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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.

Tamotsu Yoshimori

Tamotsu Yoshimori (吉森 保) is a Japanese cell biologist at The University of Osaka who established LC3 as the standard marker for tracking autophagy, the process by which cells digest their own components.

Tan Jiazhen

Tan Jiazhen (谈家桢), known internationally as C. C. Tan, was a Chinese geneticist and founding figure of modern genetics who trained under Thomas Hunt Morgan at Caltech and built China's first genetics programs at Fudan University.

Tania A. Baker

Tania A. Baker is an American biochemist, the E. C. Whitehead Professor of Biology at MIT since 2002, best known for her work on the ClpX unfoldase and Mu transposase.

Tanja Kortemme

Tanja Kortemme is a German-born computational biologist and biochemist, professor of bioengineering at UC San Francisco, known for computational protein design methods in the Rosetta software suite.

Tanja Mittag

Tanja Mittag is a biophysicist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital known for her work on liquid-liquid phase separation, in which proteins form membraneless organelles called biomolecular condensates.

Tanja Woyke

Tanja Woyke is a German-trained microbiologist leading microbial genomics at the US DOE Joint Genome Institute, known for single-cell genomics that popularized the term microbial dark matter.

Tanmay Bharat

Tanmay A. M. Bharat is a structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who uses cryo-electron tomography to study bacterial surfaces.

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.

Tanya T. Paull

Tanya T. Paull is a molecular biologist at the University of Texas at Austin whose laboratory is known for work on the MRN complex and DNA double-strand break repair.

Tao Pan

Tao Pan is a Chinese-born biochemist and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago since 1994, known for tRNA research and high-throughput tRNA sequencing methods.

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.

Tao Xu

Tao Xu (徐涛, born 1970) is a Chinese cell biophysicist at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, known for regulated exocytosis and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy.

Tao-hsin Chang (张道欣)

Tao-hsin Chang (张道欣) is a Taiwanese structural biologist and assistant professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, known for prenyltransferase structures and co-discovering Notum as the first extracellular protein deacylase.

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.

Tariq Enver

Tariq Enver is a British molecular haematologist and Professor of Stem Cell Biology at the UCL Cancer Institute, known for work on blood cell fates and leukemia.

Tariq M. Rana

Tariq M. Rana is a molecular biologist and RNA biologist at UC San Diego, known for RNA interference and RNA modification research in virology and immunology.

Tarjei Mikkelsen

Tarjei Mikkelsen is a computational genomics researcher at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, first author of the 2007 draft genome of the opossum Monodelphis domestica, the first marsupial sequenced.

Taroh Kinoshita

Taroh Kinoshita is a Japanese biochemist and cell biologist at Osaka University. He identified 25 genes in the GPI pathway, linking it to PNH and earning a 2025 NAS election.

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.

Tasuku Honjo (本庶 佑)

Tasuku Honjo (本庶 佑), born 1942 in Kyoto, is a Japanese immunologist at Kyoto University who discovered PD-1 and AID and shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with James Allison for checkpoint-inhibitor cancer therapy.

Tatiana G. Kutateladze

Tatiana G. Kutateladze is a Russian-born structural biologist and professor of pharmacology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, known for work on epigenetic reader proteins.

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.

Tatsuo Fukagawa

Tatsuo Fukagawa (深川 竜郎) is a Japanese molecular biologist, professor of chromosome biology at The University of Osaka since 2015, known for work on centromeres, kinetochores, and chromosome segregation.

Tatsuya Hirano

Tatsuya Hirano is a Japanese cell biologist and biochemist who has been a Chief Scientist at RIKEN in Wako, Japan, since 2007, and is known for discovering condensin and cohesin.