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Suzanne Schuh

Suzanne Schuh is a Canadian pediatric emergency medicine researcher at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, known for large multicenter trials including the 2018 PROGUT probiotic trial.

Suzanne W. Fletcher

Suzanne W. Fletcher is an American internist and clinical epidemiologist, Emerita professor at Harvard Medical School known for research on breast cancer screening benefits and harms.

Sven Cnattingius

Sven Cnattingius is a Swedish reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist and professor emeritus at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for large register-based studies of maternal smoking, snus, and obesity in pregnancy.

Svyatoslav Fyodorov

Svyatoslav Fyodorov (Святослав Николаевич Фёдоров) was a Soviet and Russian ophthalmologist who pioneered radial keratotomy and artificial-lens implantation, and ran for president of Russia in 1996.

Swee Lay Thein

Swee Lay Thein is a Malaysian-born hematologist at the US National Institutes of Health whose work on fetal hemoglobin enabled CRISPR gene therapy for sickle cell disease.

Sydney E. Salmon

Sydney E. Salmon (1936–1999) was an American physician-scientist in hematology and oncology who founded the University of Arizona Cancer Center and co-created the Durie–Salmon staging system for multiple myeloma.

Sylvain Latour

Sylvain Latour is a French CNRS immunologist who directs a laboratory at Institut Imagine in Paris, known for identifying inborn errors of immunity to Epstein-Barr virus.

Sylvie Euvrard

Sylvie Euvrard is a French dermatologist at Hôpital Edouard Herriot in Lyon who led the 2003 NEJM review of skin cancers after organ transplantation and the 2012 TUMORAPA sirolimus trial.

T S Low-Beer

T S Low-Beer, born Thomas Stephen Low-Beer in Brno in 1932, was a British gastroenterologist at Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, known for research on bile salts and gallstones.

T. Alp İkizler

T. Alp İkizler (Talat Alp Ikizler) is a nephrologist directing nephrology and hypertension at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known for research on protein energy wasting in dialysis patients.

T. Bernard Kinane

T. Bernard Kinane, also known as Thomas Bernard Kinane, is a pediatric pulmonologist who has led the Pediatric Pulmonary Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital since 2000.

T. K. Sreepada Rao

T. K. Sreepada Rao is a nephrologist at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn who described heroin-associated kidney disease and was among the first to define the renal disease of AIDS.

T.C. Northfield

T.C. Northfield, full name Timothy Clive Northfield (1935–2008), was a British gastroenterologist and professor of medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School in London, known for pioneering endoscopic laser therapy for bleeding peptic ulcers.

T.L. Dormandy

T.L. Dormandy, born Thomas Dormandy in Budapest in 1926, was a Hungarian-born British chemical pathologist at London's Whittington Hospital who helped establish free-radical research and later wrote a history of tuberculosis.

Tae Gwan Park

Tae Gwan Park (박태관, 1957–2011) was a South Korean biomaterials scientist who taught at KAIST from 1996, known for drug delivery and multimeric siRNA gene silencing.

Tage Astrup

Tage Astrup (1908–November 2006) was a Danish biochemist who pioneered fibrinolysis research and proposed the haemostatic balance, the equilibrium between blood clotting and clot dissolution.

Taha Merghoub

Taha Merghoub is an Algerian-born cancer immunotherapy researcher, Deputy Director of the Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine since 2022 after a career at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

Tait D. Shanafelt

Tait D. Shanafelt, also published as Tait Shanafelt, is an American hematologist-oncologist, Stanford's first chief wellness officer since 2017, known for burnout research and the E1912 CLL trial.

Tak W. Mak

Tak W. Mak is a Canadian immunologist who led the 1984 cloning of the human T cell receptor genes and pioneered genetically altered mice in cancer research.

Takaoki Sasaki

Takaoki Sasaki (佐々木隆興, 1878–1966) was a Japanese physician and medical scientist who, with Tomizo Yoshida, produced the first artificial cancer of an internal organ in rats in 1932.

Takaomi C. Saido

Takaomi C. Saido (西道 隆臣) is a Japanese pharmacologist and neuroscientist who has led a team at RIKEN since 1997, known for identifying neprilysin as the principal amyloid-β-degrading enzyme in the brain.

Takashi Kadowaki

Takashi Kadowaki (門脇孝) is a Japanese diabetes researcher and president of Toranomon Hospital, known for discovering the adiponectin receptors and winning the 2013 Japan Academy Prize.

Takashi Shinohara

Takashi Shinohara (篠原隆司) is a Japanese reproductive biologist, professor of molecular genetics at Kyoto University since 2004, known for deriving pluripotent stem cells from neonatal mouse testis.

Takayuki Yoshino

Takayuki Yoshino (吉野孝之) is a Japanese medical oncologist who leads the GALAXY ctDNA registry study within CIRCULATE-Japan and the GOZILA ctDNA-guided targeted therapy analysis, advancing precision oncology in colorectal cancer.

Takehiko Sasazuki

Takehiko Sasazuki (笹月 健彦) was a Japanese immunogeneticist who showed that HLA genes control human immune responses, and led Kyushu University and the National Center for Global Health and Medicine.

Takehisa Kitazawa

Takehisa Kitazawa (北沢久寿), born 1968, is a Japanese antibody researcher at Chugai Pharmaceutical who co-invented emicizumab (Hemlibra) for hemophilia A and shared the 2026 Lasker–DeBakey Award.

Takenobu Kamada

Takenobu Kamada, also romanized Kamata Takenobu, is a Japanese gastroenterologist and hepatologist, professor at Osaka University, who named the ischemic tolerance phenomenon in the brain.

Takeshi Iwatsubo

Takeshi Iwatsubo (岩坪 威) is a Japanese neurologist and neuroscientist known for showing that amyloid-β 42 is the first amyloid species deposited in Alzheimer's disease brains.

Takeshi Yōrō

Takeshi Yōrō (養老孟司, born 1937) is a Japanese anatomist and University of Tokyo professor emeritus whose 2003 book Baka no Kabe sold over 4.6 million copies.

Taku Okazaki

Taku Okazaki (岡崎 拓) is a Japanese immunologist and professor at the University of Tokyo known for his work on the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway and immunological synapse.