Life scientists

Theophilus Painter

Theophilus Painter (1889–1969) was an American zoologist and geneticist at the University of Texas at Austin who established that mammals, including humans, have X- and Y-chromosomes determining sex.

Theresa A Kadlecek

Theresa A. Kadlecek is an immunologist and research specialist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute laboratory at UCSF, known for the 1994 Science paper identifying ZAP-70 deficiency in SCID.

Theresa M. Marteau

Theresa M. Marteau, also known as Theresa Marteau, is a British psychologist and behavioral scientist who directs the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge.

Thi Hoang Duong Nguyen

Thi Hoang Duong (Kelly) Nguyen, born 1987, is a structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology known for cryo-EM structures of human telomerase.

Thierry Boon

Thierry Boon-Falleur, born in Belgium in 1944, is a Belgian immunologist at UCLouvain known for discovering the MAGE family of human tumor antigens in 1991.

Thijs Ettema

Thijs Ettema, also known as Thijs J. G. Ettema, is a Dutch evolutionary microbiologist, chair professor of Microbiology at Wageningen University since 2019, known for discovering the Asgard archaea.

Thilo Stehle

Thilo Stehle is a German structural virologist and biochemist who heads the Biochemistry Institute at the University of Tübingen and determined the structures of polyomaviruses.

Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti is an immunologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis who studies innate immunity and inflammasomes, and is known for defining PANoptosis, a lytic inflammatory cell death pathway driven by PANoptosome complexes.

Thomas A. Blanpied

Thomas A. Blanpied is an American neuroscientist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who studies the nanoscale organization of glutamatergic synapses and received the 2007 PECASE award.

Thomas A. Cooper

Thomas A. Cooper is an American physician-scientist and molecular biologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, known for work on RNA splicing and myotonic dystrophy type 1.

Thomas A. Kunkel

Thomas A. Kunkel is an American biochemist at NIEHS known for work on DNA replication fidelity, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Thomas A. Reh

Thomas A. Reh is a neuroscientist and Professor of Biological Structure at the University of Washington who studies retinal regeneration, seeking to restore sight by reprogramming Müller glia into neurons.

Thomas A. Spies

Thomas A. Spies is an American immunologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, known for discovering the TAP1 antigen-presentation gene and the NKG2D ligands MICA and MICB.

Thomas A. Steitz

Thomas A. Steitz (1940–2018) was an American structural biologist at Yale who determined the 50S ribosomal subunit structure and shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Thomas A. Waldmann

Thomas A. Waldmann was an American immunologist who led the National Cancer Institute's Metabolism Branch from 1971 to 2019, developed daclizumab, and described Waldmann disease.

Thomas A. Wynn

Thomas A. Wynn is an American immunologist known for establishing how type 2 immune responses drive fibrosis, after 26 years at the NIH and a 2017 move to Pfizer.

Thomas B. Friedman

Thomas B. Friedman is an American human geneticist who has identified many genes causing hereditary deafness and blindness, including PCDH15, and leads a genetics laboratory at the NIH.

Thomas B. Kornberg

Thomas B. Kornberg is an American developmental geneticist and professor emeritus at UCSF who discovered E. coli DNA polymerases as a student and later cytonemes in Drosophila.

Thomas B. L. Kirkwood

Thomas B. L. Kirkwood, born 1951, is a British mathematical biologist who proposed the disposable soma theory of aging in 1977 and is Emeritus Professor at Newcastle University.

Thomas Barbour

Thomas Barbour (1884–1946) was an American herpetologist and zoologist who directed Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1927 to 1946, specializing in West Indian reptiles and amphibians.

Thomas Becker (biochemist)

Thomas Becker is a German biochemist who studies how mitochondria import and quality-control their proteins, and has been a professor at the University of Bonn since 2020.

Thomas Blumenthal

Thomas Blumenthal is an American molecular biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for discovering the first eukaryotic operons, in C. elegans.

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.

Thomas Boller

Thomas Boller (born 1949) is a Swiss plant biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Basel, known for showing that plant chitinases inhibit fungal growth.

Thomas Braun

Thomas Braun (born 1961) is a German physician-scientist who studies muscle and heart development and regeneration at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research.

Thomas C. Kaufman

Thomas C. Kaufman is an American developmental geneticist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, known for defining the Antennapedia gene complex of the fruit fly Drosophila and helping found FlyBase.

Thomas C. Merigan

Thomas C. Merigan, born 1934, is an American physician-scientist and virologist, emeritus professor at Stanford known for introducing interferon therapy and developing antiviral drugs against HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B.

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Thomas C. Südhof

Thomas C. Südhof is a German-born American biochemist at Stanford who identified the calcium sensor for neurotransmitter release and shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Thomas Carew

Thomas J. Carew, born in 1944, is an American neuroscientist at New York University known for showing that memory in the sea slug Aplysia has distinct short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term phases.