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Talmadge E. King

Talmadge E. King is an American pulmonary physician who was dean of the UCSF School of Medicine from 2015 and is known for research on interstitial lung disease.

Tamotsu Takishima

Tamotsu Takishima (瀧島任) was a Japanese physician-scientist in respiratory medicine who chaired the First Department of Internal Medicine at Tohoku University from 1972 to 1992.

Tannishtha Reya

Tannishtha Reya is a cancer biologist at Columbia University known for Wnt signaling in stem cells and for the 2001 Nature review that coined "cancer stem cell."

Tanuja Chitnis

Tanuja Chitnis is a neurologist and Harvard Medical School professor specializing in multiple sclerosis, known for establishing pediatric MS as a field and leading the PARADIGMS trial.

Tanya N. Mayadas

Tanya N. Mayadas, also published as Tanya Mayadas, is an immunologist known for work on neutrophil recruitment in autoimmune disease; she moved to the University of Rochester in 2025.

Tao Wang (medical researcher)

Tao Wang is a bioinformatician and computational biologist who is an Associate Professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for Spacia, Netie, and Sprod, spatial transcriptomics methods.

Tarik Asselah

Tarik Asselah is a French hepatologist, full professor at Université Paris Cité and Hôpital Beaujon, AP-HP, who leads viral hepatitis research at Inserm UMR 1149 in Paris.

Tarun Jain

Tarun Jain is a reproductive endocrinology and infertility physician-researcher, Professor at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine and Medical Director of its Center for Fertility and Reproductive Medicine.

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.

Tatiana V. Petrova

Tatiana V. Petrova, often published as Tatiana Petrova, is a vascular biologist and Full Professor of Oncology at the University of Lausanne, known for work on lymphangiogenesis and PROX1 in colon cancer.

Tatsuhiro Shibata

Tatsuhiro Shibata (柴田 龍弘) is a Japanese physician-scientist in cancer genomics, professor at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Medical Science since 2014, known for discovering KIF5B-RET fusions in lung adenocarcinoma.

Tazeen H. Jafar

Tazeen H. Jafar is a Pakistani nephrologist and professor at Duke-NUS Medical School known for community health worker trials of blood pressure control in rural South Asia.

Te Rangi Hīroa

Te Rangi Hīroa, born Peter Henry Buck (1877–1951), was a New Zealand physician, Māori MP, war hero, and anthropologist who became director of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu.

TE Starzl

Thomas Earl Starzl was an American transplant surgeon who performed the world's first liver transplant in 1963 and its first successful one in 1967, and is called the father of transplantation.

Ted M. Dawson

Ted M. Dawson, also known as Ted Dawson, is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University known for research on Parkinson's disease, nitric oxide signaling, and parthanatos.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (ቴዎድሮስ አድሓኖም ገብረኢየሱስ)

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (ቴዎድሮስ አድሓኖም ገብረኢየሱስ), Ethiopian malariologist and diplomat, WHO Director-General since 1 July 2017, first African to hold the post, re-elected 2022, term ends 2027.

Teepu Siddique

Teepu Siddique is a neurologist and neurogeneticist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine whose laboratory established the genetic basis of ALS, linking familial ALS to chromosome 21 in 1991.

Telfer B. Reynolds

Telfer B. Reynolds (1921–2004) was an American hepatologist at the University of Southern California, described as a founder of hepatology, who defined portal pressure measurement, the hepatorenal syndrome, and laxative-induced autoimmune hepatitis.

Terence H. Rabbitts

Terence H. Rabbitts, born 1946, is a British molecular biologist and Fellow of the Royal Society known for defining antibody genes, discovering cancer translocation genes, and developing intracellular antibody technology.

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.

Teresa K. Woodruff

Teresa K. Woodruff, born Teresa Kaye Woodruff, is an American reproductive biologist who coined "oncofertility" in 2006, founded the Oncofertility Consortium, and received the National Medal of Science in 2025.

Teri A. Manolio

Teri A. Manolio is an American internist and genetic epidemiologist who has directed the Division of Genomic Medicine at the National Human Genome Research Institute since 2012.

Terrie E. Taylor

Terrie E. Taylor is an American osteopathic physician and malaria researcher at Michigan State University who has treated children with cerebral malaria in Blantyre, Malawi, since 1986.

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.

Terry P. Klassen

Terry P. Klassen is a Canadian pediatric emergency physician and clinical trials methodologist, Provincial Head of Pediatrics in Saskatchewan since 2024 and a founder of PERC and TREKK.

Terry Van Dyke

Terry Van Dyke is an American cancer researcher known for genetically engineered mouse models of cancer and for directing the NCI Center for Advanced Preclinical Research.

Teruyo Sakakura

Teruyo Sakakura (榊原照代) is a Japanese immunology researcher who, with Yasuaki Nishizuka, showed in 1969 that removing the thymus from 3-day-old mice causes autoimmune disease, work credited by the 2025 Nobel Prize.

TH Lee

Tak H. Lee, born Tak Hong Lee, was a Hong Kong-born allergist and asthma researcher at King's College London who founded the MRC–Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma.

Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck

Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck is an American immunologist and physician-scientist who became chair of Inflammation and Immunity at Cleveland Clinic in 2019, known for work on intestinal repair and stem cell culture systems.