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Sydney Kustu
Sydney Kustu (1943–2014) was an American bacterial geneticist at UC Berkeley who discovered the Ntr system of nitrogen regulation and showed that bacteria possess transcriptional enhancers.
Sydney M. Finegold
Sydney M. Finegold (1921–2018), known to colleagues as "Mr. Anaerobe," was an American clinical microbiologist at UCLA whose laboratory identified Clostridium difficile as the cause of pseudomembranous colitis.
Sydney S. Cash
Sydney S. Cash is an American neurologist and neuroscientist who studies epilepsy, sleep physiology, and brain-computer interfaces, and is Chief of Clinical Neurophysiology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
T. Conrad Gilliam
T. Conrad Gilliam is a human geneticist and Dean for Basic Science at the University of Chicago, known for mapping the Huntington's disease gene to chromosome 4.
T. Geoffrey Flynn
T. Geoffrey Flynn (born 1937) is a Canadian biochemist and Emeritus Professor at Queen's University who co-determined the first amino acid sequence of atrial natriuretic factor.
T. Jake Liang
T. Jake Liang (Tsanyang Jake Liang) is an NIH hepatologist and virologist who leads hepatitis B and C research at NIDDK and joined the National Academy of Medicine in 2016.
T. Keith Blackwell
T. Keith Blackwell is a biologist at Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School who studies aging and stress responses in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, focusing on the transcription factor SKN-1.
T. Kent Kirk
T. Kent Kirk (1940–2025) was an American biochemist who discovered lignin peroxidase, founding lignin biodegradation research, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988.
T.H. Tahirov
T.H. Tahirov, also known as Tahir H. Tahirov, is a structural biologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center known for crystal structures of DNA replication and transcription complexes.
T.L. Poulos
T.L. Poulos, also known as Thomas L. Poulos, is an American biochemist and Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine who solved the first cytochrome P450 crystal structure in 1985.
Ta Yuan Chang
Ta Yuan Chang (張大元) is an American biochemist and cell biologist at Dartmouth College known for identifying the ACAT1 gene, which esterifies and stores cholesterol in cells.
Tad T. Brunye
Tad T. Brunye is an American cognitive scientist who studies spatial cognition, stress, and non-invasive brain stimulation as a senior researcher at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Center.
Tadamitsu Kishimoto
Tadamitsu Kishimoto (岸本 忠三) is a Japanese immunologist at Osaka University who discovered interleukin-6, work that led to the antibody drug tocilizumab, used by more than one million people.
Tadaomi Takenawa
Tadaomi Takenawa (竹縄 忠臣), born in 1944, is a Japanese biochemist and cell biologist known for defining how phosphoinositide signals control the actin cytoskeleton, notably the IRSp53 pathway linking Rac to WAVE proteins.
Tadashi Uemura
Tadashi Uemura (上村 匡) is a Japanese molecular biologist who spent his career at Kyoto University, known for the numb gene's control of cell fate in Drosophila and for cadherin research.
Tadashi Yamamoto
Tadashi Yamamoto is a Japanese molecular biologist and professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, known for identifying the HER2 gene and characterizing the CCR4-NOT complex.
Tadatsugu Taniguchi
Tadatsugu Taniguchi (谷口 維紹) is a Japanese immunologist and molecular biologist known for cloning the human interferon-beta and interleukin-2 genes and discovering the IRF transcription factor family.
Tadhg P. Begley
Tadhg P. Begley, also known as Tadhg Begley, is a chemist at Texas A&M University who studies the enzymology of vitamin biosynthesis, including thiamin and pyridoxal phosphate.
Tae‐Wook Chun
Tae-Wook Chun is an American virologist and Chief of the HIV Immunovirology Section at NIAID, best known for discovering latently infected CD4+ T cells that keep HIV from being cured.
Taekjip Ha
Taekjip Ha is a single-molecule biophysicist who co-invented single-molecule FRET, and since 2023 has directed the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Tai-ping Sun
Tai-ping Sun is a plant biologist at Duke University who identified DELLA proteins as master growth repressors controlling plant growth, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
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.
Takahiro Ochiya
Takahiro Ochiya is a Japanese molecular oncologist and extracellular-vesicle researcher at Tokyo Medical University, known for showing how microRNAs are secreted and transferred between cells via exosomes.
Takahisa Furukawa
Takahisa Furukawa (古川 貴久) is a Japanese molecular biologist at Osaka University who studies retinal development and identified the photoreceptor transcription factor Crx, linked to inherited blindness.
Takami Oka
Takami Oka is a Japanese biochemist known for work on the hormonal control of mammary gland development and lactation, at NIH from 1970 and later Musashino University.
Takanari Inoue
Takanari Inoue (井上 尊生) is a Japanese cell biologist and Johns Hopkins professor known for molecular tools that visualize and manipulate cell signaling, especially in the primary cilium.
Takanori Takebe
Takanori Takebe (武部 貴則) is a Japanese developmental and stem-cell biologist known for growing the first functional human organ, a vascularized liver, from stem cells in 2013.
Takao K. Hensch
Takao K. Hensch (ヘンシュ 貴雄) is a Harvard neuroscientist who showed that critical periods in brain development are opened and closed by specific molecular circuits.
Takao Kondo
Takao Kondo (近藤孝男) was a Japanese chronobiologist at Nagoya University who identified the kai clock genes and rebuilt a 24-hour circadian oscillator in a test tube in 2005.
Takao Shimizu
Takao Shimizu (清水孝雄, born 1947) is a Japanese biochemist and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo known for cloning the platelet-activating factor and leukotriene B4 receptors, work honored with the 2009 Japan Academy Prize.