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Charles W. Francis

Charles W. Francis is an American hematologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester, known for the 2008 chemotherapy-associated thrombosis risk model and the 2003 EXULT A trial.

Charles W. Parker (immunologist)

Charles Ward Parker (1930–2013) was an American immunologist and allergist who founded Washington University's allergy division, identified the chemical basis of penicillin allergy, and helped classify slow reacting substance as a leukotriene.

Charles Warlow

Charles Warlow, born 1943, is a British neurologist who held Edinburgh's chair of medical neurology and led major stroke trials and the textbook Stroke: A Practical Guide to Management.

Charles Y. Chiu

Charles Y. Chiu is an American infectious-disease physician and microbiologist at the University of California, San Francisco who developed metagenomic next-generation sequencing to diagnose mystery infections.

Charles Y.C. Pak

Charles Y.C. Pak is an American physician-scientist in mineral metabolism, professor at UT Southwestern since 1972, known for kidney stone and osteoporosis research and for Citracal, Urocit-K, and THIOLA.

Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard

Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (1817–1894) was a Mauritian-born physiologist and neurologist who worked in Paris, London, Boston, and New York, described the spinal-cord hemisection syndrome in 1850, and is considered a progenitor of endocrinology.

Charlesnika T. Evans

Charlesnika T. Evans is an American epidemiologist and health services researcher at the Hines VA Hospital and Northwestern University, known for preventing infections in Veterans with spinal cord injury.

Charlotte Watts

Charlotte Watts is a British epidemiologist, Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for research showing violence against women is preventable.

Chawnshang Chang

Chawnshang Chang (张传祥) is a Taiwanese-born molecular endocrinologist and cancer researcher at the University of Rochester who cloned the androgen receptor and developed the receptor-degrading compound ASC-J9.

Chen Chien-jen (陈建仁)

Chen Chien-jen (陈建仁) is a Taiwanese epidemiologist known for research on viral hepatitis and arsenic in drinking water, who served as Vice President of Taiwan from 2016 to 2020.

Cheng Zhu

Cheng Zhu (朱橙) is a biomedical engineer at Georgia Tech known for the direct observation of catch bonds in cell-adhesion molecules and for showing that force triggers T-cell signaling.

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.

Cheryl Broussard

Cheryl S. Broussard is a CDC researcher specializing in birth defects surveillance and research, honored with a 2013 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Cheryl L. Holder

Cheryl L. Holder is an American internist and climate-health educator who founded Florida Clinicians for Climate Action in 2018 and co-chairs Miami-Dade County's heat-health task force while teaching at Florida International University.

Chester A. Alper

Chester A. Alper (1931–2024) was an American immunologist and pediatrician at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital who pioneered complement genetics and the study of extended haplotypes in the MHC.

Chester M. Jones

Chester M. Jones (1891–1972) was an American gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for his 1961 paper framing Whipple's disease, until then almost uniformly fatal, as reversible.

Chevalier Jackson

Chevalier Jackson (1865–1958) was an American otolaryngologist called the father of endoscopic surgery, who extracted swallowed objects without open surgery and won the Federal Caustic Poison Act of 1927.

Chi‐yuan Hsu

Chi-yuan Hsu is a nephrologist and kidney-disease epidemiologist who has led the UCSF Division of Nephrology since 2007 and studies how reduced kidney function raises risks of death and cardiovascular events.

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.

Chiara Bonini

Chiara Bonini is an Italian physician-scientist who heads the Experimental Hematology Unit at Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan, pioneering engineered T cell gene therapies for cancer.

Chiara Cremolini

Chiara Cremolini, born in 1984 in La Spezia, is an Italian medical oncologist and full professor at the University of Pisa who led the TRIBE trials in metastatic colorectal cancer.

Chien-Wen Tseng

Chien-Wen Tseng is a family physician and health services researcher at the University of Hawaiʻi. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.

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).

Ching-Hon Pui

Ching-Hon Pui (裴正康) is a pediatric oncologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis whose work on childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia raised cure rates from about 50 to over 90 percent.

Chirag R. Parikh

Chirag R. Parikh is an Indian-born American nephrologist, Director of the Division of Nephrology at Johns Hopkins, known for the TRIBE-AKI consortium studying biomarkers that detect acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery.

Chloe Orkin

Chloe Orkin is a British infectious-diseases physician and HIV researcher at Queen Mary University of London who led the FLAIR trial of the first long-acting injectable HIV therapy.

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.

Chris Beyrer

Chris Beyrer is an American epidemiologist known for HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 research, director of the Duke Global Health Institute since 2022 and former president of the International AIDS Society.

Chris Boshoff

Chris Boshoff is a South African-born physician-scientist who made foundational discoveries on Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, founded the UCL Cancer Institute, and became Pfizer's Chief Scientific Officer in 2025.