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Researchers in cardiovascular, metabolic, and endocrine research

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Thomas W. Smith

Thomas Woodward Smith (1936–1997) was an American cardiologist who led cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital for 22 years and developed digitalis radioimmunoassay and antibody treatment for digitalis poisoning.

Thue W. Schwartz

Thue W. Schwartz, born 1951, is a Danish physician-scientist and professor of molecular pharmacology at the University of Copenhagen who works on GPCR pharmacology, appetite regulation, and anti-obesity drugs.

Tim Noakes

Tim Noakes (born 1949, Harare) is a South African physician, Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town, proposer of the Central Governor Model of exercise fatigue, and a prominent advocate of low-carbohydrate high-fat (Banting) diets after promoting high-carbohydrate eating for over 35 years.

Timothy D. Henry

Timothy D. Henry is an American interventional cardiologist, Medical Director of the Lindner Center at The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati and SCAI president for 2021–22.

Timothy J. Kieffer

Timothy J. Kieffer is a Canadian metabolism researcher and Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, known for engineering insulin-producing cells and advancing stem-cell diabetes therapy into clinical trials.

Timothy M. Cox

Timothy M. Cox, born 1948, is a British metabolic medicine specialist and Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Cambridge, known for lysosomal disease research and gene therapy.

Ting-Kai Li

Ting-Kai Li (1934–2018) was a Chinese-born American physician-scientist in alcohol and addiction research who directed NIAAA from 2002 to 2008, created the alcohol-preferring rat, and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1999.

Tobias Walther

Tobias C. Walther is a cell biologist studying lipid storage and metabolism, an HHMI investigator since 2015 and chair of cell biology at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York.

Todd T. Schlegel

Todd T. Schlegel is a physician-scientist who served as Senior Scientist Medical Officer at NASA Johnson Space Center from 1992 to 2013, developing advanced ECG techniques for detecting heart disease.

Tomas Jernberg

Tomas Jernberg is a Swedish cardiologist and Professor of Cardiology at Danderyd Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, known for the 2024 REDUCE-AMI trial on beta-blockers after heart attacks.

Tony K.T. Lam

Tony K.T. Lam is a Canadian physiologist at the University of Toronto known for showing that the brain senses fatty acids to regulate liver glucose production in diabetes.

Tor Biering‐Sørensen

Tor Biering-Sørensen is a Danish cardiologist, professor of translational cardiology at the University of Copenhagen, who runs pragmatic randomized vaccine trials using Denmark's nationwide health registries.

Toren Finkel

Toren Finkel is an American physician-scientist who directs the Aging Institute at the University of Pittsburgh, known for research on reactive oxygen species, sirtuins, and the biology of aging.

Toshimasa Yamauchi

Toshimasa Yamauchi (山内 敏正) is a Japanese diabetes researcher and professor at the University of Tokyo, known for cloning the adiponectin receptors AdipoR1 and AdipoR2.

Toshiro Fujita

Toshiro Fujita (藤田 敏郎) is a Japanese physician-scientist in nephrology and hypertension, known for work on salt-sensitive hypertension, the Rac1–mineralocorticoid receptor pathway, and the epigenetics of hypertension.

Tsutomu Imaizumi

Tsutomu Imaizumi (今泉 務) is a Japanese physician-scientist in circulatory internal medicine who was professor at Kurume University from 1994 to 2011 and led the TACT cell transplantation trial.

Ulf Landmesser

Ulf Landmesser (born 1970) is a German cardiologist, Director of Cardiology at Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin in Berlin and Deputy Medical Director of the DHZC.

Ulrich Laufs

Ulrich Laufs is a German cardiologist who became Professor of Cardiology at Leipzig University in 2017, known for work showing statins raise endothelial nitric oxide synthase.

Uri Elkayam

Uri Elkayam is an Israeli-born cardiologist who pioneered a maternal cardiology program at LAC/USC Medical Center in 1981 and is known for research on peripartum cardiomyopathy and heart failure.

Uri Liberman

Uri A. Liberman (1935–2022) was an Israeli physician-scientist in bone and mineral metabolism at Tel Aviv University who described HHRH and led the 1995 alendronate trial.

Urs Scherrer

Urs Scherrer is a Swiss cardiologist and professor at the University Hospital of Bern known for research on hypertension, hypoxia, and high-altitude pulmonary edema, including a 2002 salmeterol prevention trial.

Utpal Pajvani

Utpal B. Pajvani is an American physician-scientist at Columbia University whose research established that Notch signaling drives insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and fatty liver disease in obesity.

Valentı́n Fuster

Valentín Fuster, born 1943 in Barcelona, is a Spanish cardiologist who leads Mount Sinai's heart hospital in New York and the CNIC in Madrid, and led major cardiovascular prevention trials.

Vallerie V. McLaughlin

Vallerie V. McLaughlin is an American cardiologist at the University of Michigan who directs its Pulmonary Hypertension Program and led major pulmonary arterial hypertension drug trials, including the 2025 sotatercept HYPERION study.

Véronique L. Roger

Véronique L. Roger is a cardiologist and cardiovascular epidemiologist who spent her career at Mayo Clinic before joining the NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in 2021.

Victor J. Dzau

Victor J. Dzau is a Shanghai-born, McGill-trained cardiologist whose work on the renin-angiotensin system underpinned ACE inhibitor drugs, and who was president of the National Academy of Medicine from 2014 to 2026.

Victor Pachon

Victor Pachon was a French physician and physiologist who invented the Pachon oscillometer, enabling accurate blood pressure determination. He directed a Paris lab and was a 1928 Nobel nominee.

Vincent DeQuattro

Vincent DeQuattro (1933–2001) was an American cardiologist and hypertension researcher who led the hypertension service at LAC+USC Medical Center and taught at USC for 35 years.

Vincent Prévot

Vincent Prévot, also published as Vincent Prevot, is a French neuroendocrinologist at Inserm and the University of Lille known for showing that hypothalamic tanycytes act as a gateway for leptin and anti-obesity drugs.

Viola Vaccarino

Viola Vaccarino is an Italian-trained physician and cardiovascular epidemiologist at Emory University, known for studies of sex and racial differences in heart attack survival and mental stress-induced ischemia.