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Clint Chapple

Clint Chapple is a Canadian-born American plant biochemist at Purdue University known for his research on lignin biosynthesis and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Clinton Chapple

Clinton Chapple, also known as Clint Chapple, is an American plant biochemist at Purdue University whose research on lignin biosynthesis led to his 2022 election to the National Academy of Sciences.

Clinton E. Ballou

Clinton E. Ballou (1923–2021) was an American biochemist at Berkeley known for his studies of yeast cell wall mannans, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.

Clinton Hart Merriam

Clinton Hart Merriam (1855–1942) was an American zoologist and ethnographer who founded the Bureau of Biological Survey, pioneered the life-zone concept, and described about 660 new mammals.

Clinton N. Woolsey

Clinton N. Woolsey (1904–1993) was an American neurophysiologist who pioneered functional mapping of the cerebral cortex, showing where touch, hearing, and vision are represented on the brain's surface.

Clive Dickson

Clive Dickson is a molecular biologist at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories in London known for mapping the int-2 gene activated by mouse mammary tumor virus.

Clive Svendsen

Clive N. Svendsen is a British-born stem cell researcher and Executive Director of the Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, studying ALS and Parkinson's disease.

Clodagh O'Shea

Clodagh O'Shea is an Irish molecular biologist, a professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, known for research on oncolytic adenoviruses engineered to kill cancer cells.

Clyde A. Hutchison

Clyde A. Hutchison was an American biochemist who helped sequence the first complete DNA genome and led the design of the first minimal synthetic bacterial cell.

Clyde S. Crumpacker

Clyde S. Crumpacker, also published as Clyde Crumpacker, is an American infectious-disease physician and virology researcher, Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School.

Cole A. DeForest

Cole A. DeForest is a bioengineer and Weyerhaeuser Endowed Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington, known for light-programmable hydrogels that guide stem cell fate.

Cole Trapnell

Cole Trapnell is a computational biologist and professor at the University of Washington, known for the RNA-seq tools TopHat and Cufflinks and the single-cell program Monocle.

Coleen Tara Murphy

Coleen Tara Murphy, also known as Coleen T. Murphy, is an American molecular biologist at Princeton University known for showing that learned pathogen avoidance is inherited in roundworms.

Colin Blakemore

Colin Blakemore (1944–2022) was a British neuroscientist known for demonstrating neural plasticity, the reorganization of brain cells in response to the environment after birth and even in adulthood.

Colin Dingwall

Colin Dingwall is a molecular biologist whose 1982 nucleoplasmin work at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology defined how proteins are targeted into the cell nucleus.

Colin G. Nichols

Colin G. Nichols is a physiologist and Carl Cori Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, known for ion channel research that changed neonatal diabetes treatment.

Colin J. Barnstable

Colin J. Barnstable, also published as C. J. Barnstable, is a British-trained vision researcher and professor at Penn State College of Medicine, known for studies of the neuroprotective retinal protein PEDF.

Colin L. Masters

Colin L. Masters is an Australian neuroscientist at the Florey Institute and University of Melbourne, known for purifying Alzheimer's plaque amyloid and co-founding Prana Biotechnology.

Colin L. Stewart

Colin L. Stewart, also known as Colin Stewart, is a molecular biologist at A*STAR Skin Research Labs in Singapore who showed LMNA mutations cause Hutchinson-Gilford progeria.

Colin Lever

Colin Lever is a cognitive neuroscientist and professor at Durham University, best known for discovering boundary vector cells, neurons that fire at a preferred distance and direction from environmental boundaries.

Colin Munro MacLeod

Colin Munro MacLeod (1909–1972) was an American microbiologist who, with Oswald Avery and Maclyn McCarty, showed in 1944 that DNA carries heredity, then led microbiology at New York University.

Colin Parrish

Colin R. Parrish is a virologist and Professor Emeritus at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023 for research on virus host jumps.

Colin Pittendrigh

Colin Pittendrigh (1918–1996) was an England-born biologist regarded as the father of the biological clock, who founded chronobiology and studied circadian rhythms at Princeton and Stanford.

Colin R. Goding

Colin R. Goding, also known as Colin Goding, is a molecular biologist and Professor of Oncology at Oxford's Ludwig Institute, known for research on melanoma and MITF.

Colin R. Hopkins

Colin R. Hopkins, born 1939, is a British cell biologist known for work on receptor-mediated endocytosis and for defining the endosome as the organelle that sorts internalized molecules.

Colin Watts

Colin Watts is an immunologist and Emeritus Professor of Immunobiology at the University of Dundee, known for work on how antigens are captured, processed, and presented to the immune system.

Connie Eaves

Connie Eaves, also known as Connie J. Eaves, was a Canadian cancer and stem cell biologist who co-founded the Terry Fox Laboratory at BC Cancer in Vancouver.

Conor Liston

Conor Liston is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College, known for identifying neurophysiological subtypes of depression and salience-network expansion in the disorder.

Conrad Elvehjem

Conrad Elvehjem (1901–1962) was an American biochemist in nutrition who identified nicotinic acid as the cure for pellagra and later served as president of the University of Wisconsin.

Constance Brinckerhoff

Constance E. Brinckerhoff is an American biochemist and cancer researcher, emeritus professor of medicine at Dartmouth, known for work on collagenase and MMPs in arthritis and cancer.