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Tony Wyss-Coray

Tony Wyss-Coray is a Stanford neuroscientist who showed that blood-borne factors from young organisms can rejuvenate old brains, and co-founded the biotechnology company Alkahest in 2014.

Tor Biering‐Sørensen

Tor Biering-Sørensen is a Danish cardiologist, professor of translational cardiology at the University of Copenhagen, who runs pragmatic randomized vaccine trials using Denmark's nationwide health registries.

Tor Wager

Tor Wager is an American cognitive neuroscientist at Dartmouth College known for fMRI pain signatures, the Neurosynth platform, and the first fMRI study of placebo effects on pain.

Tora Bonnevie

Tora Bonnevie is a Norwegian physician-neuroscientist and associate professor at NTNU in Trondheim who studies memory, space, and time in the human brain, including early Alzheimer's disease.

Torald Hermann Sollmann

Torald Hermann Sollmann (1874–1965) was an American pharmacologist at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, called the "dean of American pharmacology", and a founding member of ASPET.

Torben Heick Jensen

Torben Heick Jensen (born 1965) is a Danish molecular biologist and professor at Aarhus University, known for defining the NEXT and PAXT nuclear RNA decay pathways.

Torbjörn Caspersson

Torbjörn Oskar Caspersson was a Swedish cytochemist and cytologist who used ultraviolet microscopy to measure nucleic acids in cells and developed Q-banding, making every human chromosome identifiable.

Torbjörn Tomson

Torbjörn Tomson is a Swedish neurologist and epileptologist, senior professor at Karolinska Institutet, who leads the EURAP pregnancy registry and studies SUDEP and antiepileptic drug safety in pregnancy.

Toren Finkel

Toren Finkel is an American physician-scientist who directs the Aging Institute at the University of Pittsburgh, known for research on reactive oxygen species, sirtuins, and the biology of aging.

Torkel Hafting

Torkel Hafting is a Norwegian systems neuroscientist at the University of Oslo, first author of the 2005 Nature paper that introduced grid cells, a discovery central to the 2014 Nobel Prize.

Torsten Hellman

Torsten Hellman (Torsten J:son Hellman, 1878–1944) was a Swedish anatomist and histologist, professor at Lund University, whose reaction-center hypothesis on lymphatic follicles prevailed over the doctrine that they produce lymphocytes.

Torsten O. Nielsen

Torsten O. Nielsen is a Canadian pathologist and full professor at the University of British Columbia known for molecular sarcoma diagnostics and co-inventing the FDA-cleared PAM50 breast cancer test.

Torsten Schwede

Torsten Schwede is a German-Swiss structural bioinformatician and professor at the University of Basel, known for developing SWISS-MODEL and president of the SNSF Research Council since 2025.

Torsten Thunberg

Torsten Thunberg (1873–1952) was a Swedish physiologist who held the chair at Lund University from 1905 to 1938 and pioneered the study of biological oxidation through dehydrogenases.

Torsten Wiesel

Torsten Nils Wiesel is a Swedish-born neuroscientist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with David Hubel for discoveries about processing in the visual system.

Toru Miyazaki

Toru Miyazaki (宮崎 徹) is a Japanese immunologist known for discovering AIM, a blood protein he developed into a therapy for kidney disease in cats.

Toru Nakano

Toru Nakano (仲野 徹) is a Japanese molecular biologist and pathologist who spent his career at Osaka University, known for generating blood cells from mouse embryonic stem cells.

Toshiaki Katada

Toshiaki Katada is a Japanese pharmacologist and biochemist, professor at Musashino University, known for identifying the inhibitory G protein Gi as the substrate ADP-ribosylated by pertussis toxin.

Toshiaki Ohteki

Toshiaki Ohteki is a Japanese immunologist and professor in biodefense research at Institute of Science Tokyo, known for identifying TNF/iNOS-producing dendritic cells and IRF-2's protection of hematopoietic stem cells.

Toshiharu Shikanai

Toshiharu Shikanai (鹿内 利治) is a Japanese plant molecular biologist and Kyoto University professor known for defining cyclic electron flow around photosystem I and chloroplast RNA editing.

Toshihide Yamashita

Toshihide Yamashita (山下俊英) is a Japanese neuroscientist and professor at Osaka University whose work on the molecule RGMa led to antibody therapies for spinal cord injury.

Toshimasa Yamauchi

Toshimasa Yamauchi (山内 敏正) is a Japanese diabetes researcher and professor at the University of Tokyo, known for cloning the adiponectin receptors AdipoR1 and AdipoR2.

Toshinori Nakayama

Toshinori Nakayama (中山俊憲) was a Japanese immunologist who studied at the University of Tokyo and Chiba University before serving as its president, known for his work on T-cell selection.

Toshio Hirano

Toshio Hirano (平野俊夫), born 1947 in Osaka, is a Japanese immunologist at Osaka University who discovered interleukin 6 in 1986, work behind the drug tocilizumab and the 2011 Japan Prize.

Toshio Kitamura

Toshio Kitamura is a Japanese hematologist at the University of Tokyo known for the TF-1 cell line and retrovirus vectors used in over 8,000 laboratories.

Toshio Miyata

Toshio Miyata (宮田 敏男) is a Japanese clinical biochemist and nephrologist, a professor at Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine known for cloning the PIG-A gene in 1993 and defining carbonyl stress in uremia.

Toshio Narahashi

Toshio Narahashi, born Toshio Ishii (1927–2013), was a Japanese-born American pharmacologist at Northwestern University who showed that tetrodotoxin blocks nerve sodium channels, a founding figure of neurotoxicology.

Toshio Suda

Toshio Suda (須田年生) is a Japanese stem cell biologist and hematologist known for identifying the bone marrow niche housing hematopoietic stem cells and for studying oxidative stress in stem cell aging.

Toshio Tsukiyama

Toshio Tsukiyama, born 1962 in Chiba, Japan, is a molecular biologist at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle known for discovering ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling factors.

Toshiro Fujita

Toshiro Fujita (藤田 敏郎) is a Japanese physician-scientist in nephrology and hypertension, known for work on salt-sensitive hypertension, the Rac1–mineralocorticoid receptor pathway, and the epigenetics of hypertension.