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Chuanyue Wu
Chuanyue Wu is a cell biologist at the University of Pittsburgh whose research on focal adhesions and integrin signaling established kindlin-2 as a key regulator of integrin activation.
Claire E. Walczak
Claire E. Walczak is an American cell biologist at Indiana University Bloomington who studies how dividing cells distribute chromosomes, best known for identifying the kinesin XKCM1 in 1996.
Clare M. Waterman
Clare M. Waterman, also published as Clare M. Waterman-Storer, is an American cell biologist and NIH Distinguished Investigator who invented fluorescence speckle microscopy for tracking proteins in living cells.
Claud Stanley Rupert
Claud Stanley Rupert (1919–2017) was an American photobiologist who showed in 1956 that visible light repairs UV-damaged DNA, the first demonstration of a DNA repair enzyme, photolyase.
Claudia Lukas
Claudia Lukas is a Danish-based molecular biologist and professor at the University of Copenhagen known for work on the DNA damage response and chromatin ubiquitylation.
Claudio A.P. Joazeiro
Claudio A.P. Joazeiro is a molecular biologist and professor at Scripps Research in Florida, known for discovering the Listerin ligase that clears faulty proteins from stalled ribosomes.
Claudio Basilico
Claudio Basilico is an Italian-born molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus of Microbiology at New York University, known for research on cell proliferation, tumor viruses, and FGF signaling.
Claudio W. Pikielny
Claudio W. Pikielny, also published as Claudio Pikielny, is a molecular biologist known for yeast mRNA splicing work at Brandeis and fruit fly pheromone research at Dartmouth.
Claus Scheidereit
Claus Scheidereit is a German molecular biologist who led a signal transduction lab at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, known for work on NF-κB in Hodgkin lymphoma.
Clodagh O'Shea
Clodagh O'Shea is an Irish molecular biologist, a professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, known for research on oncolytic adenoviruses engineered to kill cancer cells.
Colin Dingwall
Colin Dingwall is a molecular biologist whose 1982 nucleoplasmin work at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology defined how proteins are targeted into the cell nucleus.
Colin R. Hopkins
Colin R. Hopkins, born 1939, is a British cell biologist known for work on receptor-mediated endocytosis and for defining the endosome as the organelle that sorts internalized molecules.
Connie Eaves
Connie Eaves, also known as Connie J. Eaves, was a Canadian cancer and stem cell biologist who co-founded the Terry Fox Laboratory at BC Cancer in Vancouver.
Cornelis Murre
Cornelis (Kees) Murre is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025 for immunology research.
Corrado Baglioni
Corrado Baglioni is a molecular biologist at the University at Albany, SUNY, known for showing that the trinucleotide 2-5A, made in interferon-treated cells, activates a nuclease that degrades mRNA.
Costa Georgopoulos
Costa Georgopoulos, born Constantine P. Georgopoulos in Greece in 1942, is a molecular biologist known for defining the DnaK (Hsp70) and GroEL (Hsp60) chaperone machines of E. coli.
Craig C. Mello
Craig C. Mello, born 1960, is an American molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA interference in 1998 and won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Craig L. Peterson
Craig L. Peterson is an American molecular biologist at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester who studies ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling enzymes, including SWI/SNF and INO80.
Crisanto Gutiérrez
Crisanto Gutiérrez is a Spanish molecular biologist at CSIC in Madrid who studies DNA replication and chromatin in plants; he won the Santiago Ramón y Cajal Prize in 2026.
Curt Wittenberg
Curt Wittenberg is a molecular biologist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for work on the genes and protein machines that launch the cell division cycle in budding yeast.
Cynthia Elizabeth Dunbar
Cynthia Elizabeth Dunbar, also known as Cynthia E. Dunbar, is an American physician-scientist in hematology who led stem cell research at the NIH for almost four decades.
D. Allan Drummond
D. Allan Drummond is a University of Chicago biochemist who studies how cells respond to stress, known for showing that heat-triggered protein condensates are reversible, active, and adaptive.
Dafna Bar-Sagi
Dafna Bar-Sagi is a cancer biologist who studies how the Ras oncogene drives tumor growth, especially in pancreatic cancer, and leads science at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
Dale A. Ramsden
Dale A. Ramsden is an American biochemist at the University of North Carolina who studies how cells repair chromosome breaks, including polymerase theta-mediated end joining.
Dan Wilson
Dan Wilson is a pharmaceutical-industry scientist with a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University who runs the YouTube channel Debunk the Funk, debunking vaccine and medical misinformation using primary scientific literature.
Danesh Moazed
Danesh Moazed is a professor of cell biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Harvard Medical School, known for research on heterochromatin, RNA interference, and epigenetic inheritance.
Daniel A. Colón-Ramos
Daniel A. Colón-Ramos is a Puerto Rican-born neuroscientist, the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor at Yale School of Medicine, who studies how synapses are assembled and modified using C. elegans.
Daniel A. Goodenough
Daniel A. Goodenough (1944–2024) was an American cell biologist, Takeda Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, known for discovering ZO-1, the first tight junction protein, and naming connexin.
Daniel B. Rifkin
Daniel B. Rifkin, also published as D. B. Rifkin, is a molecular biologist and Research Professor of Cell Biology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine known for TGF-β research.
Daniel Bogenhagen
Daniel F. Bogenhagen is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University known for work on mitochondrial DNA replication, transcription, and repair in animal cells.