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Carol J. Baker

Carol J. Baker is an American pediatric infectious-diseases physician-scientist at Baylor College of Medicine whose work showed maternal antibody protects newborns against group B Streptococcus, earning the 2019 Sabin Gold Medal.

Carol L. Shields

Carol L. Shields is an American ocular oncologist who leads the Ocular Oncology Service at Wills Eye Hospital and helped create the International Classification of Retinoblastoma.

Carol Louik

Carol Louik is an epidemiologist at Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center who studies pregnancy exposures and birth defects, leading NEJM studies of spermicides in 1987 and SSRIs in 2007.

Carol M. Mangione

Carol M. Mangione is an American physician and health services researcher at UCLA, chief of general internal medicine there and chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force since 2022.

Carole Mitnick

Carole Mitnick is an American epidemiologist and Harvard Medical School professor known for community-based drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment trials in Peru and the multinational endTB trial.

Carole Ober

Carole Ober is an American human geneticist at the University of Chicago who studies the genetics of asthma, allergic disease, and fertility in the Hutterite founder population.

Caroline A Crowther

Caroline A Crowther is a New Zealand maternal fetal medicine specialist and Emeritus Professor at the Liggins Institute, whose trials changed care for preterm birth and gestational diabetes.

Caroline Breese Hall

Caroline Breese Hall (1939–2012) was an American pediatrician and virologist at the University of Rochester whose work defined the epidemiology and management of respiratory syncytial virus in children.

Caroline Buckee

Caroline O'Flaherty Buckee is a Harvard epidemiology professor known for using mobile phone data to map malaria spread, including a 2012 study of 15 million Kenyan call records.

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.

Caroline M. Tanner

Caroline M. Tanner, also published as Caroline Tanner, is an American neurologist and epidemiologist at UCSF known for linking pesticides and solvents to Parkinson's disease risk.

Caroline Robert

Caroline Robert is a French dermato-oncologist, professor at Université Paris-Saclay, who heads dermatology at Gustave Roussy and led pivotal melanoma trials, including KEYNOTE-006 and the dabrafenib–trametinib COMBI trials.

Caroline S. Fox

Caroline S. Fox, also known as Caroline Fox, is an American physician-scientist who studies the genetics of diabetes, obesity, and kidney disease, leading labs at the NHLBI and Merck.

Carolyn L. Westhoff

Carolyn L. Westhoff (Carolyn Louise Westhoff) is a Columbia University physician-scientist in obstetrics and gynecology and epidemiology, elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2007 and known for Quick Start contraceptive initiation.

Carolyn Y. Ho

Carolyn Y. Ho is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist who directs the Cardiovascular Genetics Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and leads research and trials on early-stage hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Carrie Reed

Carrie Reed is an American infectious-disease epidemiologist at the CDC Influenza Division who estimates the true burden of influenza and respiratory viruses, correcting surveillance counts for under-detection.

Carroll M. Leevy

Carroll M. Leevy (1920–2007) was an American hepatologist who researched alcoholic liver disease, chaired medicine at New Jersey Medical School, and led the liver study associations.

Carroll Williams

Carroll Milton Williams (1916–1991) was an American zoologist and entomologist at Harvard who showed how hormones control insect growth, work that led to hormone-based insecticides.

Carsten Bokemeyer

Carsten Bokemeyer (born 1963) is a German medical oncologist who has directed oncology at the Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf since 2004, known for germ cell tumor 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.

Carsten Müller‐Tidow

Carsten Müller-Tidow is a German hematologist and physician-scientist who has been Medical Director of hematology and oncology at Heidelberg University Hospital since 2017, researching acute myeloid leukemia.

Carsten Werner

Carsten Werner is a German biofunctional polymer materials scientist, Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden since 2022 and professor at TU Dresden, known for cell-instructive hydrogels.

Cary P. Gross

Cary P. Gross is a general internal medicine physician and cancer outcomes researcher at Yale School of Medicine, where he founded and directs the COPPER Center.

Casey H. Halpern

Casey H. Halpern is an American neurosurgeon who is Chief of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania, known for responsive deep brain stimulation.

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.

Caspar Peucer

Caspar Peucer (1525–1602) was a German physician, astronomer, and university administrator at Wittenberg, son-in-law of Philip Melanchthon, who served Elector August of Saxony and was imprisoned twelve years in the Crypto-Calvinist persecution of 1574.

Catherine J. Wu

Catherine J. Wu, also known as Catherine Wu, is a Dana-Farber physician-scientist and Harvard professor known for discovering CLL mutations and leading the first personalized neoantigen cancer vaccine trials.

Catherine Karr

Catherine Karr is an American environmental epidemiologist and board-certified pediatrician at the University of Washington, known for research on air pollution and pesticides in children's health.

Catherine M Otto

Catherine Otto is an American cardiologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, known for research establishing calcific aortic valve disease as an active disease process.

Catherine M. Wilfert

Catherine M. Wilfert (1936–2020) was an American pediatrician and HIV researcher who led Duke's pediatric infectious diseases division and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.