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Takashi Fujita

Takashi Fujita (藤田 尚志) is a Japanese immunologist and professor at Kyoto University known for interferon gene regulation, IRF transcription factors, and RIG-I viral RNA sensors.

Takashi Hayashi

Takashi Hayashi (林 高史) is a Japanese bioinorganic chemist, professor of chemistry at Osaka University since 2005, known for artificial metalloenzymes built from hemoproteins and organometallic complexes.

Takashi Ito (molecular biologist)

Takashi Ito (伊藤 隆司) is a Japanese molecular biologist, professor at Kyushu University's Medical Institute of Bioregulation, known for the first comprehensive two-hybrid map of protein interactions in budding yeast.

Takashi Nagasawa

Takashi Nagasawa (長澤 丘司) is a Japanese immunologist and stem cell biologist at Osaka University, known for isolating CXCL12 and winning the 2019 Japan Academy Prize.

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.

Takashi Sügimura

Takashi Sügimura, also known as Takashi Sugimura, was a Japanese biochemist who established that cancer is a disease of DNA, showed mutagens cause cancer, and identified food-derived heterocyclic amines.

Takashi Takahashi

Takashi Takahashi (高橋 隆) is a Japanese molecular oncologist specializing in lung cancer, President Emeritus of Aichi Cancer Center and formerly a professor at Nagoya University.

Takashi Toda

Takashi Toda (登田 隆) is a Japanese molecular cell biologist and Specially Appointed Professor at Hiroshima University who studies how cells divide and chromosomes segregate during mitosis.

Takayoshi Higuchi (樋口隆昌)

Takayoshi Higuchi (樋口隆昌) was a Japanese lignin biochemist and wood scientist, professor at Kyoto University's Wood Research Institute, known for work on lignin degradation by white-rot fungi and lignin biosynthesis in plants.

Takayuki Asahara

Takayuki Asahara is a Japanese physician and vascular biology researcher who identified endothelial progenitor cells in human blood in 1997 and established postnatal vasculogenesis, later leading regenerative medicine at Tokai University.

Takema Fukatsu

Takema Fukatsu (深津 武馬) is a Japanese biologist who studies insect–microbe symbiosis, a Prime Senior Researcher at AIST and professor at the University of Tokyo.

Takis S. Papas

Takis S. Papas (1935–1999) was an American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute known for cloning the ETS oncogene family and co-sequencing the AIDS virus genome.

Takuya Takahashi

Takuya Takahashi (高橋 琢哉) is a Japanese neuroscientist and professor of physiology at Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, known for the first AMPA-receptor PET tracer and the rehabilitation drug edonerpic maleate.

Talal A. Chatila

Talal A. Chatila is a Lebanese-born immunologist at Harvard Medical School who studies immune tolerance in allergy and directs the Food Allergy Program at Boston Children's Hospital.

Tallie Z. Baram

Tallie Z. Baram, also published as T.Z. Baram, is an Israeli-born child neurologist and developmental neuroscientist at UC Irvine who studies how early-life adversity and stress shape brain development.

Tamar Schlick

Tamar Schlick is a computational molecular biologist, professor of chemistry, mathematics, and computer science at New York University, known for her 1992 simulations of supercoiled DNA and chromatin modeling.

Tamás Freund

Tamás F. Freund is a Hungarian neurobiologist known for his work on hippocampal interneurons and endocannabinoid signaling, who became president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Tamás Kiss (Hungarian molecular biologist)

Tamás Kiss is a Hungarian molecular biologist at the LBME in Toulouse, France, known for showing that small nucleolar RNAs direct chemical modification of other RNAs.

Tamas L. Horvath

Tamas L. Horvath is a Hungarian-trained neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine, chair of Comparative Medicine, known for work on ghrelin, hypothalamic mitochondria, and fertility, and elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Tamir Gonen

Tamir Gonen is a structural biologist and professor at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, known for developing MicroED, a cryo-EM method determining atomic-resolution protein structures from nanoscale crystals.

Tamir Tuller

Tamir Tuller (תמיר טולר) is an Israeli Full Professor at Tel Aviv University's School of Biomedical Engineering known for his 2010 Cell paper identifying the conserved translation-efficiency ramp and for AI models guiding RNA-based therapies.

Tamotsu Yoshimori

Tamotsu Yoshimori (吉森 保) is a Japanese cell biologist at The University of Osaka who established LC3 as the standard marker for tracking autophagy, the process by which cells digest their own components.

Tan Jiazhen

Tan Jiazhen (谈家桢), known internationally as C. C. Tan, was a Chinese geneticist and founding figure of modern genetics who trained under Thomas Hunt Morgan at Caltech and built China's first genetics programs at Fudan University.

Tania A. Baker

Tania A. Baker is an American biochemist, the E. C. Whitehead Professor of Biology at MIT since 2002, best known for her work on the ClpX unfoldase and Mu transposase.

Tanja Kortemme

Tanja Kortemme is a German-born computational biologist and biochemist, professor of bioengineering at UC San Francisco, known for computational protein design methods in the Rosetta software suite.

Tanja Mittag

Tanja Mittag is a biophysicist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital known for her work on liquid-liquid phase separation, in which proteins form membraneless organelles called biomolecular condensates.

Tanja Woyke

Tanja Woyke is a German-trained microbiologist leading microbial genomics at the US DOE Joint Genome Institute, known for single-cell genomics that popularized the term microbial dark matter.

Tanmay Bharat

Tanmay A. M. Bharat is a structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who uses cryo-electron tomography to study bacterial surfaces.

Tanya T. Paull

Tanya T. Paull is a molecular biologist at the University of Texas at Austin whose laboratory is known for work on the MRN complex and DNA double-strand break repair.

Tao Pan

Tao Pan is a Chinese-born biochemist and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago since 1994, known for tRNA research and high-throughput tRNA sequencing methods.