Life and health scientists

Carlo Ferrari

Carlo Ferrari is an Italian physician-scientist in the immunopathogenesis of viral hepatitis, full professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Parma and director of its hospital's hepatology unit since 1999.

Carlo Forlanini

Carlo Forlanini (1847–1918) was an Italian physician who invented therapeutic artificial pneumothorax, collapsing the tuberculous lung with nitrogen gas as the first effective tuberculosis treatment before antibiotics.

Carlo La Vecchia

Carlo La Vecchia is an Italian medical statistician and cancer epidemiologist at the Mario Negri Institute and University of Milan, known for large case-control studies quantifying cancer risk factors.

Carlo M. Croce

Carlo M. Croce, also known as Carlo Maria Croce, is an Italian-born American physician-scientist in cancer genetics whose laboratory discovered the BCL2 oncogene and first linked microRNAs to human cancer.

Carlo Pappone

Carlo Pappone, born in 1961, is an Italian cardiac electrophysiologist who developed the Pappone approach to atrial fibrillation ablation and heads arrhythmology at IRCCS Policlinico San Donato in Milan.

Carlo Patrono

Carlo Patrono is an Italian clinical pharmacologist known for establishing low-dose aspirin as an antithrombotic drug, honored with the Institut de France's 2013 Grand Prix Scientifique.

Carlo Salvarani

Carlo Salvarani (born 1954 in Reggio Emilia) is an Italian rheumatologist who directed rheumatology in Reggio Emilia and Modena, collaborated with the Mayo Clinic, and researched vasculitis.

Carlos A. Camargo

Carlos A. Camargo is an American emergency physician and epidemiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who founded the Emergency Medicine Network and studies vitamin D.

Carlos A. Zarate

Carlos A. Zarate, Jr. is an Argentine-born American psychiatrist and NIH Distinguished Investigator whose trials showed ketamine relieves treatment-resistant depression within hours, contributing to the FDA-approved esketamine.

Sep 17, 2026

Carlos Alberto Zarate Jr.

Carlos Alberto Zarate Jr. is an American psychiatrist and NIH Distinguished Investigator at NIMH in Bethesda, Maryland, best known for showing that a single ketamine infusion rapidly reduces depressive and suicidal symptoms in treatment-resistant depression.

Carlos Ardavı́n

Carlos Ardavín is a Spanish immunologist and CSIC Research Professor at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología in Madrid, known for his work on the origins of dendritic cells and macrophages.

Oct 22, 2026

Carlos Arvelo

Carlos Arvelo (1784–1862) was a Venezuelan physician and independence-era officer who served as chief surgeon of Simón Bolívar's Liberating Army and later became Rector of the Universidad Central de Venezuela.

Sep 17, 2026

Carlos Blanco (psychiatrist)

Carlos Blanco is a Spanish-born American psychiatrist and epidemiologist who has directed the Division of Epidemiology, Services, and Prevention Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse since 2015.

Carlos Bustamante (biophysicist)

Carlos J. Bustamante is a Peruvian-trained single-molecule biophysicist and HHMI Investigator at UC Berkeley whose laboratory was the first to stretch a single DNA molecule with optical tweezers.

Carlos Caldas

Carlos Caldas, born 1960, is a clinician scientist and Professor of Cancer Medicine at Cambridge, known for the METABRIC study classifying breast cancer into 10 molecular types.

Carlos Chagas

Carlos Chagas was a Brazilian physician and scientist who discovered Trypanosoma cruzi, its triatomine vector, and Chagas disease in Minas Gerais in 1908 and 1909.

Carlos Cordon‐Cardo

Carlos Cordon-Cardo is a physician-scientist in experimental pathology and molecular oncology, Professor and System Chair of Pathology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai since 2011.

Carlos Cruchaga

Carlos Cruchaga is a Spanish human genomicist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, founding director of its NeuroGenomics and Informatics Center and a pioneer in Alzheimer's disease genetics.

Carlos D. Brody

Carlos D. Brody is a neuroscientist at Princeton University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator known for showing how the brain accumulates evidence toward decisions.

Carlos D. Bustamante

Carlos D. Bustamante is an American population geneticist at Stanford School of Medicine, where he became inaugural chair of Biomedical Data Science and won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010.

Carlos de la Torre y Huerta

Carlos de la Torre y Huerta (1858–1950) was a Cuban naturalist and malacologist who described about 280 mollusk species and was rector of the University of Havana.

Carlos Fernandez-Hernando

Carlos Fernández-Hernando is a cardiovascular researcher at Yale School of Medicine, where he directs the Vascular Biology & Therapeutics Program and studies microRNAs that control cholesterol metabolism.

Carlos Fernández‐del Castillo

Carlos Fernández-del Castillo is a Mexican-trained gastrointestinal surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, a Harvard professor known for pancreatic surgery and research on pancreatic cancer and cystic tumors.

Sep 17, 2026

Carlos Finlay

Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915), Cuban physician of Havana who in 1881 proposed that Aedes aegypti transmits yellow fever; confirmed by Walter Reed's 1900 board, enabling mosquito control in Cuba and Panama.

Carlos G. Dotti

Carlos G. Dotti is an Argentine neuroscientist and professor at the Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa in Madrid, known for work on neuronal polarity and brain aging.

Carlos Gamna

Carlo Gamna (c. 1886–1950) was an Italian physician and university professor in internal medicine known for the eponyms Gamna-Favre bodies, Gandy-Gamna bodies, and Gandy-Gamna disease.

Carlos Ibáñez (neuroscientist)

Carlos Ibáñez, also known as Carlos F. Ibáñez, is a neuroscientist known for showing that RET is the receptor for GDNF, and a professor at Karolinska Institutet.

Carlos José Belmonte López

Carlos José Belmonte López is a Spanish pharmacy researcher whose public record includes an ORCID profile listing him at PharmaSalud.net in Madrid from 2021 onward.

Carlos L. Arteaga

Carlos L. Arteaga is an American medical oncologist and breast cancer drug resistance researcher who directs the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at UT Southwestern in Dallas since 2017.