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Carsten Werner

Carsten Werner is a German biofunctional polymer materials scientist, Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden since 2022 and professor at TU Dresden, known for cell-instructive hydrogels.

Cary Fowler

Cary Fowler (Morgan Carrington Fowler Jr., born 1949) is an American agriculturalist known as the father of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and a 2024 World Food Prize laureate.

Cary P. Gross

Cary P. Gross is a general internal medicine physician and cancer outcomes researcher at Yale School of Medicine, where he founded and directs the COPPER Center.

Caryl Parker Haskins

Caryl Parker Haskins (1908–2001) was an American biophysicist and entomologist who founded Haskins Laboratories in 1935 and led the Carnegie Institution from 1956 to 1971.

Casey H. Halpern

Casey H. Halpern is an American neurosurgeon who is Chief of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania, known for responsive deep brain stimulation.

Casey Taylor

Casey Overby Taylor is an American biomedical informatics researcher and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University whose research brings genomic medicine into routine clinical care, and who received the 2025 PECASE award.

Casey Weaver

Casey T. Weaver is an American immunologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022 for defining the TH17 T helper cell subset.

Casimir Funk

Casimir Funk (Kazimierz Funk, 1884–1967), Polish-born biochemist at the Lister Institute, London, who coined "vitamine" in 1912 and proposed beriberi, scurvy, rickets, and pellagra as deficiency diseases; father of the vitamin concept.

Caspar Peucer

Caspar Peucer (1525–1602) was a German physician, astronomer, and university administrator at Wittenberg, son-in-law of Philip Melanchthon, who served Elector August of Saxony and was imprisoned twelve years in the Crypto-Calvinist persecution of 1574.

Catharina Svanborg

Catharina Svanborg is a Swedish physician-scientist, professor of clinical immunology at Lund University, known for discovering HAMLET, a protein-lipid complex from human milk that kills tumor cells.

Catherine Dulac

Catherine Dulac is a French-born molecular neuroscientist at Harvard, an HHMI Investigator since 1997, known for discovering mammalian pheromone receptors and winning the 2021 Breakthrough Prize.

Catherine J. Wu

Catherine J. Wu, also known as Catherine Wu, is a Dana-Farber physician-scientist and Harvard professor known for discovering CLL mutations and leading the first personalized neoantigen cancer vaccine trials.

Catherine Karr

Catherine Karr is an American environmental epidemiologist and board-certified pediatrician at the University of Washington, known for research on air pollution and pesticides in children's health.

Catherine M Otto

Catherine Otto is an American cardiologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, known for research establishing calcific aortic valve disease as an active disease process.

Catherine M. Verfaillie

Catherine M. Verfaillie, born 1957, is a Belgian physician-scientist in stem cell biology who led the Stem Cell Institute at Minnesota and later at KU Leuven.

Catherine M. Wilfert

Catherine M. Wilfert (1936–2020) was an American pediatrician and HIV researcher who led Duke's pediatric infectious diseases division and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

Catherine McDonald

Catherine C. McDonald is an American pediatric nurse scientist at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing whose research on adolescent injury, concussion, and driving won the 2025 PECASE award.

Catherine Peckham

Catherine Peckham, also known as Catherine S. Peckham, is a British pediatric epidemiologist and Emeritus Professor at UCL's Institute of Child Health, known for research on infections in pregnancy.

Catherine Weisz

Catherine Weisz is an American auditory neuroscientist who leads the Section on Neuronal Circuitry at the NIDCD, part of the NIH, and received a 2017 PECASE award.

Cathie Martin

Cathie Martin is a plant scientist and Professor at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, known for the genetically engineered purple tomato and her MBE in 2014.

Cathy Mendelsohn

Cathy Mendelsohn is an American molecular biologist and Columbia University professor known for cloning the human poliovirus receptor and studying how vitamin A signaling shapes the urinary tract.

Catriona Jamieson

Catriona H.M. Jamieson is a Canadian-American physician-scientist at UC San Diego who studies cancer stem cells, directs the Sanford Stem Cell Institute, and developed the ADAR1 inhibitor rebecsinib.

Cecil B. Pickett

Cecil B. Pickett is an American pharmacologist and toxicologist who pioneered research on glutathione S-transferases and the antioxidant response element and led pharmaceutical R&D at Schering-Plough and Biogen Idec.

Cecil Wadleigh

Cecil Wadleigh (Cecil Herbert Wadleigh) was an American soil scientist and plant physiologist with the USDA, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973.

Cecil Watson

Cecil Watson (1901–1983) was an American hepatologist at the University of Minnesota who established the modern understanding of the porphyrias, devised the Watson-Schwartz diagnostic test, and introduced hematin treatment.

Cecile M. Pickart

Cecile M. Pickart was a Johns Hopkins biochemist who worked out much of the enzyme chemistry of ubiquitin, the small protein cells attach to other proteins as a signal.

Cécile Vogt-Mugnier

Cécile Vogt-Mugnier, born Augustine Marie Cécile Mugnier, was a French neurologist and neuroanatomist who with her husband Oskar Vogt built the foundations of early twentieth-century brain research.

Cecília Garlanda

Cecilia Garlanda is an Italian immunologist who heads the Laboratory of Experimental Immunopathology at Humanitas in Milan and studies the innate immunity molecules PTX3 and IL-1R8.

Cecilia Guerrier-Takada

Cecilia Guerrier-Takada was a molecular biologist in Sidney Altman's laboratory at Yale, first author of the 1983 Cell paper showing the RNA of RNase P is catalytic.

Cecilia M. Giachelli

Cecilia M. Giachelli is an American bioengineer and professor at the University of Washington whose research established vascular calcification as a regulated, cell-mediated process, identifying the phosphate transporters PiT-1 and PiT-2 and osteopontin as key regulators.