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Ta Yuan Chang

Ta Yuan Chang (張大元) is an American biochemist and cell biologist at Dartmouth College known for identifying the ACAT1 gene, which esterifies and stores cholesterol in cells.

Tad T. Brunye

Tad T. Brunye is an American cognitive scientist who studies spatial cognition, stress, and non-invasive brain stimulation as a senior researcher at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Center.

Tadamitsu Kishimoto

Tadamitsu Kishimoto (岸本 忠三) is a Japanese immunologist at Osaka University who discovered interleukin-6, work that led to the antibody drug tocilizumab, used by more than one million people.

Tadaomi Takenawa

Tadaomi Takenawa (竹縄 忠臣), born in 1944, is a Japanese biochemist and cell biologist known for defining how phosphoinositide signals control the actin cytoskeleton, notably the IRSp53 pathway linking Rac to WAVE proteins.

Tadashi Uemura

Tadashi Uemura (上村 匡) is a Japanese molecular biologist who spent his career at Kyoto University, known for the numb gene's control of cell fate in Drosophila and for cadherin research.

Tadashi Yamamoto

Tadashi Yamamoto is a Japanese molecular biologist and professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, known for identifying the HER2 gene and characterizing the CCR4-NOT complex.

Tadatsugu Taniguchi

Tadatsugu Taniguchi (谷口 維紹) is a Japanese immunologist and molecular biologist known for cloning the human interferon-beta and interleukin-2 genes and discovering the IRF transcription factor family.

Tadhg P. Begley

Tadhg P. Begley, also known as Tadhg Begley, is a chemist at Texas A&M University who studies the enzymology of vitamin biosynthesis, including thiamin and pyridoxal phosphate.

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.

Tae‐Wook Chun

Tae-Wook Chun is an American virologist and Chief of the HIV Immunovirology Section at NIAID, best known for discovering latently infected CD4+ T cells that keep HIV from being cured.

Taekjip Ha

Taekjip Ha is a single-molecule biophysicist who co-invented single-molecule FRET, and since 2023 has directed the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

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.

Tai-ping Sun

Tai-ping Sun is a plant biologist at Duke University who identified DELLA proteins as master growth repressors controlling plant growth, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

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.

Tak Wah Mak

Tak Wah Mak is a Canadian immunologist who co-identified the human T-cell receptor gene in 1984 and helped establish immune checkpoint blockade as a cancer therapy.

Takahiro Ochiya

Takahiro Ochiya is a Japanese molecular oncologist and extracellular-vesicle researcher at Tokyo Medical University, known for showing how microRNAs are secreted and transferred between cells via exosomes.

Takahisa Furukawa

Takahisa Furukawa (古川 貴久) is a Japanese molecular biologist at Osaka University who studies retinal development and identified the photoreceptor transcription factor Crx, linked to inherited blindness.

Takami Oka

Takami Oka is a Japanese biochemist known for work on the hormonal control of mammary gland development and lactation, at NIH from 1970 and later Musashino University.

Takanari Inoue

Takanari Inoue (井上 尊生) is a Japanese cell biologist and Johns Hopkins professor known for molecular tools that visualize and manipulate cell signaling, especially in the primary cilium.

Takanori Takebe

Takanori Takebe (武部 貴則) is a Japanese developmental and stem-cell biologist known for growing the first functional human organ, a vascularized liver, from stem cells in 2013.

Takao K. Hensch

Takao K. Hensch (ヘンシュ 貴雄) is a Harvard neuroscientist who showed that critical periods in brain development are opened and closed by specific molecular circuits.

Takao Kondo

Takao Kondo (近藤孝男) was a Japanese chronobiologist at Nagoya University who identified the kai clock genes and rebuilt a 24-hour circadian oscillator in a test tube in 2005.

Takao Shimizu

Takao Shimizu (清水孝雄, born 1947) is a Japanese biochemist and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo known for cloning the platelet-activating factor and leukotriene B4 receptors, work honored with the 2009 Japan Academy Prize.

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 Fujita

Takashi Fujita (藤田 尚志) is a Japanese immunologist and professor at Kyoto University known for interferon gene regulation, IRF transcription factors, and RIG-I viral RNA sensors.

Takashi Hayashi

Takashi Hayashi (林 高史) is a Japanese bioinorganic chemist, professor of chemistry at Osaka University since 2005, known for artificial metalloenzymes built from hemoproteins and organometallic complexes.

Takashi Ito (molecular biologist)

Takashi Ito (伊藤 隆司) is a Japanese molecular biologist, professor at Kyushu University's Medical Institute of Bioregulation, known for the first comprehensive two-hybrid map of protein interactions in budding yeast.