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Carl O. Pabo

Carl O. Pabo, also written C.O. Pabo, is an American structural biologist born in 1952 known for determining crystal structures of DNA-binding proteins, including homeodomains and zinc fingers.

Carl Pantin

Carl Frederick Abel Pantin was a British zoologist and invertebrate physiologist who worked on amoeboid movement and sea anemone nervous systems, becoming Professor of Zoology at Cambridge.

Carl Rabl

Carl Rabl (1853–1917) was an Austrian anatomist, professor in Vienna, Prague, and Leipzig, whose 1885 treatise proposed that chromosomes persist through cell division, giving the Rabl configuration.

Carl Richard Moore

Carl Richard Moore (1892–1955) was an American zoologist at the University of Chicago who studied sex hormones, sperm production, and gonad–pituitary feedback, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1944.

Carl S Thummel

Carl S Thummel is an American Drosophila geneticist and Professor Emeritus of Human Genetics at the University of Utah, a longtime HHMI Investigator known for ecdysone and nuclear receptor research.

Carl S. Parker

Carl S. Parker is a molecular biologist at the California Institute of Technology known for his 1984 and 1988 Cell papers on heat-shock transcription factors.

Carl Schoonover

Carl Schoonover is a neuroscientist at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics who studies how brains learn from unstructured experience, and who co-founded the NeuWrite science-writing group.

Carl W. Cotman

Carl W. Cotman, also known as Carl Cotman, was an American neuroscientist at UC Irvine who founded UCI MIND and showed that exercise increases BDNF, a protein protecting neurons.

Carl W. Gottschalk

Carl W. Gottschalk (1922–1997) was an American renal physiologist at the University of North Carolina who used micropuncture to show how the kidney concentrates urine.

Carl W. Schmid

Carl W. Schmid is a molecular biologist and professor emeritus at UC Davis whose laboratory discovered the Alu repeat, about 10 percent of the human genome, in 1979.

Carl Wernicke

Carl Wernicke (1848–1905), German neurologist and psychiatrist, described the Wernicke area (Brodmann area 22) in his 1874 aphasia monograph and Wernicke encephalopathy in 1881; modern research reassigns his area's function.

Carl Wu

Carl Wu is an American molecular biologist known for discovering the NURF chromatin remodeling complex, a National Academy of Sciences member at Johns Hopkins since 2016.

Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, born 1968 in Munich, is a German developmental biologist and biophysicist, a professor at ISTA in Austria known for work on the mechanics of gastrulation.

Carl‐Henrik Heldin

Carl-Henrik Heldin, also known as C H Heldin, is a Swedish molecular cell biologist at Uppsala University known for research on PDGF and TGF-β signaling.

Carla J. Shatz

Carla J. Shatz is an American developmental neurobiologist at Stanford University who discovered that spontaneous retinal waves wire the brain before birth, winning the 2016 Kavli Prize.

Carles Cantó

Carles Cantó is a Spanish biochemist and senior researcher at EPFL in Switzerland, known for first-authoring a 2009 Nature paper linking AMPK, SIRT1, and NAD+ metabolism.

Carlie LaLone

Carlie LaLone is an American research bioinformaticist at the EPA office in Duluth, Minnesota, who developed SeqAPASS, a tool predicting chemical susceptibility across species, earning a 2017 Presidential Early Career Award.

Carlito B. Lebrilla

Carlito B. Lebrilla is an American analytical chemist and glycobiologist, Distinguished Professor at UC Davis, known for mass spectrometry methods applied to cancer biomarkers and human milk sugars.

Carlo M. Croce

Carlo M. Croce, also known as Carlo Maria Croce, is an Italian-born American physician-scientist in cancer genetics whose laboratory discovered the BCL2 oncogene and first linked microRNAs to human cancer.

Carlos Ardavı́n

Carlos Ardavín is a Spanish immunologist and CSIC Research Professor at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología in Madrid, known for his work on the origins of dendritic cells and macrophages.

Carlos Bustamante (biophysicist)

Carlos J. Bustamante is a Peruvian-trained single-molecule biophysicist and HHMI Investigator at UC Berkeley whose laboratory was the first to stretch a single DNA molecule with optical tweezers.

Carlos D. Brody

Carlos D. Brody is a neuroscientist at Princeton University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator known for showing how the brain accumulates evidence toward decisions.

Carlos D. Bustamante

Carlos D. Bustamante is an American population geneticist at Stanford School of Medicine, where he became inaugural chair of Biomedical Data Science and won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010.

Carlos de la Torre y Huerta

Carlos de la Torre y Huerta (1858–1950) was a Cuban naturalist and malacologist who described about 280 mollusk species and was rector of the University of Havana.

Carlos G. Dotti

Carlos G. Dotti is an Argentine neuroscientist and professor at the Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa in Madrid, known for work on neuronal polarity and brain aging.

Carlos Ibáñez (neuroscientist)

Carlos Ibáñez, also known as Carlos F. Ibáñez, is a neuroscientist known for showing that RET is the receptor for GDNF, and a professor at Karolinska Institutet.

Carlos López-Otín

Carlos López-Otín is a Spanish biochemist and molecular biologist at the University of Oviedo, known for cancer genomics, degradomics, and the "Hallmarks of Aging" framework.

Carlos Martínez‐A

Carlos Martínez-A, born Carlos Martínez Alonso in 1950, is a Spanish immunologist at the CNB-CSIC in Madrid known for work on T-cell development and lupus.

Carlos Simmerling

Carlos L. Simmerling is a computational structural biologist at Stony Brook University known for developing widely used Amber protein force fields and a landmark 2002 protein folding simulation.

Carlos T. Moraes

Carlos T. Moraes is a Brazilian-born molecular biologist and neurology researcher at the University of Miami, known for mitochondrial DNA disease research and pioneering mitochondrial genome editing.