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Tom Solomon

Tom Solomon (Thomas Solomon) is a British neurologist and infectious-diseases physician who studies brain infections, especially Japanese encephalitis and dengue, and directs The Pandemic Institute.

Tom Treasure

Tom Treasure is a British cardiothoracic surgeon and honorary professor at University College London, known for the MARS mesothelioma trial and the PulMiCC metastasectomy trial.

Tom van der Poll

Tom van der Poll (born 1961) is a Dutch internist-infectiologist, professor of medicine at the University of Amsterdam since 2003, known for research on sepsis and pneumonia.

Tomás Berl

Tomás Berl is an American nephrologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, known for research on water excretion, hyponatremia, and vasopressin antagonists, and a past president of the American Society of Nephrology.

Tomas Ganz

Tomas Ganz, born 1948 in Prague, is an American physician-scientist at UCLA known for discovering hepcidin and erythroferrone, the two principal hormones of iron homeostasis.

Tomas Hökfelt

Tomas Hökfelt, born 1940 in Stockholm, is a Swedish neuroscientist at Karolinska Institutet known for mapping neuropeptides and showing neurons can contain more than one transmitter.

Tomás J Ryan

Tomás J Ryan is an Irish neuroscientist, Professor in Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin, known for developing memory engram technology during postdoctoral work in Susumu Tonegawa's MIT laboratory.

Tomas Jernberg

Tomas Jernberg is a Swedish cardiologist and Professor of Cardiology at Danderyd Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, known for the 2024 REDUCE-AMI trial on beta-blockers after heart attacks.

Tomas Kirchhausen

Tomas Kirchhausen, also known as Tom Kirchhausen, is a Peruvian-trained cell biologist, professor at Harvard Medical School, and leading authority on the structure and dynamics of clathrin-mediated endocytosis.

Tomas Lindahl

Tomas Lindahl is a Swedish-born biochemist in the UK who showed DNA is continually damaged and repaired, winning a third of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Tomas Pieler

Tomas Pieler is a retired molecular biologist who led the Pieler Lab at the University of Göttingen, known for Cell papers on the Xenopus 5S RNA gene system.

Tomáš Pluskal

Tomáš Pluskal, born 1981 in Prague, is a Czech metabolomics researcher who leads a plant natural products group at IOCB Prague and is known for the MZmine mass spectrometry software.

Tomasz Nowakowski

Tomasz J. Nowakowski is a developmental neuroscientist and associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco who uses single-cell genomics to map how the human brain builds itself before birth.

Tomio Tada

Tomio Tada (多田富雄, 1934–2010) was a Japanese immunologist who pioneered the study of suppressor T cells, and a professor of immunology at the University of Tokyo.

Tomisaku Kawasaki

Tomisaku Kawasaki (川崎富作) was a Japanese pediatrician who identified and described Kawasaki disease in 1967, after decades at the Japanese Red Cross Medical Center in Tokyo.

Tomitake Tsukihara

Tomitake Tsukihara (月原 冨武) is a Japanese biophysicist and protein crystallographer known for X-ray structures of cytochrome c oxidase and the human connexin 26 gap junction channel.

Tomohiro Kurosaki

Tomohiro Kurosaki (黒崎 知博) is a Japanese immunologist known for defining how the B cell antigen receptor signals, identifying the adaptors BLNK and BCAP, and leading a RIKEN laboratory.

Tomoko Ohta

Tomoko Ohta (太田朋子) is a Japanese population geneticist at the National Institute of Genetics, the main advocate of the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution.

Tomoya Kitajima

Tomoya Kitajima (北島 智也) is a Japanese cell biologist who leads the Laboratory for Chromosome Segregation at RIKEN in Kobe and identified the protein shugoshin.

Tomoyuki Takahashi

Tomoyuki Takahashi (高橋 智幸, born 1944) is a Japanese neuroscientist who studies synaptic transmission and vesicle recycling at the calyx of Held, a giant synapse in the auditory brainstem.

Ton Bisseling

Ton Bisseling (Antonius H.J. Bisseling) is a Dutch plant molecular biologist and emeritus professor of molecular biology at Wageningen University, known for his work on legume–rhizobium symbiosis and the ENOD40 nodule gene.

Ton J. Rabelink

Ton J. Rabelink, known as Ton Rabelink, is a Dutch nephrologist who is professor of internal medicine at Leiden University Medical Center, working on diabetic kidney disease and kidney regeneration.

Tongqing Zhou

Tongqing Zhou is a Chinese-American structural virologist at NIAID who is chief of the Structural Virology and Vaccinology Section and designs vaccine immunogens for HIV-1 and RSV.

Toni Gabaldón

Toni Gabaldón (born 1973) is a Spanish computational biologist who leads the Comparative Genomics group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and IRB Barcelona, known for trimAl and eukaryogenesis studies.

Toni K. Choueiri

Toni K. Choueiri is a Lebanese-born medical oncologist specializing in kidney and urinary tract cancers, directing the Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology at Dana-Farber and teaching at Harvard Medical School.

Tony Hunter

Tony Hunter is a biochemist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, best known for his 1979 discovery of tyrosine phosphorylation, a key mechanism in cancer.

Tony K.T. Lam

Tony K.T. Lam is a Canadian physiologist at the University of Toronto known for showing that the brain senses fatty acids to regulate liver glucose production in diabetes.

Tony McMichael

Tony McMichael, born Anthony John McMichael, was an Australian epidemiologist who founded the study of climate change and human health, and documented lead's harm to children.

Tony Pawson (cell biologist)

Tony Pawson was a Canadian cell biologist at Toronto's Lunenfeld Research Institute who discovered the SH2 domain, transforming signal transduction research, and won the 2008 Kyoto Prize.

Tony Tiganis

Tony Tiganis is a molecular biologist who studies protein-tyrosine phosphatase signaling in obesity, diabetes, and cancer, heading the Metabolism, Diabetes, and Obesity Program at Monash University.