Life and health scientists

Thomas Dever

Thomas E. Dever is an American biochemist who has headed the Section on Protein Biosynthesis at NIH's NICHD in Bethesda, Maryland, since 1994, studying translation initiation factors eIF2 and eIF5B.

Thomas Dörner

Thomas Dörner is a German rheumatologist and professor at Charité Berlin and the German Rheumatism Research Centre, known for research on B cells and treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus.

Thomas E. Adrian

Thomas E. Adrian is a physiologist and gastrointestinal cancer researcher, a professor at MBRU in Dubai since 2018, known for work on the pancreatic polypeptide family of gut peptides.

Thomas E. Kreis

Thomas E. Kreis (1952–1998) was a cell biologist who discovered CLIP-170, the first protein shown to track growing microtubule ends, and died in the 1998 Swissair 111 crash.

Thomas E. Lovejoy

Thomas E. Lovejoy was an American conservation biologist known as the "godfather of biodiversity" who coined the term biological diversity and worked in the Brazilian Amazon from 1965.

Thomas E. Moon

Thomas E. Moon is an American medical oncology researcher at the University of Arizona who co-authored the 1979 NEJM study establishing nabilone as a chemotherapy antiemetic.

Thomas E. Scammell

Thomas E. Scammell is an American sleep neurologist and neuroscientist, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, known for research on narcolepsy and orexin neurons.

Thomas E. Spencer

Thomas E. Spencer is an American reproductive and developmental biologist at the University of Missouri known for showing that uterine glands are essential for fertility.

Thomas E. Starzl (Thomas Earl Starzl, 1926–2017) was an American transplant surgeon called the "father of transplantation" who performed the first liver transplant in 1963 and made organ transplantation routine.

Thomas E. Wellems

Thomas E. Wellems is an American malaria geneticist who leads the Malaria Genetics Section at NIH's NIAID and discovered the gene responsible for chloroquine resistance.

Thomas E. Willnow

Thomas E. Willnow is a molecular biologist who studies endocytic receptors in metabolism and neurodegeneration, leading research at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin and Aarhus University.

Thomas E. Witzig

Thomas E. Witzig is an American hematologist-oncologist and professor at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for pivotal trials of yttrium-90 ibritumomab tiuxetan radioimmunotherapy in lymphoma.

Thomas Edward Spencer

Thomas Edward Spencer is an American reproductive and developmental biologist known for his work on the uterus and placenta, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Thomas Eisner

Thomas Eisner (1929–2011) was a German-born American entomologist at Cornell University, widely regarded as the father of chemical ecology and a winner of the 1994 National Medal of Science.

Thomas Engstrøm

Thomas Engstrøm is a Danish interventional cardiologist, clinical professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for founding the DANAMI-3 trials in STEMI and a 2025 Lancet meta-analysis.

Thomas F. Anderson

Thomas F. Anderson (1911–1991) was an American biophysical chemist and geneticist who pioneered electron microscope studies of viruses and bacteria, devising the critical point drying method.

Thomas F. Baumert

Thomas F. Baumert is a French hepatologist and hepatitis C researcher at Inserm and the University of Strasbourg, and winner of the 2023 Inserm Research Prize.

Thomas F. Boat

Thomas F. Boat is an American pediatric pulmonologist and cystic fibrosis researcher who is dean emeritus of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Thomas F. Budinger

Thomas F. Budinger is an American physician-engineer and medical physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a founding figure in tomographic radiotracer imaging behind PET and SPECT.

Thomas F. Deuel

Thomas F. Deuel is an American physician-scientist and growth-factor biologist, a longtime professor at The Scripps Research Institute who discovered pleiotrophin and its unusual signaling pathway.

Thomas F. Donahue

Thomas F. Donahue is a yeast molecular geneticist and Professor Emeritus of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington, known for genetic analysis of translation initiation in budding yeast.

Thomas F. Gajewski

Thomas F. Gajewski is an American tumor immunologist and oncologist at the University of Chicago, known for work on how the innate immune system senses tumors and melanoma immunotherapy.

Thomas F. Imperiale

Thomas F. Imperiale is an American gastroenterologist and Distinguished Professor at Indiana University School of Medicine whose trials established stool DNA testing for colorectal cancer screening.

Thomas F. Lüscher

Thomas F. Lüscher is a Swiss cardiologist and cardiovascular researcher known for work on the endothelium and Takotsubo syndrome, and President of the European Society of Cardiology since 2024.

Thomas F. McCutchan

Thomas F. McCutchan is an American malaria researcher at the National Institutes of Health whose laboratory established the molecular genetics of Plasmodium parasites, the agents of malaria.

Thomas F. Meyer

Thomas F. Meyer, born 1952 in Mannheim, is a German infection biologist known for work on how bacterial pathogens vary surface antigens and evade immunity.

Thomas F. Patterson

Thomas F. Patterson is an American infectious-diseases physician and medical mycologist who leads the Division of Infectious Diseases at UT Health San Antonio and studies fungal diseases.

Thomas F. Tedder

Thomas F. Tedder (1956–2024) was an American immunologist at Duke University who defined the B cell molecules CD19, CD20, and CD22, work that produced the approved drug inebilizumab.

Thomas F. Westbrook

Thomas F. Westbrook, known as Trey Westbrook, is an American cancer biologist and professor at Baylor College of Medicine known for genome-scale screens finding vulnerabilities in breast cancer.