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Christopher S. Henney

Christopher S. Henney is a British-born immunologist who moved from T-cell research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to co-founding Seattle biotech firms Immunex, ICOS, and Dendreon.

Christopher Somerville

Christopher R. Somerville is a plant biologist elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1996, known for establishing Arabidopsis thaliana as a model organism for plant genetics.

Christopher Summerfield

Christopher Summerfield is a British cognitive neuroscientist, Professor at Oxford and Research Director at the UK AI Security Institute, who studies how humans learn and decide.

Christopher T. Walsh

Christopher T. Walsh (1944–2023) was an American biochemist known for the enzyme mechanisms of antibiotic action, resistance, and bacterial natural product biosynthesis, at MIT, Harvard, and Stanford.

Christopher Tate (structural biologist)

Christopher G. Tate is a membrane protein biochemist and structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, known for GPCR structures, conformational thermostabilisation, and mini-G proteins.

Christopher U.T. Hellen

Christopher U.T. Hellen is a molecular biologist and Associate Professor of Cell Biology at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, New York, known for defining roles of initiation factors eIF1, eIF1A, and eIF5B.

Christopher V. Nicchitta

Christopher V. Nicchitta is a cell biologist at Duke University who studies how the endoplasmic reticulum serves as a site of mRNA translation and protein synthesis.

Christopher W. Akey

Christopher W. Akey is a structural biologist and professor at Boston University's medical school known for cryo-EM structures of the yeast nuclear pore complex and other transport machines.

Christos Coutifaris

Christos Coutifaris is an American reproductive endocrinologist and physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for leading landmark infertility drug trials and research on embryo implantation and epigenetics.

Christos Sotiriou

Christos Sotiriou is a medical oncologist and breast cancer genomics researcher who leads the J.-C. Heuson Breast Cancer Translational Research Laboratory at the Institut Jules Bordet in Brussels and is known for the Genomic Grade Index.

Chu‐Xia Deng

Chuxia Deng (邓初夏) is a biochemist and geneticist known for work on BRCA1, sirtuins, and cancer drug resistance, formerly a senior investigator at the NIH.

Chuan He

Chuan He is a Chinese-born American chemical biologist at the University of Chicago whose 2011 discovery of the first RNA demethylase, FTO, established the field of epitranscriptomics.

Chuanyue Wu

Chuanyue Wu is a cell biologist at the University of Pittsburgh whose research on focal adhesions and integrin signaling established kindlin-2 as a key regulator of integrin activation.

Chun‐Xiao Song

Chun-Xiao Song is a Chinese chemical epigeneticist at the University of Oxford who develops sequencing methods for DNA and RNA modifications and applies them to early cancer detection.

Chunfu Xu

Chunfu Xu is a Chinese computational protein-design scientist at NIBS Beijing since 2022, known for designed protein cages and transmembrane pores from David Baker's lab.

Chyi‐Song Hsieh

Chyi‐Song Hsieh is a physician-scientist and immunologist who holds the Wolff Distinguished Professorship at Washington University in St. Louis, studying immune tolerance to self, food, and gut bacteria.

Cigall Kadoch

Cigall Kadoch is an American chromatin biologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School known for her research on SWI/SNF (BAF) chromatin remodeling complexes in cancer.

Cisca Wijmenga

Cisca Wijmenga is a Dutch human geneticist and Lodewijk Sandkuijl Professor at the University of Groningen, known for celiac disease genetics and gut microbiome research, who served as Rector Magnificus from 2019 to 2023.

Claire E. Walczak

Claire E. Walczak is an American cell biologist at Indiana University Bloomington who studies how dividing cells distribute chromosomes, best known for identifying the kinesin XKCM1 in 1996.

Claire M. Fraser

Claire M. Fraser is an American genomic scientist who coauthored the first complete genome sequence of Haemophilus influenzae and previously led The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR).

Claire V. Broome

Claire V. Broome is an American physician and epidemiologist, CDC deputy director from 1994 to 1999 and acting director in 1998, known for the Broome method of estimating pneumococcal vaccine effectiveness.

Claire Wyart

Claire Wyart is a French and American biophysicist and neuroscientist who leads the SIBBIL team at the Paris Brain Institute, known for discovering spinal neurons that sense body bending.

Clare M. Waterman

Clare M. Waterman, also published as Clare M. Waterman-Storer, is an American cell biologist and NIH Distinguished Investigator who invented fluorescence speckle microscopy for tracking proteins in living cells.

Clare Turnbull

Clare Turnbull is a British clinical geneticist and Professor of Translational Cancer Genetics at the Institute of Cancer Research, known for identifying most inherited testicular cancer risk variants.

Clarence A. Ryan

Clarence A. Ryan, known as Bud Ryan, was an American plant biochemist at Washington State University who discovered systemin, the first peptide hormone known in plants.

Clarence Cook Little

Clarence Cook Little (1888–1971) was an American mammalian geneticist who founded The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, and developed the DBA and C57BL inbred mouse strains.

Clarence Erwin McClung

Clarence Erwin McClung (1870–1946) was an American cytologist and zoologist who proposed the first chromosomal hypothesis of sex determination, identifying the X chromosome as the carrier of a hereditary trait.

Clarence J. Gibbs

Clarence J. Gibbs (1924–2001) was an American virologist at the National Institutes of Health who transmitted kuru and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease to chimpanzees, helping define the subacute spongiform encephalopathies.

Claud Stanley Rupert

Claud Stanley Rupert (1919–2017) was an American photobiologist who showed in 1956 that visible light repairs UV-damaged DNA, the first demonstration of a DNA repair enzyme, photolyase.

Claude Desplan

Claude Desplan is a French-born developmental biologist and Silver Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at New York University, known for defining nearly 200 neuron types in the fly visual system.