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Curt Stern
Curt Stern (1902–1981) was a German-American geneticist who proved in 1931 that crossing over involves physical exchange of chromosome segments and wrote the leading human genetics textbook.
Curt Wittenberg
Curt Wittenberg is a molecular biologist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for work on the genes and protein machines that launch the cell division cycle in budding yeast.
Curtis C. Harris
Curtis C. Harris is an American cancer researcher who led the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis and is known for p53 and microRNA lung cancer research.
Curtis Gates Lloyd
Curtis Gates Lloyd (1859–1926) was an American mycologist and pharmacist from Florence, Kentucky, who funded his fungal research through the family firm Lloyd Brothers and left a herbarium of about 59,000 specimens.
Curtis Huttenhower
Curtis Huttenhower is a computational biologist at Harvard and the Broad Institute known for his work on the human microbiome and the NIH Human Microbiome Project.
Curtis P. Van Tassell
Curtis P. Van Tassell is an American research geneticist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland, who helped transform dairy cattle breeding through genomic prediction.
Cynthia Casson Morton
Cynthia Casson Morton, also known as Cynthia C. Morton, is an American human geneticist at Harvard Medical School known for hereditary deafness and uterine fibroids.
Cynthia Elizabeth Dunbar
Cynthia Elizabeth Dunbar, also known as Cynthia E. Dunbar, is an American physician-scientist in hematology who led stem cell research at the NIH for almost four decades.
Cynthia Kenyon
Cynthia Jane Kenyon is an American biogerontologist, Vice President of Aging Research at Calico since 2014, known for her 1993 discovery that mutating a single gene doubles worm lifespan.
Cynthia T. McMurray
Cynthia T. McMurray is an American biochemist and neuroscientist known for showing how trinucleotide repeat DNA expands in Huntington disease, first at the Mayo Clinic and later as a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Cynthia Wolberger
Cynthia Wolberger is an American structural biologist, professor and director of biophysics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, known for structural studies of transcriptional regulation and ubiquitin signaling.
Cyril Herry
Cyril Herry (born 1973) is a French neurophysiologist, Directeur de recherche at Inserm in Bordeaux, known for Nature papers showing how prefrontal and amygdala circuits switch fear on and off.
Cyril Zipfel
Cyril Zipfel is a plant scientist who studies how plants detect and ward off bacterial and fungal pathogens, known for identifying the Arabidopsis immune receptor EFR in 2006.
Cyrus Chothia
Cyrus Chothia, also known as C. H. Chothia, was a British bioinformatician at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology who created the SCOP protein structure classification.
Cyrus Levinthal
Cyrus Levinthal (1922–1990) was an American molecular biologist and geneticist who worked on phage genetics, the genetic code, and protein folding, and is best known for the Levinthal paradox.
Cyrus R. Safinya
Cyrus R. Safinya is an American biophysicist and Distinguished Professor of Materials at UC Santa Barbara, known for work on cationic liposome–DNA complexes for gene delivery.
D. Allan Drummond
D. Allan Drummond is a University of Chicago biochemist who studies how cells respond to stress, known for showing that heat-triggered protein condensates are reversible, active, and adaptive.
D. Bernard Amos
D. Bernard Amos, born Dennis Bernard Amos (1923–2003), was an English-born immunogeneticist at Duke University whose work established HLA as the genetic basis of transplant compatibility.
D. Branch Moody
D. Branch Moody, also known as David Branch Moody, is an American immunologist at Harvard Medical School who studies how CD1 proteins show lipids to T cells.
D. Carleton Gajdusek
D. Carleton Gajdusek was an American pediatrician and virologist at the NIH who shared the 1976 Nobel Prize for showing that kuru, a fatal brain disease of the Fore people, was transmissible.
D. Eugene Redmond
D. Eugene Redmond, Jr., is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist at Yale University known for primate models of Parkinson's disease and for fetal-tissue and stem-cell transplantation research.
D. Grahame Hardie
D. Grahame Hardie is a biochemist and Professor of Cellular Signalling at the University of Dundee who first defined and named the cellular energy sensor AMPK in 1987–1988.
D. James Surmeier
D. James Surmeier, also known as D. J. Surmeier, chairs neuroscience at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine; his work on dopamine neuron death in Parkinson's disease has motivated clinical trials.
D. Lansing Taylor
D. Lansing Taylor is an American biophysicist known for fluorescent probes of living cells and for commercializing high-content screening; he is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh working on liver-on-chip systems.
D. Neil Granger
D. Neil Granger is an American microvascular physiologist and Boyd Professor Emeritus at LSU Health Shreveport, known for research on ischemia–reperfusion injury and nitric oxide.
D.G. Smyth
D.G. Smyth (Derek G. Smyth) is a biochemist at the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, known for work on β-endorphin processing and peptide hormone amidation.
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948) was a Scottish biologist, classical scholar, and mathematician who pioneered mathematical biology; his book On Growth and Form (1917) explained organic form through physical laws.
Da‐Neng Wang
Da-Neng Wang is a Chinese-born structural biologist and professor of cell biology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, known for structures of sodium-coupled transporters like NaCT.
Daan M. F. van Aalten
Daan M. F. van Aalten is a Dutch structural biologist, professor at Aarhus University since 2022, known for the first crystal structures of O-GlcNAcase and O-GlcNAc transferase.
Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner is an American social psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for research on compassion, awe, and power, and author of the book Awe.