Life and health scientists

Thomas Pilgrim

Thomas Pilgrim is a Swiss interventional cardiologist at the Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, where he became Deputy Chief Physician and Head of Valvular Heart Diseases in 2020.

Thomas Platts-Mills

Thomas Platts-Mills, born 1941, is a British-born immunologist and University of Virginia professor known for linking asthma to dust mites and discovering tick-bite red meat allergy.

Thomas Powles

Thomas Powles is a British medical oncologist, Professor of Genitourinary Oncology and Director of Barts Cancer Centre in London, known for bladder cancer trials including NIAGARA and EV-302.

Thomas Préat

Thomas Préat, also written Thomas Preat, is a French biologist and CNRS research director at ESPCI Paris who studies memory and brain energy metabolism in Drosophila.

Thomas Quertermous

Thomas Quertermous is a cardiologist and molecular biologist who studies the genetics of coronary artery disease, holding the William G. Irwin Professorship of Medicine at Stanford University.

Thomas R. Cech

Thomas R. Cech, born in 1947, is an American biochemist at the University of Colorado Boulder whose 1982 discovery that RNA can act as a catalyst earned the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Thomas R. Clandinin

Thomas R. Clandinin is an American neuroscientist who studies how the genome programs neural circuits for innate behavior, using the fruit fly visual system, at Stanford University.

Thomas R. Dawber

Thomas R. Dawber (1913–2005) was a Canadian-born American physician and epidemiologist who directed the Framingham Heart Study, which identified the major risk factors for coronary heart disease.

Thomas R. Frieden

Thomas R. Frieden is an American public health physician who directed the CDC from 2009 to 2017 and led New York City's health department, eliminating artificial trans fats.

Thomas R. Hendrix was an American gastroenterologist who founded and directed the Johns Hopkins Division of Gastroenterology from 1957 to 1988, and served as president of the American Gastroenterological Association.

Thomas R. Insel

Thomas R. Insel is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist who directed the National Institute of Mental Health from 2002 to 2015 and later led mental health at Google's Verily.

Thomas R. Kleyman

Thomas R. Kleyman is an American nephrologist and physiologist who studies the epithelial sodium channel and leads the Renal-Electrolyte Division at the University of Pittsburgh.

Thomas R. Soderling

Thomas R. Soderling is an American biochemist and emeritus professor at Oregon Health & Science University's Vollum Institute, known for showing how CaM-kinase II strengthens synapses.

Thomas Rando

Thomas A. Rando is a neurologist and stem cell biologist who directs the Broad Stem Cell Research Center at UCLA, known for work on muscle stem cell quiescence and aging.

Thomas Reese (cell biologist)

Thomas S. Reese (1935–2024) was an American physician and cell biologist who led structural cell biology at NINDS, using electron microscopy to map synapses, neurons, and the blood-brain barrier.

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Thomas Renton Elliott

Thomas Renton Elliott (1877–1961) was a British physician and physiologist who proposed in 1904 that sympathetic nerves act by releasing adrenalin, the founding idea of chemical neurotransmission, proven experimentally in 1921.

Thomas Rösch

Thomas Rösch, born 1958 in Munich, is a German gastroenterologist and professor who directs interdisciplinary endoscopy at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and co-authored a 2019 New England Journal achalasia trial.

Thomas S. Edgington

Thomas S. Edgington (1932–2021) was an American immunologist and pathologist at The Scripps Research Institute best known for cloning tissue factor, the protein that initiates blood coagulation.

Thomas S. Inui

Thomas S. Inui is an American physician-investigator in general internal medicine and health services research, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1990 and known for relationship-centered care.

Thomas S. Kupper

Thomas S. Kupper is an American dermatologist and immunologist, Chair Emeritus of Dermatology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for research on skin immunity and tissue-resident memory T cells.

Thomas Schwartz

Thomas U. Schwartz is a German-born structural biologist at MIT who studies the nuclear pore complex, and in 2021 showed the pore opens to 57 nanometers inside living cells.

Thomas Shenk

Thomas E. Shenk is an American virologist and emeritus professor at Princeton University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1996, known for his adenovirus and cytomegalovirus research.

Thomas Söllner

Thomas Söllner, also known as Thomas H. Söllner, is a cell biologist who identified SNAREs as the vesicle fusion machinery in a landmark 1993 Nature paper.

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Thomas Stephen Cullen

Thomas Stephen Cullen (1868–1953) was a Canadian-born gynecologist at Johns Hopkins who founded gynecologic pathology in North America, wrote classic monographs on uterine disease, and described Cullen's sign.

Thomas Surrey

Thomas Surrey is a cell biologist who studies how the microtubule cytoskeleton self-organizes during cell division, leading a lab at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona.

Thomas Terwilliger

Thomas C. Terwilliger is an American structural biologist at the New Mexico Consortium who created the SOLVE and RESOLVE software for automated protein crystal structure solution.

Thomas Thum

Thomas Thum is a German cardiologist and professor at Hannover Medical School who established microRNAs as drug targets in heart failure and co-founded Cardior Pharmaceuticals.

Thomas Tuschl

Thomas Tuschl, born 1966 in Germany, is an RNA biologist at Rockefeller University who demonstrated siRNA gene silencing in human cells and co-founded Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.