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Chenxiang Lin

Chenxiang (Charlie) Lin, 林晨翔, is a scientist in DNA nanotechnology, a Yale professor and Nanobiology Institute faculty member since 2012 known for DNA-templated liposome assembly and nanodevices that pull on proteins.

Cheryl A. Kerfeld

Cheryl A. Kerfeld is a structural biologist known for determining the structure of bacterial microcompartment shells, who is Hannah Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University and also holds appointments at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Cheryl A. Nickerson

Cheryl A. Nickerson is an American microbiologist at Arizona State University whose discovery that low fluid shear regulates Salmonella virulence helped found mechanobiology of infectious disease.

Cheryl Broussard

Cheryl S. Broussard is a CDC researcher specializing in birth defects surveillance and research, honored with a 2013 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Cheryl L. Holder

Cheryl L. Holder is an American internist and climate-health educator who founded Florida Clinicians for Climate Action in 2018 and co-chairs Miami-Dade County's heat-health task force while teaching at Florida International University.

Cheryl Y. Hayashi

Cheryl Y. Hayashi is an American biologist who studies spider silks, determined the first full-length silk gene sequences, showed the orb web had a single ancient origin, and won a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship.

Cheryll Tickle

Cheryll Tickle, born in 1945, is a British developmental biologist known for research on limb development in the chick embryo and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Chester A. Alper

Chester A. Alper (1931–2024) was an American immunologist and pediatrician at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital who pioneered complement genetics and the study of extended haplotypes in the MHC.

Chester Hamlin Werkman

Chester Hamlin Werkman (1893–1962) was an American microbiologist at Iowa State College who, with Harland G. Wood, demonstrated carbon dioxide fixation by organisms lacking chlorophyll, the Wood–Werkman reaction.

Chester M. Jones

Chester M. Jones (1891–1972) was an American gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for his 1961 paper framing Whipple's disease, until then almost uniformly fatal, as reversible.

Chevalier Jackson

Chevalier Jackson (1865–1958) was an American otolaryngologist called the father of endoscopic surgery, who extracted swallowed objects without open surgery and won the Federal Caustic Poison Act of 1927.

Chi Van Dang

Chi Van Dang, also known as Chi V. Dang, is a Vietnamese-born American cancer biologist known for showing how the MYC oncogene reprograms cancer cell metabolism.

Chi Wai Eric So

Chi Wai Eric So, also known as Chi Wai So, is a molecular biologist who studies acute leukemia and holds the chair in leukemia biology at King's College London.

Chi-Lun Chang

Chi-Lun Chang is a Taiwanese-born cell biologist who leads a laboratory at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, known for work on ER-to-Golgi transport and neuron-astrocyte lipid metabolism.

Chi‐yuan Hsu

Chi-yuan Hsu is a nephrologist and kidney-disease epidemiologist who has led the UCSF Division of Nephrology since 2007 and studies how reduced kidney function raises risks of death and cardiovascular events.

Chia-Lin Wei

Chia-Lin Wei is a genomic technology researcher known for the ChIA-PET chromatin method and a 2006 global p53 binding-site map, now directing the Northwest Genomics Center at the University of Washington.

Chia‐Hsueh Lee

Chia-Hsueh Lee is an American-based structural biologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis known for cryo-EM structures of the human HCN1 ion channel and the Spns2 lipid transporter.

Chiara Bonini

Chiara Bonini is an Italian physician-scientist who heads the Experimental Hematology Unit at Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan, pioneering engineered T cell gene therapies for cancer.

Chiara Cirelli

Chiara Cirelli is a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, trained at the University of Pisa, known for the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis, which holds that sleep renormalizes synaptic strength.

Chiara Cremolini

Chiara Cremolini, born in 1984 in La Spezia, is an Italian medical oncologist and full professor at the University of Pisa who led the TRIBE trials in metastatic colorectal cancer.

Chiea Chuen Khor

Khor Chiea Chuen is a Singaporean human geneticist and Group Leader at the Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, known for genetic studies of infectious disease susceptibility and glaucoma.

Chien-Wen Tseng

Chien-Wen Tseng is a family physician and health services researcher at the University of Hawaiʻi. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.

Chihiro Sasakawa

Chihiro Sasakawa (笹川千尋), born in Tokyo in 1948, is a Japanese bacteriologist known for work on how Shigella and Helicobacter pylori manipulate host cells, and for helping create the field of infection biology.

Chikashi Toyoshima

Chikashi Toyoshima (豊島 近) is a Japanese structural biologist at the University of Tokyo known for determining the first atomic crystal structure of the calcium pump SERCA in 2000.

Chin‐Lee Wu

Chin-Lee Wu is a genitourinary pathologist, Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, and director of Genitourinary Pathology Services at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for developing the prostate cancer biomarker AMACR (P504S).

Ching-Hon Pui

Ching-Hon Pui (裴正康) is a pediatric oncologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis whose work on childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia raised cure rates from about 50 to over 90 percent.

Ching‐Juh Lai

Ching-Juh Lai is a virologist at the National Institutes of Health known for molecular work on influenza A virus, simian virus 40, and dengue virus vaccines.

Chirag R. Parikh

Chirag R. Parikh is an Indian-born American nephrologist, Director of the Division of Nephrology at Johns Hopkins, known for the TRIBE-AKI consortium studying biomarkers that detect acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery.

Chirlmin Joo

Chirlmin Joo is a South Korean-born biophysicist working in single-molecule biophysics at Delft University of Technology, known for studies of Argonaute proteins, microRNA, and CRISPR biology, and for developing single-molecule protein sequencing.

Chloe Orkin

Chloe Orkin is a British infectious-diseases physician and HIV researcher at Queen Mary University of London who led the FLAIR trial of the first long-acting injectable HIV therapy.