memory and immune aging, and a professor at UMass Chan Medical School.

Susan M. Kaech

Susan M. Kaech, also known as Susan Kaech, is an American immunologist known for discovering how memory CD8 T cells form and how tumors disable them, and director of immunology at the Allen Institute since 2026.

Tak Wah Mak

Tak Wah Mak is a Canadian immunologist who co-identified the human T-cell receptor gene in 1984 and helped establish immune checkpoint blockade as a cancer therapy.

Takashi Saito

Takashi Saito (斉藤 隆) is a Japanese immunologist known for work on T cell receptor signaling and for identifying TCR microclusters as the site where T cell activation begins.

Thomas Boehm (German immunologist)

Thomas Boehm, born in 1956, is a German immunologist who directed the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg from 1998 to 2024.

Tomio Tada

Tomio Tada (多田富雄, 1934–2010) was a Japanese immunologist who pioneered the study of suppressor T cells, and a professor of immunology at the University of Tokyo.

Toshinori Nakayama

Toshinori Nakayama (中山俊憲) was a Japanese immunologist who studied at the University of Tokyo and Chiba University before serving as its president, known for his work on T-cell selection.

Warren S. Pear

Warren S. Pear is an American physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine who studies Notch signaling, T cell development, and leukemia.

Yongwon Choi

Yongwon Choi is a South Korean-born immunologist and osteoimmunologist, the Leonard Jarett Professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 2001, known for discovering TRANCE, later called RANKL.

Yousuke Takahama

Yousuke Takahama (高浜 洋介) is a Japanese immunologist known for work on T cell selection in the thymus; since 2018 he has led the Thymus Biology Section at the National Cancer Institute.

Yueh‐hsiu Chien

Yueh-hsiu Chien is a Stanford professor of microbiology and immunology known for identifying a new T-cell receptor gene in 1987 and for showing that natural killer cell levels track tuberculosis outcomes.

Yun‐Cai Liu

Yun-Cai Liu (刘云才) is a Chinese immunologist known for defining E3 ubiquitin ligases like c-Cbl and Itch as regulators of T cell signaling, and a professor at Tsinghua University.