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Trudi Schüpbach

Trudi Schüpbach, born 1950, is a Swiss-born American developmental geneticist and emerita professor at Princeton University known for working out how the Drosophila embryo establishes its dorsal–ventral axis.

Trudy F. C. Mackay

Trudy F. C. Mackay is a Canadian quantitative geneticist known for building the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel, a standard resource for mapping genes behind complex traits.

Trudy G. Oliver

Trudy G. Oliver is an American cancer biologist at Duke University known for defining small cell lung cancer subtypes and how they drive drug resistance.

Trygve Solstad

Trygve Solstad is a Norwegian researcher and associate professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, working on numerical cognition, mathematical learning, and artificial intelligence.

Tso-Pang Yao

Tso-Pang Yao is a molecular biologist and Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke University, known for his 2003 Cell paper identifying HDAC6 in protein stress.

Tsoo E. King

Tsoo E. King (born 1916) was a biochemist and biophysicist, professor at Oregon State University, known for reconstituting the mitochondrial respiratory chain from its components.

Tsui Lap-chee

Tsui Lap-chee is a Canadian human geneticist who led the team that identified the cystic fibrosis gene in 1989 and served as the 14th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong from 2002 to 2014.

Tsune Kosuge

Tsune Kosuge (1925–1988) was an American plant pathologist and biochemist at UC Davis who defined the role of the hormone IAA in olive-knot disease and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988.

Tsuneo Tomita

Tsuneo Tomita (冨田恒男, 1908–1991) was a Japanese visual physiologist and professor at Keio University School of Medicine, known for recording light responses from single retinal cells.

Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa

Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa (黒岩常祥) is a Japanese cell biologist known for discovering how chloroplasts and mitochondria divide and for sequencing the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae genome.

Tsutomu Imaizumi

Tsutomu Imaizumi (今泉 務) is a Japanese physician-scientist in circulatory internal medicine who was professor at Kurume University from 1994 to 2011 and led the TACT cell transplantation trial.

Tsutomu Suzuki

Tsutomu Suzuki (鈴木 勉) is a Japanese molecular biologist and professor at the University of Tokyo known for discovering RNA modifications, including RNA cap methylation and tRNA queuosine.

Tsvee Lapidot

Tsvee Lapidot is an Israeli hematologist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for identifying human leukemia-initiating cells and defining bone marrow stem cell niches.

Tu Youyou (屠呦呦)

Tu Youyou (屠呦呦), born in 1930, is a Chinese pharmaceutical researcher whose team discovered artemisinin from sweet wormwood, earning half of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Tudor G. Jovin

Tudor Jovin is a vascular neurologist and neurointerventionalist, Chair of Neurology at Cooper University Health Care, known for leading the DAWN, REVASCAT, and BAOCHE thrombectomy trials.

Tulio de Oliveira

Tulio de Oliveira is a Brazilian-born South African bioinformatician who directs CERI at Stellenbosch University and KRISP, and led the team that identified the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in 2021.

Tulle Hazelrigg

Tulle Inger Hazelrigg is an American Drosophila geneticist at Columbia University whom the 2008 Nobel Committee credits with the first GFP protein fusion, in fruit flies, in 1994.

Tullio Pozzan

Tullio Pozzan (1949–2022) was an Italian cell biologist at the University of Padova whose 1992 work established mitochondria as a central hub in cellular calcium signaling.

Tung T Le

Tung T Le is a single-molecule biophysicist at Cornell University and an HHMI Research Specialist who studies DNA mechanics, including how etoposide traps DNA loops on topoisomerase II.

Tung‐Tien Sun

Tung-Tien Sun (孙同天) was a cell biologist at NYU School of Medicine who defined epithelial differentiation markers, located corneal and hair follicle stem cells, and discovered the uroplakins.

Tuomas Knowles

Tuomas P. J. Knowles is a biophysical chemist who holds the 1920 Professorship of Physical Chemistry at Cambridge and studies protein aggregation underlying Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

Tuomas Tammela

Tuomas Tammela is a Finnish cancer biologist and associate member at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, known for work on Wnt signaling in lung adenocarcinoma.

Turi King

Turi King is a Canadian-born British geneticist best known for leading the genetic analysis that identified King Richard III's remains, found under a Leicester car park in 2012.

Tuuli Lappalainen

Tuuli Lappalainen is a Finnish computational geneticist studying the functional effects of regulatory genetic variation, and Professor in Genomics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Tyler J. Curiel

Tyler J. Curiel is an American physician-scientist in tumor immunology at UT Health San Antonio, known for showing that ovarian tumors recruit regulatory T cells to evade immune attack.

Tyler Jacks

Tyler Jacks is an American cancer geneticist at MIT who pioneered genetically engineered mouse models for studying p53 and K-ras, and was the founding director of the Koch Institute.

Tyler Starr

Tyler N. Starr is a virologist and assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Utah who studies the molecular evolution of coronaviruses and the antibodies that inhibit them.

Tyrone Cannon

Tyrone D. Cannon is a clinical neuroscientist, the Clark L. Hull Professor of Psychology and Professor of Psychiatry at Yale, known for predicting psychosis in at-risk youth.

Tyrone Hayes

Tyrone Hayes is a UC Berkeley biologist whose research on the herbicide atrazine as an endocrine disruptor in frogs brought him into conflict with Syngenta.

Tza‐Huei Wang

Tza-Huei Wang (王祖辉), known as Jeff Wang, is a mechanical engineer and Louis M. Sardella Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for quantum-dot DNA nanosensors and point-of-care diagnostics.