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Arnold Rice Rich

Arnold Rice Rich (1893–1968) was an American pathologist at Johns Hopkins who wrote the standard text The Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis and classified jaundice into retention and regurgitation types.

Arthur W. Toga

Arthur W. Toga is a neuroscientist and neuroimaging researcher known for brain mapping, brain atlasing, and large-scale informatics in neurodegenerative disease, who directs the USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute.

Atul K. Bhan

Atul K. Bhan is a physician-scientist who is Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and a pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for inflammatory bowel disease research.

Aubrey Otis Hampton

Aubrey Otis Hampton (1900–1955) was an American radiologist, chief of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, whose 1940 study with Benjamin Castleman described the Hampton hump of pulmonary infarction.

Austin L. Vickery

Austin L. Vickery (1919–2005) was an American pathologist who spent over fifty years at Massachusetts General Hospital, presented 169 MGH Case Records, and pioneered thyroid needle biopsy diagnosis.

Bariş Boyraz

Bariş Boyraz is a Turkish-trained physician-scientist and board-certified anatomic pathologist specializing in breast and gynecologic pathology at Weill Cornell Medical College, known for research on telomere disease.

Benjamin H. Landing

Benjamin H. Landing (1920–2000) was an American pediatric pathologist, a founder of pediatric pathology, who led the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles laboratories from 1961.

Berend Isermann

Berend Isermann, born 1967 in Kiel, is a German physician and clinical chemist who directs the Institute of Laboratory Medicine at Leipzig University Hospital and studies coagulation proteases in vascular disease.

Bram van Ginneken

Bram van Ginneken is a Dutch medical image analysis researcher and professor at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, known for computer-aided diagnosis of chest radiographs and lung CT scans.

Brennan Decker

Brennan Decker is an American physician-scientist and molecular pathologist in genomic medicine and cancer genetics, known for consortium-scale analyses quantifying breast cancer risks from PALB2 variants.

Brian D. Ross

Brian D. Ross is an American scientist in radiology and magnetic resonance spectroscopy at the University of Michigan, known for pioneering quantitative imaging biomarkers of tumor response.

Brooke T. Mossman

Brooke T. Mossman (Brooke Taylor Mossman) is an American cell biologist and fiber-toxicology researcher, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Vermont.

Carl Sternberg

Carl Sternberg (1872–1935) was an Austrian pathologist and histologist who described the multinucleated giant cells of Hodgkin's disease in 1898, now known as Reed–Sternberg cells.

Carlos Caldas

Carlos Caldas, born 1960, is a clinician scientist and Professor of Cancer Medicine at Cambridge, known for the METABRIC study classifying breast cancer into 10 molecular types.

Carlos Cordon‐Cardo

Carlos Cordon-Cardo is a physician-scientist in experimental pathology and molecular oncology, Professor and System Chair of Pathology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai since 2011.

Caroline Dive

Caroline Dive is a British cancer pharmacologist at the University of Manchester known for pioneering circulating tumor cell models of small-cell lung cancer and liquid biopsy research.

Carsten Denkert

Carsten Denkert is a German pathologist, Director and Chief Physician of the Institute of Pathology at Philipps-Universität Marburg, known for establishing tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes as a breast cancer biomarker.

Casey Taylor

Casey Overby Taylor is an American biomedical informatics researcher and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University whose research brings genomic medicine into routine clinical care, and who received the 2025 PECASE award.

Charles R. Cantor

Charles R. Cantor, born 1942, is an American molecular geneticist who helped found Sequenom, developed its noninvasive prenatal genetic tests, and directed a Human Genome Center at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Chenxiang Lin

Chenxiang (Charlie) Lin, 林晨翔, is a scientist in DNA nanotechnology, a Yale professor and Nanobiology Institute faculty member since 2012 known for DNA-templated liposome assembly and nanodevices that pull on proteins.

Chia-Lin Wei

Chia-Lin Wei is a genomic technology researcher known for the ChIA-PET chromatin method and a 2006 global p53 binding-site map, now directing the Northwest Genomics Center at the University of Washington.

Chin‐Lee Wu

Chin-Lee Wu is a genitourinary pathologist, Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, and director of Genitourinary Pathology Services at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for developing the prostate cancer biomarker AMACR (P504S).

Chris J.L.M. Meijer

Chris J.L.M. Meijer, also known as C. J. L. M. Meijer, is a Dutch pathologist and emeritus professor at Amsterdam UMC known for establishing which HPV types cause cervical cancer.

Christian Ingerslev Baastrup

Christian Ingerslev Baastrup (1885–1950) was a Danish radiologist at Copenhagen's Bispebjerg Hospital whose 1933 paper gave his name to Baastrup's disease, or kissing spines.

Christian J. Herold

Christian J. Herold is an Austrian radiologist and professor emeritus at the Medical University of Vienna, known for chest imaging, oncologic imaging, and hepatobiliary MRI.

Christiane Kühl

Christiane Kuhl, born 1966 in Bonn, is a German radiologist and professor at RWTH Aachen whose Lancet study showed MRI detects far more DCIS than mammography.

Christine Hartmann

Christine Hartmann, also Christine Siantar, is a medical physicist who spent 27 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, leading the Peregrine radiation-dose program and winning a 1996 PECASE award.

Christoph Lengauer

Christoph Lengauer is an Austrian molecular biologist and drug hunter who identified cancer driver genes at Johns Hopkins, then served as founding CSO of Blueprint Medicines.

Christoph Plass

Christoph Plass is a German cancer epigeneticist who has led the Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg since 2007.

Christopher E. Mason

Christopher E. Mason, also known as Christopher Mason, is a geneticist and computational biomedicine researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine, known for epitranscriptomics and space-omics work.