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Cecilia M. Pickart

Cecilia M. Pickart, published as Cecile M. Pickart, was an American biochemist who showed that multiple E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes exist, work cited in the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Cedar J. Fowler

Cedar J. Fowler is a physician-scientist and Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Stanford University, known for research on genetic susceptibility to pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease.

Cedric Blanpain

Cédric Blanpain, born 1970 in Belgium, is a physician-scientist and full professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles known for identifying cancer stem cells in skin and breast cancers.

Cédric Feschotte

Cédric Feschotte is a molecular biologist and geneticist who studies transposable elements, which make up half the human genome, and is the Barbara McClintock Professor at Cornell University.

Cedric Habiyaremye

Cedric Habiyaremye is a Rwandan-born crop scientist who fled the 1994 genocide as a child, earned a doctorate at Washington State University in 2019, and founded QuinoaHub to grow quinoa and other climate-resilient crops across Africa.

Cedric S. Raine

Cedric S. Raine is a British-born neuropathologist who joined Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1969 and studied how myelin is damaged in multiple sclerosis.

Cedric Smith (geneticist)

Cedric Austen Bardell Smith (1917–2002) was a British geneticist and mathematician at University College London's Galton Laboratory whose 1953 linkage paper shaped human genetics for 40 years.

Cees Dekker

Cees Dekker (Cornelis Dekker, born 1959) is a Dutch physicist and Distinguished University Professor at TU Delft, known for carbon nanotube transistors and single-molecule biophysics of DNA.

Celia Moens

Celia Moens, also recorded as Cecilia B. Moens, is a developmental biologist and professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle known for her zebrafish studies of hindbrain patterning.

Celia Schiffer

Celia A. Schiffer is an American structural biologist at UMass Chan Medical School, known for the substrate envelope hypothesis for designing antiviral drugs that resist mutations.

César de la Fuente‐Núñez

César de la Fuente-Núñez is a Spanish-American computational microbiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Machine Biology Group and uses AI to mine proteins, microbiomes, and extinct organisms for new antibiotics.

Cesar Gomes Victora

Cesar Gomes Victora (César G. Victora), born 1952, is a Brazilian epidemiologist at the Universidade Federal de Pelotas known for the Pelotas birth cohorts and breastfeeding research.

César Milstein

César Milstein (1927–2002) was an Argentine-born immunologist at Cambridge's MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology who, with Georges Köhler, developed the hybridoma technique for monoclonal antibodies, earning the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

César Roux

César Roux (1857–1934) was a Swiss surgeon and first professor of surgery at the University of Lausanne, known for the Roux-en-Y anastomosis he first performed in 1892.

Cesare Montecucco

Cesare Montecucco, born in Trento, Italy, in 1947, is an Italian pathologist and toxinologist at the University of Padova known for identifying how tetanus and botulinum neurotoxins act.

Cezmi A. Akdiş

Cezmi A. Akdis is a Turkish physician-scientist in immunology and allergy who directs the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research in Davos and is a University of Zurich professor.

Chad A. Cowan

Chad A. Cowan, also known as Chad Cowan, is a stem cell biologist who derived 17 human embryonic stem cell lines and now leads Century Therapeutics as CSO.

Chad Nusbaum

Chad Nusbaum is a genomics technologist known for large-scale genome sequencing at the Broad Institute, co-author of the 2001 draft human genome, and lead author of the finished chromosome 18 sequence.

Chana A. Sacks

Chana A. Sacks is an American general internist and health policy researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, co-director of its Center for Gun Violence Prevention and editor-in-chief of NEJM Evidence since 2024.

Chandler McCuskey Brooks

Chandler McCuskey Brooks (1905–1989) was an American physiologist known for research on the nervous and endocrine systems and heart electrophysiology, and for early pacemaker research.

Chandra Jackson

Chandra Jackson is an American environmental epidemiologist and NIH Earl Stadtman Investigator who studies how light, temperature, noise, and stress shape sleep and cardiometabolic health disparities.

Chandra P. Belani

Chandra P. Belani is a medical oncologist specializing in lung cancer, known for large phase III trials in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer, including the 2009 Lancet maintenance pemetrexed study.

Channing J. Der

Channing J. Der is an American cancer cell biologist and pharmacologist at UNC-Chapel Hill who took part in the 1982 discovery of mutated RAS genes in human cancers.

Chantal Mathieu

Chantal Mathieu is a Belgian endocrinologist at KU Leuven who studies the prevention of type 1 diabetes and served as EASD president from 2022 to 2025.

Chaozhong Zhang

Chaozhong Zhang is a Chinese-trained wheat molecular geneticist in Jorge Dubcovsky's laboratory at the University of California, Davis, known for cloning the stripe rust resistance gene Yr28.

Charalambos Antoniades

Charalambos Antoniades is a Greek-born cardiologist and British Heart Foundation Chair at Oxford, known for pioneering AI in CT angiography to detect coronary inflammation and predict heart attacks.

Charalambos P. Kyriacou

Charalambos P. Kyriacou, known as Bambos Kyriacou, is a British behavioral geneticist and chronobiologist at Leicester who studies circadian rhythms in the fruit fly Drosophila.

Charalampos G. Kalodimos

Charalampos "Babis" Kalodimos is a structural biologist who uses NMR spectroscopy to study protein dynamics, and has chaired structural biology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital since 2017.

Charan Ranganath

Charan Ranganath is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of California, Davis, known for research on episodic memory and the 2024 bestseller Why We Remember.

Charis Eng

Charis Eng (1962–2024) was a Singapore-born physician-scientist in clinical cancer genetics who defined the inherited genetics of the RET and PTEN tumor-susceptibility genes and founded the Cleveland Clinic Genomic Medicine Institute in 2005.