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Charalambos Antoniades

Charalambos Antoniades is a Greek-born cardiologist and British Heart Foundation Chair at Oxford, known for pioneering AI in CT angiography to detect coronary inflammation and predict heart attacks.

Charles A. Herzog

Charles A. Herzog, also known as Charles Herzog, is an American cardiologist at Hennepin County Medical Center who specializes in heart disease in dialysis patients and echocardiography.

Charles A. Sanders

Charles A. Sanders (born 1932) is an American cardiologist who was general director of Massachusetts General Hospital from 1972 to 1981 and later led Glaxo Inc.

Charles Antzelevitch

Charles Antzelevitch is an American cardiac electrophysiologist who led the Masonic Medical Research Laboratory for three decades and is known for work on Brugada syndrome and J wave syndromes.

Charles C. Capen

Charles C. Capen was an American veterinary pathologist at The Ohio State University who became a leading authority on endocrine pathology and thyroid toxicology, dying in 2008.

Charles Dodds

Sir Edward Charles Dodds, known as Charles Dodds (1899–1973), was a British biochemist who co-discovered the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol in 1938 and directed the Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry at the Middlesex Hospital for nearly four decades.

Charles H. Hennekens

Charles H. Hennekens is an American physician and epidemiologist whose randomized trials first demonstrated that aspirin prevents a first heart attack, making him among the most cited medical researchers.

Charles Herbert Best

Charles Herbert Best (1899–1978) was a Canadian physiologist who co-discovered insulin with Frederick Banting in 1921, chaired physiology at the University of Toronto, and helped purify heparin.

Charles Hollenberg

Charles H. Hollenberg (1930–2003) was a Canadian physician and medical researcher known for studying fat cells, who led the University of Toronto's medicine department and founded the Banting and Best Diabetes Centre.

Charles J. Goodner

Charles J. Goodner (1929–2018) was an American endocrinologist at the University of Washington, known for his 1974 Science paper on somatostatin's inhibition of insulin and glucagon.

Charles J. Lowenstein

Charles J. Lowenstein is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University who directs the Division of Cardiology and studies nitric oxide signaling, vascular inflammation, and thrombosis.

Charles K. Friedberg

Charles K. Friedberg (1905–1972) was an American cardiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and author of the standard textbook Diseases of the Heart.

Charles P. Venditti

Charles P. Venditti is an American physician-scientist who leads the Metabolic Medicine Branch at the NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute, studying methylmalonic acidemia and propionic acidemia.

Charles R. Kleeman

Charles Richard Kleeman (1923–2021) was an American nephrologist at UCLA, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1982, who wrote a standard textbook on fluid and electrolyte disorders.

Charles R. Park

Charles Rawlinson Park, known as Rollo Park, was an American physician and physiologist at Vanderbilt University who proved that insulin accelerates glucose transport across the muscle cell membrane.

Charles Rawlinson Park

Charles Rawlinson Park, known as Rollo Park (1916–2016), was an American physician and physiologist at Vanderbilt University who studied how insulin controls glucose entry into cells.

Charles Richet (1882–1966)

Charles Richet (1882–1966) was a French physician and nutrition specialist, professor at the Faculté de médecine de Paris, and son of the Nobel laureate physiologist Charles Richet.

Charles S. Abrams

Charles S. Abrams is an American hematologist and physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who researches platelet activation and bleeding disorders and led the American Society of Hematology.

Charles S. Hollander

Charles S. Hollander was an American endocrinologist and thyroid researcher at Harvard, the University of Rochester, and New York University who named T3 toxicosis and developed a radioimmunoassay for serum triiodothyronine.

Charles T. Esmon

Charles T. Esmon was an Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist who identified endothelial proteins regulating the protein C anticoagulant pathway and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Choh Hao Li

Choh Hao Li (1913–1987) was a Chinese-born American biochemist at the University of California who purified most anterior pituitary hormones, synthesized human growth hormone, discovered β-endorphin, and won the 1962 Lasker Award.

Cholsoon Jang

Cholsoon Jang is a biochemist and Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry at UC Irvine known for isotope-tracing studies of organ metabolism and for mapping metabolite exchange in cardiovascular disease.

Christian Hassager

Christian Hassager is a Danish cardiologist and clinical professor at Rigshospitalet and the University of Copenhagen who led the 2024 DanGer Shock trial of microaxial pumps in cardiogenic shock.

Christian Mueller

Christian Eugen Mueller is a Swiss cardiologist and professor at University Hospital Basel who led PRESC1SE-MI, a trial of over 62,000 patients across 19 hospitals in ten countries.

Christian Spaulding

Christian Spaulding is a French interventional cardiologist, professor of cardiology at Université Paris Cité, known for his 1997 study of coronary angiography after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and drug-eluting stent safety.

Christian T. Ruff

Christian T. Ruff is an American cardiologist who directs General Cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and researches antithrombotic therapies, including stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.

Christian Torp‐Pedersen

Christian Torp-Pedersen (born 1950) is a Danish cardiologist and clinical epidemiologist known for landmark trials in heart failure and arrhythmia, whose work changed international treatment guidelines.

Christian W. Hamm

Christian W. Hamm, born 1953 in Hamburg, is a German interventional cardiologist known for 1990s NEJM troponin studies and for leading the Kerckhoff Heart and Thorax Center in Bad Nauheim.

Christian Weber (cardiologist)

Christian Weber (born 1967) is a German cardiologist and leading atherosclerosis researcher who holds the Chair in Preventive Vascular Medicine and directs the Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention at LMU Munich.

Christian Wolfrum

Christian Wolfrum (born 1972 in Bonn) is a German metabolic researcher studying obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver, and Deputy President and Provost of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.