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Christine D. Berg

Christine D. Berg is an American radiation oncologist and physician-scientist who co-led the National Lung Screening Trial, establishing low-dose CT screening as reducing lung-cancer deaths.

Christine E. Seidman

Christine E. Seidman is an American physician-scientist and human molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital whose laboratory identified many genes that cause inherited heart disease.

Christine H. Chung

Christine H. Chung is an American medical oncologist specializing in head and neck cancer who chairs the Head and Neck-Endocrine Oncology department at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.

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.

Christine Kim Garcia

Christine Kim Garcia, also published as Christine K. Garcia, is an American pulmonary physician-scientist who studies the genetics of lung disease and leads pulmonary medicine at Columbia University.

Christine Klein

Christine Klein is a German neurologist and neurogeneticist who directs the Institute of Neurogenetics at the University of Lübeck and researches the genetics of Parkinson's disease and dystonia.

Christine M. Albert

Christine M. Albert is a cardiologist and cardiac epidemiologist whose research links lifestyle, nutrition, and genetics to sudden cardiac death; she became founding cardiology chair at Cedars-Sinai in 2019.

Christine Van Broeckhoven

Christine Van Broeckhoven is a Belgian molecular geneticist who studies the genetics of Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and Parkinson's disease, and led molecular genetics research at the University of Antwerp.

Christodoulos Stefanadis

Christodoulos Stefanadis (Greek: Χριστόδουλος Στεφανάδης) is a Greek cardiologist born in Ikaria who directed cardiology at Hippokration Hospital in Athens from 2002 to 2014 and entered parliament in 2019.

Christoffer Clemmensen

Christoffer Clemmensen is a Danish obesity researcher and Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen's CBMR, known for a 2024 Nature study pairing GLP-1 with an NMDA receptor antagonist.

Christoph A. Klein

Christoph A. Klein is a German physician and cancer researcher who holds the Chair of Experimental Medicine at the University of Regensburg and studies early metastatic spread.

Christoph Buettner

Christoph Buettner is a German-born American endocrinologist and metabolism researcher who studies how the brain controls glucose and fat use, and chief of endocrinology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Christoph Hess

Christoph Hess is a Swiss clinical immunologist and immunometabolism researcher, born 1970 in Zurich, who holds professorships at the University of Basel and the University of Cambridge.

Christoph Klein

Christoph Klein is a German pediatric hematologist and gene-therapy researcher, chair of pediatrics at LMU Munich since 2011, known for stem-cell gene therapy for Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome.

Christoph Lange

Christoph Lange, born 1962 in Essen, is a German physician-scientist specializing in tuberculosis, especially drug-resistant TB, who directs the Research Center Borstel and founded TBNET.

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 Nienaber

Christoph Nienaber is a German cardiologist and interventional specialist at Royal Brompton Hospital in London since 2015, known for pioneering endovascular stent-graft treatment of aortic dissection.

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.

Christoph Stein

Christoph Stein is a German anesthesiologist and pain researcher who established peripheral opioid analgesia and designed pH-dependent analgesics such as NFEPP, chairing anesthesiology at Charité Berlin from 1997.

Christoph Wanner

Christoph Wanner is a German nephrologist at the University Hospital of Würzburg who led the 4D and EMPA-KIDNEY trials and presided over the European Renal Association.

Christoph Zielinski

Christoph Zielinski is an Austrian medical oncologist who led clinical oncology at the Medical University of Vienna from 2001 to 2017 and founded the Central European Cooperative Oncology Group.

Christophe Fraser

Christophe Fraser is an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Oxford known for HIV evolution research and for proposing the NHS COVID-19 app in 2020.

Christopher A. Bradfield

Christopher A. Bradfield, born 1958, is an American molecular biologist and Professor of Oncology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for cloning the aryl hydrocarbon receptor.

Christopher Andrewes

Sir Christopher Andrewes (1896–1988) was a British virologist who co-discovered the human influenza A virus in 1933 and founded the Medical Research Council's common cold unit at Salisbury.

Christopher B. Granger

Christopher B. Granger is an American cardiologist at Duke University who led the 2011 ARISTOTLE trial of apixaban versus warfarin in atrial fibrillation and received the American Heart Association's 2025 James B. Herrick Award.

Christopher B. Newgard

Christopher B. Newgard is an American biochemist at Duke University who studies metabolism and diabetes, known for work on branched-chain amino acids and insulin resistance.

Christopher Butler (physician)

Christopher Butler is a South African-trained general practitioner and Professor of Primary Care at the University of Oxford, leading the PRINCIPLE and PANORAMIC COVID-19 trials.

Christopher D. Byrne

Christopher D. Byrne is a British physician-scientist and Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Southampton, known for reframing fatty liver disease as a multisystem disease.

Christopher deCharms

Christopher deCharms (born 1966) is a neuroscientist who pioneered real-time fMRI neurofeedback, showing in a 2005 study that people could learn to control a pain-related brain region and reduce their pain.

Christopher Duggan

Christopher P. Duggan is an American pediatric gastroenterologist and nutrition researcher at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, known for the 2017 review Pediatric Intestinal Failure.