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Charles H. Rammelkamp, Jr.
Charles H. Rammelkamp, Jr. (1911–1981) was an American physician and infectious-disease researcher who showed penicillin treatment of strep throat prevents rheumatic fever, winning the 1954 Lasker Award.
Charles H. Sawyer (neuroendocrinologist)
Charles H. Sawyer (1915–2006) was an American neuroendocrinologist at UCLA whose experiments established how the brain controls the pituitary gland and reproductive function, work influential in developing the birth control pill.
Charles Harington (chemist)
Sir Charles Robert Harington (1897–1972) was a British biochemist who determined thyroxine's structure, contributed to the purification of insulin, and directed the National Institute for Medical Research.
Charles Haskell Danforth
Charles Haskell Danforth (1883–1969) was an American anatomist and geneticist who led anatomy at Stanford University and pioneered estimating mutation rates for dominant human genes.
Charles Heidelberger
Charles Heidelberger (1920–1983) was an American biochemist who developed the anticancer drug 5-fluorouracil at the University of Wisconsin's McArdle Laboratory, where he worked from 1948 to 1976.
Charles J. Arntzen
Charles J. Arntzen is an American plant biologist, called "the godfather of pharming," who pioneered plant-made vaccines and contributed to ZMapp, the tobacco-produced Ebola antibody used in 2014.
Charles J. Weitz
Charles J. Weitz is a chronobiologist and neurobiologist who holds the Robert Henry Pfeiffer Professorship of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, studying molecular circadian clocks.
Charles James Martin
Charles James Martin (1866–1955) was a British-born physiologist, first director of the Lister Institute in London from 1903 to 1930, known for work on snake venoms, plague, and vitamins.
Charles Janeway
Charles Janeway (1943–2003) was an American immunologist at Yale whose 1989 proposal that innate immunity recognizes conserved microbial structures earned him the description father of innate immunity.
Charles Judson Herrick
Charles Judson Herrick (1868–1960) was an American neurobiologist and comparative neurologist who spent his career mapping the brains of fishes and amphibians, and edited the Journal of Comparative Neurology.
Charles K. F. Chan
Charles K. F. Chan (Charles Kwok Fai Chan, 1975–2024) was an American stem cell biologist and Stanford professor who defined the mouse and human skeletal stem cell.
Charles Lee (cytogeneticist)
Charles Lee (Korean name Lee Jang-cheol), born in Seoul in 1969, is a Korean-born Canadian-American cytogeneticist whose laboratory first described genome-wide copy number variation in healthy humans in 2004.
Charles M. Perou
Charles M. Perou is an American cancer geneticist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whose 2000 Nature paper established the intrinsic molecular subtypes of breast cancer.
Charles M. Radding
Charles M. Radding (1930–2020) was an American molecular biologist and physician at Yale University who established the biochemical mechanism by which RecA protein pairs homologous DNA strands in recombination.
Charles M. Rick
Charles M. Rick (1915–2002) was an American plant geneticist at the University of California, Davis, often called the father of tomato genetics, who founded the Tomato Genetics Resource Center.
Charles Manning Child
Charles Manning Child (1869–1954) was an American zoologist at the University of Chicago known for the gradient theory, which holds that metabolic gradients govern development and regeneration.
Charles Marie Benjamin Rouget
Charles Marie Benjamin Rouget (1824–1904) was a French physiologist who held chairs at Montpellier and Paris and described the capillary cells now known as pericytes, or Rouget cells.
Charles Nicholas Serhan
Charles Nicholas Serhan is an American biochemist and immunologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital known for discovering pro-resolving lipid mediators that actively resolve inflammation.
Charles Nicolle
Charles Jules Henri Nicolle was a French bacteriologist who directed the Institut Pasteur in Tunis and won the 1928 Nobel Prize for his work on typhus.
Charles O. Rock
Charles O. Rock (1949–2023) was an American biochemist who spent 43 years at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital studying bacterial fatty acid synthesis and membrane lipids.
Charles Otis Whitman
Charles Otis Whitman (1842–1910) was an American zoologist, morphologist, and embryologist who founded the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, serving as its first director from 1888 to 1908.
Charles P. Emerson
Charles P. Emerson is an American developmental biologist known for work on myogenic regulatory factors and, since 2013, director of the Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Program at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester.
Charles P. Ordahl
Charles P. Ordahl is a developmental biologist, emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, known for his 1978 irreversible gene repression model and chick-quail somite lineage experiments.
Charles R. M. Bangham
Charles R. M. Bangham is a British immunologist and virologist, Emeritus Professor of Immunology at Imperial College London, known for research on HTLV-1 and for discovering the virological synapse.
Charles R. Schuster
Charles R. "Bob" Schuster (1930–2011) was an American behavioral pharmacologist who showed that animals voluntarily self-administer drugs humans abuse, and directed the National Institute on Drug Abuse from 1986 to 1992.
Charles R. Scriver
Charles R. Scriver was a Canadian physician and biochemical geneticist at McGill University and the Montreal Children's Hospital, called the father of biochemical genetics in Canada.
Charles Richard Taylor
Charles Richard Taylor (1939–1995), known as C. Richard Taylor, was a comparative physiologist and Harvard professor who studied the energetics and efficiency of animal locomotion.
Charles Richet
Charles Robert Richet (1850–1935) was a French physiologist, professor of physiology in Paris from 1887 to 1927, awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize for discovering anaphylaxis with Paul Portier.
Charles Rotimi
Charles Rotimi (born 1957) is a Nigerian-born genetic epidemiologist and scientific director of the National Human Genome Research Institute since 2021, known for research on ancestry, disease, and African genomics.
Charles Rupert Stockard
Charles Rupert Stockard (1879–1939) was an American anatomist and zoologist who led anatomy at Cornell University Medical College and showed alcohol and other agents deform developing embryos.