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Researchers in cardiovascular, metabolic, and endocrine research

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Tashara Leak

Tashara M. Leak is an American nutrition scientist and registered dietitian, an associate professor at Cornell University who received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Tatiana V. Byzova

Tatiana Byzova is a vascular biologist and angiogenesis researcher at Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute, known for discovering Kindlin-3 deficiency and studying pathological blood vessel growth.

Teresa A. Davis

Teresa A. Davis, also known as Teresa Ann Davis, is an American nutrition scientist known for her research on muscle protein synthesis in newborns, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.

Terry J. Smith

Terry J. Smith is an American endocrinologist and University of Michigan professor whose research on thyroid eye disease led to teprotumumab, the first FDA-approved drug for the condition.

Theodore B. Van Itallie

Theodore B. Van Itallie (1919–2019) was an American physician and obesity researcher who led St. Luke's Hospital in New York and founded the New York Obesity Research Center.

Theodore W. Kurtz

Theodore W. Kurtz is a physician-scientist and Professor of Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, known for research on salt-dependent hypertension and rat genetics.

Thierry H. LeJemtel

Thierry H. LeJemtel is a French-trained cardiologist specializing in advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology, Henderson Chair Professor of Medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine since 2005.

Thomas A. Gaziano

Thomas A. Gaziano is an American cardiologist and health-decision scientist, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Chan School, who studies cost-effective cardiovascular disease prevention in developing countries.

Thomas A. Pearson

Thomas A. Pearson is an American cardiovascular epidemiologist, professor at the University of Florida since 2013, known for heart disease prevention research and national prevention guidelines.

Thomas A. Wadden

Thomas A. Wadden is an American clinical psychologist and obesity researcher at the University of Pennsylvania who directed its Center for Weight and Eating Disorders from 1993 to 2017.

Thomas Engstrøm

Thomas Engstrøm is a Danish interventional cardiologist, clinical professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for founding the DANAMI-3 trials in STEMI and a 2025 Lancet meta-analysis.

Thomas F. Lüscher

Thomas F. Lüscher is a Swiss cardiologist and cardiovascular researcher known for work on the endothelium and Takotsubo syndrome, and President of the European Society of Cardiology since 2024.

Thomas Force

Thomas Force, also known as Thomas Lee Force, was an American cardiologist whose 2006 finding that the cancer drug imatinib causes heart failure launched cardio-oncology.

Thomas G. Pickering

Thomas G. Pickering was a British-born physician-scientist, professor at Columbia University, who coined white-coat and masked hypertension and made out-of-office blood-pressure measurement part of routine cardiovascular medicine.

Thomas H. Marwick

Thomas H. Marwick is an Australian cardiologist known for stress echocardiography and myocardial strain imaging, and director of the Baker Institute from 2016 to 2024.

Thomas J. Merimee

Thomas J. Merimee is an endocrinologist who studied the growth hormone–IGF axis, showing growth hormone's role in diabetic vascular disease through work on dwarfs and African Pygmies.

Thomas J. Ryan

Thomas J. Ryan (1928–2020) was an American cardiologist at Boston University who led the Coronary Artery Surgery Study and served as American Heart Association president.

Thomas J. Wang

Thomas J. Wang is an American cardiologist and cardiovascular researcher who became dean of the University of Michigan Medical School in 2025, known for Framingham biomarker research.

Thomas Langer

Thomas Langer is a German biochemist who studies mitochondrial proteases and quality control; he directs the Department of Mitochondrial Proteostasis at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne.

Thomas Lewis (cardiologist)

Sir Thomas Lewis (1881–1945) was a Welsh-born British cardiologist who brought the electrocardiograph to the bedside, advanced the study of atrial fibrillation, and founded the journal Heart.

Thomas M. Bashore

Thomas M. Bashore is an American cardiologist and Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Duke University, known for cardiac catheterization safety, contrast-induced kidney injury, and valvular heart disease.

Thomas Meade (British epidemiologist)

Thomas Wilson Meade (1936–2022) was a British epidemiologist who directed the MRC Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit at Northwick Park and led the Northwick Park Heart Study.

Thomas Michel

Thomas Michel is an American physician-scientist and cardiologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for research on nitric oxide and redox signaling in the cardiovascular system.

Thomas Münzel

Thomas Münzel is a German cardiologist at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, known for work on nitrate tolerance, noise, and air pollution as cardiovascular risk factors.

Thomas N. James

Thomas N. James (1925–2010) was an American cardiologist and cardiovascular pathologist known for research on the coronary arteries and conduction system, and served as president of the American Heart Association.

Thomas O. Carpenter

Thomas O. Carpenter, also known as Thomas Carpenter, is an American pediatric endocrinologist, Professor Emeritus at Yale, who led the 2018 burosumab trial for X-linked hypophosphatemia.

Thomas P. Cappola

Thomas P. Cappola is an American cardiologist and genetic epidemiologist who studies heart failure; he is Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and received a 2008 Presidential Early Career Award.

Thomas Pilgrim

Thomas Pilgrim is a Swiss interventional cardiologist at the Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, where he became Deputy Chief Physician and Head of Valvular Heart Diseases in 2020.

Thomas R. Dawber

Thomas R. Dawber (1913–2005) was a Canadian-born American physician and epidemiologist who directed the Framingham Heart Study, which identified the major risk factors for coronary heart disease.

Thomas Thum

Thomas Thum is a German cardiologist and professor at Hannover Medical School who established microRNAs as drug targets in heart failure and co-founded Cardior Pharmaceuticals.