Life and health scientists

C. B. van Niel

C. B. van Niel, born Cornelis Bernardus van Niel (1897–1985), was a Dutch-American microbiologist who discovered bacterial photosynthesis and taught for decades at Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station.

C. Clark Cockerham was an American quantitative geneticist at North Carolina State University whose variance-partitioning theory and 1984 Weir–Cockerham estimators remain widely used in population genetics.

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C. D. Darlington

C. D. Darlington, born Cyril Dean Darlington, was a British cytologist and geneticist who founded modern cytogenetics, directed the John Innes Institute, and led British opposition to Lysenko.

C. Daniel Salzman

C. Daniel Salzman is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at Columbia University, known for microstimulation studies of perceptual decisions and amygdala value encoding.

C. David Naylor

C. David Naylor is a Canadian physician-scientist and health-services researcher who founded ICES, was dean of medicine at Toronto, and served as its 15th president from 2005 to 2013.

C. Erec Stebbins

C. Erec Stebbins is an American biomedical scientist and novelist who studies bacterial virulence, heading a structural biology division at the German Cancer Research Center since 2016.

C. Fordham von Reyn

C. Fordham von Reyn is an American infectious disease physician and Dartmouth professor who led trials of the tuberculosis vaccine DAR-901 through the DarDar program in Tanzania.

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C. Frank Bennett

C. Frank Bennett is a pharmacologist and chief scientific officer at Ionis Pharmaceuticals who pioneered antisense drugs, including Spinraza for spinal muscular atrophy, winning the 2019 Breakthrough Prize.

C. Garrison Fathman

C. Garrison Fathman, known as Garry Fathman, is an American immunologist and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Stanford, known for the initial cloning of CD4 T lymphocytes.

C. Glenn Begley

C. Glenn Begley is an Australian physician-scientist who led hematology and oncology research at Amgen and reported in 2012 that only 6 of 53 landmark preclinical cancer papers could be reproduced.

C. James Ingles

C. James Ingles (Charles James Ingles) is a molecular biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, known for work on RNA polymerase II and transcriptional activation.

C. Jessica E. Metcalf

C. Jessica E. Metcalf (born 1978) is a disease ecologist and demographer, professor at Princeton University known for work on measles, rubella, and serological surveys.

C. Michael Gibson

C. Michael Gibson is an American interventional cardiologist, Harvard Medical School professor, and CEO of the Baim Institute, known for the TIMI Frame Count and trials like TWILIGHT.

C. Michael Stein

C. Michael Stein is a South African-born clinical pharmacologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known for NEJM studies on azithromycin and cardiovascular death and the genetics of warfarin response.

C. Neil Hunter

C. Neil Hunter is a British biochemist and Fellow of the Royal Society who holds the Krebs Chair at Sheffield, known for cryo-EM structures of bacterial light-harvesting complexes.

C. Noel Bairey Merz

C. Noel Bairey Merz, full name Cathleen Noel Bairey-Merz, is an American cardiologist who directs the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles.

C. Phillip Miller

C. Phillip Miller was an American bacteriologist at the University of Chicago who studied antibiotic resistance and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1956.

C. Randy Gallistel

Charles R. (Randy) Gallistel, born 1941, is an American cognitive scientist and Rutgers professor emeritus known for treating learning and memory as information storage and computation.

C. Richard Boland

C. Richard Boland is an American gastroenterologist and cancer researcher who named Lynch syndrome in 1984, studied microsatellite instability in colorectal cancer, and became Emeritus Professor of Medicine at UCSD in 2023.

C. Robert Horsburgh

C. Robert Horsburgh is an infectious disease epidemiologist and tuberculosis clinician who is a professor at Boston University and chairs the international RESIST-TB network for drug-resistant tuberculosis trials.

C. Robin Buell

C. Robin Buell is an American plant genomicist at the University of Georgia known for helping sequence the first plant genome, Arabidopsis, and the first crop genome, rice.

C. Ronald Kahn

C. Ronald Kahn, known as Ronald Kahn, is an American physician and diabetes researcher who studies how insulin acts on cells and how insulin resistance leads to type 2 diabetes.

C. Stacy French

C. Stacy French, born Charles Stacy French, was an American plant physiologist and biophysicist who directed the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology at Stanford from 1947 to 1973.

C. Thomas Caskey

C. Thomas Caskey (1938–2022) was an American physician-scientist in human genetics who identified the genetic basis of 25 inherited diseases at Baylor College of Medicine.

C. van Ypersele de Strihou

Charles van Ypersele de Strihou (1933–2021) was a Belgian nephrologist who founded and led the nephrology department of the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc of the University of Louvain.

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C. Walton Lillehei

C. Walton Lillehei, born Clarence Walton Lillehei, was an American cardiac surgeon at the University of Minnesota who performed the world's first open-heart operation using cross-circulation in 1954.

C. Warren Olanow

C. Warren Olanow (1941–2024) was a neurologist who spent his career on Parkinson's disease, chairing neurology at Mount Sinai from 1994 and leading the 2009 ADAGIO rasagiline trial.

C. Wayne Bardin

C. Wayne Bardin (1934–2019) was an American endocrinologist and reproductive physiologist who led development of the Norplant and Jadelle implants, Copper-T IUDs, and mifepristone trials at the Population Council.

C.A. Stein

C.A. Stein, also known as Cy A. Stein, is a physician-scientist and chemist known for his work on antisense oligonucleotide drugs at the National Cancer Institute and City of Hope.