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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.

Tibor Harkany

Tibor Harkany, born 1972, is a Hungarian molecular neurobiologist who studies how the brain develops, focusing on the hypothalamus and endocannabinoids, and heads Molecular Neurosciences in Vienna.

Tibor J. Greenwalt

Tibor J. Greenwalt (1914–2005) was a Hungarian-born American physician and educator called the "Father of Transfusion Medicine", who directed the American Red Cross blood program and Hoxworth Blood Center.

Tien Y. Wong

Tien Y. Wong (Tien Yin Wong) is a Singapore-trained ophthalmologist known for retinal imaging, eye-disease epidemiology in Asia, and AI screening; he leads Tsinghua Medicine.

Tikki Pang

Tikki Pang, born Tikki Pangestu, is an Indonesian public health researcher who led WHO's Research Policy & Cooperation department in Geneva from 1999 to 2012, then joined the National University of Singapore.

Till Bärnighausen

Till Bärnighausen (born 1969) is a German physician and epidemiologist who directs the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health and studies how HIV treatment and vaccination programs work at scale in Africa.

Tilman B. Drüeke

Tilman B. Drüeke, born 1942, is a German-born, French-based nephrology researcher long at Necker Hospital in Paris and Inserm, known for the CREATE trial and work on secondary hyperparathyroidism.

Tilman Sauerbruch

Tilman Sauerbruch, born 1946, is a German hepatologist and professor of internal medicine at the University of Bonn, known for fragmenting gallstones with extracorporeal shock waves and studying portal hypertension.

Tim C. P. Somervaille

Tim C. P. Somervaille is a British hematologist who studies leukemia stem cells and leads the Leukaemia Biology Laboratory at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute.

Tim Coorens

Tim Coorens is a Dutch cancer genomics researcher who reconstructs the family trees of human cells from somatic mutations, leading a group at EMBL-EBI since 2025.

Tim D. Spector

Tim D. Spector, also known as Tim Spector, is a British physician and professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London who founded the TwinsUK twin registry.

Tim Doran

Tim Doran is a British physician and health services researcher, Professor of Health Policy at the University of York, known for large-scale studies of the UK's pay-for-performance scheme.

Tim F. Greten

Tim F. Greten is a German-trained physician-scientist who heads the Gastrointestinal Malignancy Section at the National Cancer Institute and was the world's most published author in hepatocellular carcinoma immunotherapy in 2023.

Tim Higenbottam

Tim Higenbottam is a British respiratory physician-scientist who developed the first effective drug therapies for pulmonary arterial hypertension, advanced lung transplantation at Papworth Hospital, and studied inhaled nitric oxide.

Tim Manser

Tim Manser, full name Timothy L. Manser, is an American immunologist and professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia known for research on B cell immune memory and self tolerance.

Tim Mosmann

Tim Mosmann is a British immunologist best known for discovering the TH1 and TH2 helper T cell subsets with Robert Coffman, work first published in 1986.

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.

Timo Vesikari

Timo Vesikari is a Finnish physician-scientist in infectious diseases and vaccinology, based in Tampere, who conducted the first clinical trials of live oral rotavirus vaccines in humans.

Timothy A. Springer

Timothy A. Springer is an American immunologist at Harvard Medical School who showed that white blood cells use integrin adhesion molecules to enter tissues, work that produced approved drugs.

Timothy B. Hallett

Timothy B. Hallett is a Professor of Global Health at Imperial College London who models HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria to show how resources can maximize population health.

Timothy Caulfield

Timothy Caulfield is a Canadian health law and science policy scholar at the University of Alberta, known for work on stem cell policy and health misinformation.

Timothy Chan

Timothy A. Chan is a physician-scientist in cancer genomics and precision oncology at Cleveland Clinic, known for establishing tumor mutation burden as an immunotherapy biomarker.

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 F. Cloughesy

Timothy F. Cloughesy is an American neuro-oncologist who directs the UCLA Neuro-Oncology Program and led the clinical development of bevacizumab and vorasidenib for brain tumors.

Timothy J Wilt

Timothy J Wilt is an American general internist and health services researcher at the Minneapolis VA and University of Minnesota, known for leading the PIVOT prostate cancer trial.

Timothy J. Eberlein

Timothy J. Eberlein is an American surgical oncologist who founded and directs the Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis and chairs the American College of Surgeons Board of Regents.

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 J. Ley

Timothy J. Ley is an American physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine known for acute myeloid leukemia genomics and for sequencing the first human cancer genome.

Timothy J. Whelan

Timothy J. Whelan, also known as Tim Whelan, is a Canadian radiation oncologist at McMaster University whose trials shortened breast cancer radiation and showed some women can safely skip it.

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.