Life and health scientists

Tatyana V. Pestova

Tatyana V. Pestova is a molecular biologist at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn known for reconstructing mammalian protein synthesis from purified components in a test tube.

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 Pei Feng (冯德培)

Te Pei Feng (冯德培, 1907–1995) was a Chinese neurophysiologist and pioneer of modern physiology in China, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 1986.

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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.

Te-Tzu Chang

Te-Tzu Chang (张德慈) was a Chinese-born rice geneticist who spent thirty years building the world's largest rice gene bank at IRRI in the Philippines, supplying germplasm behind the Green Revolution.

Te-Wen Chang (1920–2025) was a Chinese-born American virologist and physician at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for identifying the Clostridium difficile toxin as the cause of antibiotic-associated colitis.

Ted J. Kaptchuk

Ted J. Kaptchuk is an American researcher of placebo effects, professor at Harvard Medical School and director of its Program in Placebo Studies, known for open-label placebos.

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.

Teizo Kitagawa

Teizo Kitagawa (北川禎三) is a Japanese biophysicist and physical chemist known for resonance Raman spectroscopy of heme proteins, long a professor at the Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki.

Tej P. Singh

Tej P. Singh (Tej Pal Singh, born 1944) is an Indian biophysicist at AIIMS New Delhi known for X-ray crystallography of lactoperoxidase, peptide design, and drug discovery.

Teja Tscharntke

Teja Tscharntke (born 1952) is a German biologist who studies landscape agroecology and headed the Agroecology Research Group at the University of Göttingen from 1993 to 2023.

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.

Temple F. Smith

Temple F. Smith, also known as Temple Smith, is a computational biologist who trained as a nuclear physicist, co-developed the Smith–Waterman algorithm, and helped found GenBank.

Ten Feizi

Ten Feizi is a glycobiologist and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, known for neoglycolipid technology and the first robotically printed glycan microarray in 2002.

Teng-Leong Chew

Teng-Leong Chew is a cell biologist and imaging scientist who has directed the Advanced Imaging Center at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus since 2014, studying the actin cytoskeleton and mitochondria.

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.

Terence Hwa

Terence Tai-Li Hwa (also published as T. Hwa) is a biophysicist at the University of California, San Diego, known for establishing bacterial growth laws and a theory of proteomic resource allocation in E. coli.

Terence R. Strick

Terence R. Strick, also known as Terence Strick, is a French-based molecular biophysicist, a CNRS research director and professor at IBENS in Paris who studies single DNA molecules.

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 A. Nicolson

Teresa A. Nicolson is an American neuroscientist who uses zebrafish to study the genetics of hearing and balance, and is a professor at Stanford University.

Teresa Carlomagno

Teresa Carlomagno is a structural biologist and professor at the University of Birmingham, known for the 2013 Nature structure of the box C/D RNA-methylation enzyme.

Teresa Davoli

Teresa Davoli is an Italian-born molecular biologist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies aneuploidy in cancer and created KaryoCreate, a CRISPR-based chromosome engineering technology.

Teresa Head‐Gordon

Teresa Head-Gordon is an American theoretical and computational chemist who co-developed the TIP4P-Ew water model and studies catalysis, and has been a UC Berkeley professor since 2001.

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.

Terrence J. Sejnowski

Terrence J. Sejnowski is an American computational neuroscientist who pioneered learning algorithms for neural networks, holds the Francis Crick Chair at the Salk Institute, and won the 2024 Brain Prize.