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Terry Magnuson

Terry Magnuson, born 1950, is an American mouse geneticist and epigeneticist at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he founded the Department of Genetics and the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences.

Terry Platt

Terry Platt is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester, known for his work on transcription termination in E. coli.

Teruhiko Wakayama

Teruhiko Wakayama (若山 照彦) is a Japanese reproductive biologist who produced the world's first cloned mouse from a somatic cell nucleus, reported in Nature in 1998.

Terumi Kohwi-shigematsu

Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu is a biochemist and molecular biologist at UCSF and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for discovering base-unpairing regions in DNA and identifying SATB1, which she proposed acts as a genome organizer.

Tetsu Akiyama

Tetsu Akiyama (秋山 徹) is a Japanese molecular oncologist and Project Professor at the University of Tokyo's Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, known for identifying D-Axin and Asef.

Tetsuji Kakutani

Tetsuji Kakutani (角谷 徹仁) is a Japanese plant geneticist known for Nature papers showing that DNA methylation silences transposable elements in Arabidopsis, and is a Specially Appointed Professor at the National Institute of Genetics.

Tetsuya Higashiyama

Tetsuya Higashiyama is a Japanese plant developmental biologist and University of Tokyo professor known for identifying the LURE peptides that guide pollen tubes to the ovule.

Tetsuya Taga

Tetsuya Taga (田賀 哲也) is a Japanese stem cell biologist and professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo, known for identifying gp130 as the interleukin-6 signal transducer in 1989.

Teunis B. H. Geijtenbeek

Teunis B. H. Geijtenbeek, known as Theo Geijtenbeek, is a Dutch immunologist born in 1969 who discovered the dendritic cell receptor DC-SIGN and is a professor at Amsterdam UMC.

Thaddeus P. Dryja

Thaddeus P. Dryja, also published as T. P. Dryja, is an ophthalmic pathologist and molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical School known for cloning the retinoblastoma gene and finding rhodopsin mutations in retinitis pigmentosa.

Thanos D. Halazonetis

Thanos D. Halazonetis is a Greek molecular biologist, a University of Geneva professor from 2006 to 2025, known for DNA damage checkpoints and oncogene-induced replication stress in cancer.

The Zoological Society of Japan

The Zoological Society of Japan (日本動物学会, ZSJ), founded 1878 as the Tokyo Biological Society, is one of Japan's oldest scientific societies, with about 2,700 members, seven regional branches, and the journals Zoological Science and Zoological Letters.

Theodor Becker

Theodor Becker (1840–1928) was a German entomologist and civil engineer, town planning officer of Liegnitz, who classified two-winged flies and named genera still in use.

Theodor Boveri

Theodor Boveri (1862–1915) was a German zoologist at the University of Würzburg who formulated the chromosome theory of heredity and proposed that cancer begins in a single cell with abnormal chromosomes.

Theodor Kocher

Emil Theodor Kocher was a Swiss surgeon in Bern who in 1909 became the first surgeon to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for thyroid surgery.

Theodor Otto Diener

Theodor Otto Diener (1921-2023), Swiss-born American USDA plant pathologist, discovered the viroid in 1971, the smallest infectious agent, protein-free circular RNA causing potato spindle tuber disease; National Medal of Science and Wolf Prize recipient.

Theodor Schwann

Theodor Schwann (1810–1882), German physiologist, co-founded cell theory with Schleiden in 1839, discovered pepsin, proved yeast fermentation is a life process, and gave his name to the Schwann cell.

Theodor von Brand

Theodor von Brand (1899–1978) was a German-American parasitologist who pioneered the biochemistry of parasites and headed a research section at the National Institutes of Health.

Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann

Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann (1843–1909) was a German physiologist who worked in Utrecht and Berlin, proved with bacteria that photosynthesis occurs in chloroplasts, and championed the myogenic theory of the heartbeat.

Theodore C. Pierson

Theodore C. Pierson is an American virologist known for his work on how antibodies neutralize flaviviruses like dengue and Zika, and for directing NIH's Vaccine Research Center since 2023.

Theodore D. Satterthwaite

Theodore D. Satterthwaite, also known as Ted Satterthwaite, is an American psychiatrist and neuroimaging researcher at the University of Pennsylvania who directs the PennLINC center.

Theodore Friedmann

Theodore Friedmann (born 1935) is an American physician-scientist and emeritus professor at UC San Diego who proposed human gene therapy and won the 2015 Japan Prize.

Theodore G. Krontiris

Theodore G. Krontiris is a molecular biologist and cancer geneticist known for the reported association between rare HRAS1 alleles and the risk of common cancers.

Theodore Holmes Bullock

Theodore Holmes Bullock (1915–2005) was an American comparative neurobiologist who spent 1966 to 2005 at UC San Diego and Scripps, and co-discovered electroreception in fish in 1961.

Theodore L. Steck

Theodore L. Steck is an American membrane biochemist, long at the University of Chicago, whose 1970 inside-out vesicle method exposed the inner face of red cell membranes for study.

Theodore Nicholas Gill

Theodore Nicholas Gill was an American ichthyologist and zoologist, long associated with the Smithsonian Institution, who published more than 500 scientific papers on fish taxonomy.

Theodore S. Jardetzky

Theodore S. Jardetzky, born 1960, is a structural biologist, professor, and department chair at Stanford known for crystal structures of HLA-DR1, the IgE receptor, and viral entry proteins.

Theodore T. Puck

Theodore T. Puck (1916–2005) was an American geneticist who essentially created somatic cell genetics, devised single-cell cloning of mammalian cells, and established the CHO cell line.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975) was a Ukrainian-born American geneticist whose fieldwork on wild fruit flies reconciled natural selection with genetics, and whose 1937 book launched the modern evolutionary synthesis.

Theoharis C. Theoharides

Theoharis C. Theoharides is an immunology researcher known for showing that mast cells can be activated by corticotropin-releasing hormone, linking stress to mast-cell-driven inflammation, and for his 2015 New England Journal of Medicine review on mastocytosis.