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Craig Gérard

Craig Gérard, also published as Craig Gerard, is a physician and immunology researcher at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for cloning the C5a receptor.

Craig H. Moskowitz

Craig H. Moskowitz is an American medical oncologist treating Hodgkin lymphoma and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, a longtime Memorial Sloan Kettering lymphoma leader now at the University of Miami.

Craig L. Leonardi

Craig L. Leonardi is an American dermatologist in St. Louis, Missouri, whose phase 3 trials of psoriasis biologics, including the 2016 ixekizumab UNCOVER trials, reshaped treatment.

Craig T. Jordan

Craig T. Jordan is a hematology researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz known for work on leukemia stem cells, the cells that drive acute myeloid leukemia.

Cristian Tomasetti

Cristian Tomasetti is an Italian-born biostatistician and cancer researcher known for the 2015 "bad luck" paper with Bert Vogelstein and for liquid biopsy blood tests for early cancer detection.

Cristiana Sessa

Cristiana Sessa is a Swiss-based medical oncologist specializing in gynecologic cancers, known for European guidelines on ovarian cancer and early-phase new-drug development at the Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland.

Crystal L. Mackall

Crystal L. Mackall is an American physician-scientist at Stanford University who pioneered CAR T cell therapy for pediatric leukemia after 27 years at the National Cancer Institute.

Csaba Szabó (pharmacologist)

Csaba Szabó is a Hungarian-born pharmacologist known for research on PARP enzymes and hydrogen sulfide biology, and chair of pharmacology at the University of Fribourg since 2018.

Cuilin Zhang

Cuilin Zhang is a clinical epidemiologist known for research on gestational diabetes and type 2 diabetes, and Chair Professor on Women's Health at the National University of Singapore.

Cunyu Wang

Cunyu Wang (王存玉), also Cun-Yu Wang, is a Chinese-born dental researcher known for establishing how NF-κB regulates cancer cell death, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2011.

Curt D. Furberg

Curt D. Furberg, born 1936 in Sweden, is a Swedish-born American clinical-trial researcher and professor emeritus at Wake Forest University, known for questioning calcium channel blockers and leading ALLHAT.

Curt D. Sigmund

Curt D. Sigmund is an American cardiovascular physiologist who studies how the renin-angiotensin system and PPARγ regulate blood pressure, chairing Physiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Curt R. Freed

Curt R. Freed, born 1943, is an American physician and professor emeritus at the University of Colorado known for transplanting fetal dopamine cells into Parkinson's patients' brains.

Curtis B. Wilson

Curtis B. Wilson (1936–2013) was an American physician-scientist and professor emeritus at The Scripps Research Institute, known for the first comprehensive clinical description of anti-GBM antibody-induced glomerulonephritis.

Curtis Lester Mendelson

Curtis Lester Mendelson (1913–2002) was an American obstetrician and cardiologist whose 1946 study of aspiration during obstetric anesthesia defined Mendelson's syndrome; he later served as the sole doctor on a Bahamian island.

Cynthia G. Whitney

Cynthia G. Whitney, known as Cyndy Whitney, is a physician and epidemiologist who spent 25 years at the CDC and now leads the CHAMPS child mortality surveillance network.

Cynthia Hawkins

Cynthia E. Hawkins is a Canadian pediatric neuropathologist and molecular geneticist at SickKids in Toronto, known for defining the molecular subgroups of pediatric brain tumors.

Cynthia L. Ogden

Cynthia L. Ogden, also known as Cynthia Ogden, is an American epidemiologist at the National Center for Health Statistics who has tracked US obesity for 30 years.

Cynthia L. Sears

Cynthia L. Sears is an American physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University who studies how intestinal bacteria, especially enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis, contribute to colon cancer and how the microbiome shapes cancer immunotherapy.

Cyril Clarke

Sir Cyril Astley Clarke (1907–2000) was a British physician and lepidopterist whose Liverpool team showed that anti-D given to mothers after delivery prevents rhesus disease of the newborn.

Cyril Norman Hugh Long

Cyril Norman Hugh Long (1901–1970) was an English-born American endocrinologist who held two Sterling Professorships at Yale, isolated pituitary hormones including ACTH, and studied the endocrine control of diabetes.

D Alarcón-Segovia

Donato Alarcón-Segovia (1935–2004) was a Mexican rheumatologist and clinical immunologist who founded and led the Department of Immunology and Rheumatology at Mexico City's Salvador Zubirán institute.

D. Craig Miller

D. Craig Miller, often cited as D.C. Miller, is an American cardiothoracic surgeon who spent his entire 43-year faculty career at Stanford, pioneering endovascular stent-graft repair of thoracic aortic disease.

D. Gary Gilliland

D. Gary Gilliland is an American physician-scientist who identified genetic drivers of leukemia, including JAK2 mutations, and led Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center from 2015 to 2020.

D. Lynn Loriaux

D. Lynn Loriaux (born 1940) is an American physician-scientist in endocrinology who helped introduce the corticotropin-releasing hormone stimulation test and petrosal sinus sampling for diagnosing Cushing's syndrome.

D. Mark Hegsted

D. Mark Hegsted, born David Mark Hegsted, was an American Harvard nutrition scientist whose feeding trials produced the Hegsted equation, and who wrote the 1980 Dietary Guidelines for Americans at the USDA.

D. Montgomery Bissell

D. Montgomery Bissell is a physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus of Medicine at UCSF whose 1985 study identified hepatic stellate cells as the liver's principal collagen-producing cells.

D. Nicholas Bateman

David Nicholas Bateman is a British clinical pharmacologist and clinical toxicologist, Professor at the University of Edinburgh, known for work on paracetamol poisoning treatment and poisons services.

D. Ross Camidge

D. Ross Camidge is a British medical oncologist and professor at the University of Colorado, known for leading trials defining first-line treatment of ALK-positive lung cancer.

D. Timothy Bishop

D. Timothy Bishop, also published as Tim Bishop, is a British genetic epidemiologist at the University of Leeds known for mapping the breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2.