Life and health scientists

Christine A. Biron

Christine A. Biron was an American immunologist and Brown University professor known for work on natural killer cells and how innate cytokines regulate antiviral defense.

Christine A. Petersen

Christine A. Petersen is a veterinary immunologist and epidemiologist, a National Academy of Medicine member, known for research on canine leishmaniasis and veterinary infection-control guidelines.

Christine Blasey Ford, American research psychologist at Palo Alto University and Stanford School of Medicine; testified in 2018 that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in 1982; Kavanaugh denied it and was confirmed 50-48; memoir One Way Back (2024).

Christine D. Berg

Christine D. Berg is an American radiation oncologist and physician-scientist who co-led the National Lung Screening Trial, establishing low-dose CT screening as reducing lung-cancer deaths.

Christine E. Holt

Christine E. Holt is a British developmental neuroscientist and Cambridge professor known for showing that growing nerve fibers make their own proteins, winning the 2023 Brain Prize.

Christine E. Seidman

Christine E. Seidman is an American physician-scientist and human molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital whose laboratory identified many genes that cause inherited heart disease.

Christine Guthrie

Christine Guthrie (1945–2022) was an American RNA biologist at UCSF who used baker's yeast to identify the snRNAs that direct pre-mRNA splicing, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.

Christine H. Chung

Christine H. Chung is an American medical oncologist specializing in head and neck cancer who chairs the Head and Neck-Endocrine Oncology department at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.

Christine H. Foyer

Christine H. Foyer (Christine Foyer) is a plant scientist and Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of Birmingham since 2019, known for the Foyer–Halliwell–Asada pathway.

Christine Hartmann

Christine Hartmann, also Christine Siantar, is a medical physicist who spent 27 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, leading the Peregrine radiation-dose program and winning a 1996 PECASE award.

Christine Jacobs-Wagner

Christine Jacobs-Wagner is a Belgian-born microbiologist at Stanford University, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 2008, known as a pioneer of bacterial cell biology.

Christine Kim Garcia

Christine Kim Garcia, also published as Christine K. Garcia, is an American pulmonary physician-scientist who studies the genetics of lung disease and leads pulmonary medicine at Columbia University.

Christine Klein

Christine Klein is a German neurologist and neurogeneticist who directs the Institute of Neurogenetics at the University of Lübeck and researches the genetics of Parkinson's disease and dystonia.

Christine M. Albert

Christine M. Albert is a cardiologist and cardiac epidemiologist whose research links lifestyle, nutrition, and genetics to sudden cardiac death; she became founding cardiology chair at Cedars-Sinai in 2019.

Christine M. Freeman

Christine M. Freeman is an American lung immunology researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor who studies why some smokers develop COPD, and received a PECASE award.

Christine Mayr

Christine Mayr is a German-trained physician-scientist and molecular biologist who leads a laboratory at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York, known for showing that mRNA 3′UTRs regulate protein function.

Christine Mummery

Christine Mummery is a Dutch stem cell biologist at Leiden University Medical Center who made the Netherlands' first heart cells and human induced pluripotent stem cells.

Christine Orengo

Christine Orengo, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2019, is a computational biologist at University College London best known for building CATH, a worldwide protein structure classification.

Christine Petit

Christine Petit, born 1948, is a French geneticist and neurobiologist at the Institut Pasteur known for identifying more than 20 genes that cause hereditary deafness.

Christine Van Broeckhoven

Christine Van Broeckhoven is a Belgian molecular geneticist who studies the genetics of Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and Parkinson's disease, and led molecular genetics research at the University of Antwerp.

Christodoulos Stefanadis

Christodoulos Stefanadis (Greek: Χριστόδουλος Στεφανάδης) is a Greek cardiologist born in Ikaria who directed cardiology at Hippokration Hospital in Athens from 2002 to 2014 and entered parliament in 2019.

Christof Koch

Christof Koch is a neuroscientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, known for the search for the neural correlates of consciousness begun with Francis Crick.

Christof M. Niemeyer

Christof M. Niemeyer is a German chemical biologist and professor holding the Chair of Chemical Biology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, known for DNA nanotechnology and bioconjugation research.

Christof Niehrs

Christof Niehrs is a German molecular biologist known for research on Wnt signaling and DNA demethylation, and founding director of the Institute of Molecular Biology in Mainz.

Christoffer Clemmensen

Christoffer Clemmensen is a Danish obesity researcher and Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen's CBMR, known for a 2024 Nature study pairing GLP-1 with an NMDA receptor antagonist.

Christoph A. Klein

Christoph A. Klein is a German physician and cancer researcher who holds the Chair of Experimental Medicine at the University of Regensburg and studies early metastatic spread.

Christoph Benning

Christoph Benning is a German-born plant biochemist at Michigan State University who studies chloroplast lipids, membrane assembly, and plant oil biosynthesis, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Christoph Bock

Christoph Bock is an Austrian computational biologist and principal investigator at CeMM in Vienna since 2012, known for computational epigenetics, single-cell genomics, and CRISPR screening.

Christoph Buettner

Christoph Buettner is a German-born American endocrinologist and metabolism researcher who studies how the brain controls glucose and fat use, and chief of endocrinology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.