Life scientists

Catherine Dulac

Catherine Dulac is a French-born molecular neuroscientist at Harvard, an HHMI Investigator since 1997, known for discovering mammalian pheromone receptors and winning the 2021 Breakthrough Prize.

Catherine M. Verfaillie

Catherine M. Verfaillie, born 1957, is a Belgian physician-scientist in stem cell biology who led the Stem Cell Institute at Minnesota and later at KU Leuven.

Catherine Weisz

Catherine Weisz is an American auditory neuroscientist who leads the Section on Neuronal Circuitry at the NIDCD, part of the NIH, and received a 2017 PECASE award.

Cathie Martin

Cathie Martin is a plant scientist and Professor at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, known for the genetically engineered purple tomato and her MBE in 2014.

Cathy Mendelsohn

Cathy Mendelsohn is an American molecular biologist and Columbia University professor known for cloning the human poliovirus receptor and studying how vitamin A signaling shapes the urinary tract.

Cecil B. Pickett is an American pharmacologist and toxicologist who pioneered research on glutathione S-transferases and the antioxidant response element and led pharmaceutical R&D at Schering-Plough and Biogen Idec.

Cecil Wadleigh

Cecil Wadleigh (Cecil Herbert Wadleigh) was an American soil scientist and plant physiologist with the USDA, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973.

Cecile M. Pickart

Cecile M. Pickart was a Johns Hopkins biochemist who worked out much of the enzyme chemistry of ubiquitin, the small protein cells attach to other proteins as a signal.

Cecília Garlanda

Cecilia Garlanda is an Italian immunologist who heads the Laboratory of Experimental Immunopathology at Humanitas in Milan and studies the innate immunity molecules PTX3 and IL-1R8.

Cecilia Guerrier-Takada

Cecilia Guerrier-Takada was a molecular biologist in Sidney Altman's laboratory at Yale, first author of the 1983 Cell paper showing the RNA of RNase P is catalytic.

Oct 10, 2026

Cecilia M. Pickart

Cecilia M. Pickart, published as Cecile M. Pickart, was an American biochemist who showed that multiple E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes exist, work cited in the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Cedar J. Fowler

Cedar J. Fowler is a physician-scientist and Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Stanford University, known for research on genetic susceptibility to pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease.

Cédric Feschotte

Cédric Feschotte is a molecular biologist and geneticist who studies transposable elements, which make up half the human genome, and is the Barbara McClintock Professor at Cornell University.

Oct 10, 2026

Cedric Habiyaremye

Cedric Habiyaremye is a Rwandan-born crop scientist who fled the 1994 genocide as a child, earned a doctorate at Washington State University in 2019, and founded QuinoaHub to grow quinoa and other climate-resilient crops across Africa.

Oct 10, 2026

Cedric Smith (geneticist)

Cedric Austen Bardell Smith (1917–2002) was a British geneticist and mathematician at University College London's Galton Laboratory whose 1953 linkage paper shaped human genetics for 40 years.

Cees Dekker

Cees Dekker (Cornelis Dekker, born 1959) is a Dutch physicist and Distinguished University Professor at TU Delft, known for carbon nanotube transistors and single-molecule biophysics of DNA.

Celia Moens

Celia Moens, also recorded as Cecilia B. Moens, is a developmental biologist and professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle known for her zebrafish studies of hindbrain patterning.

Celia Schiffer

Celia A. Schiffer is an American structural biologist at UMass Chan Medical School, known for the substrate envelope hypothesis for designing antiviral drugs that resist mutations.

César de la Fuente‐Núñez

César de la Fuente-Núñez is a Spanish-American computational microbiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Machine Biology Group and uses AI to mine proteins, microbiomes, and extinct organisms for new antibiotics.

Cesare Montecucco

Cesare Montecucco, born in Trento, Italy, in 1947, is an Italian pathologist and toxinologist at the University of Padova known for identifying how tetanus and botulinum neurotoxins act.

Chad A. Cowan

Chad A. Cowan, also known as Chad Cowan, is a stem cell biologist who derived 17 human embryonic stem cell lines and now leads Century Therapeutics as CSO.

Chad Nusbaum

Chad Nusbaum is a genomics technologist known for large-scale genome sequencing at the Broad Institute, co-author of the 2001 draft human genome, and lead author of the finished chromosome 18 sequence.

Chandler McCuskey Brooks

Chandler McCuskey Brooks (1905–1989) was an American physiologist known for research on the nervous and endocrine systems and heart electrophysiology, and for early pacemaker research.

Channing J. Der

Channing J. Der is an American cancer cell biologist and pharmacologist at UNC-Chapel Hill who took part in the 1982 discovery of mutated RAS genes in human cancers.

Chaozhong Zhang

Chaozhong Zhang is a Chinese-trained wheat molecular geneticist in Jorge Dubcovsky's laboratory at the University of California, Davis, known for cloning the stripe rust resistance gene Yr28.

Charalambos P. Kyriacou

Charalambos P. Kyriacou, known as Bambos Kyriacou, is a British behavioral geneticist and chronobiologist at Leicester who studies circadian rhythms in the fruit fly Drosophila.

Charalampos G. Kalodimos

Charalampos "Babis" Kalodimos is a structural biologist who uses NMR spectroscopy to study protein dynamics, and has chaired structural biology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital since 2017.

Charan Ranganath

Charan Ranganath is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of California, Davis, known for research on episodic memory and the 2024 bestseller Why We Remember.

Charis Eng

Charis Eng (1962–2024) was a Singapore-born physician-scientist in clinical cancer genetics who defined the inherited genetics of the RET and PTEN tumor-susceptibility genes and founded the Cleveland Clinic Genomic Medicine Institute in 2005.