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Christian Schlötterer

Christian Schlötterer is an Austrian population geneticist, head of the Institute of Population Genetics at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, known for Pool-Seq, microsatellite evolution, and Drosophila experimental evolution.

Christian von Mering

Christian von Mering is a Swiss-based bioinformatician and full professor at the University of Zurich, known for the STRING protein-network database and the eggNOG orthology resource.

Christiane Branlant

Christiane Branlant is a French molecular biologist who spent her career with CNRS in Nancy, known for work on RNA maturation, pseudouridine synthases, and small nucleolar and nuclear RNPs.

Christiane Nüsslein‐Volhard

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, born in 1942, is a German developmental biologist who identified genes controlling embryonic development in fruit flies, work honored with the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Christina A. Mitchell

Christina A. Mitchell AO is an Australian physician-scientist and biochemist who studies phosphoinositide signaling in cancer, and is the first woman appointed Dean of Medicine in an Australian Group of Eight university.

Christina Agapakis

Christina Agapakis is an American synthetic biologist trained at Yale and Harvard known for resurrecting the smell of extinct flowers and for the Selfmade body-bacteria cheese exhibit.

Christina Curtis

Christina Curtis is a cancer genomicist who leads the Cancer Computational and Systems Biology group at Stanford University, known for showing that metastatic spread often begins years before a tumor is clinically detectable.

Christina K. Kim

Christina K. Kim, known as Tina Kim, is an American neuroscientist and HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar at Princeton University who develops molecular tools that record neural activity in individual neurons.

Christina L. Swaggerty

Christina L. Swaggerty is an American poultry immunologist and USDA research microbiologist in College Station, Texas, known for breeding chickens resistant to Salmonella and Campylobacter.

Christina Leslie (computational biologist)

Christina S. Leslie is a computational biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center known for machine learning models of transcription factor binding, including BindSpace and CellSpace.

Christina Warinner

Christina Warinner is an archaeological geneticist who studies the ancient human oral microbiome and evolution of diet and disease, leading research groups at Harvard and in Leipzig, Germany.

Christine A. Biron

Christine A. Biron was an American immunologist and Brown University professor known for work on natural killer cells and how innate cytokines regulate antiviral defense.

Christine E. Holt

Christine E. Holt is a British developmental neuroscientist and Cambridge professor known for showing that growing nerve fibers make their own proteins, winning the 2023 Brain Prize.

Christine Guthrie

Christine Guthrie (1945–2022) was an American RNA biologist at UCSF who used baker's yeast to identify the snRNAs that direct pre-mRNA splicing, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.

Christine H. Foyer

Christine H. Foyer (Christine Foyer) is a plant scientist and Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of Birmingham since 2019, known for the Foyer–Halliwell–Asada pathway.

Christine Jacobs-Wagner

Christine Jacobs-Wagner is a Belgian-born microbiologist at Stanford University, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 2008, known as a pioneer of bacterial cell biology.

Christine M. Freeman

Christine M. Freeman is an American lung immunology researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor who studies why some smokers develop COPD, and received a PECASE award.

Christine Mayr

Christine Mayr is a German-trained physician-scientist and molecular biologist who leads a laboratory at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York, known for showing that mRNA 3′UTRs regulate protein function.

Christine Mummery

Christine Mummery is a Dutch stem cell biologist at Leiden University Medical Center who made the Netherlands' first heart cells and human induced pluripotent stem cells.

Christine Orengo

Christine Orengo, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2019, is a computational biologist at University College London best known for building CATH, a worldwide protein structure classification.

Christine Petit

Christine Petit, born 1948, is a French geneticist and neurobiologist at the Institut Pasteur known for identifying more than 20 genes that cause hereditary deafness.

Christof Koch

Christof Koch is a neuroscientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, known for the search for the neural correlates of consciousness begun with Francis Crick.

Christof M. Niemeyer

Christof M. Niemeyer is a German chemical biologist and professor holding the Chair of Chemical Biology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, known for DNA nanotechnology and bioconjugation research.

Christof Niehrs

Christof Niehrs is a German molecular biologist known for research on Wnt signaling and DNA demethylation, and founding director of the Institute of Molecular Biology in Mainz.

Christoph Benning

Christoph Benning is a German-born plant biochemist at Michigan State University who studies chloroplast lipids, membrane assembly, and plant oil biosynthesis, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Christoph Bock

Christoph Bock is an Austrian computational biologist and principal investigator at CeMM in Vienna since 2012, known for computational epigenetics, single-cell genomics, and CRISPR screening.

Christoph Fahlke

Christoph Fahlke is a German biophysicist known for work on CLC chloride channels and glutamate transporters, and on channelopathies such as myotonia congenita and Bartter syndrome.

Christoph J. Binder

Christoph J. Binder (born 1973) is an Austrian immunologist and laboratory medicine specialist at the Medical University of Vienna, known for showing that natural antibodies target oxidation-specific epitopes in atherosclerosis.

Christoph Moroni

Christoph Moroni, born in 1941, is a Swiss molecular biologist and emeritus professor of medical microbiology at the University of Basel, serving from 1987 to 2008.

Christoph Thaiss

Christoph Thaiss is a microbiome researcher who studies how the gut, brain, immune system, and metabolism interact, and is a professor at Stanford University and the Arc Institute.