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Tom Baden

Tom Baden (Thomas Baden) is a British-based neuroscientist, Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, known for work on the functional diversity of the mouse retina.

Tom Ellenberger

Tom Ellenberger is a structural biologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for crystal structures of DNA repair enzymes and the T7 replication machinery.

Tom H. Stevens

Tom H. Stevens, also known as Tom Stevens, is an American molecular biologist at the University of Oregon known for discovering the yeast vps protein-sorting genes.

Tom Hartley (psychologist)

Tom Hartley is a neuroscientist leading the Neural Representation Lab at the University of York, whose 2000 computational model predicted border cells, confirmed experimentally in 2008.

Tom Humphreys

Tom Humphreys was an American molecular biologist at the University of Hawaiʻi who showed how stored maternal mRNA in sea urchin eggs is activated at fertilization.

Tom J. Guilfoyle

Tom J. Guilfoyle was an American plant molecular biologist at the University of Missouri whose laboratory identified the auxin response factor ARF1 and created the DR5 element.

Tom L. Blundell

Sir Tom Blundell, born 1942, is a British structural biologist at Cambridge who helped solve insulin's 1969 structure and pioneered structural bioinformatics and fragment-based drug discovery.

Tom Maniatis

Tom Maniatis is an American molecular biologist and neuroscientist, the Isidore S. Edelman Professor of Biochemistry at Columbia University, known for pioneering gene cloning, the manual Molecular Cloning, and ALS research.

Tom Misteli

Tom Misteli (born 1966) is a Swiss-born cell biologist who studies genome organization in the cell nucleus and led the NCI Center for Cancer Research from 2016 to 2026.

Tom Moss

Tom Moss is a Canadian-based molecular biologist, a professor at Université Laval since 1986, known for research on ribosomal RNA gene transcription in growth control and cancer.

Tom Muir

Tom W. Muir is a Scottish-born chemical biologist who holds a professorship of chemistry at Princeton University and is known for developing expressed protein ligation, a widely used protein engineering method.

Tom Owen‐Hughes

Tom Owen-Hughes is a molecular biologist, professor of chromatin structure at the University of Dundee since 1998, known for work on ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling enzymes.

Tom van der Poll

Tom van der Poll (born 1961) is a Dutch internist-infectiologist, professor of medicine at the University of Amsterdam since 2003, known for research on sepsis and pneumonia.

Tomas Hökfelt

Tomas Hökfelt, born 1940 in Stockholm, is a Swedish neuroscientist at Karolinska Institutet known for mapping neuropeptides and showing neurons can contain more than one transmitter.

Tomás J Ryan

Tomás J Ryan is an Irish neuroscientist, Professor in Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin, known for developing memory engram technology during postdoctoral work in Susumu Tonegawa's MIT laboratory.

Tomas Kirchhausen

Tomas Kirchhausen, also known as Tom Kirchhausen, is a Peruvian-trained cell biologist, professor at Harvard Medical School, and leading authority on the structure and dynamics of clathrin-mediated endocytosis.

Tomas Lindahl

Tomas Lindahl is a Swedish-born biochemist in the UK who showed DNA is continually damaged and repaired, winning a third of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Tomas Pieler

Tomas Pieler is a retired molecular biologist who led the Pieler Lab at the University of Göttingen, known for Cell papers on the Xenopus 5S RNA gene system.

Tomáš Pluskal

Tomáš Pluskal, born 1981 in Prague, is a Czech metabolomics researcher who leads a plant natural products group at IOCB Prague and is known for the MZmine mass spectrometry software.

Tomasz Nowakowski

Tomasz J. Nowakowski is a developmental neuroscientist and associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco who uses single-cell genomics to map how the human brain builds itself before birth.

Tomio Tada

Tomio Tada (多田富雄, 1934–2010) was a Japanese immunologist who pioneered the study of suppressor T cells, and a professor of immunology at the University of Tokyo.

Tomitake Tsukihara

Tomitake Tsukihara (月原 冨武) is a Japanese biophysicist and protein crystallographer known for X-ray structures of cytochrome c oxidase and the human connexin 26 gap junction channel.

Tomohiro Kurosaki

Tomohiro Kurosaki (黒崎 知博) is a Japanese immunologist known for defining how the B cell antigen receptor signals, identifying the adaptors BLNK and BCAP, and leading a RIKEN laboratory.

Tomoko Ohta

Tomoko Ohta (太田朋子) is a Japanese population geneticist at the National Institute of Genetics, the main advocate of the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution.

Tomoya Kitajima

Tomoya Kitajima (北島 智也) is a Japanese cell biologist who leads the Laboratory for Chromosome Segregation at RIKEN in Kobe and identified the protein shugoshin.

Tomoyuki Takahashi

Tomoyuki Takahashi (高橋 智幸, born 1944) is a Japanese neuroscientist who studies synaptic transmission and vesicle recycling at the calyx of Held, a giant synapse in the auditory brainstem.

Ton Bisseling

Ton Bisseling (Antonius H.J. Bisseling) is a Dutch plant molecular biologist and emeritus professor of molecular biology at Wageningen University, known for his work on legume–rhizobium symbiosis and the ENOD40 nodule gene.

Tongqing Zhou

Tongqing Zhou is a Chinese-American structural virologist at NIAID who is chief of the Structural Virology and Vaccinology Section and designs vaccine immunogens for HIV-1 and RSV.

Toni Gabaldón

Toni Gabaldón (born 1973) is a Spanish computational biologist who leads the Comparative Genomics group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and IRB Barcelona, known for trimAl and eukaryogenesis studies.

Tony Hunter

Tony Hunter is a biochemist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, best known for his 1979 discovery of tyrosine phosphorylation, a key mechanism in cancer.