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Charles Glabe
Charles Glabe is an American molecular biologist and biochemist, a professor at UC Irvine known for conformation-dependent antibodies that recognize soluble amyloid oligomers in Alzheimer's disease.
Charles H. Halsted
Charles H. Halsted is an American physician-scientist, Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, known for showing in 1971 that folate malabsorption in alcoholics stems from poor nutrition.
Charles H. Hennekens
Charles H. Hennekens is an American physician and epidemiologist whose randomized trials first demonstrated that aspirin prevents a first heart attack, making him among the most cited medical researchers.
Charles H. Langley
Charles H. Langley is an American population geneticist and Distinguished Professor at UC Davis who studies mutation, recombination, and selection in Drosophila, winning the 1999 Genetics Society of America Medal.
Charles H. Rammelkamp, Jr.
Charles H. Rammelkamp, Jr. (1911–1981) was an American physician and infectious-disease researcher who showed penicillin treatment of strep throat prevents rheumatic fever, winning the 1954 Lasker Award.
Charles H. Rodeck
Charles H. Rodeck, born 1944, is a British obstetrician and Emeritus Professor at University College London, a pioneer of fetal medicine and first to describe direct fetal blood transfusion.
Charles H. Sawyer (neuroendocrinologist)
Charles H. Sawyer (1915–2006) was an American neuroendocrinologist at UCLA whose experiments established how the brain controls the pituitary gland and reproductive function, work influential in developing the birth control pill.
Charles H. Slocumb
Charles H. Slocumb (1905–1996) was an American rheumatologist at the Mayo Clinic who gave the first cortisone injection to a rheumatoid arthritis patient in 1948 and co-authored the 1949 report on its dramatic effects.
Charles Harington (chemist)
Sir Charles Robert Harington (1897–1972) was a British biochemist who determined thyroxine's structure, contributed to the purification of insulin, and directed the National Institute for Medical Research.
Charles Haskell Danforth
Charles Haskell Danforth (1883–1969) was an American anatomist and geneticist who led anatomy at Stanford University and pioneered estimating mutation rates for dominant human genes.
Charles Heidelberger
Charles Heidelberger (1920–1983) was an American biochemist who developed the anticancer drug 5-fluorouracil at the University of Wisconsin's McArdle Laboratory, where he worked from 1948 to 1976.
Charles Herbert Best
Charles Herbert Best (1899–1978) was a Canadian physiologist who co-discovered insulin with Frederick Banting in 1921, chaired physiology at the University of Toronto, and helped purify heparin.
Charles Hollenberg
Charles H. Hollenberg (1930–2003) was a Canadian physician and medical researcher known for studying fat cells, who led the University of Toronto's medicine department and founded the Banting and Best Diabetes Centre.
Charles Huggins
Charles Huggins was a Canadian-born American surgeon and urologist at the University of Chicago who showed that hormones govern prostate and breast cancer growth, winning the 1966 Nobel Prize.
Charles I. Scott
Charles I. Scott, Jr. is an American pediatrician and medical geneticist who trained at Johns Hopkins, worked in Wilmington, Delaware, and helped create the skeletal dysplasia nomenclature.
Charles J. Arntzen
Charles J. Arntzen is an American plant biologist, called "the godfather of pharming," who pioneered plant-made vaccines and contributed to ZMapp, the tobacco-produced Ebola antibody used in 2014.
Charles J. Epstein
Charles J. Epstein (1933–2011) was an American human geneticist who led UCSF's medical genetics division for 40 years and created the first mouse model of Down syndrome.
Charles J. Goodner
Charles J. Goodner (1929–2018) was an American endocrinologist at the University of Washington, known for his 1974 Science paper on somatostatin's inhibition of insulin and glucagon.
Charles J. Lowenstein
Charles J. Lowenstein is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University who directs the Division of Cardiology and studies nitric oxide signaling, vascular inflammation, and thrombosis.
Charles J. Sherr
Charles J. Sherr is an American physician-scientist and emeritus researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital known for discoveries in oncogenes, tumor suppressors, and cell cycle control.
Charles J. Weitz
Charles J. Weitz is a chronobiologist and neurobiologist who holds the Robert Henry Pfeiffer Professorship of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, studying molecular circadian clocks.
Charles James Martin
Charles James Martin (1866–1955) was a British-born physiologist, first director of the Lister Institute in London from 1903 to 1930, known for work on snake venoms, plague, and vitamins.
Charles Janeway
Charles Janeway (1943–2003) was an American immunologist at Yale whose 1989 proposal that innate immunity recognizes conserved microbial structures earned him the description father of innate immunity.
Charles Judson Herrick
Charles Judson Herrick (1868–1960) was an American neurobiologist and comparative neurologist who spent his career mapping the brains of fishes and amphibians, and edited the Journal of Comparative Neurology.
Charles K. F. Chan
Charles K. F. Chan (Charles Kwok Fai Chan, 1975–2024) was an American stem cell biologist and Stanford professor who defined the mouse and human skeletal stem cell.
Charles K. Friedberg
Charles K. Friedberg (1905–1972) was an American cardiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and author of the standard textbook Diseases of the Heart.
Charles Kellaway
Charles Halliley Kellaway (1889–1952) was an Australian medical researcher who directed the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for 21 years and produced Australia's first commercial antivenom.
Charles L. Bosk
Charles L. Bosk (1948–2020) was an American medical sociologist who spent his career at the University of Pennsylvania studying medical education, error, and patient safety.
Charles L. Loprinzi
Charles L. Loprinzi is an American medical oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for hot-flash trials and the 2016 olanzapine antiemetic study that changed chemotherapy nausea guidelines.
Charles L. Shapiro
Charles L. Shapiro is an American medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer and cancer survivorship, a professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai since 2014.