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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 Nagasawa

Takashi Nagasawa (長澤 丘司) is a Japanese immunologist and stem cell biologist at Osaka University, known for isolating CXCL12 and winning the 2019 Japan Academy Prize.

Takashi Saito

Takashi Saito (斉藤 隆) is a Japanese immunologist known for work on T cell receptor signaling and for identifying TCR microclusters as the site where T cell activation begins.

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.

Takashi Sügimura

Takashi Sügimura, also known as Takashi Sugimura, was a Japanese biochemist who established that cancer is a disease of DNA, showed mutagens cause cancer, and identified food-derived heterocyclic amines.

Takashi Takahashi

Takashi Takahashi (高橋 隆) is a Japanese molecular oncologist specializing in lung cancer, President Emeritus of Aichi Cancer Center and formerly a professor at Nagoya University.

Takashi Toda

Takashi Toda (登田 隆) is a Japanese molecular cell biologist and Specially Appointed Professor at Hiroshima University who studies how cells divide and chromosomes segregate during mitosis.

Takayoshi Higuchi (樋口隆昌)

Takayoshi Higuchi (樋口隆昌) was a Japanese lignin biochemist and wood scientist, professor at Kyoto University's Wood Research Institute, known for work on lignin degradation by white-rot fungi and lignin biosynthesis in plants.

Takayuki Asahara

Takayuki Asahara is a Japanese physician and vascular biology researcher who identified endothelial progenitor cells in human blood in 1997 and established postnatal vasculogenesis, later leading regenerative medicine at Tokai University.

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.

Takema Fukatsu

Takema Fukatsu (深津 武馬) is a Japanese biologist who studies insect–microbe symbiosis, a Prime Senior Researcher at AIST and professor at the University of Tokyo.

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.

Takis S. Papas

Takis S. Papas (1935–1999) was an American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute known for cloning the ETS oncogene family and co-sequencing the AIDS virus genome.

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.

Takuya Takahashi

Takuya Takahashi (高橋 琢哉) is a Japanese neuroscientist and professor of physiology at Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, known for the first AMPA-receptor PET tracer and the rehabilitation drug edonerpic maleate.

Tal Pupko

Tal Pupko (טל פופקו) is an Israeli computational evolutionary biologist and Full Professor at Tel Aviv University, known for building widely used bioinformatics web servers such as Rate4Site and GUIDANCE2.

Talal A. Chatila

Talal A. Chatila is a Lebanese-born immunologist at Harvard Medical School who studies immune tolerance in allergy and directs the Food Allergy Program at Boston Children's Hospital.

Tallie Z. Baram

Tallie Z. Baram, also published as T.Z. Baram, is an Israeli-born child neurologist and developmental neuroscientist at UC Irvine who studies how early-life adversity and stress shape brain development.

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.

Tamar Schlick

Tamar Schlick is a computational molecular biologist, professor of chemistry, mathematics, and computer science at New York University, known for her 1992 simulations of supercoiled DNA and chromatin modeling.

Tamara Galloway

Tamara Galloway is an ecotoxicologist and Professor of Ecotoxicology at the University of Exeter since 2007, whose research helped establish microplastics as a field of environmental science.

Tamás Freund

Tamás F. Freund is a Hungarian neurobiologist known for his work on hippocampal interneurons and endocannabinoid signaling, who became president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Tamás Kiss (Hungarian molecular biologist)

Tamás Kiss is a Hungarian molecular biologist at the LBME in Toulouse, France, known for showing that small nucleolar RNAs direct chemical modification of other RNAs.

Tamas L. Horvath

Tamas L. Horvath is a Hungarian-trained neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine, chair of Comparative Medicine, known for work on ghrelin, hypothalamic mitochondria, and fertility, and elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Tamir Gonen

Tamir Gonen is a structural biologist and professor at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, known for developing MicroED, a cryo-EM method determining atomic-resolution protein structures from nanoscale crystals.

Tamir Tuller

Tamir Tuller (תמיר טולר) is an Israeli Full Professor at Tel Aviv University's School of Biomedical Engineering known for his 2010 Cell paper identifying the conserved translation-efficiency ramp and for AI models guiding RNA-based therapies.