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Colin Berry

Colin Berry is a Scottish cardiologist and Professor of Cardiology and Imaging at the University of Glasgow whose research uses cardiac MRI to guide treatment of angina and heart attack patients.

Colin Dayan

Colin Dayan is a British clinical endocrinologist known for autoimmune thyroid disease research and leading type 1 diabetes immunotherapy trials, including the 2022 FDA application for teplizumab.

Colin Funk

Colin D. Funk is a pharmacology researcher known for cloning human 5-lipoxygenase, creating gene-targeted mice lacking prostaglandin and leukotriene pathways, and linking them to atherosclerosis and aortic aneurysm.

Colin J. Carlson

Colin J. Carlson is an American epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health, known for a 2022 Nature paper on climate change and viral spillover.

Colin Jamora

Colin Jamora is an American-trained cell biologist who studies epithelial tissue regeneration, wound healing, and scarring, and leads the Department of Life Sciences at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence.

Colin Mathers

Colin Mathers is an Australian health statistician, trained as a physicist, who led WHO's Epidemiology and Burden of Disease unit and authored widely used global mortality projections to 2030.

Colin W. Taylor

Colin W. Taylor, also published as C W Taylor, is a British cellular pharmacologist at Cambridge known for his work on IP3 receptors, intracellular calcium channels.

Colum A. Gorman

Colum A. Gorman is an endocrinologist and emeritus professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for his work on thyroid disease and Graves' ophthalmopathy.

Connie Celum

Connie Celum is an American infectious-diseases physician and epidemiologist at the University of Washington whose trials shaped HIV and STI prevention, including Partners PrEP and the DoxyPEP study.

Conrad Wesselhoeft

Conrad Wesselhoeft (1884–1962) was an American physician who became Harvard's professor of communicable diseases, known for New England Journal of Medicine papers on rubella, congenital deformities, and scarlet fever.

Constance D. Lehman

Constance D. Lehman, known as Connie Lehman, is an American breast imaging radiologist, Professor at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Breast Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Constantin Levaditi

Constantin Levaditi (1874–1953) was a Romanian-born French physician and immunologist at the Pasteur Institute whose polio work with Landsteiner laid ground for vaccines, and whose silver stain and bismuth therapy transformed syphilis diagnosis and treatment.

Constantin von Economo

Baron Constantin von Economo von San Serff (1876–1931) was an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist who defined encephalitis lethargica in 1917 and co-authored the 1925 atlas of the human cerebral cortex.

Constantin von Monakow

Constantin von Monakow (1853–1930) was a Russian-born Swiss neurologist and neuroanatomist who directed the Brain Anatomy Institute in Zurich and introduced diaschisis, used in modern stroke research.

Constantine L. Hampers

Constantine L. Hampers, also published as C. L. Hampers, is a kidney disease researcher who initiated outpatient dialysis at Brigham and Women's Hospital and co-founded National Medical Care.

Constantine S. Mitsiades

Constantine S. Mitsiades is a Greek-trained physician-scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School who studies drug resistance in multiple myeloma, with preclinical work informing FDA-approved regimens.

Cora N. Sternberg

Cora N. Sternberg is an American medical oncologist specializing in genitourinary cancers, Clinical Director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine since 2018.

Cornelia M. van Duijn

Cornelia M. van Duijn (Cornelia Marja van Duijn) is a Dutch genetic epidemiologist, Professor of Epidemiology at Oxford Population Health since 2018, known for large-scale studies of aging and neurodegenerative disease.

Cornelia M. Weyand

Cornelia M. Weyand is a German-born American rheumatologist and immunologist who studies vascular inflammation and autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis and giant cell arteritis.

Cornelis J.A. Punt

Cornelis J.A. Punt, known as Kees Punt, is a Dutch medical oncologist whose CAIRO trials through the Dutch Colorectal Cancer Group shaped colorectal cancer treatment.

Cornelis J.�H. van de Velde

Cornelis J. H. van de Velde, also known as C.J.H. van de Velde, is a Dutch surgical oncologist who led the Dutch TME trial in rectal cancer.

Cornelius A. Tobias

Cornelius A. Tobias (1918–2000) was a Hungarian-born American biophysicist at UC Berkeley who pioneered heavy-ion cancer therapy, pituitary radiosurgery, and space radiation research, winning the 1963 E.O. Lawrence Award.

Corrado Tommasi-Crudeli

Corrado Tommasi-Crudeli (1834–1900) was an Italian physician and hygienist, founder of the Institute of Experimental Hygiene in Rome, who with Edwin Klebs claimed to have isolated the malaria bacillus.

Corwin Hinshaw

H. Corwin Hinshaw (1902–2001) was an American physician at the Mayo Clinic who, with William Feldman, carried out the animal and human tests of streptomycin against tuberculosis.

Cory Abate-Shen

Cory Abate-Shen is an American cancer biologist at Columbia University known for mouse models of prostate and bladder cancer, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Costantino Iadecola

Costantino Iadecola is an Italian-born American neurologist who directs the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine and pioneered the neurovascular unit concept.

Courtney D. DiNardo

Courtney D. DiNardo is an American hematologist and Professor of Leukemia at MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for leading clinical development of venetoclax combinations and IDH inhibitors for acute myeloid leukemia.

Craig C. Earle

Craig C. Earle is a Canadian medical oncologist and health services researcher who studies quality of care for advanced cancer patients, and CEO of the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer since 2021.

Craig C. Malbon

Craig C. Malbon is an American molecular pharmacologist who directed a research laboratory at Stony Brook University from 1978 to 2022, known for antisense studies of G-protein signaling.

Craig D. Newgard

Craig D. Newgard is an American emergency physician and researcher, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019, who moved from OHSU to UCSF in 2025.