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Tilman B. Drüeke

Tilman B. Drüeke, born 1942, is a German-born, French-based nephrology researcher long at Necker Hospital in Paris and Inserm, known for the CREATE trial and work on secondary hyperparathyroidism.

Tilman Sauerbruch

Tilman Sauerbruch, born 1946, is a German hepatologist and professor of internal medicine at the University of Bonn, known for fragmenting gallstones with extracorporeal shock waves and studying portal hypertension.

Tim Birkhead

Tim Birkhead is a British zoologist and author, emeritus professor of behavior and evolution at the University of Sheffield, known for research on sperm competition in birds.

Tim C. P. Somervaille

Tim C. P. Somervaille is a British hematologist who studies leukemia stem cells and leads the Leukaemia Biology Laboratory at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute.

Tim Clausen

Tim Clausen is a structural biologist and Senior Group Leader at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, known for AAA+ proteases and BacPROTACs.

Tim Clutton‐Brock

Tim Clutton-Brock, born 1946, is a Cambridge zoologist and Royal Society Fellow known for decades-long studies of red deer on Rùm, Soay sheep on St Kilda, and Kalahari meerkats.

Tim Coorens

Tim Coorens is a Dutch cancer genomics researcher who reconstructs the family trees of human cells from somatic mutations, leading a group at EMBL-EBI since 2025.

Tim Coulson

Tim Coulson is a British population ecologist and Statutory Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, known for developing integral projection models for population dynamics.

Tim D. Spector

Tim D. Spector, also known as Tim Spector, is a British physician and professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London who founded the TwinsUK twin registry.

Tim D. White

Tim D. White, also known as Tim White, is an American paleoanthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for describing Ardipithecus ramidus and co-directing Ethiopia's Middle Awash research project.

Tim Doran

Tim Doran is a British physician and health services researcher, Professor of Health Policy at the University of York, known for large-scale studies of the UK's pay-for-performance scheme.

Tim F. Greten

Tim F. Greten is a German-trained physician-scientist who heads the Gastrointestinal Malignancy Section at the National Cancer Institute and was the world's most published author in hepatocellular carcinoma immunotherapy in 2023.

Tim Flannery

Tim Flannery is an Australian mammalogist, paleontologist, and writer who led the federal Climate Commission from 2011 to 2013, co-founded the Climate Council, and was named Australian of the Year in 2007.

Tim Higenbottam

Tim Higenbottam is a British respiratory physician-scientist who developed the first effective drug therapies for pulmonary arterial hypertension, advanced lung transplantation at Papworth Hospital, and studied inhaled nitric oxide.

Tim Hunt

Tim Hunt, born 1943, is a British biochemist who discovered the cyclins, proteins destroyed at each cell division, and shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Tim J. Schulz

Tim J. Schulz (Tim Julius Schulz, born 1979) is a German biochemist who researches brown and white fat cells at the German Institute of Human Nutrition.

Tim Manser

Tim Manser, full name Timothy L. Manser, is an American immunologist and professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia known for research on B cell immune memory and self tolerance.

Tim Mitchison

Timothy J. Mitchison is a British-born American cell biologist at Harvard Medical School who co-discovered dynamic instability of microtubules in 1984 and studies mitosis and microtubule pharmacology.

Tim Mosmann

Tim Mosmann is a British immunologist best known for discovering the TH1 and TH2 helper T cell subsets with Robert Coffman, work first published in 1986.

Tim Noakes

Tim Noakes (born 1949, Harare) is a South African physician, Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town, proposer of the Central Governor Model of exercise fatigue, and a prominent advocate of low-carbohydrate high-fat (Banting) diets after promoting high-carbohydrate eating for over 35 years.

Tim Stearns

Tim Stearns is an American cell biologist at Rockefeller University known for research on centrosomes and cilia, including identifying γ-tubulin as the initiator of microtubule growth.

Tim Tully

Tim Tully is an American neurogeneticist known for dissecting learning and memory in fruit flies, showing in 1994 that the transcription factor CREB converts short-term memory into long-term memory.

Timm Maier

Timm Maier is a German structural biologist and Full Professor of Structural Biology at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, since 2023, known for structures of fatty acid synthase and mTOR complexes.

Timm Schroeder

Timm Schroeder is a stem cell researcher and professor for Cell Systems Dynamics at ETH Zurich's Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering in Basel, pioneering long-term single-cell imaging.

Timo Vesikari

Timo Vesikari is a Finnish physician-scientist in infectious diseases and vaccinology, based in Tampere, who conducted the first clinical trials of live oral rotavirus vaccines in humans.

Timothy A. Ryan

Timothy A. Ryan is an American neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medicine known for optical probes of synaptic vesicle recycling and presynaptic ATP, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Timothy A. Springer

Timothy A. Springer is an American immunologist at Harvard Medical School who showed that white blood cells use integrin adhesion molecules to enter tissues, work that produced approved drugs.

Timothy A. Stewart

Timothy A. Stewart (Timothy Andrew Stewart) is a geneticist who trained with Beatrice Mintz and Philip Leder and built the first transgenic mouse models of cancer and insulin-dependent diabetes.

Timothy B. Hallett

Timothy B. Hallett is a Professor of Global Health at Imperial College London who models HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria to show how resources can maximize population health.

Timothy Behrens

Timothy Behrens is a British computational neuroscientist, Professor of Computational Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, known for work on grid cells, replay, and diffusion MRI tractography.