Thomas Tuschl (born 1 June 1966) is a German biochemist and molecular biologist, known for his research on RNA.
After graduating in Chemistry from Regensburg University, Tuschl received his PhD in 1995 from the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Göttingen.
In 1999 he returned to Göttingen, to continue his research at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.
There he received international recognition in Genetics for his studies of RNA interference in collaboration with the laboratory of Klaus Weber.
He is looking into microRNA, small RNA-sections, which are formed by the cells and cause RNA interference like introduced synthetic RNA-strains.