Life scientists

Tao Xu

Tao Xu (徐涛, born 1970) is a Chinese cell biophysicist at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, known for regulated exocytosis and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy.

Tao-hsin Chang (张道欣) is a Taiwanese structural biologist and assistant professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, known for prenyltransferase structures and co-discovering Notum as the first extracellular protein deacylase.

Tariq Enver

Tariq Enver is a British molecular haematologist and Professor of Stem Cell Biology at the UCL Cancer Institute, known for work on blood cell fates and leukemia.

Tariq M. Rana

Tariq M. Rana is a molecular biologist and RNA biologist at UC San Diego, known for RNA interference and RNA modification research in virology and immunology.

Tarjei Mikkelsen

Tarjei Mikkelsen is a computational genomics researcher at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, first author of the 2007 draft genome of the opossum Monodelphis domestica, the first marsupial sequenced.

Taroh Kinoshita

Taroh Kinoshita is a Japanese biochemist and cell biologist at Osaka University. He identified 25 genes in the GPI pathway, linking it to PNH and earning a 2025 NAS election.

Tasuku Honjo (本庶佑)

Tasuku Honjo (本庶佑), born 1942 in Kyoto, is a Japanese immunologist at Kyoto University who discovered PD-1 and AID and shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with James Allison for checkpoint-inhibitor cancer therapy.

Tatiana G. Kutateladze

Tatiana G. Kutateladze is a Russian-born structural biologist and professor of pharmacology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, known for work on epigenetic reader proteins.

Tatsuo Fukagawa

Tatsuo Fukagawa (深川竜郎) is a Japanese molecular biologist, professor of chromosome biology at The University of Osaka since 2015, known for work on centromeres, kinetochores, and chromosome segregation.

Tatsuya Hirano

Tatsuya Hirano is a Japanese cell biologist and biochemist who has been a Chief Scientist at RIKEN in Wako, Japan, since 2007, and is known for discovering condensin and cohesin.

Tatyana V. Pestova

Tatyana V. Pestova is a molecular biologist at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn known for reconstructing mammalian protein synthesis from purified components in a test tube.

Te Pei Feng (冯德培)

Te Pei Feng (冯德培, 1907–1995) was a Chinese neurophysiologist and pioneer of modern physiology in China, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 1986.

Te-Tzu Chang

Te-Tzu Chang (张德慈) was a Chinese-born rice geneticist who spent thirty years building the world's largest rice gene bank at IRRI in the Philippines, supplying germplasm behind the Green Revolution.

Te‐Wen Chang

Te-Wen Chang (1920–2025) was a Chinese-born American virologist and physician at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for identifying the Clostridium difficile toxin as the cause of antibiotic-associated colitis.

Ted J. Kaptchuk

Ted J. Kaptchuk is an American researcher of placebo effects, professor at Harvard Medical School and director of its Program in Placebo Studies, known for open-label placebos.

Teizo Kitagawa

Teizo Kitagawa (北川禎三) is a Japanese biophysicist and physical chemist known for resonance Raman spectroscopy of heme proteins, long a professor at the Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki.

Tej P. Singh

Tej P. Singh (Tej Pal Singh, born 1944) is an Indian biophysicist at AIIMS New Delhi known for X-ray crystallography of lactoperoxidase, peptide design, and drug discovery.

Temple F. Smith

Temple F. Smith, also known as Temple Smith, is a computational biologist who trained as a nuclear physicist, co-developed the Smith–Waterman algorithm, and helped found GenBank.

Ten Feizi

Ten Feizi is a glycobiologist and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, known for neoglycolipid technology and the first robotically printed glycan microarray in 2002.

Teng-Leong Chew

Teng-Leong Chew is a cell biologist and imaging scientist who has directed the Advanced Imaging Center at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus since 2014, studying the actin cytoskeleton and mitochondria.

Terence Hwa

Terence Tai-Li Hwa (also published as T. Hwa) is a biophysicist at the University of California, San Diego, known for establishing bacterial growth laws and a theory of proteomic resource allocation in E. coli.

Terence R. Strick

Terence R. Strick, also known as Terence Strick, is a French-based molecular biophysicist, a CNRS research director and professor at IBENS in Paris who studies single DNA molecules.

Teresa A. Nicolson

Teresa A. Nicolson is an American neuroscientist who uses zebrafish to study the genetics of hearing and balance, and is a professor at Stanford University.

Teresa Carlomagno

Teresa Carlomagno is a structural biologist and professor at the University of Birmingham, known for the 2013 Nature structure of the box C/D RNA-methylation enzyme.

Teresa Davoli

Teresa Davoli is an Italian-born molecular biologist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies aneuploidy in cancer and created KaryoCreate, a CRISPR-based chromosome engineering technology.

Teresa Head‐Gordon

Teresa Head-Gordon is an American theoretical and computational chemist who co-developed the TIP4P-Ew water model and studies catalysis, and has been a UC Berkeley professor since 2001.

Terrence J. Sejnowski

Terrence J. Sejnowski is an American computational neuroscientist who pioneered learning algorithms for neural networks, holds the Francis Crick Chair at the Salk Institute, and won the 2024 Brain Prize.

Terri Grodzicker

Terri Grodzicker is an American molecular geneticist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory known for research on adenovirus and SV40 genetics and for editing Genes & Development.

Terry B. Strom

Terry B. Strom was an American transplant immunologist who led immunology at Beth Israel Deaconess and Harvard, publishing hundreds of papers and more than 50 patents before his death in 2018.