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Choe Jae-chun

Choe Jae-chun (최재천) is a South Korean behavioral ecologist who trained under Edward O. Wilson at Harvard and founded Korea's National Institute of Ecology in 2013.

Choh Hao Li

Choh Hao Li (1913–1987) was a Chinese-born American biochemist at the University of California who purified most anterior pituitary hormones, synthesized human growth hormone, discovered β-endorphin, and won the 1962 Lasker Award.

Cholsoon Jang

Cholsoon Jang is a biochemist and Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry at UC Irvine known for isotope-tracing studies of organ metabolism and for mapping metabolite exchange in cardiovascular disease.

Chris A. Kaiser

Chris A. Kaiser is an American cell biologist who studied protein folding in yeast at MIT, chaired its biology department from 2004, and became provost in 2012.

Chris Beyrer

Chris Beyrer is an American epidemiologist known for HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 research, director of the Duke Global Health Institute since 2022 and former president of the International AIDS Society.

Chris Boshoff

Chris Boshoff is a South African-born physician-scientist who made foundational discoveries on Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, founded the UCL Cancer Institute, and became Pfizer's Chief Scientific Officer in 2025.

Chris Bowler

Chris Bowler (born 1965) is a British biologist, CNRS Director of Research in Paris, known for sequencing diatom genomes and coordinating the Tara Oceans ocean plankton expeditions.

Chris D. Thomas

Chris D. Thomas is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of York, known for the 2004 Nature study projecting climate-change extinctions and for evidence of species' range shifts.

Chris Dobson

Sir Chris Dobson (1949–2019) was a British chemist who showed that amyloid fibrils behind Alzheimer's and Parkinson's can form from almost any protein, and was Master of St John's College, Cambridge.

Chris Frith

Chris Frith, born 1942, is a British neuropsychologist and Emeritus Professor at UCL known for cognitive accounts of schizophrenia and pioneering neuroimaging of consciousness and agency.

Chris Greening

Chris Greening is an Australian microbiologist at Monash University known for showing that bacteria can live on air by extracting energy from atmospheric hydrogen, and he leads the CLIMB research unit.

Chris H. Polman

Chris H. Polman is a Dutch neurologist and professor at Amsterdam UMC who led the McDonald criteria revisions for MS diagnosis and the 2006 natalizumab trial.

Chris Hittinger

Chris Todd Hittinger is an American evolutionary geneticist, Professor of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for work on yeast gene duplication and lager-brewing yeast ancestry.

Chris I. Baker

Chris I. Baker is a cognitive neuroscientist at the NIMH who studies visual perception, learning, and cortical plasticity, known for the 2009 critique of circular analysis.

Chris I. De Zeeuw

Chris I. De Zeeuw, full name Christiaan Innocentius De Zeeuw, is a Dutch neuroscientist known for research on cerebellar learning and for chairing neuroscience at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam.

Chris J. McBain

Chris J. McBain, also cited as Chris McBain, is a cellular neuroscientist who studies inhibitory interneurons and serves as scientific director of NICHD's intramural research division.

Chris J.L.M. Meijer

Chris J.L.M. Meijer, also known as C. J. L. M. Meijer, is a Dutch pathologist and emeritus professor at Amsterdam UMC known for establishing which HPV types cause cervical cancer.

Chris Kintner

Chris Kintner, also known as Christopher Kintner, is a developmental biologist and Professor Emeritus at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, known for Notch pathway and cilia research.

Chris Lamb

Chris Lamb, full name Christopher John Lamb, was a British plant biochemist who led plant biology at the Salk Institute and the John Innes Centre in Norwich.

Chris Meisinger

Chris Meisinger, born Christof Meisinger in 1967, is a German biochemist and professor at the University of Freiburg known for research on mitochondrial protein import and proteomics.

Chris P. Ponting

Chris P. Ponting is a British computational biologist at the University of Edinburgh whose research established that 8.2% of the human genome is likely functional, and who leads the DecodeME genetic study.

Chris Parker

Chris Parker is a British clinical oncologist specializing in prostate cancer radiotherapy, Professor of Prostate Oncology at The Institute of Cancer Research, who led the radium-223 ALSYMPCA trial.

Chris Q. Doe

Chris Q. Doe, also published as Chris Doe, is a developmental neurobiologist, Professor of Biology at the University of Oregon and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 1994.

Chris Sander (computational biologist)

Chris Sander is a computational biologist, Professor in Residence at Harvard Medical School and director of the cBio Center at Dana-Farber, known for cBioPortal and microRNA target prediction.

Chris Somerville

Chris Somerville, also known as Chris R. Somerville, is a Canadian plant biologist who established Arabidopsis as a model organism and pioneered genetic studies of cellulose synthesis.

Chris Stringer

Chris Stringer is a British palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum, London, best known for developing the recent African origin, or "Out of Africa", model of modern human origins.

Chris Twelves

Chris Twelves is a British medical oncologist and professor at the University of Leeds known for leading the X-ACT colon cancer and EMBRACE breast cancer drug trials.

Chris Tyler‐Smith

Chris Tyler-Smith is a human evolutionary geneticist who led a Human Evolution group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, known for Y-chromosome studies and the 1000 Genomes Project.

Chris van Weel

Chris van Weel, born 1947 in The Hague, is a Dutch family medicine researcher and professor emeritus at Radboud University Nijmegen, world president of WONCA from 2007 to 2010.

Chris Whitty

Chris Whitty (Christopher John MacRae Whitty) is an English epidemiologist and Chief Medical Officer for England since 2019, UK Chief Medical Adviser, practising UCLH consultant, former DHSC Chief Scientific Adviser, and co-chair of SAGE during COVID-19.