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Thomas Fazzio

Thomas Fazzio is an American cancer epigenetics researcher and Professor of molecular medicine at UMass Chan Medical School, where he has led a laboratory since 2010.

Thomas Force

Thomas Force, also known as Thomas Lee Force, was an American cardiologist whose 2006 finding that the cancer drug imatinib causes heart failure launched cardio-oncology.

Thomas Francis, Jr.

Thomas Francis, Jr. (1900–1969) was an American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist who first identified influenza B, coined original antigenic sin, and directed the 1954 Salk polio vaccine field trial.

Thomas G. Bernhardt

Thomas G. Bernhardt is an American microbiologist and professor at Harvard Medical School who studies bacterial cell wall synthesis and division, mainly in E. coli.

Thomas G. Brott

Thomas G. Brott is an American neurologist and stroke researcher who designed the NIH Stroke Scale, pioneered tPA for stroke, and led the CREST trials.

Thomas G. Pickering

Thomas G. Pickering was a British-born physician-scientist, professor at Columbia University, who coined white-coat and masked hypertension and made out-of-office blood-pressure measurement part of routine cardiovascular medicine.

Thomas G. Spiro

Thomas G. Spiro (born 1935) is an American bioinorganic chemist known for pioneering resonance Raman spectroscopy of metalloproteins, on the Princeton faculty from 1963 to 2007 and at the University of Washington since.

Thomas G. Whitham

Thomas G. Whitham is an evolutionary and community ecologist and Regents' Professor at Northern Arizona University, known for gall aphid territoriality and showing how a tree's genes shape whole ecosystems.

Thomas Gasser

Thomas Gasser is a neurologist who directs neurodegenerative disease research at the Hertie Institute in Tübingen and shared the 2024 Breakthrough Prize for identifying Parkinson's risk genes LRRK2 and GBA1.

Thomas Gelehrter

Thomas D. Gelehrter is an American human geneticist and physician known for research on steroid hormone gene regulation and PAI-1, and for chairing human genetics at Michigan.

Thomas Gilovich

Thomas Gilovich is an American psychologist at Cornell University who studies how people judge everyday evidence; his work spans regret, experiential purchases, and the hot hand in basketball.

Thomas Graf (Austrian molecular biologist)

Thomas Graf, born 1944 in Vienna, is an Austrian molecular biologist and Emeritus Group Leader at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, known for oncogene cooperativity.

Thomas Gregor

Thomas Gregor is a German biophysicist, professor of physics at Princeton University and head of the Physics of Biological Function unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.

Thomas Gridley

Thomas Gridley is an American developmental geneticist and Tufts professor based at MaineHealth Institute for Research, known for work on the Notch signaling pathway and Snail genes.

Thomas H. Eickbush

Thomas H. Eickbush is an American molecular biologist and University of Rochester professor known for his work on the R2 retrotransposon of the silkmoth and for establishing target-primed reverse transcription.

Thomas H. Gallagher

Thomas H. Gallagher is an American general internist and patient-safety researcher at the University of Washington, known for research on disclosing medical errors and Communication-and-Resolution Programs.

Thomas H. Hostetter

Thomas H. Hostetter is an American nephrologist at the University of North Carolina, known for his 1982 review linking dietary protein to kidney disease progression.

Thomas H. Jukes

Thomas H. Jukes (1906–1999) was an English-born biochemist and molecular evolutionist who worked at Lederle Laboratories and UC Berkeley, coauthored the 1969 "Non-Darwinian Evolution" paper, and helped develop methotrexate.

Thomas H. Marwick

Thomas H. Marwick is an Australian cardiologist known for stress echocardiography and myocardial strain imaging, and director of the Baker Institute from 2016 to 2024.

Thomas H. Milhorat

Thomas H. Milhorat (1936–2025) was an American neurosurgeon who overturned the choroid plexus model of cerebrospinal fluid production and founded the Chiari Institute in 2001.

Thomas H. Morgan

Thomas H. Morgan, or Thomas Hunt Morgan, was an American biologist who established the chromosome theory of heredity through fruit fly experiments, winning the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Thomas H. Weller

Thomas H. Weller, also known as Thomas Huckle Weller, was an American virologist who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize for growing poliovirus in tissue culture.

Thomas Helleday

Thomas Helleday is a Swedish chemical biologist and professor at Karolinska Institutet whose 2005 discovery that PARP inhibitors kill BRCA2-deficient tumors led to approved cancer drugs.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) was an English biologist and comparative anatomist, called "Darwin's bulldog" for defending Darwin's theory of evolution, who coined the word "agnostic".

Thomas Hudson (geneticist)

Thomas J. Hudson is a Canadian genome scientist known for the first physical maps of the human genome, the HapMap Project, and founding the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American biologist who established the chromosome theory of heredity through experiments on fruit flies, winning the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Thomas J. Braciale

Thomas J. Braciale (1946–2023) was an American immunologist and physician-scientist, founding director of the Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research at the University of Virginia.

Thomas J. Coates

Thomas J. Coates is an American HIV/AIDS prevention researcher at UCLA who spent 21 years at UCSF, co-founded its Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, and led landmark trials of HIV voluntary counseling and testing in Africa.

Thomas J. Flotte

Thomas J. Flotte is an American dermatopathologist and researcher, a professor at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who treats and studies melanoma and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

Thomas J. Jentsch

Thomas J. Jentsch, born 1953 in Berlin, is a German physician and molecular physiologist known for discovering the CLC chloride channels and KCNQ potassium channels.