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Charles S. Fuchs

Charles S. Fuchs is an American medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers who directed the Yale Cancer Center and led the REGARD gastric cancer trial.

Charles Sawyers

Charles L. Sawyers is an American physician-scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who developed dasatinib for imatinib-resistant leukemia and the prostate cancer drugs enzalutamide and apalutamide.

Chawnshang Chang

Chawnshang Chang (张传祥) is a Taiwanese-born molecular endocrinologist and cancer researcher at the University of Rochester who cloned the androgen receptor and developed the receptor-degrading compound ASC-J9.

Chiara Cremolini

Chiara Cremolini, born in 1984 in La Spezia, is an Italian medical oncologist and full professor at the University of Pisa who led the TRIBE trials in metastatic colorectal cancer.

Ching-Hon Pui

Ching-Hon Pui (裴正康) is a pediatric oncologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis whose work on childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia raised cure rates from about 50 to over 90 percent.

Chris Boshoff

Chris Boshoff is a South African-born physician-scientist who made foundational discoveries on Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, founded the UCL Cancer Institute, and became Pfizer's Chief Scientific Officer in 2025.

Chris Parker

Chris Parker is a British clinical oncologist specializing in prostate cancer radiotherapy, Professor of Prostate Oncology at The Institute of Cancer Research, who led the radium-223 ALSYMPCA trial.

Chris Twelves

Chris Twelves is a British medical oncologist and professor at the University of Leeds known for leading the X-ACT colon cancer and EMBRACE breast cancer drug trials.

Christian Buske

Christian Buske is a German hematologist and oncologist who leads the Institute of Experimental Tumor Research at University Hospital Ulm and studies leukemic stem cells in acute myeloid leukemia.

Christine D. Berg

Christine D. Berg is an American radiation oncologist and physician-scientist who co-led the National Lung Screening Trial, establishing low-dose CT screening as reducing lung-cancer deaths.

Christine H. Chung

Christine H. Chung is an American medical oncologist specializing in head and neck cancer who chairs the Head and Neck-Endocrine Oncology department at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.

Christoph A. Klein

Christoph A. Klein is a German physician and cancer researcher who holds the Chair of Experimental Medicine at the University of Regensburg and studies early metastatic spread.

Christoph Klein

Christoph Klein is a German pediatric hematologist and gene-therapy researcher, chair of pediatrics at LMU Munich since 2011, known for stem-cell gene therapy for Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome.

Christoph Zielinski

Christoph Zielinski is an Austrian medical oncologist who led clinical oncology at the Medical University of Vienna from 2001 to 2017 and founded the Central European Cooperative Oncology Group.

Christopher Heeschen

Christopher Heeschen is a German physician-scientist known for the first identification of pancreatic cancer stem cells, now a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and director of a pancreatic cancer laboratory in Italy.

Christopher Hourigan

Christopher Simon Hourigan (DM, DPhil, FRCP) is an oncologist and physician-scientist known for founding AML measurable residual disease (MRD) testing, the 2019 JCO phase 3 trial, Pre-MEASURE, and MEASURE (NCT05224661); formerly NHLBI tenured investigator, now Virginia Tech Fralin Cancer Research Center director.

Christopher J. Sweeney

Christopher J. Sweeney is an Australian-trained medical oncologist and inaugural Director of the South Australian immunoGENomics Cancer Institute, known for leading the CHAARTED and ENZAMET trials.

Christopher M. Booth

Christopher M. Booth is a Canadian medical oncologist and clinician-scientist at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, who led the CHALLENGE trial of exercise after colon cancer chemotherapy.

Christopher Vakoc

Christopher R. Vakoc is an American cancer biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who studies epigenetic regulation in leukemia and pancreatic cancer, known for identifying BRD4 as a leukemia drug target.

Chunliang Li

Chunliang Li is a Chinese-born cancer and genome-biology researcher who has been an Associate Member in Tumor Cell Biology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital since 2023.

Chyke A. Doubeni

Chyke A. Doubeni is an American family physician and clinical epidemiologist known for colorectal cancer screening research, a 2010 Presidential Early Career Award, and leadership as Ohio State's Chief Health Equity Officer.

Clara D. Bloomfield

Clara D. Bloomfield (1942–2020), born Clara Derber, was an American oncologist who led Ohio State's cancer center and made chromosome changes the basis for treating adult acute leukemia.

Claudius Regaud

Claudius Regaud (1870–1940) was a French physician and biologist who founded French radiotherapy, co-founded the Fondation Curie with Marie Curie, and established the dose fractionation principle underlying modern radiation oncology.

Clemens A. Schmitt

Clemens A. Schmitt, born 1967 in Frankfurt, is a German hematologist, oncologist, and cancer researcher who has led the University Clinic for Hematology and Internal Oncology at Kepler University Hospital in Linz since 2019.

Clifford A. Hudis

Clifford A. Hudis is an American medical oncologist who led breast cancer care at Memorial Sloan Kettering and has been chief executive of ASCO since 2016.

Clifford P. Stanners

Clifford Paul Stanners is a Canadian biochemist and McGill University professor whose research on carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) showed it functions as an intercellular adhesion molecule.

Colin B. Begg

Colin B. Begg is a biostatistician who chairs the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and has edited the journal Clinical Trials since 2014.

Constantine S. Mitsiades

Constantine S. Mitsiades is a Greek-trained physician-scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School who studies drug resistance in multiple myeloma, with preclinical work informing FDA-approved regimens.

Cora N. Sternberg

Cora N. Sternberg is an American medical oncologist specializing in genitourinary cancers, Clinical Director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine since 2018.

Cornelis J.A. Punt

Cornelis J.A. Punt, known as Kees Punt, is a Dutch medical oncologist whose CAIRO trials through the Dutch Colorectal Cancer Group shaped colorectal cancer treatment.