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Carlos M. Duarte

Carlos M. Duarte (born 1960) is a Spanish marine ecologist at KAUST in Saudi Arabia who coined the term blue carbon and led the Malaspina 2010 expedition.

Carlos Martínez‐A

Carlos Martínez-A, born Carlos Martínez Alonso in 1950, is a Spanish immunologist at the CNB-CSIC in Madrid known for work on T-cell development and lupus.

Carlos Montezuma

Carlos Montezuma, born Wassaja, was a Yavapai physician and activist who campaigned to abolish the Bureau of Indian Affairs and cofounded the Society of American Indians.

Carlos Roberto Jaen

Carlos Roberto Jaén is a Panamanian-born American family physician and epidemiologist who chaired Family and Community Medicine at UT Health San Antonio from 2001 to 2025.

Carlos Simmerling

Carlos L. Simmerling is a computational structural biologist at Stony Brook University known for developing widely used Amber protein force fields and a landmark 2002 protein folding simulation.

Carlos T. Moraes

Carlos T. Moraes is a Brazilian-born molecular biologist and neurology researcher at the University of Miami, known for mitochondrial DNA disease research and pioneering mitochondrial genome editing.

Carmen Birchmeier

Carmen Birchmeier, born 1955, is a German developmental biologist who leads a research group at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin and is known for work on neuregulin and c-Met signaling.

Carmen Garcia Pena

María del Carmen García Peña is a Mexican physician and geriatrics researcher who directs the National Institute of Geriatrics in Mexico City and studies aging and frailty.

Carmen J. Allegra

Carmen J. Allegra, also published as Carmen Allegra, is an American medical oncologist known for colorectal cancer research and nearly 20 years at the National Cancer Institute.

Carmia Borek

Carmia Borek is a radiation and molecular biologist who showed in 1966 that X-rays malignantly transform cells in culture, working at Weizmann, Columbia, and Tufts.

Carmine D. Clemente

Carmine D. Clemente (1928–2016) was an American anatomist and neuroscientist at the UCLA School of Medicine whose anatomy atlas and dissection films reached most American medical schools.

Carmine Zoccali

Carmine Zoccali is an Italian nephrologist and clinical epidemiologist in Reggio Calabria known for the 2001 Lancet study showing plasma ADMA predicts death in dialysis patients.

Carol A. Barnes

Carol A. Barnes is an American neuroscientist at the University of Arizona who studies how normal aging changes the hippocampus and memory, and who invented the Barnes maze.

Carol A. Carter

Carol A. Carter is an American virologist at Stony Brook University known for her work on HIV assembly, budding, and retroviral proteases; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Carol A. Gross

Carol A. Gross, also known as Carol Gross, is an American molecular biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for her work on bacterial transcription and stress responses.

Carol A. Kauffman

Carol A. Kauffman, also known as Carol Kauffman, is an American infectious-disease physician-scientist who led the VA Ann Arbor Infectious Diseases Section from 1977 to 2021.

Carol Brayne

Carol Brayne is a British epidemiologist and public health physician who was Professor of Public Health Medicine at Cambridge from 2001 to 2024, leading the MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies of dementia.

Carol Davila

Carol Davila (1828–1884), born Carlo Antonio Francesco d'Avila in Parma, Italy, was a physician who arrived in Bucharest in 1853 and founded Romanian medical education.

Carol Greider

Carol W. Greider, born in 1961, is an American molecular biologist who discovered the enzyme telomerase as a graduate student and shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Carol J. Baker

Carol J. Baker is an American pediatric infectious-diseases physician-scientist at Baylor College of Medicine whose work showed maternal antibody protects newborns against group B Streptococcus, earning the 2019 Sabin Gold Medal.

Carol L. Shields

Carol L. Shields is an American ocular oncologist who leads the Ocular Oncology Service at Wills Eye Hospital and helped create the International Classification of Retinoblastoma.

Carol Louik

Carol Louik is an epidemiologist at Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center who studies pregnancy exposures and birth defects, leading NEJM studies of spermicides in 1987 and SSRIs in 2007.

Carol M. Mangione

Carol M. Mangione is an American physician and health services researcher at UCLA, chief of general internal medicine there and chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force since 2022.

Carol Mason

Carol Mason is an American developmental neurobiologist at Columbia University who studies how retinal axons cross at the optic chiasm to wire binocular vision, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.

Carol Prives

Carol Prives is a cancer biologist and DaCosta Professor of Biology at Columbia University, known since the late 1980s for her studies of the p53 tumor suppressor protein.

Carol S. Dweck

Carol S. Dweck is an American psychologist at Stanford University known for research on growth and fixed mindsets and their effect on motivation and achievement.

Carol S. Newlon

Carol S. Newlon is an American molecular biologist at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School known for her work on DNA replication origins in budding yeast.

Carola G. Vinuesa

Carola G. Vinuesa is a Spanish-born immunologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London, known for defining follicular regulatory T cells and finding genetic causes of lupus.

Carole Dabney-Smith

Carole Dabney-Smith is a biochemist at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, who studies how chloroplasts transport folded proteins and received a 2010 Presidential Early Career Award.

Carole Hooven

Carole Hooven is an American evolutionary biologist who studies hormones, the brain, and behavior, taught at Harvard from 2005 to 2023, and wrote T (2021).