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Camillo Bozzolo

Camillo Bozzolo (1845–1920) was an Italian physician who founded the Turin school of hematology, proved hookworm caused the anemia of Gotthard tunnel workers, and introduced thymol as its treatment.

Campbell W. McMillan

Campbell W. McMillan (1927–2008) was an American pediatric hematologist at UNC Chapel Hill who co-led the first human trial of genetically engineered recombinant factor VIII in 1987.

Càndid Villanueva

Càndid Villanueva is a Spanish hepatologist and gastroenterologist who heads the Gastrointestinal Bleeding Unit at Hospital de Sant Pau in Barcelona and led landmark New England Journal of Medicine trials.

Carey Coombs

Carey Franklin Coombs (1879–1932) was a British cardiologist at Bristol General Hospital who gave his name to the Carey Coombs murmur of rheumatic carditis and helped found the Cardiac Club.

Carine Ronsmans

Carine Ronsmans is an epidemiologist and professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for Lancet research on maternal mortality in Bangladesh and China.

Carl Bruck

Carl Bruck (1879–1944) was a German dermatologist who with August von Wassermann and Albert Neisser developed the first serological blood test for syphilis, published in 1906.

Carl C. Seltzer

Carl C. Seltzer (1908–2003) was an American physical anthropologist and epidemiologist at Harvard, known for re-evaluating life-insurance height-weight tables and for studies of smoking and obesity.

Carl Cori

Carl Ferdinand Cori was an Austrian-born American biochemist who shared the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with his wife Gerty for discovering how the body converts glycogen.

Carl E. Taylor

Carl E. Taylor (1916–2010) was an American physician and epidemiologist, founder of international health as a discipline and first director of Johns Hopkins' Department of International Health.

Carl Eisdorfer

Carl Eisdorfer is an American psychiatrist and gerontologist who led the University of Miami's psychiatry department and Center on Aging, and co-founded the Alzheimer's Association.

Carl Erik Mogensen

Carl Erik Mogensen (C. E. Mogensen), born in 1938, is a Danish nephrologist and professor emeritus at Aarhus University known for establishing microalbuminuria as a predictor of diabetic kidney disease.

Carl Figdor

Carl Figdor is a Dutch tumor immunologist at Radboud University Medical Center, known for dendritic cell cancer therapy and discovering the DC-SIGN receptor in 2000.

Carl Flügge

Carl Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Flügge (1847–1923) was a German bacteriologist and hygienist whose cough-droplet experiments established droplet infection, especially for tuberculosis, and who co-founded the journal Zeitschrift für Hygiene.

Carl Frederic Schmidt

Carl Frederic Schmidt (1893–1988) was an American pharmacologist at the University of Pennsylvania who, with Seymour Kety, developed the nitrous oxide technique for measuring human brain blood flow.

Carl Friderichsen

Carl Friderichsen was a Danish pediatrician and chief physician of the children's department at Sundby Hospital in Copenhagen from 1931 to 1956, known for Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome.

Carl Hart

Carl Hart, born 1966 in Miami, Florida, is an American neuroscientist and Columbia psychology professor whose human-laboratory drug research argues most drug harm flows from illegality.

Carl J. Pepine

Carl J. Pepine is an American cardiologist at the University of Florida known for coronary disease research and for leading the INVEST blood pressure trial.

Carl Ludwig

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig was a German physiologist and professor at Leipzig remembered for the kymograph, his 1842 renal filtration theory, and an institute that trained more than 200 physiologists.

Carl Moore

Carl Vernon Moore (1908–1972) was an American hematologist who headed medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and showed that blood plasma transports iron.

Carl Nathan

Carl F. Nathan is an American immunologist and microbiologist at Weill Cornell Medical College whose work defined how macrophages are activated to kill microbes, including tuberculosis research.

Carl Nicoladoni

Carl Nicoladoni (1847–1902) was an Austrian surgeon, professor of surgery in Innsbruck and then Graz, remembered for the first tendon transplantation and the first toe-to-hand thumb replacement.

Carl Röse

Carl Röse (1864–1947) was a German dentist and physician who researched dental caries and nutrition, and was the first known dentist nominated for a Nobel Prize.

Carl Schlatter

Carl Schlatter (1864–1934) was a Swiss surgeon and professor at the University of Zurich who performed the first successful total gastrectomy, complete removal of the stomach, in 1897.

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.

Carl von Hess

Carl von Hess, born Carl Hess, was a German ophthalmologist and physiologist who held chairs at Marburg, Würzburg, and Munich and proved Helmholtz's theory of accommodation.

Carl von Voit

Carl von Voit (1831–1908) was a German physiologist, professor at Munich from 1863, who measured metabolism in mammals and humans and founded modern nutritional science.

Carl W. White

Carl W. White is an American physician-scientist in pediatric pulmonology, now Professor Emeriti at the University of Colorado, known for his 1984 coronary angiogram study.

Carla AbouZahr

Carla AbouZahr is a global health statistician who spent over 20 years at the World Health Organization and led The Lancet's work on counting births and deaths.

Carla F. Kim

Carla F. Kim is an American stem cell biologist who studies lung stem cells and lung cancer, leading a laboratory at Boston Children's Hospital and teaching at Harvard Medical School.

Carla Nester

Carla Nester is an American pediatric and adult nephrologist at the University of Iowa specializing in complement-mediated kidney disease, and senior author of the 2025 VALIANT trial of pegcetacoplan in C3 glomerulopathy.