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Christoph W. Müller

Christoph W. Müller is a structural biologist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory known for the first crystal structure of a STAT transcription factor bound to DNA, published in 1998.

Christophe Benoist

Christophe Benoist is a French-trained molecular immunologist, Morton Grove-Rasmussen Professor at Harvard Medical School, who runs a joint lab with Diane Mathis and leads the Immunological Genome Project.

Christophe Dessimoz

Christophe Dessimoz is a Swiss computational biologist, Associate Professor at the University of Lausanne and Executive Director of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, known for orthology inference.

Christophe Maurel

Christophe Maurel is a French plant biologist, a CNRS research director in Montpellier who studies how plant roots take up water, elected to the Académie des sciences in 2022.

Christophe Mulle

Christophe Mulle is a French neuroscientist, a CNRS research director at the University of Bordeaux known for his work on kainate receptors and hippocampal circuits in memory.

Christopher A. Haiman

Christopher A. Haiman is an American genetic epidemiologist at the University of Southern California who studies racial and ethnic disparities in cancer risk, co-leading the Multiethnic Cohort Study.

Christopher A. Hunter (immunologist)

Christopher A. Hunter is a British-born immunologist and parasitologist, Mindy Halikman Heyer Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for work on Toxoplasma gondii immunity and IL-27.

Christopher A. Ross

Christopher A. Ross is a neuropsychiatrist and neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, known for research on Huntington's disease, protein aggregation, and Parkinson's disease genetics.

Christopher A. Walsh

Christopher A. Walsh is an American neurogeneticist at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital who showed that no two brain cells share the same genome.

Christopher B. Burge

Christopher B. Burge is an American computational biologist at MIT who studies RNA splicing and post-transcriptional gene regulation, known for the widely used algorithms GENSCAN, TargetScan, and MaxEntScan.

Christopher C. Goodnow

Christopher C. Goodnow (born 1959) is an Australian immunologist who discovered the immune tolerance checkpoints that stop B cells from attacking the body's own tissues.

Christopher D. Harvey

Christopher D. Harvey is a systems neuroscientist and Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School who studies how cortical circuits support working memory, decision-making, and spatial navigation, using mice navigating virtual-reality corridors.

Christopher D. Lima

Christopher D. Lima is an American structural biologist who chairs the Structural Biology Program at the Sloan Kettering Institute, studying ubiquitin, SUMO, and the RNA exosome.

Christopher E. Pearson

Christopher E. Pearson is a Canadian human geneticist and Full Professor at the University of Toronto who studies trinucleotide repeat instability, developing small molecules that contract disease-causing DNA repeats.

Christopher F. Higgins

Christopher F. Higgins, born in 1955, is a British molecular biologist and geneticist who named the ABC transporter family and was Vice-Chancellor of Durham University from 2007 to 2014.

Christopher I. Moore

Christopher I. Moore is a neuroscientist and the Adam and Margaret Korn Professor at Brown University's Carney Institute, known for showing that fast-spiking interneurons drive gamma rhythms.

Christopher J. Howe

Christopher J. Howe is a molecular biologist at the University of Cambridge, Professor of Plant and Microbial Biochemistry since 2005, known for biophotovoltaics and chloroplast genome research.

Christopher J. Lamb

Christopher John Lamb (1950–2009) was a British plant biologist who made seminal contributions to plant–pathogen interactions, directing the Salk Institute's Plant Biology Laboratory and the John Innes Centre.

Christopher J. Leaver

Christopher J. Leaver is a plant molecular biologist who was Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Sciences at Oxford from 1990 to 2007, known for pioneering research on the plant mitochondrial genome.

Christopher J. Lord

Christopher J. Lord is a British cancer scientist at the Institute of Cancer Research in London, known for work linking BRCA mutations to PARP inhibitor drugs.

Christopher J. Marshall

Christopher J. Marshall (1949–2015) was a British cell biologist and cancer researcher at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, known for discovering the NRAS oncogene and mapping Ras signaling.

Christopher J. Potter

Christopher J. Potter is a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, known for the Q system and for studying how malaria mosquitoes smell.

Christopher M. Counter

Christopher M. Counter is a molecular cancer biologist at the Duke University School of Medicine, where he holds the George Barth Geller Distinguished Professorship of Pharmacology and studies RAS-driven tumors.

Christopher M. Dobson

Christopher M. Dobson (1949–2019) was a British chemical and structural biologist at Cambridge whose work established protein misfolding and amyloid disease as a central field.

Christopher M. Overall

Christopher M. Overall is a Canadian biochemist at the University of British Columbia who established degradomics, the systems-level study of protein turnover by proteolysis, and developed the TAILS method.

Christopher Nowinski

Christopher Nowinski, PhD, former Harvard football player and WWE wrestler "Chris Harvard," is a behavioral neuroscientist who co-founded the Concussion & CTE Foundation (2007) and the UNITE Brain Bank (2008) after a 2003 concussion ended his wrestling career.

Christopher P. Hill

Christopher P. Hill is an American structural biologist, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Utah, known for structures of HIV proteins, the proteasome, and AAA+ ATPases.

Christopher Polge

Christopher Polge, born Ernest John Christopher Polge, was a British biologist who discovered in 1949 that glycerol protects cells during freezing, founding modern sperm cryopreservation.

Christopher Power

Christopher Power is a Canadian neurologist who directs the Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology at the University of Alberta and researches HIV dementia and multiple sclerosis.

Christopher Rudd

Christopher E. Rudd is a Canadian-based immunologist and professor at the Université de Montréal, known for discovering the CD4/CD8–p56lck complexes and the CTLA-4 reverse stop-signal model of T-cell regulation.