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Charles Kellaway

Charles Halliley Kellaway (1889–1952) was an Australian medical researcher who directed the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for 21 years and produced Australia's first commercial antivenom.

Charles L. Bosk

Charles L. Bosk (1948–2020) was an American medical sociologist who spent his career at the University of Pennsylvania studying medical education, error, and patient safety.

Charles L. Loprinzi

Charles L. Loprinzi is an American medical oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for hot-flash trials and the 2016 olanzapine antiemetic study that changed chemotherapy nausea guidelines.

Charles L. Shapiro

Charles L. Shapiro is an American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer and cancer survivorship, a professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai since 2014.

Charles L. Sprung

Charles L. Sprung is an American-born Israeli physician-scientist in intensive care medicine and medical ethics, known for leading the CORTICUS septic shock trial and the ETHICUS end-of-life studies.

Charles Limb

Charles Limb is an otolaryngologist, surgeon, and musician at the University of California, San Francisco who studies the neuroscience of musical creativity and music perception in deaf people with cochlear implants.

Charles M. Balch

Charles M. Balch is an American surgical oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center who led the AJCC melanoma staging system and its evidence base of more than 14,000 patients.

Charles M. Morin

Charles M. Morin, also known as Charles Morin, is a Canadian clinical psychologist and sleep researcher at Université Laval whose trials established cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia as first-line treatment.

Charles M. Rice

Charles M. Rice, born 1952 in Sacramento, California, is an American virologist at Rockefeller University who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize for the discovery of hepatitis C virus.

Charles M. Rudin

Charles M. Rudin is an American medical oncologist specializing in lung cancer who serves as Cancer Center Director at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

Charles Mullighan

Charles G. Mullighan is an Australian-born leukemia genomics researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, known for defining the genetic basis and subtypes of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Charles O. Agyemang

Charles O. Agyemang is a Dutch public health epidemiologist, born in Ghana in 1968, who studies ethnic and migrant health inequalities and leads the RODAM study.

Charles Oberling

Charles Oberling (1895–1960) was a French physician and pathologist, a leading advocate of the viral theory of cancer and director of the cancer research institute at Villejuif.

Charles P. O’Brien

Charles P. O'Brien is an American addiction psychiatrist and emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania who founded its Center for Studies of Addiction and chaired the DSM-5 substance use disorders committee.

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. 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.

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. Mackay

Charles R. Mackay is an Australian immunologist, elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2009, known for lymphocyte migration and the 2009 Nature finding that short-chain fatty acids from gut bacteria regulate inflammation.

Charles R. Newton

Charles R. Newton, also published as Charles Newton, is a Kenyan-born pediatric neurologist and Oxford professor known for research on epilepsy and cerebral malaria in African children.

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. Davidson

Charles S. Davidson (1910–2000) was an American hepatologist at Harvard Medical School and Boston City Hospital who founded the first American clinical research unit for liver disease.

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 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 S. Lieber

Charles S. Lieber (1931–2009) was a Belgian-born American physician-scientist who showed that alcohol directly damages the liver, independent of diet, working at Mount Sinai and the Bronx VA.

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.

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.

Charles V. Pryles

Charles V. Pryles was an American pediatrician and pediatric infectious-disease researcher best known for his studies of suprapubic bladder aspiration for diagnosing urinary tract infection in children.