Life scientists

Constance L. Cepko

Constance L. Cepko is an American developmental biologist and geneticist who traced how the retina's cells arise from common progenitors and developed gene therapies for inherited blindness.

Corey Goodman

Corey S. Goodman (born 1951) is an American neurobiologist known for discovering how axons find their targets in fruit flies, and later a biotech venture capitalist.

Cori Bargmann

Cori Bargmann, born Cornelia I. Bargmann, is an American neurobiologist at Rockefeller University known for studying how genes and neural circuits generate behavior in the roundworm C. elegans.

Corneille Heymans

Corneille Heymans, also known as Corneille Jean François Heymans, was a Belgian physiologist at Ghent University who won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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Cornelia Isabella (Cori) Bargmann, born 1961, is an American neurobiologist at Rockefeller University who showed how the nematode C. elegans detects odors, winning the 2012 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.

Cornelis Adrianus Gerrit Wiersma

Cornelis Adrianus Gerrit Wiersma (1905–1979) was a Dutch-born neurophysiologist who spent his career at Caltech, establishing how crayfish giant nerve fibers drive the tail-flip escape response.

Cornelis J.M. Melief

Cornelis J.M. Melief, known as Kees Melief, is a Dutch cancer immunologist who established therapeutic cancer vaccination, leading HPV-16 vaccine trials and heading immunology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Leiden.

Cornelis Murre

Cornelis (Kees) Murre is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025 for immunology research.

Corrado Baglioni

Corrado Baglioni is a molecular biologist at the University at Albany, SUNY, known for showing that the trinucleotide 2-5A, made in interferon-treated cells, activates a nuclease that degrades mRNA.

Costa Georgopoulos

Costa Georgopoulos, born Constantine P. Georgopoulos in Greece in 1942, is a molecular biologist known for defining the DnaK (Hsp70) and GroEL (Hsp60) chaperone machines of E. coli.

Cox Terhorst

Cox Terhorst (Cornelis P. Terhorst) is an immunologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard who helped define the CD3 complex of the T cell receptor.

Craig A. Townsend

Craig A. Townsend is the Alsoph H. Corwin Professor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, known for work on the biosynthesis of natural products and β-lactam antibiotics.

Craig B. Thompson

Craig B. Thompson is an American physician-scientist who studies how cancer cells rewire their metabolism and led Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as president and CEO from 2010 to 2022.

Craig C. Mello

Craig C. Mello, born 1960, is an American molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA interference in 1998 and won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Craig D. Blackstone

Craig D. Blackstone is an American neurologist and physician-scientist who studies inherited neurological disorders and is Chief of the Movement Disorders Division at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Craig E. Jahr

Craig E. Jahr is an American neuroscientist at the Vollum Institute of Oregon Health & Science University, known for research on glutamate receptors and how glutamate is cleared at synapses.

Craig L. Peterson

Craig L. Peterson is an American molecular biologist at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester who studies ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling enzymes, including SWI/SNF and INO80.

Craig Montell

Craig Montell is an American neuroscientist and molecular biologist who discovered the founding TRP ion channel and now studies how mosquitoes find and bite people.

Craig Moritz

Craig Moritz is an Australian-based population and evolutionary geneticist, a professor at the Australian National University since 2012, known for establishing phylogeography and conservation genomics as conservation tools.

Craig P. Hunter

Craig P. Hunter is an American developmental geneticist and Harvard professor known for identifying the SID proteins that enable systemic RNA interference in C. elegans.

Craig R. Roy

Craig R. Roy is a microbial pathogenesis researcher at Yale School of Medicine who studies how Legionella pneumophila, the bacterium causing Legionnaires' disease, manipulates host cells to replicate.

Craig S. Pikaard

Craig S. Pikaard is an American plant biologist at Indiana University Bloomington known for discovering RNA polymerases IV and V, which drive RNA-directed DNA methylation in plants.

Craig T. Basson

Craig T. Basson is an American physician-scientist in molecular cardiology and cardiovascular genetics, known for identifying the genetic basis of Holt-Oram syndrome and Carney complex, and later for cardiovascular drug development at Novartis and Variant Bio.