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Thomas J. Kelly

Thomas J. Kelly is an American molecular biologist and virologist who developed the first cell-free systems for replicating the genomes of SV40 and adenovirus in human cells.

Thomas J. Kipps

Thomas J. Kipps (Thomas James Kipps) is an American hematologist-oncologist at UC San Diego whose work on chronic lymphocytic leukemia established ZAP-70 as a prognostic marker and advanced ibrutinib and ROR1-targeted therapy.

Thomas J. Lynch

Thomas J. Lynch is an American medical oncologist, president of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center since 2020, known for the 2004 EGFR mutation discovery in lung cancer.

Thomas J. Marrie

Thomas J. Marrie, also published as T. J. Marrie, is a retired Canadian infectious-diseases physician known for pneumonia and Q fever research and two medical deanships.

Thomas J. McHugh

Thomas J. McHugh is an American neuroscientist who leads the Laboratory for Circuit and Behavioral Physiology at RIKEN in Japan, known for his work on how the hippocampus stores and retrieves memory.

Thomas J. Merimee

Thomas J. Merimee is an endocrinologist who studied the growth hormone–IGF axis, showing growth hormone's role in diabetic vascular disease through work on dwarfs and African Pygmies.

Thomas J. Montine

Thomas J. Montine is an American neuropathologist and chair of Pathology at Stanford University, a National Academy of Medicine member known for the 2018 biomarker-based definition of Alzheimer's disease.

Thomas J. Ryan

Thomas J. Ryan (1928–2020) was an American cardiologist at Boston University who led the Coronary Artery Surgery Study and served as American Heart Association president.

Thomas J. Silhavy

Thomas J. Silhavy is a bacterial geneticist and Warner-Lambert Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, known for work on Escherichia coli outer membrane biogenesis.

Thomas J. Smith

Thomas J. Smith is an American medical oncologist and palliative care physician, professor at Johns Hopkins since 2011, known for cancer cost research and ASCO's first palliative care guidelines.

Thomas J. Walsh

Thomas J. Walsh is an American physician-scientist in infectious diseases and medical mycology whose randomized trials in the New England Journal of Medicine reshaped antifungal therapy in cancer patients.

Thomas J. Wang

Thomas J. Wang is an American cardiologist and cardiovascular researcher who became dean of the University of Michigan Medical School in 2025, known for Framingham biomarker research.

Thomas Jenuwein

Thomas Jenuwein, born 1956 in Lohr am Main, Germany, is a German molecular biologist known for discovering the first histone lysine methyltransferase and co-proposing the histone code hypothesis.

Thomas Joseph King

Thomas Joseph King Jr. (1921–2000) was an American developmental biologist who with Robert Briggs performed the first successful nuclear transplantation, using frog eggs, in 1952.

Thomas Kissel

Thomas Kissel is a pharmaceutical scientist and professor at Philipps-Universität Marburg known for drug delivery and non-viral gene transfer research, including polyethylenimine carriers for DNA and siRNA delivery.

Thomas Klausberger

Thomas Klausberger is an Austrian neuroscientist known for showing that distinct interneuron types fire at different phases of hippocampal oscillations; he is Professor of Cognitive Neurobiology at the Medical University of Vienna.

Thomas Klockgether

Thomas Klockgether, born 1956 in Cologne, is a German neurologist known for spinocerebellar ataxia research; he was Chair of Neurology at the University of Bonn from 1998 to 2024.

Thomas Korn

Thomas Korn (born 1972) is a German neurologist and immunologist who chairs Experimental Neuroimmunology at the Technical University of Munich, studying Th17 cells in multiple sclerosis.

Thomas L. Benjamin

Thomas L. Benjamin is a virologist and emeritus professor at Harvard Medical School whose work on mouse polyomavirus helped establish roles of tyrosine kinases and PI3K in cancer.

Thomas L. Kash

Thomas L. Kash is an American neuroscientist and professor of pharmacology at UNC who studies brain circuits underlying alcohol use disorder and directs its Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies.

Thomas L. Perry

Thomas L. Perry is a physician-biochemist who became a professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia in 1962, known for research on Huntington's chorea, Parkinson's disease, and inherited metabolic disorders of children.

Thomas L. Schwarz

Thomas L. Schwarz is a neuroscientist, Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School based at Boston Children's Hospital, studying axonal transport and mitochondria.

Thomas L. Schwenk

Thomas L. Schwenk is an American family medicine physician and researcher on physician depression and well-being who served as Dean of the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine from 2011 to 2021.

Thomas Langer

Thomas Langer is a German biochemist who studies mitochondrial proteases and quality control; he directs the Department of Mitochondrial Proteostasis at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne.

Thomas Laux

Thomas Laux is a German plant biologist who holds the chair of Developmental Biology and Biotechnology of Plants at the University of Freiburg and studies stem cell regulation in Arabidopsis.

Thomas Lecuit

Thomas Lecuit is a French developmental biologist who studies tissue morphogenesis in the fruit fly and has been a professor at the Collège de France since 2016.

Thomas Lehner

Thomas Lehner is a British dental immunologist and Emeritus Professor at King's College London who established the world's first oral immunology department at Guy's Hospital in 1970.

Thomas Lewis (cardiologist)

Sir Thomas Lewis (1881–1945) was a Welsh-born British cardiologist who brought the electrocardiograph to the bedside, advanced the study of atrial fibrillation, and founded the journal Heart.

Thomas M. Bashore

Thomas M. Bashore is an American cardiologist and Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Duke University, known for cardiac catheterization safety, contrast-induced kidney injury, and valvular heart disease.

Thomas M. Coffman

Thomas M. Coffman is an American nephrologist and hypertension researcher at Duke University, whose mouse studies showed angiotensin II raises blood pressure through the kidney.