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Christian Lüscher

Christian Lüscher is a Swiss neurologist and neuroscientist, full professor at the University of Geneva, whose research identifies the synaptic changes addictive drugs impose on dopamine circuits.

Christian Metallo

Christian M. Metallo is a bioengineer holding the Daniel and Martina Lewis Chair at the Salk Institute who studies cancer metabolism, serine and glycine restriction, and diabetic neuropathy.

Christian Mueller

Christian Eugen Mueller is a Swiss cardiologist and professor at University Hospital Basel who led PRESC1SE-MI, a trial of over 62,000 patients across 19 hospitals in ten countries.

Christian Münz

Christian Münz, born 1969 in Wertingen, Germany, is an immunologist who directs the Institute of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich and studies immune control of Epstein–Barr virus.

Christian P. Larsen

Christian P. Larsen is an American transplant surgeon and immunologist at Emory University School of Medicine, known for developing belatacept, the first costimulation blocker approved for kidney transplant recipients.

Christian R. Landry

Christian R. Landry is a Canadian molecular and evolutionary biologist, a professor at Université Laval in Québec City known for work on how gene duplication and protein networks evolve.

Christian R.H. Raetz

Christian Rudolf Hubert Raetz (1946 or 1947–2011) was a German-born American biochemist who mapped the pathway bacteria use to build lipid A, an essential outer-membrane molecule of Gram-negative bacteria.

Christian Rosenmund

Christian Rosenmund is a neuroscientist and Professor of Neurobiology at Charité Berlin since 2009, known for defining the readily releasable pool of synaptic vesicles with Charles Stevens in 1996.

Christian Schlötterer

Christian Schlötterer is an Austrian population geneticist, head of the Institute of Population Genetics at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, known for Pool-Seq, microsatellite evolution, and Drosophila experimental evolution.

Christian Spaulding

Christian Spaulding is a French interventional cardiologist, professor of cardiology at Université Paris Cité, known for his 1997 study of coronary angiography after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and drug-eluting stent safety.

Christian Steidl

Christian Steidl is a German-trained Canadian physician-scientist who leads lymphoma research at BC Cancer and is a pathology professor at the University of British Columbia.

Christian T. Ruff

Christian T. Ruff is an American cardiologist who directs General Cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and researches antithrombotic therapies, including stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.

Christian Torp‐Pedersen

Christian Torp-Pedersen (born 1950) is a Danish cardiologist and clinical epidemiologist known for landmark trials in heart failure and arrhythmia, whose work changed international treatment guidelines.

Christian Trautwein

Christian Trautwein is a German hepatologist known for research on liver fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, who directed Medizinische Klinik III at Uniklinik RWTH Aachen from 2005 to 2024.

Christian von Mering

Christian von Mering is a Swiss-based bioinformatician and full professor at the University of Zurich, known for the STRING protein-network database and the eggNOG orthology resource.

Christian W. Hamm

Christian W. Hamm, born 1953 in Hamburg, is a German interventional cardiologist known for 1990s NEJM troponin studies and for leading the Kerckhoff Heart and Thorax Center in Bad Nauheim.

Christian Weber (cardiologist)

Christian Weber (born 1967) is a German cardiologist and leading atherosclerosis researcher who holds the Chair in Preventive Vascular Medicine and directs the Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention at LMU Munich.

Christian Wolfrum

Christian Wolfrum (born 1972 in Bonn) is a German metabolic researcher studying obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver, and Deputy President and Provost of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Christiane Branlant

Christiane Branlant is a French molecular biologist who spent her career with CNRS in Nancy, known for work on RNA maturation, pseudouridine synthases, and small nucleolar and nuclear RNPs.

Christiane Kühl

Christiane Kuhl, born 1966 in Bonn, is a German radiologist and professor at RWTH Aachen whose Lancet study showed MRI detects far more DCIS than mammography.

Christiane Nüsslein‐Volhard

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, born in 1942, is a German developmental biologist who identified genes controlling embryonic development in fruit flies, work honored with the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Christie M. Ballantyne

Christie M. Ballantyne is an American cardiologist and lipid researcher who serves as Section Chief of Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and led the REDUCE-IT trial.

Christina A. Mitchell

Christina A. Mitchell AO is an Australian physician-scientist and biochemist who studies phosphoinositide signaling in cancer, and is the first woman appointed Dean of Medicine in an Australian Group of Eight university.

Christina Agapakis

Christina Agapakis is an American synthetic biologist trained at Yale and Harvard known for resurrecting the smell of extinct flowers and for the Selfmade body-bacteria cheese exhibit.

Christina Curtis

Christina Curtis is a cancer genomicist who leads the Cancer Computational and Systems Biology group at Stanford University, known for showing that metastatic spread often begins years before a tumor is clinically detectable.

Christina D. Economos

Christina D. Economos is an American nutrition scientist who studies childhood obesity prevention and serves as dean of Tufts University's Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

Christina K. Kim

Christina K. Kim, known as Tina Kim, is an American neuroscientist and HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar at Princeton University who develops molecular tools that record neural activity in individual neurons.

Christina L. Swaggerty

Christina L. Swaggerty is an American poultry immunologist and USDA research microbiologist in College Station, Texas, known for breeding chickens resistant to Salmonella and Campylobacter.

Christina Leslie (computational biologist)

Christina S. Leslie is a computational biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center known for machine learning models of transcription factor binding, including BindSpace and CellSpace.

Christina Warinner

Christina Warinner is an archaeological geneticist who studies the ancient human oral microbiome and evolution of diet and disease, leading research groups at Harvard and in Leipzig, Germany.