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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.

Cristina Howard-Varona

Cristina Howard-Varona is a Spanish-trained virus ecologist and microbiology research scientist at The Ohio State University known for experimental work on the virocell concept, treating virus-infected cells as a distinct biological state.

Cristina M. Alberini

Cristina M. Alberini is a neuroscientist at New York University who studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms of long-term memory consolidation, identifying C/EBP and IGF-II as key factors.

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 Pál

Csaba Pál is a Hungarian evolutionary biologist who leads a microbial experimental evolution laboratory at the Biological Research Centre in Szeged, known for a 2007 Nature study showing virus coevolution drives bacterial mutation rates.

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.

Cun-Yu Wang

Cun-Yu Wang is a molecular biologist and dentist-scientist known for work on NF-κB in cancer and bone biology, who led a UCLA research laboratory before joining Peking University in 2024.

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.

Curt Stern

Curt Stern (1902–1981) was a German-American geneticist who proved in 1931 that crossing over involves physical exchange of chromosome segments and wrote the leading human genetics textbook.

Curt Wittenberg

Curt Wittenberg is a molecular biologist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for work on the genes and protein machines that launch the cell division cycle in budding yeast.

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 C. Harris

Curtis C. Harris is an American cancer researcher who led the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis and is known for p53 and microRNA lung cancer research.

Curtis Gates Lloyd

Curtis Gates Lloyd (1859–1926) was an American mycologist and pharmacist from Florence, Kentucky, who funded his fungal research through the family firm Lloyd Brothers and left a herbarium of about 59,000 specimens.

Curtis Huttenhower

Curtis Huttenhower is a computational biologist at Harvard and the Broad Institute known for his work on the human microbiome and the NIH Human Microbiome Project.

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.

Curtis P. Van Tassell

Curtis P. Van Tassell is an American research geneticist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland, who helped transform dairy cattle breeding through genomic prediction.

Cynthia Casson Morton

Cynthia Casson Morton, also known as Cynthia C. Morton, is an American human geneticist at Harvard Medical School known for hereditary deafness and uterine fibroids.

Cynthia Elizabeth Dunbar

Cynthia Elizabeth Dunbar, also known as Cynthia E. Dunbar, is an American physician-scientist in hematology who led stem cell research at the NIH for almost four decades.

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 Kenyon

Cynthia Jane Kenyon is an American biogerontologist, Vice President of Aging Research at Calico since 2014, known for her 1993 discovery that mutating a single gene doubles worm lifespan.

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.

Cynthia T. McMurray

Cynthia T. McMurray is an American biochemist and neuroscientist known for showing how trinucleotide repeat DNA expands in Huntington disease, first at the Mayo Clinic and later as a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Cynthia Wolberger

Cynthia Wolberger is an American structural biologist, professor and director of biophysics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, known for structural studies of transcriptional regulation and ubiquitin signaling.