Life and health scientists

Terrie E. Taylor

Terrie E. Taylor is an American osteopathic physician and malaria researcher at Michigan State University who has treated children with cerebral malaria in Blantyre, Malawi, since 1986.

Terry B. Strom

Terry B. Strom was an American transplant immunologist who led immunology at Beth Israel Deaconess and Harvard, publishing hundreds of papers and more than 50 patents before his death in 2018.

Terry Burke

Terry Burke is an evolutionary biologist and Professor of Molecular Ecology at the University of Sheffield since 1998, known for DNA-based parentage studies in wild birds.

Terry Callaghan

Terry Callaghan is a British Arctic ecologist, professor of Arctic ecology at Sheffield, known for long-term plant experiments, directing Abisko station, and building the INTERACT network.

Terry J. Smith

Terry J. Smith is an American endocrinologist and University of Michigan professor whose research on thyroid eye disease led to teprotumumab, the first FDA-approved drug for the condition.

Terry L. Orr‐Weaver

Terry L. Orr-Weaver is an American developmental geneticist, Professor Emerita at MIT, known for her work on the Drosophila cell cycle and the egg-to-embryo transition.

Terry Magnuson

Terry Magnuson, born 1950, is an American mouse geneticist and epigeneticist at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he founded the Department of Genetics and the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences.

Terry P. Hughes

Terry P. Hughes, born 1956 in Ireland, is an Australian coral reef ecologist at James Cook University who led surveys of the Great Barrier Reef's 2016 mass bleaching.

Terry P. Klassen

Terry P. Klassen is a Canadian pediatric emergency physician and clinical trials methodologist, Provincial Head of Pediatrics in Saskatchewan since 2024 and a founder of PERC and TREKK.

Terry Platt

Terry Platt is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester, known for his work on transcription termination in E. coli.

Terry Van Dyke

Terry Van Dyke is an American cancer researcher known for genetically engineered mouse models of cancer and for directing the NCI Center for Advanced Preclinical Research.

Teruhiko Wakayama

Teruhiko Wakayama (若山照彦) is a Japanese reproductive biologist who produced the world's first cloned mouse from a somatic cell nucleus, reported in Nature in 1998.

Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu is a biochemist and molecular biologist at UCSF and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for discovering base-unpairing regions in DNA and identifying SATB1, which she proposed acts as a genome organizer.

Teruyo Sakakura

Teruyo Sakakura (榊原照代) is a Japanese immunology researcher who, with Yasuaki Nishizuka, showed in 1969 that removing the thymus from 3-day-old mice causes autoimmune disease, work credited by the 2025 Nobel Prize.

Tetsu Akiyama

Tetsu Akiyama (秋山徹) is a Japanese molecular oncologist and Project Professor at the University of Tokyo's Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, known for identifying D-Axin and Asef.

Tetsuji Kakutani

Tetsuji Kakutani (角谷徹仁) is a Japanese plant geneticist known for Nature papers showing that DNA methylation silences transposable elements in Arabidopsis, and is a Specially Appointed Professor at the National Institute of Genetics.

Tetsuya Higashiyama

Tetsuya Higashiyama is a Japanese plant developmental biologist and University of Tokyo professor known for identifying the LURE peptides that guide pollen tubes to the ovule.

Tetsuya Taga

Tetsuya Taga (田賀哲也) is a Japanese stem cell biologist and professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo, known for identifying gp130 as the interleukin-6 signal transducer in 1989.

Teunis B. H. Geijtenbeek

Teunis B. H. Geijtenbeek, known as Theo Geijtenbeek, is a Dutch immunologist born in 1969 who discovered the dendritic cell receptor DC-SIGN and is a professor at Amsterdam UMC.

TH Lee

Tak H. Lee, born Tak Hong Lee, was a Hong Kong-born allergist and asthma researcher at King's College London who founded the MRC–Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma.

Thaddeus P. Dryja

Thaddeus P. Dryja, also published as T. P. Dryja, is an ophthalmic pathologist and molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical School known for cloning the retinoblastoma gene and finding rhodopsin mutations in retinitis pigmentosa.

Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck

Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck is an American immunologist and physician-scientist who became chair of Inflammation and Immunity at Cleveland Clinic in 2019, known for work on intestinal repair and stem cell culture systems.

Thalia Papayannopoulou

Thalia Papayannopoulou is a hematologist and cell biologist at the University of Washington who showed fetal hemoglobin can be reactivated in adults and identified VLA-4's role in stem cell movement.

Thanos D. Halazonetis

Thanos D. Halazonetis is a Greek molecular biologist, a University of Geneva professor from 2006 to 2025, known for DNA damage checkpoints and oncogene-induced replication stress in cancer.

Oct 21, 2026

The Zoological Society of Japan

The Zoological Society of Japan (日本動物学会, ZSJ), founded 1878 as the Tokyo Biological Society, is one of Japan's oldest scientific societies, with about 2,700 members, seven regional branches, and the journals Zoological Science and Zoological Letters.

Thea D. Tlsty

Thea D. Tlsty, also published as Thea Tlsty, is an American cancer biologist and Professor of Pathology at UCSF known for work on gene amplification, p53, and tumor stroma.

Theo Colborn

Theo Colborn (Theodora Colborn, 1927–2014) was an American zoologist who coined the term "endocrine disruption," convening the 1991 Wingspread conference and co-authoring Our Stolen Future.

Theo Vos

Theo Vos is a Dutch-trained physician, epidemiologist, and health economist who is Professor Emeritus at IHME in Seattle and led the Global Burden of Disease study's non-fatal burden estimates.

Sep 17, 2026

Theobald Smith

Theobald Smith (1859–1934), American bacteriologist and comparative pathologist; proved tick-borne Texas cattle fever, distinguished bovine and human tubercle bacilli, pioneered killed vaccines and anaphylaxis research.