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Chentao Lin

Chentao Lin (林辰涛) is a plant biologist known for discovering the plant cryptochrome blue-light receptors CRY1 and CRY2, who taught at UCLA from 1996 to 2022 before joining Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University.

Cheryl A. Kerfeld

Cheryl A. Kerfeld is a structural biologist known for determining the structure of bacterial microcompartment shells, who is Hannah Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University and also holds appointments at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Cheryl A. Nickerson

Cheryl A. Nickerson is an American microbiologist at Arizona State University whose discovery that low fluid shear regulates Salmonella virulence helped found mechanobiology of infectious disease.

Cheryl Y. Hayashi

Cheryl Y. Hayashi is an American biologist who studies spider silks, determined the first full-length silk gene sequences, showed the orb web had a single ancient origin, and won a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship.

Cheryll Tickle

Cheryll Tickle, born in 1945, is a British developmental biologist known for research on limb development in the chick embryo and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Chester Hamlin Werkman

Chester Hamlin Werkman (1893–1962) was an American microbiologist at Iowa State College who, with Harland G. Wood, demonstrated carbon dioxide fixation by organisms lacking chlorophyll, the Wood–Werkman reaction.

Chi Van Dang

Chi Van Dang, also known as Chi V. Dang, is a Vietnamese-born American cancer biologist known for showing how the MYC oncogene reprograms cancer cell metabolism.

Chi Wai Eric So

Chi Wai Eric So, also known as Chi Wai So, is a molecular biologist who studies acute leukemia and holds the chair in leukemia biology at King's College London.

Chi-Lun Chang

Chi-Lun Chang is a Taiwanese-born cell biologist who leads a laboratory at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, known for work on ER-to-Golgi transport and neuron-astrocyte lipid metabolism.

Chia‐Hsueh Lee

Chia-Hsueh Lee is an American-based structural biologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis known for cryo-EM structures of the human HCN1 ion channel and the Spns2 lipid transporter.

Chiara Cirelli

Chiara Cirelli is a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, trained at the University of Pisa, known for the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis, which holds that sleep renormalizes synaptic strength.

Chiea Chuen Khor

Khor Chiea Chuen is a Singaporean human geneticist and Group Leader at the Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, known for genetic studies of infectious disease susceptibility and glaucoma.

Chihiro Sasakawa

Chihiro Sasakawa (笹川千尋), born in Tokyo in 1948, is a Japanese bacteriologist known for work on how Shigella and Helicobacter pylori manipulate host cells, and for helping create the field of infection biology.

Chikashi Toyoshima

Chikashi Toyoshima (豊島 近) is a Japanese structural biologist at the University of Tokyo known for determining the first atomic crystal structure of the calcium pump SERCA in 2000.

Ching‐Juh Lai

Ching-Juh Lai is a virologist at the National Institutes of Health known for molecular work on influenza A virus, simian virus 40, and dengue virus vaccines.

Chirlmin Joo

Chirlmin Joo is a South Korean-born biophysicist working in single-molecule biophysics at Delft University of Technology, known for studies of Argonaute proteins, microRNA, and CRISPR biology, and for developing single-molecule protein sequencing.

Chris A. Kaiser

Chris A. Kaiser is an American cell biologist who studied protein folding in yeast at MIT, chaired its biology department from 2004, and became provost in 2012.

Chris Bowler

Chris Bowler (born 1965) is a British biologist, CNRS Director of Research in Paris, known for sequencing diatom genomes and coordinating the Tara Oceans ocean plankton expeditions.

Chris Dobson

Sir Chris Dobson (1949–2019) was a British chemist who showed that amyloid fibrils behind Alzheimer's and Parkinson's can form from almost any protein, and was Master of St John's College, Cambridge.

Chris Frith

Chris Frith, born 1942, is a British neuropsychologist and Emeritus Professor at UCL known for cognitive accounts of schizophrenia and pioneering neuroimaging of consciousness and agency.

Chris Greening

Chris Greening is an Australian microbiologist at Monash University known for showing that bacteria can live on air by extracting energy from atmospheric hydrogen, and he leads the CLIMB research unit.

Chris Hittinger

Chris Todd Hittinger is an American evolutionary geneticist, Professor of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for work on yeast gene duplication and lager-brewing yeast ancestry.

Chris I. Baker

Chris I. Baker is a cognitive neuroscientist at the NIMH who studies visual perception, learning, and cortical plasticity, known for the 2009 critique of circular analysis.

Chris I. De Zeeuw

Chris I. De Zeeuw, full name Christiaan Innocentius De Zeeuw, is a Dutch neuroscientist known for research on cerebellar learning and for chairing neuroscience at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam.

Chris J. McBain

Chris J. McBain, also cited as Chris McBain, is a cellular neuroscientist who studies inhibitory interneurons and serves as scientific director of NICHD's intramural research division.

Chris Kintner

Chris Kintner, also known as Christopher Kintner, is a developmental biologist and Professor Emeritus at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, known for Notch pathway and cilia research.

Chris Lamb

Chris Lamb, full name Christopher John Lamb, was a British plant biochemist who led plant biology at the Salk Institute and the John Innes Centre in Norwich.

Chris Meisinger

Chris Meisinger, born Christof Meisinger in 1967, is a German biochemist and professor at the University of Freiburg known for research on mitochondrial protein import and proteomics.

Chris P. Ponting

Chris P. Ponting is a British computational biologist at the University of Edinburgh whose research established that 8.2% of the human genome is likely functional, and who leads the DecodeME genetic study.

Chris Q. Doe

Chris Q. Doe, also published as Chris Doe, is a developmental neurobiologist, Professor of Biology at the University of Oregon and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 1994.