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Charles L. Sprung

Charles L. Sprung is an American-born Israeli physician-scientist in intensive care medicine and medical ethics, known for leading the CORTICUS septic shock trial and the ETHICUS end-of-life studies.

Charles Lee (cytogeneticist)

Charles Lee (Korean name Lee Jang-cheol), born in Seoul in 1969, is a Korean-born Canadian-American cytogeneticist whose laboratory first described genome-wide copy number variation in healthy humans in 2004.

Charles Limb

Charles Limb is an otolaryngologist, surgeon, and musician at the University of California, San Francisco who studies the neuroscience of musical creativity and music perception in deaf people with cochlear implants.

Charles M. Balch

Charles M. Balch is an American surgical oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center who led the AJCC melanoma staging system and its evidence base of more than 14,000 patients.

Charles M. Morin

Charles M. Morin, also known as Charles Morin, is a Canadian clinical psychologist and sleep researcher at Université Laval whose trials established cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia as first-line treatment.

Charles M. Perou

Charles M. Perou is an American cancer geneticist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whose 2000 Nature paper established the intrinsic molecular subtypes of breast cancer.

Charles M. Radding

Charles M. Radding (1930–2020) was an American molecular biologist and physician at Yale University who established the biochemical mechanism by which RecA protein pairs homologous DNA strands in recombination.

Charles M. Rice

Charles M. Rice, born 1952 in Sacramento, California, is an American virologist at Rockefeller University who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize for the discovery of hepatitis C virus.

Charles M. Rick

Charles M. Rick (1915–2002) was an American plant geneticist at the University of California, Davis, often called the father of tomato genetics, who founded the Tomato Genetics Resource Center.

Charles M. Rudin

Charles M. Rudin is an American medical oncologist specializing in lung cancer who serves as Cancer Center Director at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

Charles Manning Child

Charles Manning Child (1869–1954) was an American zoologist at the University of Chicago known for the gradient theory, which holds that metabolic gradients govern development and regeneration.

Charles Marie Benjamin Rouget

Charles Marie Benjamin Rouget (1824–1904) was a French physiologist who held chairs at Montpellier and Paris and described the capillary cells now known as pericytes, or Rouget cells.

Charles Mullighan

Charles G. Mullighan is an Australian-born leukemia genomics researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, known for defining the genetic basis and subtypes of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Charles Nicholas Serhan

Charles Nicholas Serhan is an American biochemist and immunologist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital known for discovering pro-resolving lipid mediators that actively resolve inflammation.

Charles Nicolle

Charles Jules Henri Nicolle was a French bacteriologist who directed the Institut Pasteur in Tunis and won the 1928 Nobel Prize for his work on typhus.

Charles O. Agyemang

Charles O. Agyemang is a Dutch public health epidemiologist, born in Ghana in 1968, who studies ethnic and migrant health inequalities and leads the RODAM study.

Charles O. Rock

Charles O. Rock (1949–2023) was an American biochemist who spent 43 years at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital studying bacterial fatty acid synthesis and membrane lipids.

Charles Oberling

Charles Oberling (1895–1960) was a French physician and pathologist, a leading advocate of the viral theory of cancer and director of the cancer research institute at Villejuif.

Charles Otis Whitman

Charles Otis Whitman (1842–1910) was an American zoologist, morphologist, and embryologist who founded the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, serving as its first director from 1888 to 1908.

Charles P. Emerson

Charles P. Emerson is an American developmental biologist known for work on myogenic regulatory factors and, since 2013, director of the Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Program at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester.

Charles P. O’Brien

Charles P. O'Brien is an American addiction psychiatrist and emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania who founded its Center for Studies of Addiction and chaired the DSM-5 substance use disorders committee.

Charles P. Ordahl

Charles P. Ordahl is a developmental biologist, emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, known for his 1978 irreversible gene repression model and chick-quail somite lineage experiments.

Charles P. Venditti

Charles P. Venditti is an American physician-scientist who leads the Metabolic Medicine Branch at the NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute, studying methylmalonic acidemia and propionic acidemia.

Charles R. Cantor

Charles R. Cantor, born 1942, is an American molecular geneticist who helped found Sequenom, developed its noninvasive prenatal genetic tests, and directed a Human Genome Center at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Charles R. Goldman

Charles R. Goldman is an American limnologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, known for monitoring Lake Tahoe's clarity since 1958 and founding the Castle Lake research program in 1959.

Charles R. Kleeman

Charles Richard Kleeman (1923–2021) was an American nephrologist at UCLA, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1982, who wrote a standard textbook on fluid and electrolyte disorders.

Charles R. M. Bangham

Charles R. M. Bangham is a British immunologist and virologist, Emeritus Professor of Immunology at Imperial College London, known for research on HTLV-1 and for discovering the virological synapse.

Charles R. Mackay

Charles R. Mackay is an Australian immunologist, elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2009, known for lymphocyte migration and the 2009 Nature finding that short-chain fatty acids from gut bacteria regulate inflammation.

Charles R. Newton

Charles R. Newton, also published as Charles Newton, is a Kenyan-born pediatric neurologist and Oxford professor known for research on epilepsy and cerebral malaria in African children.

Charles R. Park

Charles Rawlinson Park, known as Rollo Park, was an American physician and physiologist at Vanderbilt University who proved that insulin accelerates glucose transport across the muscle cell membrane.