Life and health scientists

Carl O. Pabo

Carl O. Pabo, also written C.O. Pabo, is an American structural biologist born in 1952 known for determining crystal structures of DNA-binding proteins, including homeodomains and zinc fingers.

Carl Pantin

Carl Frederick Abel Pantin was a British zoologist and invertebrate physiologist who worked on amoeboid movement and sea anemone nervous systems, becoming Professor of Zoology at Cambridge.

Carl Rabl

Carl Rabl (1853–1917) was an Austrian anatomist, professor in Vienna, Prague, and Leipzig, whose 1885 treatise proposed that chromosomes persist through cell division, giving the Rabl configuration.

Carl Richard Moore (1892–1955) was an American zoologist at the University of Chicago who studied sex hormones, sperm production, and gonad–pituitary feedback, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1944.

Carl Röse

Carl Röse (1864–1947) was a German dentist and physician who researched dental caries and nutrition, and was the first known dentist nominated for a Nobel Prize.

Carl S Thummel

Carl S Thummel is an American Drosophila geneticist and Professor Emeritus of Human Genetics at the University of Utah, a longtime HHMI Investigator known for ecdysone and nuclear receptor research.

Carl S. Parker

Carl S. Parker is a molecular biologist at the California Institute of Technology known for his 1984 and 1988 Cell papers on heat-shock transcription factors.

Carl Safina

Carl Safina (born 1955) is an American ecologist and writer known for marine conservation work, books including Song for the Blue Ocean, and founding the Safina Center.

Carl Schlatter

Carl Schlatter (1864–1934) was a Swiss surgeon and professor at the University of Zurich who performed the first successful total gastrectomy, complete removal of the stomach, in 1897.

Carl Schoonover

Carl Schoonover is a neuroscientist at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics who studies how brains learn from unstructured experience, and who co-founded the NeuWrite science-writing group.

Carl Sternberg

Carl Sternberg (1872–1935) was an Austrian pathologist and histologist who described the multinucleated giant cells of Hodgkin's disease in 1898, now known as Reed–Sternberg cells.

Carl von Hess

Carl von Hess, born Carl Hess, was a German ophthalmologist and physiologist who held chairs at Marburg, Würzburg, and Munich and proved Helmholtz's theory of accommodation.

Carl von Voit

Carl von Voit (1831–1908) was a German physiologist, professor at Munich from 1863, who measured metabolism in mammals and humans and founded modern nutritional science.

Carl W. Cotman

Carl W. Cotman, also known as Carl Cotman, was an American neuroscientist at UC Irvine who founded UCI MIND and showed that exercise increases BDNF, a protein protecting neurons.

Carl W. Gottschalk

Carl W. Gottschalk (1922–1997) was an American renal physiologist at the University of North Carolina who used micropuncture to show how the kidney concentrates urine.

Carl W. Schmid

Carl W. Schmid is a molecular biologist and professor emeritus at UC Davis whose laboratory discovered the Alu repeat, about 10 percent of the human genome, in 1979.

Carl W. White

Carl W. White is an American physician-scientist in pediatric pulmonology, now Professor Emeriti at the University of Colorado, known for his 1984 coronary angiogram study.

Carl Wernicke

Carl Wernicke (1848–1905), German neurologist and psychiatrist, described the Wernicke area (Brodmann area 22) in his 1874 aphasia monograph and Wernicke encephalopathy in 1881; modern research reassigns his area's function.

Carl Woese

Carl Woese (1928–2012) was an American microbiologist at the University of Illinois who discovered the Archaea by sequencing ribosomal RNA and proposed the three domains of life in 1990.

Carl Wu

Carl Wu is an American molecular biologist known for discovering the NURF chromatin remodeling complex, a National Academy of Sciences member at Johns Hopkins since 2016.

Carl-Philipp Heisenberg

Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, born 1968 in Munich, is a German developmental biologist and biophysicist, a professor at ISTA in Austria known for work on the mechanics of gastrulation.

Carl‐Henrik Heldin

Carl-Henrik Heldin, also known as C H Heldin, is a Swedish molecular cell biologist at Uppsala University known for research on PDGF and TGF-β signaling.

Carla AbouZahr

Carla AbouZahr is a global health statistician who spent over 20 years at the World Health Organization and led The Lancet's work on counting births and deaths.

Carla F. Kim

Carla F. Kim is an American stem cell biologist who studies lung stem cells and lung cancer, leading a laboratory at Boston Children's Hospital and teaching at Harvard Medical School.

Carla J. Shatz

Carla J. Shatz is an American developmental neurobiologist at Stanford University who discovered that spontaneous retinal waves wire the brain before birth, winning the 2016 Kavli Prize.

Carla Nester

Carla Nester is an American pediatric and adult nephrologist at the University of Iowa specializing in complement-mediated kidney disease, and senior author of the 2025 VALIANT trial of pegcetacoplan in C3 glomerulopathy.

Carles Cantó

Carles Cantó is a Spanish biochemist and senior researcher at EPFL in Switzerland, known for first-authoring a 2009 Nature paper linking AMPK, SIRT1, and NAD+ metabolism.

Carlie LaLone

Carlie LaLone is an American research bioinformaticist at the EPA office in Duluth, Minnesota, who developed SeqAPASS, a tool predicting chemical susceptibility across species, earning a 2017 Presidential Early Career Award.

Carlito B. Lebrilla

Carlito B. Lebrilla is an American analytical chemist and glycobiologist, Distinguished Professor at UC Davis, known for mass spectrometry methods applied to cancer biomarkers and human milk sugars.