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Charles A. Janeway
Charles Alderson Janeway (1909–1981) was an American pediatrician and immunologist who was physician-in-chief at Children's Hospital, Boston, and defined the antibody deficiency disorders as a class of disease.
Charles A. Thornton
Charles A. Thornton is a neurologist and physician-scientist at the University of Rochester who showed that toxic CUG-repeat RNA causes myotonic dystrophy type 1 and drove its first mechanism-based treatments.
Charles Anderson (marine biologist)
R. Charles Anderson is a UK-trained marine biologist based in the Maldives since 1983, known for pioneering whale and dolphin watching and research on cetaceans, sharks, and manta rays.
Charles Armstrong (physician)
Charles Armstrong (1886–1967) was an American physician and virologist with the U.S. Public Health Service and NIH, known for polio research and discovering lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus in 1933.
Charles Atwood Kofoid
Charles Atwood Kofoid (1865–1947) was an American zoologist who studied marine plankton and protozoa at UC Berkeley and was a central figure in founding the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Charles B. Kimmel
Charles B. Kimmel, known as Chuck Kimmel, is an American developmental biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Oregon who established zebrafish as a vertebrate model organism.
Charles Bell
Sir Charles Bell (1774–1842), Scottish anatomist and surgeon; described Bell's palsy, Bell's phenomenon, and the long thoracic nerve; central figure in the Bell–Magendie spinal-root priority dispute.
Charles Benedict Davenport
Charles Benedict Davenport (1866–1944) was an American zoologist and geneticist who led the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor and founded the Eugenics Record Office.
Charles Bixler Heiser
Charles Bixler Heiser Jr. (1920–2010) was an American botanist at Indiana University known for work on sunflower hybridization and on cultivated plants including chile peppers, gourds, and quinoa.
Charles Boone (molecular geneticist)
Charles Boone is a Canadian molecular geneticist at the University of Toronto whose lab developed Synthetic Genetic Array analysis, mapping nearly 1 million genetic interactions in yeast.
Charles Brenner (biochemist)
Charles Brenner (born 1961) is an American biochemist known for discovering nicotinamide riboside as an NAD+ precursor vitamin, and a professor of metabolic regulation at the University of Helsinki from 2026.
Charles C. Richardson
Charles C. Richardson is an American biochemist and Harvard Medical School physician-scientist known for discovering key enzymes of DNA metabolism and developing bacteriophage T7 as a replication model system.
Charles Chavkin
Charles Chavkin (C. Chavkin) is an American neuropharmacologist, professor at the University of Washington, known for establishing dynorphin as the kappa opioid receptor's endogenous ligand.
Charles D. Gilbert
Charles D. Gilbert is an American neuroscientist at The Rockefeller University, known for showing that the adult visual cortex reorganizes through experience and perceptual learning.
Charles D. Laird
Charles D. Laird, also published as Charles Laird, is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington known for linking fragile X syndrome to delayed replication of the FMR1 gene.
Charles D. Michener
Charles D. Michener (1918–2015) was an American entomologist at the University of Kansas who became the leading authority on the systematics and social evolution of bees.
Charles D. Scher
Charles D. Scher is a cancer researcher and pediatric hematologist-oncologist known for work on Abelson murine leukemia virus and platelet-derived growth factor, and now practices in New Orleans.
Charles D. Stiles
Charles D. Stiles is an American molecular biologist and neurobiologist who joined Harvard and Dana-Farber in 1976, known for cloning PDGF-regulated genes and Olig transcription factor work.
Charles D. Surh
Charles D. Surh (1961–2017) was a Korean-born American immunologist known for work on T cell homeostasis and immune tolerance, with a long career at The Scripps Research Institute.
Charles David Allis
Charles David Allis, known professionally as C. David Allis, was an American molecular biologist at Rockefeller University who purified the first histone acetyltransferase in 1996.
Charles DeLisi
Charles DeLisi is an American biomedical scientist and physicist who, as a Department of Energy director, obtained the 1987 budget line item that launched the Human Genome Project.
Charles E. Rupprecht
Charles E. Rupprecht is an American virologist and veterinarian who served nearly 20 years as Chief of the CDC Rabies Program and helped develop the oral wildlife rabies vaccine.
Charles Elmer Allen
Charles Elmer Allen (1872–1954) was an American botanist and cytologist at the University of Wisconsin, best known for the first discovery of sex chromosomes among plants.
Charles Ernest Overton
Charles Ernest Overton (1865–1933) was a British-born, Swedish-based physiologist and pharmacologist at Lund University who founded quantitative membrane permeability research and the Meyer-Overton theory of general anesthesia.
Charles F. Aquadro
Charles F. Aquadro, known as Chip Aquadro, is a molecular population geneticist who spent his career at Cornell University, studying genetic variation in Drosophila fruit flies.
Charles F. Stevens
Charles F. Stevens, also known as C. F. Stevens, was an American neuroscientist at the Salk Institute who worked on ion channels, synaptic transmission, and the design principles of the brain.
Charles ffrench‐Constant
Charles ffrench-Constant, born 1954, is a British clinician scientist in myelin biology and multiple sclerosis, known for identifying the adult glial progenitor cell that determines remyelination of the central nervous system.
Charles G. Gross
Charles G. Gross (1936–2019) was an American neuroscientist at Princeton University whose recordings from monkeys' inferior temporal cortex established how the brain recognizes objects and faces.
Charles Glabe
Charles Glabe is an American molecular biologist and biochemist, a professor at UC Irvine known for conformation-dependent antibodies that recognize soluble amyloid oligomers in Alzheimer's disease.
Charles H. Langley
Charles H. Langley is an American population geneticist and Distinguished Professor at UC Davis who studies mutation, recombination, and selection in Drosophila, winning the 1999 Genetics Society of America Medal.