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Claude Hélène

Claude Hélène, also known as Claude Helene, was a French biophysicist and biochemist who directed the Centre de biophysique moléculaire in Orléans and pioneered antisense and antigene oligonucleotide strategies.

Claude–Agnès Reynaud

Claude–Agnès Reynaud, born 1953, is a French immunologist and CNRS Director of Research at the Institut Necker-Enfants Malades in Paris who studies antibody repertoire generation and B cell memory.

Claudia Bagni

Claudia Bagni is an Italian neuroscientist at the University of Lausanne who studies how messenger RNA is handled at synapses in Fragile X syndrome and autism.

Claudia Höbartner

Claudia Höbartner is an Austrian chemical biologist who holds the Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg, working on ribozymes, deoxyribozymes, and fluorescent RNA aptamers.

Claudia Kemper

Claudia Kemper is an immunologist known for defining the complosome, the intracellular complement system, and for showing that CD46 is a checkpoint in human T cell immunity.

Claudia Köhler

Claudia Köhler is a German plant molecular biologist known for work on genomic imprinting in Arabidopsis seeds, and director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology since 2021.

Claudia Langenberg

Claudia Langenberg is a German-British physician-scientist who studies the genetic regulation of human metabolism, and since 2022 has directed the Precision Healthcare University Research Institute at Queen Mary University of London.

Claudia Lukas

Claudia Lukas is a Danish-based molecular biologist and professor at the University of Copenhagen known for work on the DNA damage response and chromatin ubiquitylation.

Claudia Mauri

Claudia Mauri is an immunologist and Professor of Immunology at University College London, known for work on regulatory B cells, which curb inflammation via interleukin-10 and are deficient in autoimmune diseases.

Claudio A.P. Joazeiro

Claudio A.P. Joazeiro is a molecular biologist and professor at Scripps Research in Florida, known for discovering the Listerin ligase that clears faulty proteins from stalled ribosomes.

Claudio Basilico

Claudio Basilico is an Italian-born molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus of Microbiology at New York University, known for research on cell proliferation, tumor viruses, and FGF signaling.

Claudio Hetz

Claudio Andrés Hetz Flores, born 1976 in Chile, is a Chilean neuroscientist and full professor at the University of Chile who studies ER stress in neurodegenerative disease.

Claudio Luchinat

Claudio Luchinat, born in Florence in 1952, is an Italian chemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Florence known for NMR spectroscopy of paramagnetic metalloproteins and metabolomics.

Claudio Soto

Claudio Soto is a Chilean-American biochemist who invented PMCA, the first technique to replicate infectious prions in a test tube, and directs the Mitchell Center at UTHealth Houston.

Claudio Stern

Claudio D. Stern, born 1954, is a Uruguayan-born developmental biologist at University College London known for research on gastrulation and neural induction in the chick embryo.

Claudio W. Pikielny

Claudio W. Pikielny, also published as Claudio Pikielny, is a molecular biologist known for yeast mRNA splicing work at Brandeis and fruit fly pheromone research at Dartmouth.

Claus Bachert

Claus Bachert (born 1957) is a German ENT physician and allergologist known for work on chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps, Staphylococcus aureus superantigens, and biologic drug treatment.

Claus Scheidereit

Claus Scheidereit is a German molecular biologist who led a signal transduction lab at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, known for work on NF-κB in Hodgkin lymphoma.

Clay Armstrong

Clay Armstrong is an American physiologist and emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania who deduced the structure and gating of potassium channels from squid giant axons.

Clemens Plaschka

Clemens Plaschka is an Austrian molecular structural biologist and Senior Group Leader at the IMP in Vienna, known for Nature papers on the spliceosome and mRNA export.

Clemens Richert

Clemens Richert, born 1965 in Münster, is a German chemist who chairs Biological Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart, known for enzyme-free DNA replication and ribosome-free, RNA-directed translation.

Clement Markert

Clement Markert (1917–1999) was an American developmental biologist and geneticist credited with discovering isozymes, the multiple molecular forms of a single enzyme; he later chaired biology at Yale.

Cliff Tabin

Cliff Tabin, also known as Clifford J. Tabin, is an American developmental geneticist who has chaired Harvard Medical School's genetics department since 2007 and identified Sonic hedgehog as the limb bud's patterning signal.

Clifford B. Saper

Clifford B. Saper is an American neuroscientist and neurologist, the James Jackson Putnam Professor at Harvard Medical School, known for defining the brain circuits that regulate sleep, body temperature, and circadian timing.

Clifford Grobstein

Clifford Grobstein (1916–1998) was an American developmental biologist who showed how embryonic tissues direct one another's growth and later shaped bioethics debates on fetal research.

Clifford J. Tabin

Clifford J. Tabin is an American developmental geneticist, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, known for work on Sonic hedgehog, left-right asymmetry, and Darwin's finches.

Clifford J. Woolf

Clifford J. Woolf is a South African-born neuroscientist who discovered central sensitization, the amplification of pain signaling in the central nervous system, and is a Harvard Medical School professor of neurology.

Clifford Ladd Prosser

Clifford Ladd Prosser (1907–2002) was an American comparative physiologist at the University of Illinois, often called the father of modern comparative physiology and author of Comparative Animal Physiology.

Clifford P. Brangwynne

Clifford P. Brangwynne is a Princeton University biophysicist who showed that membrane-less cell structures form by liquid-liquid phase separation, and won the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.

Clifton A. Poodry

Clifton A. Poodry is an American developmental geneticist and Tonawanda Seneca member who led minority research training at NIGMS from 1994 and later became an HHMI Senior Fellow.